KDE Commit-Digest for 27th April 2008

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KDE Commit-Digest for 27th April 2008

Posted by Danny Allen on Wednesday 21/May/2008, @19:16
from the i'm-back! dept.
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Rating support, with a NEPOMUK backend in Gwenview. KStars gets a conjunctions predictor module. Basic XSLT support and a HTML export GUI in Parley. Work on clouds view integration in Marble. Keyboard navigation support in KNetWalk. The start of a new dock window layout in Kooka. Work on tabbed interface user interaction in Dolphin. A paste text snippets applet in Plasma. charselectapplet is deleted, replaced by a Plasma-based equivalent. Welcome/info screen stylings extended from the KDE desktop into KDE-PIM applications and KInfoCenter. Various work, including improvements to the collection and On Screen Display in Amarok 2. Various small features in KTorrent. Initial work on a Krita module for "WaterStudio". KBlocks moves from kdereview to kdegames. Akonadi server and shared components move to kdesupport. "WaterFlow", a library and program to create computational flow chart-based diagrams is imported into KDE SVN. KDE 4.1 Alpha 1 and KOffice 1.9.95.4 (KOffice 2 Alpha 7) are tagged for release. Read the rest of the Digest here.

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I'm back!
by Danny Allen on Wednesday 21/May/2008, @19:37

I took a break from releasing the Digests for a few weeks while I did some important and vital stuff, like moving location, etc.

But it wasn't really a break, more of a delay: all the commits from this period were kept and read, and the Digests will still be released shortly.

The next one may come on Thursday...

Danny

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Re: I'm back! by Firmo on Wednesday 21/May/2008, @19:59
Re: I'm back! by Erik on Wednesday 21/May/2008, @21:57
Re: I'm back! by Nikolaj Hald Nielsen on Thursday 22/May/2008, @00:58
Re: I'm back! by Dirk on Thursday 22/May/2008, @02:51
Re: I'm back! by Michal on Thursday 22/May/2008, @07:26
Re: I'm back! by mactalla on Thursday 22/May/2008, @08:41
Re: I'm back! by Riddle on Friday 23/May/2008, @06:41
Re: I'm back! by Lee on Friday 23/May/2008, @10:05
Re: I'm back! by anon on Saturday 24/May/2008, @02:35
Re: I'm back! by Anon on Tuesday 03/Jun/2008, @15:54

You don't know what you've got till it's gone
by Anon on Wednesday 21/May/2008, @22:57

Welcome back, Danny - you (and, of course, the Digest :)) have been missed!

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Re: You don't know what you've got till it's gone by Thomas on Thursday 22/May/2008, @00:16

Re: You don't know what you've got till it's gone by mimoune djouallah on Thursday 22/May/2008, @01:32

Kontact
by Parminder Ramesh on Thursday 22/May/2008, @03:54

Welcome back Danny, it's great to hear from you again :)

I must say I am very impressed with the professional look of Kontact at the moment - for a while I had to reluctantly agree that Evolution was a better choice. But now, with a beautiful design and hopefully with MS Exchange support thru Akonadi in 4.2/.3/.4, it should be the best free email program around. One other feature I hope gets implemented is the Outlook 2003/7 three column style, where the message is beside the list of emails, and not below it. But this is a minor niggle, so it matters little.

Also excited about improvements to Plasma, the "Incredible Machine"-like game in development, the work to add a KWin cube, and a million other projects from Akonadi to Phonon. KDE development has never been more interesting!

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Re: Kontact by SMB on Thursday 22/May/2008, @07:44
Re: Kontact by nik on Thursday 22/May/2008, @07:53

Re: Kontact by Parminder Ramesh on Thursday 22/May/2008, @15:05

Gentoo
by Phil on Thursday 22/May/2008, @05:51

Yay, thanks Danny - was missing the Digest!

Totally off-topic - under Gentoo, does anyone know what I need to emerge to get the Plasmoids, apart from the few basic ones? I mean ones like the Comic Strip displays, etc... I'd rather pull it from Portage than install manually.

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Re: Gentoo by Riddle on Thursday 22/May/2008, @06:08

Re: Gentoo by Phil on Thursday 22/May/2008, @06:30

Re: Gentoo by Phil on Thursday 22/May/2008, @06:37

Re: Gentoo by G2g591 on Thursday 22/May/2008, @10:09

Re: Gentoo by JAKuhr on Thursday 22/May/2008, @21:00

Re: Gentoo by Kevin Kofler on Friday 23/May/2008, @00:02

Motivation statistics
by XCG on Thursday 22/May/2008, @08:39

Hi there
In the motivation statistics seems to be a small mistake.
There are 50.5% Volunteer but the graphic beside shows something different.

Anyway, thank you for writing this interesting summery.

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Re: Motivation statistics by AC on Thursday 22/May/2008, @12:52

Re: Motivation statistics by Soon off to bed on Thursday 22/May/2008, @14:03

Re: Motivation statistics by Andres on Thursday 22/May/2008, @15:40
Re: Motivation statistics by ad on Friday 23/May/2008, @09:17

Marble
by Jens on Friday 23/May/2008, @00:51

Strange question: Would it be possible to create and load old Earth maps into Marble? Like the ones from nasa that show the continents 65m and 250m years ago?

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Re: Marble by jospoortvliet on Friday 23/May/2008, @11:37
Re: Marble by Torsten Rahn on Friday 23/May/2008, @13:33

Re: Marble by Jens on Saturday 24/May/2008, @15:44

Please, This Is NOT a Flame...
by Xanadu on Friday 23/May/2008, @11:19

Hey!

OK, I have to...

I've been using KDE since the pre-1.0 days (whatever shipped with RH-5.0, IIRC). I love what power and control KDE has given to me all these years.

...
...

Can I have my Desktop back? Please?

I fully respect the decision to do Something Different with the desktop, but can I have my Good Ol' Desktop back?

I was playing with the OpenSuSE KDE 4.0.4 Live CD and was drop-jawed. KDE4 is one of the most amazing and powerful things I think I've even seen my machine do. Hell ANY machine of mine, for that matter. I *DO* like the idea of having a "Desktop" a "Launch Pad", but I just want my Desktop back.

Is there a way to move it back to a 3.5.* style desktop? I know there's still the ~/Desktop where I can still put the few things I like having on my Desktop, but I can't *interact* with the Desktop the way I want to / am used to.

Is there a plugin, plasmoid, config setting, that gives me the Old Boring Desktop back?

(I use Gentoo. As you read above, Gentoo is not really making it easy to use KDE4 < 4.1. I (frankly) don't want to go through all the BS to get KDE4 on my machines if I can't really use it the way I want to (yet)).

Thanx.
M.

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Re: Please, This Is NOT a Flame... by jospoortvliet on Friday 23/May/2008, @11:38

Re: Please, This Is NOT a Flame... by Xanadu on Friday 23/May/2008, @14:24
Re: Please, This Is NOT a Flame... by Stefan Majewsky on Saturday 24/May/2008, @02:16

Re: Please, This Is NOT a Flame... by Dog on Sunday 25/May/2008, @13:38

Correction
by tobami on Friday 23/May/2008, @15:20

Hey Danny, I think you mean "KDE 4.1 BETA 1" tagged for release.

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Re: Correction by tobami on Friday 23/May/2008, @15:23
Re: Correction by Mike on Friday 23/May/2008, @16:39

Newbie question: Where can I get KDE 4.1 alpha?
by Mike on Friday 23/May/2008, @16:34

Sorry for the newbie question:
Where can I get KDE 4.1 alpha for Kubuntu, (or if that doesn't exist for openSUSE)?

I want to try out and help hunt down problems, but I don't have the skill to compile KDE from scratch. Where would I find "prepackaged" KDE 4.1 alpha so I can install it easily and test it.

_____
(obviously this won't go onto my production system. I have a separate installation of Linux on a computer that I can experiment with. I'm not worried about stability. Quite the contrary: I expect breakages and hangups. I want to help fix them (by finding them - I'm not a programmer to fix them directly.) BEFORE KDE 4.1.0 is released. <-- Don't want to repeat the disaster that is Kubuntu 8.04 initially.)

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Re: Newbie question: Where can I get KDE 4.1 alpha? by Stefan Majewsky on Saturday 24/May/2008, @02:12
Re: Newbie question: Where can I get KDE 4.1 alpha? by Stefan Majewsky on Saturday 24/May/2008, @02:15
Re: Newbie question: Where can I get KDE 4.1 alpha? by Anonymous Coward on Saturday 24/May/2008, @05:07

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