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  KDE Commit-Digest for 20th April 2008
Developer Posted by Danny Allen on Thursday 01/May/2008, @11:09
from the moving-out dept.
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: The start of the Google Summer of Code with 47 KDE projects. Initial version of a kxsldbg plugin for Quanta. Kross-based scripting in KDevelop. Tabs return to the kdevplatform (KDevelop, etc) interface framework. A database plugin for Kommander, with Kommander widgets becoming accessible within Designer. Support for file attachment and sound annotations in Okular. Work on support for JavaScript runners, and an enhanced visual appearance for KRunner in Plasma. Desktop search returns to KRunner. An improved implementation of "Send Input to All" in Konsole. "Close buttons on the right side of tabs" in kdelibs. A search KIOSlave for virtual search folders across KDE. Get Hot New Stuff support for KDE splash themes and chat window styles in Kopete. A "wobbly windows" effect and non-linear timelines in KWin. The start of a WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) backend for Solid. Rewrite of connection management in Konversation. Work on playlist modes and tooltips in Amarok 2. A media player plugin to play audio and video files in KTorrent. Initial work on charting/graphing and spreadsheets for Kexi reports. Work starts on a Kexi Web Forms Daemon. Initial imports of KLesson, SuperPong, and a KDE 4 version of KNetworkManager. KBreakout and KSirk move from playground/games to kdereview. KSanePlugin moves from playground/graphics to kdereview. printer-applet moves from kdereview to kdebase. Okteta moves from kdereview to kdeutils. Read the rest of the Digest here.


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Thank you!!
by Fran on Thursday 01/May/2008, @11:44
Good job, as always.
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Thank You ++
by Fanito on Thursday 01/May/2008, @13:54
Good job danny...
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openwengo
by yo on Thursday 01/May/2008, @14:37
openwengo *is* multi-protocol though it is now known as Qutecom.
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kopete
by R. J. on Thursday 01/May/2008, @14:56
once we see 4.1 released will there be any new chat thingies added to kopete, sorry, don't know the word. I was using gaim or what ever they call it when kopete wouldn't work on KDE 4, and they have a large amount that kopete doesn't have, like myspace, xfire, etc. And also will we get yahoo msn compatibility?

Thanks :) I can't wait for the final release as someone who came from windows and has a lot of friends on it, I think 4.1 will be the tool I can use to convince more people over to linux
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KNetworkManager
by Leo S on Thursday 01/May/2008, @14:58
Awesome to hear about the KDE4 port of KNetworkManager. It's pretty much the last KDE3 app that I depend on all the time. Konversation is the other..

Thanks for the digest Danny!
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latest awards..
by Iam Wright on Thursday 01/May/2008, @17:27
comments?

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10065
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Big thanks to KHTML developers.
by m. on Friday 02/May/2008, @00:38
It is nice to see constant improvements to KHTML: this one is especially good -
"Preloading of network resources via a side-tokenizer."

Konq very often "hangs" on big pages waiting for some element to load. Thanks to that is should be much quicker. I hope this is recursive and will skip not only first but second, third, ... to get them later. On most sites when those scripts are just icing on the cake and can get all necessary info when it still tries download missing bites (that is, browsing on Windows with IE or FF).
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So... this is 4.2?
by Lee on Friday 02/May/2008, @01:04
4.1 is now in feature freeze, right? So does that mean it's been branched, and new stuff going in (such as KNetworkManager) are for 4.2?
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KFloppy
by Origins on Friday 02/May/2008, @12:23
Wasn't Solids goal to replace all hardware interfacing code why is KFloppy still alive.
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A dream comes true
by Capit. Igloo on Monday 05/May/2008, @02:23
Several years ago, I made a wish report about such a feature, thanks Lydia Pintscher and Daniel Jones (and Google of course) to want to make it real.

Title: A Plan for Automatic Playlists in Amarok
Student: Daniel Jones
Mentor: Lydia Pintscher
Abstract:

This proposal deals with adding unique feature called "biased playlists" to Amarok. Biased playlists are a natural generalization of random or shuffle mode which is standard to media players. They operate similarly, but instead of being purely random, any number of biases may be specified.

The biases use information and statistics that are already stored by Amarok, (e.g. related artists, score, playcount, last time played) along with a weight factor, specifying proportion of the playlist should satisfy a condition. For example, "artist: Miles Davis" with a weight of 0.25, would insist that a fourth of the playlist would be made up of Miles Davis tracks. Any number of these biases can be added to create very unique ways to explore a large music collection.
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Commit Digest disappearing?
by Michal on Tuesday 13/May/2008, @03:41
I'm afraid the great commit digest is slowly disappearing, not only it has
a quite big backlog, but the releases are more and more rare. It unfortunately
reminds me a pattern from the past or kernel traffic and such. Understandable,
but still sad.
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