KSVG2 can now do animations. Kexi gains read/write form support. digiKam adds a photo restoration plugin.
New releases of Kile, amaroK and Kubuntu.
Get ready for the move to Subversion!
So let me ask, since you're a Subversion lover: what GUI frontends are there for Subversion? Is there a way to get Cervisia to handle it? The use of a GUI for certain functions is too convenient to give up without some sort of struggle.
Sorry, I just use the CLI tools. I have an alias ss='svn status', and just do commits by hand.
That said, I seem to recall that Cervisia has support for Subversion in the CVS version... err... the repository version. The news popped in on one of the KDE blogs that a developer had gotten it working. I checked with 3.4, and it doesn't seem to support svn in that release, so I assume it will be in the next release... or you could try the version in the repository.
I readed the digest just to discover that we're reaching perfection! Great modifies, great improvements, many speed gains around.. thanks a lot!
And Derek: great selection of the best stuff that happened this week.
Really had a good time reading it ^_^
(good move to link the svn tutorial too. go svn!)
We always hear that excuse about KDE art. It's just a work in progress. We still end up with many bad icons replacing formerly good icons and ugly things like the out of place K logo in Kicker.
Boudewijn, i have implemented Save/Restore filter settings in Photograph Restoration digiKam image editor plugin. It's use the _same_ parameters like in your Krita CImg plugin. This will be cool if you can provide a same implementation in krita plugin using the same text settings format. Take a look in Restoration dialog plugin implementation here :
I have too contacted the CImg Gimp plugin author for the same goal. Provide a common file format between digiKam/Krita/Gimp is important for users.
Too, i have contacted the French CImg author for to have a detailled description of all CImg filter settings. He have send to me too a new implementation about Restoration filter. It's More speed...
I have started a new Restoration plugin handbook. Take a look here (not yet updated in web page):
What an excellent idea -- I never thought of storing the parameters in a file, but I will certainly try to code support for that format into the Krita plugin before the KOffice freeze. I also notice you've added multi-threading support in your Digikam filter -- I'll carefully study your code and see whether I can do the same. I've already gone through Krita and marked the places where I'll need to add threading.
I have yet to check it out, but I hope KSVG2 will be ready in time for KDE4 and that it will allow applications to access and modify the SVG DOM directly (not through ECMA) and then re-render.
(I really need a proper SVG library in KDE for Atlantik. My development branch stalled as soon as I required SVG for more dynamic game boards because of some new server features. The old custom board code in Atlantik was crap and KSVG1 lacked support for such DOM manipulations. The result being a very frustrated developer who took a break from KDE development alltogether.)
Wait a minute. You're that Rob? I thought you were just a troll who recently surfaced. =)
You're the Rob who disappeared off the face of the planet? The Olsen twins Rob? The Kirsten Dunst Rob? The George Bush Rob? Oh my... I thought something bad had got to you.
I've moved on to the Cali twins, but that's me! Glad to see my good old buddy Anonymous is still around!
Nothing bad happened: in fact, so many good things happened that I couldn't be arsed to get my DSL running again after the server harddrive broke down. And I still can't be, although I will put some of my stuff on-line again soon at regular IPP.
Folks, for professional reasons (i.e. I have no option) I am using windows xp at work now. It sucks as compared to KDE. But I disgress. The one thing that I found more than useful is the following key bindings:
* [PrintScreen] copies a full-screen screenshot to the clipboard
* [Alt]+[PrintScreen] same thing, but it captures the active window instead.
Then, you just [ctrl]+[v] in you mail editor or word processor and drop the screenshot. I can't tell you how much easier your life gets with these bindings.
Are there similar bindings in KDE-3.4 ? I am running 3.2.3 (Mandrake's most recent stable)
Yes, it is in KDE 3.4, and combined with klipper it's even better than in Windows (it keeps record of all the screen caps you took). I found this out just today.
In KDE 3.4, [Alt]+[PrintScreen] will take a screenshot of the window which you can then paste into a new KMail message (it will actually end up as an attachment). Just plain old [PrintScreen] didn't do anything for me.
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Shouldn't that be Bitkeeper-Digest? ;)
Actually, I suppose the next release will be the SVN-Digest.
I thought the BitKeeper stuff was to do with "April Fools", I'm I wrong? Come on, let the KDE programmers/coders enlighten us here.
Of course it was "April Fools", we are moving to subversion
Totally April Fools - thus the emoticon.
It's a world wide web - April first is still going on in some places as I type this (and was for me when I added the above comment).
Subversion is the new system. Which makes me pleased, as I use and love svn.
So let me ask, since you're a Subversion lover: what GUI frontends are there for Subversion? Is there a way to get Cervisia to handle it? The use of a GUI for certain functions is too convenient to give up without some sort of struggle.
Sorry, I just use the CLI tools. I have an alias ss='svn status', and just do commits by hand.
That said, I seem to recall that Cervisia has support for Subversion in the CVS version... err... the repository version. The news popped in on one of the KDE blogs that a developer had gotten it working. I checked with 3.4, and it doesn't seem to support svn in that release, so I assume it will be in the next release... or you could try the version in the repository.
Firefox, Konqueror, Internet Explorer, w3m, lynx, etc.
Once you activated and configured the svn module in apache that is...
I readed the digest just to discover that we're reaching perfection! Great modifies, great improvements, many speed gains around.. thanks a lot!
And Derek: great selection of the best stuff that happened this week.
Really had a good time reading it ^_^
(good move to link the svn tutorial too. go svn!)
Less is more for 16x16. Discussed with ken and david. There is still room
for improvements.
http://cvs-digest.org/?diff&file=kdelibs/pics/crystalsvg/cr16-action-up....
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Err... I'm sure this is a work-in-progress, right?
Black, boring and ugly icons do not belong to kde, right?
Right? :(
> Black, boring and ugly icons do not belong to kde, right?
you're right! that is called gnome.
GNOME icons are better than that.
But putting that aside, I agree! Please don't make them all black.. it's not 'crystal' anymore :/
woohoo! twice the fun!
> GNOME icons are better than that.
Well, even Windows 3.11 icons are better than those.
Please, revert those changes...
Not quite right, gnome is brown on khaki mixed with grey.
Proof: just have a peek at gnome.org
stop whining - do stuff instead :)
have you seen those in context? i am sure they look a lot better when seen in context...
these icons may not be perfect - but in the long run this ("Less is more") is a step in the right direction
It's just experimental work in progress -- not worth a flame-thread.
We always hear that excuse about KDE art. It's just a work in progress. We still end up with many bad icons replacing formerly good icons and ugly things like the out of place K logo in Kicker.
What's wrong with the K-logo?
It doesn't fit in the Crystal icon theme.
Then make a crystal version of it.
The new K-logo is nice though.. :P
it's amazing how these guyz are adding new plugins every damn week!
keep up the good work, great app!
Pat
a new one is under construction in my computer for Inpainting a photograph area (using CImg library). Coming soon...
Gilles Caulier
That's a nice library isn't it? It was the easiest Krita plugin I ever did.
Boudewijn, i have implemented Save/Restore filter settings in Photograph Restoration digiKam image editor plugin. It's use the _same_ parameters like in your Krita CImg plugin. This will be cool if you can provide a same implementation in krita plugin using the same text settings format. Take a look in Restoration dialog plugin implementation here :
http://docs.kde.org/en/HEAD/kdeextragear-3/digikamimageplugins/restorati...
I have too contacted the CImg Gimp plugin author for the same goal. Provide a common file format between digiKam/Krita/Gimp is important for users.
Too, i have contacted the French CImg author for to have a detailled description of all CImg filter settings. He have send to me too a new implementation about Restoration filter. It's More speed...
I have started a new Restoration plugin handbook. Take a look here (not yet updated in web page):
http://docs.kde.org/en/HEAD/kdeextragear-3/digikamimageplugins/restorati...
Gilles Caulier
What an excellent idea -- I never thought of storing the parameters in a file, but I will certainly try to code support for that format into the Krita plugin before the KOffice freeze. I also notice you've added multi-threading support in your Digikam filter -- I'll carefully study your code and see whether I can do the same. I've already gone through Krita and marked the places where I'll need to add threading.
Boudewijn,
Save/Load Photograph Restoration settings implementation updated in CVS. Please take a look...
A nice day
Gilles Caulier
I will -- thanks!
it would be nice to implement the resizing function too from http://www.greyc.ensicaen.fr/~dtschump/greycstoration/demo.html it looks really great.
Pat
Yes, it's planned by me. Let's me some days to do it (:=)))
Gilles Caulier
digiKam image editor plugin 'Photograph Inpainting' done in CVS. Any previews can be seen at this url :
http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Inpainting/
Any feedback welcome...
Gilles Caulier
Ah, KSVG2 updates. Great.
I have yet to check it out, but I hope KSVG2 will be ready in time for KDE4 and that it will allow applications to access and modify the SVG DOM directly (not through ECMA) and then re-render.
(I really need a proper SVG library in KDE for Atlantik. My development branch stalled as soon as I required SVG for more dynamic game boards because of some new server features. The old custom board code in Atlantik was crap and KSVG1 lacked support for such DOM manipulations. The result being a very frustrated developer who took a break from KDE development alltogether.)
Wait a minute. You're that Rob? I thought you were just a troll who recently surfaced. =)
You're the Rob who disappeared off the face of the planet? The Olsen twins Rob? The Kirsten Dunst Rob? The George Bush Rob? Oh my... I thought something bad had got to you.
I've moved on to the Cali twins, but that's me! Glad to see my good old buddy Anonymous is still around!
Nothing bad happened: in fact, so many good things happened that I couldn't be arsed to get my DSL running again after the server harddrive broke down. And I still can't be, although I will put some of my stuff on-line again soon at regular IPP.
Hi Rob,
Yes, this time the dom manipulating should work.
We can't blame anyone else this time, since all
support code is written by ourselves ;)
Cheers,
Rob B.
... and I thought all KDE developers were named Matthias ...
Ah, great. Will have to check out kdenonbeta I suppose. Do you think KSVG2 will make KDE4?
But the website seems quite out of date? No mention either about ksvg2. So what's the difference with 1? :-)
Just curious.
Folks, for professional reasons (i.e. I have no option) I am using windows xp at work now. It sucks as compared to KDE. But I disgress. The one thing that I found more than useful is the following key bindings:
* [PrintScreen] copies a full-screen screenshot to the clipboard
* [Alt]+[PrintScreen] same thing, but it captures the active window instead.
Then, you just [ctrl]+[v] in you mail editor or word processor and drop the screenshot. I can't tell you how much easier your life gets with these bindings.
Are there similar bindings in KDE-3.4 ? I am running 3.2.3 (Mandrake's most recent stable)
Thanks and Cheers!
I suggest you to visit http://bugs.kde.org/ and file your wish there as "wishlist"... :-)
Thanks for the post :-)
I definitely will, but I wanted to check real quick if the functionality is available or being implemented, since my kde version is a bit outdated ...
I'll wait a couple days and see if someone posts in this thread, and open a wish list if it makes sense ...
Yes, it is in KDE 3.4, and combined with klipper it's even better than in Windows (it keeps record of all the screen caps you took). I found this out just today.
Well, that really cool, thanks a lot Pilaf! And thanks to all the others who posted in this thread.
Those bindings work as you have described in KDE 3.4 and they did in the KDE version prior to 3.4.
In KDE 3.4, [Alt]+[PrintScreen] will take a screenshot of the window which you can then paste into a new KMail message (it will actually end up as an attachment). Just plain old [PrintScreen] didn't do anything for me.
On my machine, at least, 'Desktop Screenshot' is bound to Ctrl+PrintScreen by default. You could easily change that to just PrintScreen, though.
yes, and afaik, in kde 3.5 you can past the image in the message itself, instead of as an attachment :D
It started soooo promising, but now as Zack has a new employer it might be definitely dead... or will TT want to sponsor it really?
Don't you think that Lars and Zack now being together all day long will rather speed it up again?
I have the impression that Zack started a lot of very cool things but didn't finish a lot of them....
Alex