In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Much-requested "Page scaling" zoom mode introduced to KHTML. Work on the XPS document format backend, and intergration of a Phonon-based audio player for embedded document sounds in okular. More maps added to KGeography. KMines becomes the latest game to move toward a scalable graphics interface, with continued work on KBlackBox and KGoldRunner. scuba and wmap datasource additions to Kst. A better fullscreen interface for Digikam. Continued improvement in the KDE Fonts Manager. Amarok 2.0 development progresses at full speed. Initial import of version 2 of the Gwenview image viewer, and a possible KBabel replacement, KAider, into KDE SVN. Oxygen icons become further integrated into the desktop, with renamings and the setting of the theme as the KDE default.
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wallpapers usually come in different sizes ;)
Also compiz/beryl has a nice zooming effect for people who tend to place the monitor several meters away from their chair.
You could try them out as well..
Your post made me thinks that about the ways to do page scaling:
- page scaling with or without reflowing (to remove the horizontal scrollbar).
- page scaling font only or font and images.
So 2 options * 2 options = 4 possibilities, each totally sensible (and I would add that reflowing a webpage without zooming is useful too), the problem is: how is-it possible to provide that many choice to the user in a sensible way?
Maybe:
+,-: by default scale font and image
shift+,shift-: only scale fonts.
*: remove reflowing/scaling.
F12: reflow webpage (in Opera it is F11 which suck because it is in the middle of a keygroup F12 being at the edge is better).
Just a few random though..
I understand this is no help forum, but I have a question:
I am subscribed at a mailing list and get my mails in digested form. The only problem emerges when someone sents an attachment along with his mails e.g a doc file. Then I have to look at the mailman archives and load the attachment as a an .mht-file from there.
FF suggests me to import mht files with kmail but that import fails except the header. rtf attachments seem to be unsupported. However, the format looks very simple.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHTML
What can I do to open these files and extract the rtf attachments?
you could try http://kde-forums.org for questions like this one
just a newbie question, when i saw all those commits to branch/kde 3.5 do you mean we will see kde 3.5.7 ?
and thanks really Danny for this review, as the code begun to flow, we have now faith to see kde 4 sonner ( i mean at last after 5 months ;(
friendly
AIAFK there will be a 3.5.7 and probably also .8, .9, etc.
As long as kde4 is not on the horizon kde3 applications will continue to improve
See my rant above...
3.5.7 is planned, but no release date has yet been set. I've heard whisperings saying 3 months from now.
4.0 is more than 5 months away yet. To kind of get an example of how the release will work, check out this website: http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/release.html
We haven't hit step 2 yet, as the libraries are still very much a moving target. I'm not sure if we have a release dude yet either. And yes, this individual has usually been called the 'release dude' :P This position is possibily one of the most demanding, high stress jobs that a KDE developer can take, so we don't always designate the same person.
Hope this helps...
The release dude position has been "killed", it's now a release team to spread the stress on more people ;)