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  KDE Commit-Digest for 6th April 2008
Developer Posted by Danny Allen on Tuesday 15/Apr/2008, @21:41
from the yeah-busy-busy dept.
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: General improvements in Kickoff, KRunner, and assorted Plasma applets. Integration of Marble into Digikam for geolocation of photos. Configuration of fullscreen mode in Gwenview. KHTML fully passes "selector" test. An automation GUI for KLinkStatus. A database connection plugin for the Kommander scripting framework. Tutorials and examples added to Step, which moves from kdereview to kdeedu. More maps for KGeography. Various enhancements in the new KBlocks game, which moves to from playground/games to kdereview. Get Hot New Stuff becomes functional in the now-feature-complete KDiamond game. Various work in Kate. Improved file tagging mechanics in Dolphin. Improvements in context menu sharing between Konqueror and Dolphin. Beginnings of a Windows/WMI backend for Solid. Work to integrate PcmIO into Phonon. Improved hyperlink creation support in composition across KDE-PIM. Work on user data/statistics migration issues between Amarok 1.x and the upcoming version 2.0. Group policies in KTorrent. The Glimpse scanning application is renamed "Skanlite". Redesigns and refactoring in NEPOMUK. Okteta moves to kdereview. Read the rest of the Digest here.


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1 weeks and 3 days late
by me on Tuesday 15/Apr/2008, @22:10
wtf danny? thanks anyway.
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Thank you, Danny!
by KDE user on Tuesday 15/Apr/2008, @23:15
Hey Danny, I would like to thank you for the excellent commit-digest. I simply love reading it since you have taken over. In the beginning the digest was all I read, now I am reading the planet daily, too. The great thing: the digest is nonetheless very informative and fun to read. You put a lot of work in it and I know many who highly appreciate this.

Thank you so much!
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Thank you
by Fran on Tuesday 15/Apr/2008, @23:19
Great job once again, Danny.
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Some KOffice2 questions
by yman on Tuesday 15/Apr/2008, @23:40
I'm studying computer graphics design in college, and the tools we are learning are quite obviously Photoshop and Illustrator. I would like to know whether or not Krita and Karbon will support these formats (PSD and AI).

I'd also like to know if rotating objects will be possible in Kivio.
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kde app in gnome !
by mimoune djouallah on Wednesday 16/Apr/2008, @00:54
hi

suppose i am a ubuntu (gnome) user and i want to install amarok or dragon player, so in order to switch phonon backen i have to install systemsettings thus all the kde-worspace package (plasma and kwin)which obviously nonsense.

is this a packaging problem. or i am missing the obvious.

friendly
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contentEditable/designMode
by Zayed on Wednesday 16/Apr/2008, @00:57
I want to thank KHTML developers for their great work. I have checked KHTML from trunk and I get 73 out 100 in the Acid3 test. Well done. I have question about contentEditable, Is there any progress ? It is in Feature Plan for 4.1.
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PCMIO?
by Richard Van Den Boom on Wednesday 16/Apr/2008, @01:52
What is PCMIO?
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Beginnings of a Windows/WMI backend for Solid.
by mimoune djouallah on Wednesday 16/Apr/2008, @03:39
please any further explanations ?
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woo!
by Mark Williamson on Wednesday 16/Apr/2008, @06:42
"Integration of Marble into Digikam for geolocation" - awesome! I've been waiting for this :-)

Huge thanks for the digest Danny; I don't usually post here but I am pleased to see it every time.
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Thanks
by saphir on Wednesday 16/Apr/2008, @07:06
Impressive, like usual !!! Thanks a lot, Danny. It's always a pleasure to read the digest
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Pleased with QtBrowser
by Josep on Wednesday 16/Apr/2008, @08:14
In the last days, I've been using the Qt 4.4 demo browser, which is WebKit based, and I really liked it.
In Debian it is very easy to install, all you have to do is install the qt4-demos packages and execute /usr/lib/qt4/demos/browser/browser
This browser has a really fast startup and also it's HTML engine is fast also.
Unfortunatelly for me Konqueror 4.0.x and 4.0.68 never worked properlly in my setup, so I can't compare directlly, but QtBrowser interface it's really simple and very easy to use, although it's very Safari inspired.
This browser has it's limitations, it doesn't support plugins, so no Flash, etc., but all the others things that it's supposed on a modern browser are there, except password management.
Gmail and Google apps are working really fine, the only site which doesn't work for me it's netvibes.com.
I'm starting to like better the combination of Dolphin and QtBrowser+KDE integration (plugins, kwallet, kget) than Konqueror in it's actual state.
Don't get me wrong I'm always have been a huge Konqueror fan, but it's user interface hasn't really touched in years and in some ways it feels too complex.
But let's see what hapens, Konqueror has a faithful userbase and I can see it still appearing in future releases, even with it's actual incarnation.
Although that I can understand that for some users Dolphin can be a regression, my perception it's that it is really a leap forward and I hope that a new web browser or a renewed Konqueror can do the same in the KDE web browser arena.
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KDE3+KDE4
by Iuri Fiedoruk on Wednesday 16/Apr/2008, @08:23
I was using KDE4 (4.0.3) on Ubuntu, but recently came back to KDE3 because Plasma was sooooooooo instable I could not live with it.
Simply put, as a desktop 4.0 is not there yet (by far) but I have big hopes for 4.1. On the other side, KDE4 apps in general are really great, so in the end I'm running a mix of KDE3 and KDE4, here goes my impressions:
- kopete: really bad bugs (can't use google talk with transports without crashing), but some neat improvements
- krdc: this app in KDE3 was really not good, in 4 it went into a overhalt and now it's almost better than windows remote desktop client (it still wins some points because of unit drivers and clipboard integration)
- dolphin: the one in kde4 have more options, seems faster and more responsive than the kde3 version
- gwenview: too unstable yet, crashes more often than the kde3 version, both need some bug-hunting, I'll try to help where I can next time it crashes on me
- general-style: even that I use the same style in both kde 3 and 4, the last one seems to be nicer and uses less spacing. But if you have a small screen/resolution avoid oxygen. I recommend Polyester.
- fonts: in both cases to get the look I like, it's better to download microsoft core fonts and user verdana-9 everywhere.
- kcontrol/systemsettings: systerm settings is really great, but most of kcmshell modules where designed to fit kde3 overall look (like the left-side tabs/buttons). I think they could be changed in on extra level in the systemsettings, but overall a great improvement over kcontrol.
- konqueror: I still like webkit most (not only because I think is technaly better, but because it's more used and have big-players support), but khtml improvements are really nice and visible. But nspluginviewer crashes all times, so youtube is a no-go for me.

So if you are avoiding KDE4 because it's unstable, my suggestion is to run it's apps inside kde3 or gnome to have a glimpse of the improvements that where made into out favorite apps.
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KDE forums need attention!
by Spam killer on Wednesday 16/Apr/2008, @09:44
This is off-topic, but could a site admin. please delete the massive amount of spam in the KDE forums? The forums have been literally drowning in spam for several weeks now! It's not the impression KDE should give to new users or those seeking assistance.

Thanks.
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