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In this week's KDE-CVS-Digest (experimental layout):

Highlights of this week's KDE CVS-Digest (experimental layout): XML auto-indenter in Kate.
Rendering speed-ups in Kolourpaint.
New media:/ KIO slave.
Improved SQL parser in Kexi.

Not so long ago Richard Dale announced Korundum, a RAD environment for KDE that makes developing desktop applications extremely fun and easy. Now, another KDE developer has announced Rubydium, his efforts to bring Just-In-Time optimisations to the Ruby runtime. Could Ruby become a serious contender for KDE application development?

In this week's KDE CVS-Digest (experimental layout): KPDF supports table of contents. Krita adds scaling. Plastik is now the default style.

For those of you not in the know, Ruby is a relatively new general purpose scripting language that is surprisingly expressive, allowing developers to prototype and develop powerful applications in a short time.

In this week's
KDE CVS-Digest (experimental layout):
KPDF adds zoom, search, thumbnails and is optimized.
Kontact now supports Kolab version 2.
Krita adds startup templates.

In this week's KDE CVS-Digest:
Speedups in khtml JavaScript, Kate, KMail and Kcminit.
Macros and headers added to compile Kdelibs on win32.
UI Recovery ToolKit (uirtk) improved.
Support for building Smoke library on Mac OS X.

The KDE CVS-Digest for this week:
KDevelop has a new project builder.
KMail now supports kwallet for mail account passwords.
Krita adds KJSEmbed scripting support.
KOffice now supports Indic.

Today on the kde-quality
list, Christian Loose of Cervisia fame celebrated
the initial success of the Junior Jobs, which helped him get three patches. Junior

In this week's KDE CVS-Digest:
Kopete Groupwise support ready for testing.
Digikam adds oil-painting and charcoal drawing effect plugins.
Two new kioslaves; kio-trash and kfiledevice for disk size and usage.
Kexi now supports subforms.
Work started on a common multimedia interface to various backends.