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KDE Traffic #66 Part 2 Released

Monday, 6 October 2003  |  Rmiller

KDE Traffic #66 Part 2 has now been released on zork.net. (The backup site is still available, but is now intended for experimentation and mirroring.) This traffic contains news on KPovModeler, the kdesupport module, Konqueror (what issue would be complete without it?), KMail, KPaint and last but not least, giant pink fluffy bunnies. OK, nix the bunnies, but it's still a decent issue. Look for issue #67 to be released shortly.

Comments:

About keyboard shortcuts - Boudewijn Rempt - 2003-10-05

I would really appreciate having the same keyboard shortcuts in KMail and KNode out of the box...

weirdos - ac - 2003-10-06

If you're going to name the KDE Traffic's part 1 and part 2, at least you should give them the same issue number!

Re: weirdos - Russell Miller - 2003-10-06

Can't. Software won't let me. At least this way, people will know that it's the same one, just in two parts (with two issues). And you're sitting there complaining about issue numbers? Who's the weirdo? :)

Re: weirdos - Mike - 2003-10-06

> And you're sitting there complaining about issue numbers? Who's the weirdo? :) LOL. Full ACK.

Nice work - Mike - 2003-10-06

Hey Russel, just want to say that i really enjoy your KDE traffic. Thanks man!

Uga? - Anonymous - 2003-10-06

> And for being late, here's the icing on the cake (uga). Russell, you speak Hebrew? ;)

Re: Uga? - Russell Miller - 2003-10-06

Nope. Uga is the maintainer of krecipes. I don't know his real name off the top of my head.

Re: Uga? - Anonymous - 2003-10-06

Ha. What a funny coincidence that "Uga" is Hebrew for "cake"... Fits nice with the recipes...

Re: Uga? - uga - 2003-10-06

Nah, don't believe him. He must know Hebrew.... otherwise why would he even mention such a weird word? ;) uga

Kpovmodeller - Wurzelgeist - 2003-10-06

I saw another intresting japanese renderer project: Lucille http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~syoyo/lucille/index.html Looks very amazing.

Re: Kpovmodeller - Andreas Zehender - 2003-10-08

Uh, wow, these screenshots look really impressive! We have plans for object and renderer plugins but have not enough active developers in the project at the moment. So support for renderers like Renderman or Lucille is not the item with the highest priority on our TODO list.

@Michael Thaler - Magna charta - 2003-10-06

Fill tool for Kpaint: Somehow tuxpaint is superior to KPaint... ;-) But also the fill option for Tuxpaint looks like an ugly hack...

Broken link - em - 2003-10-06

The "Archive Link" of the fifth thread (KPaint) is broken. As a bonus nitpick, the word is "consensus", not "concensus" (appears twice).

storage - theorz - 2003-10-06

If a storage like ioslave for kde is made, please work with the gnome people. Put together a library for it, and make it a freedesktop.org project. The last thing I need is to have my files restricted to one desktop.

Re: storage - ac - 2003-10-06

> If a storage like ioslave for kde is made, please work with the gnome > people. Put together a library for it, and make it a freedesktop.org > project. The last thing I need is to have my files restricted to one > desktop. full ack!

Re: storage - me - 2003-10-06

I don't understand why people reply "full ack!". Isn't that coming from the abbreviation of "acknowledged"? If yes, wouldn't the message of those two words be "fully acknowledged!"? Wouldn't that mean that - in this case ac - has fully acknowledged (= read and understood?) what was said? Well, I don't care. Where would we be if everyone posted that he has read and understood some text? But I think that ac meant to say "I completely agree with you (and I want others to know about that)". Well, then please say that! Am I the only one who finds "full ack" weird, inappropriate and superflouos? Do only german teenagers say that or is it common in i.e. the states, too? This is not meant to offend anyone, I'm truly interested in your opinion!

Re: storage - LMCBoy - 2003-10-06

Aw, me, don't get so down; the kids are all right. See here for the Jargon File definition of ACK: http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/A/ACK.html So, yes, using ack to signify agreement is a bit of a stretch, even from the original jargon usage; but then, language is fluid, it evolves. This is what the term has come to mean. I have no idea if "Ack" is popular in the US (or in Germany for that matter); I have only heard the term in the placeless expanse of the internet ;)

Re: storage - Shane Simmons - 2003-10-07

I agree with this. After reading up on GNOME Storage, I've got to say that this would be great! What, KDE can work with Windows nicely but not GNOME? Reminds me of BSD zealots; Windows is OK, OS X is insanely great and Linux is crap. Please don't tell me I'll have to run a Linux box and use Reiser4 just to get these benefits. Let's work to make either KDE work with GNOME Storage, or heck, make a KDE server that's compatible with Storage and beats the pants off of the GNOME system. ;-D No, I'm not a developer. Please don't flame me for not being one, or not willing to just "do it yourself if you want it."

Re: storage - André Somers - 2003-10-08

If you are not a developer yourself, maybe you are rich enough to pay someone else to do it for you? ;-)