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  KDE Commit-Digest for 25th May 2008
Developer Posted by Danny Allen on Wednesday 25/Jun/2008, @13:53
from the i'm-really-trying! dept.
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Marble gets "temperature" and "precipitation" maps, and a "stars" plugin. More work on "fuzzy searches" in Digikam. Konqueror gets support for crash session recovery and session management. Runners can now be managed using a KPluginSelector-based dialog, and attention-blinking support in Plasma. Various Plasma applets move around KDE SVN before the KDE 4.1 feature freeze takes effect, with WebKit applet support moving into kdebase. SVG stuff from WebKit starts to be integrated into KHTML. More optimisations in KHTML, with KJS/Frostbyte, a version using bytecode and other enhancements, moving back into kdelibs. Start of an implemention of the JavaScript scripting API for PDF documents in Okular, based on KJS. Continued work on KJots integration into Kontact, and creating/editing links between entries in KJots. More work on theming in Amarok 2. Various improvements in kvpnc. More configuration user interfaces in KNetworkManager. Enhancements in the KTorrent bandwidth scheduler plugin. Support for CUPS printing options in KDE printing dialogs. Mailody moves to kdereview. The "OnlineSync" plugin is merged into Akregator. Initial commit of a new MSWord-to-ODF filter for KWord, and a caligraphy tool for Karbon. KDevMon is ported to KDE 4. Development of the Shaman2 package manager is moved into KDE SVN (playground/sysadmin). The PHP-Qt bindings move from playground/bindings to the kdebindings module. KDE 4.1 Beta 1 is tagged for release. Read the rest of the Digest here.


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Danny, you complete slacKer!
by Danny Allen on Wednesday 25/Jun/2008, @13:59
I'm going to preempt some comments here...
I am aware that i'm still a month behind on these Digests, and that my attempts to catch up last weekend didn't fully get the job done.

However, i'm in full time employment this summer, which is pretty tiring in itself. And i've had and still have other stuff to do in the tangible world.

But, this is a matter of priority for me, and i'm trying my best to catch up as soon as possible.

Danny
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MSWord-to-ODF filter for KWord
by T. J. Brumfield on Wednesday 25/Jun/2008, @15:10
I definately need to check this out, especially now that KOffice is going multiplatform. I'm forced to use OOo on Windows boxes currently.
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PHP-Qt
by Iuri Fiedoruk on Thursday 26/Jun/2008, @03:31
The PHP-Qt bindings move from playground/bindings to the kdebindings module. KDE 4.1 Beta 1 is tagged for release.

OK, that made my day!

On other parts, my impression is that KDE4.X started a little slow, but the train is now gaining power and letting the vapor behind. Overall, I'm starting to get impressed by quality of KDE apps, even plasma is starting to become solid and nice.

Just one question: KDE4 overall seems to use more space in screen than KDE3 (but later betas are diminishing that, I have to say). Is there a plan do deal with small screen devices like EeePC 701, HP 2133, Dell-E, Cellphones and the likes?
It would be great if there was an option to use the minimum resolution as possible in a way windows fit the screen... But I do admit I do not have a good suggestion (mine of using qss was rejected) to use here :-(
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finally..
by elveo on Thursday 26/Jun/2008, @10:47
..some moderation. I am happy to see that some comments have beeen removed. Really, some posts were starting to eat our brains, distracting our work and producing nothing useful - unless frustration is considered any use.
thanks for the moderation, i am unhappy that it became necessary, but it is. a reader directed mod up & mod down a la slashdot or digg might fix the situation as well. but i guess if any of us knew how to implent it at the dot, it would have been done already.
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Any progress on the Mac OS Menu bar?
by furanku on Saturday 28/Jun/2008, @06:36
Sorry if I ask again for the Mac OS like menu bar. When I asked last for it I got the answer that I could enable it with putting

[KDE]
macStyle=true

into kdeglobals, but it's still buggy. With my current up to date kde4daily image I now don't get any menu bar at all with this setting. When I asked this for the first time, Lubos Lunak generously offered to work on this "somewhen post-4.0".

With respect for the momentary nervous situation: Please see this as a uncomplaining feature request/request for information if this is work in progress.
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Incorrect title?
by Kanwar on Sunday 29/Jun/2008, @20:50
Shouldn't the title of the post be: KDE Commit-Digest for 25th June 2008?
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Enough is enough
by m on Tuesday 01/Jul/2008, @02:19
I'm more of a lurker than a commenter, but some of the things here are so downright childish and so silly that it seems impossible not to laugh sardonically.

@ The doomsdayers

Please get some perspective. KDE is a huge project involving many people and many applications yet you seem to think that because one feature of one app isn't going to be implemented or one feature of one app is late that KDE is in a crisis? Not only is that belittling to everyone else in the project but it's simply wrong.

Besides, noone is listening to you anyway. Noone will listen to insults or unconstructive criticism. Here is an example of constructive criticism that people will listen to:

"I think that it would be nice to have a panel that is easy to resize. The current panel takes up too much of my screen and I don't want to have to totally change the theme to get a different panel." (As an aside please don't respond to this. It isn't a serious criticism, just an example)

Now if the developers say that they would rather this not happen, then that's fair enough because, unless you're paying them, you have no valid say on what they do with their time and if you try to tell them then you're going to get ignored. You can only ask very *very* nicely. Don't press the issue. Don't let this prevent you from making further useful constructive criticism on different topics.

If they say that they'll get around to it later (even if it's a year from now) then that's fair enough as well, because good things take time and priorities must be made. Wait, and try not to ask every day because that's just annoying.

If you're lucky, they'll say that it will be in the next release, but that's their say.

Here is a piece of unconstructive criticism:

"Plasma sucks. We should go back to Kicker. Aaron Siego is an idiot. KDE is in a crisis. KDE 4 isn't good enough to make the move over to. People who disagree with me are idiots."

Noone will listen to this. There are no exceptions. Anything you say when you say it like this will be disregarded. If you are not polite, if you try to tell someone what to do, or if you insult someone, then you will get nowhere with them. Keep your criticism constructive and people may listen to you.

@ The People Fighting Back

Don't do that. Do unto others and all of that - are you really surprised people keep insulting you when you're insulting them back?

@ Aaron Siego

95% of everything is bunk. Including what people say about you. Sometimes people are going to react badly misinterpreting your intention or what you say ... that happens. Some people won't listen to you, and some people will just be mean to you. That doesn't say much about you, it just says a lot about them.

As I said before, I'm a lurker. However I've read a lot and, since I've been a developer for over a decade now, though not of KDE, I understood all of it and the reasons behind it. You're good at this. Extremely good. Keep it up what will result will be fantastic. I can't thank you enough for what you have already done.

(and, by the way, I *liked* reading your blog. It was interesting and you have good ideas. Is there some way people who want to listen to what you say can get invites to read it?)
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