KDE Commit-Digest for 3rd June 2007

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Start of the Oxygen Meeting in Milan, with a focus on the Oxygen widget style and window decoration. Continued developments in Plasma, with the addition of a second example Plasmoid, for accessing developer commit feeds. More work in Konsole, with the addition of a command-line tool to manage Konsole user profiles. Support for RockBox-based devices in Amarok. Initial work begins on a Wikipedia-based "Picture of the Day" and "This Day in History" plugins for KOrganizer. Work begins strongly on the KRDC Summer Of Code project. Marble becomes a library, with a plugin for Qt Designer created to allow application authors to include mapping functionality. Many module changes: Marble and KAlgebra move to kdeedu, KJumpingCube, KSudoku and Bovo move to kdegames, in accordance with KDE 4 development timelines.

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by Aaron Seigo (not verified)

"The centre of the clock has shine on the top, while the outside of the clock has shine on the top left."

yep. that's why i pointed out that the artwork is not final, so people wouldn't get too concerned about it =)

btw, if you'd like to contribute a clock face, please don't hesitate! i'm getting tired of looking at that same clock day after day, especially since i'm often looking specifically at it ... details on the svg can be found here:

http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/Theme#Current_Theme_Elements

Cool, I leave for home in a week and will have about a week off. Will look into making a clock face then. Thanks for the link Aaron.

Cheers.

LJ

by Meo (not verified)

Only to say a big THANKS to all the developers for their great work! I've been using KDE for 4 years and I'll stick with it!
Cheers,
Meo

by noone (not verified)

oh my god!! a tourist from the past!!!

by Iuri Fiedoruk (not verified)

The Plasma video was a good "shut your mouth up" for me, I'm totally sold now :)
The Plasma idea is very good indeed, and I was really worried when I saw a clock, because I tought it would be just a replacement for Karamba, but looks like I was wrong.
But I still don't see how apps will integrate Plasma, at least not for a long time.

by Aaron Seigo (not verified)

> I still don't see how apps will integrate Plasma

we can't let all the sekrit plans out all at once, right? ;) seriously though, i have plans for this that should be pretty interesting. i'm hoping to get at least some of them done in time for 4.0. i'll screencast that stuff when it becomes available in any case.

by NamShub (not verified)

Are changes in the apps required or could the DataEngine "simply" be a wrapper app around DBUS functions (provided, of course, that the apps in question already export their data to dbus)? I'm trying to think of data that would need to be exported otherwise but couldn't find any reason...

Thinking further, would it be possible to have "really generic" DataEngine, like a DBUS one, that would basically let a plasmoid connect to any DBUS interface you wish?

Currently, I don't understand the need for the cia engine; why couldn't there just be a configurable one simply called "rss"? I guess that's the final plan?

The screencasts are great. I hope more and more developers will take the time to showcase features this way... (Voice-over is a nice touch but I can totally understand mute one, especially for non-english people). Especially on mondays where compiling is... harder, it's nice to see new stuff, like Kwin effects, KPluginSelector in action, and plasmoids.

Finally I must say you really begged my curiosity with the "Media Center" form factor (!!!) Can't wait to see what comes out of it. :)

by djouallah mimoune (not verified)

i just saw the screencast made by seigo, but i get confused do u pronouce kde like he did, or it is a canadian accent.

by logixoul (not verified)

Most people would pronounce it like that if they were talking in a hurry.
Kay Dee Ee collapses into Kay Deeee.

by Aaron Seigo (not verified)

in north america we tend to pronounce it "kay-dee-ee" but it's highly regional. in germany it's something like "kah-duh-ee"; in brazil it seems to be "kahdee" ...

and yeah, i have a bit of a messed up accent. comes from having spent half my youth in various small towns on the west coast of canada, half of it in hawaii and all of it being a bit odd to start with ;)

by djouallah mimoune (not verified)

ok thanks for the clarification, but don't worry u have a cool accent( at least i can understand it )

by RockMan (not verified)

You could be shocked hearing how's pronunced in italy :P

by djouallah mimoune (not verified)

please how do u pronouce it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by Vide (not verified)

kappa-dih-eh (or something similiar :P)

by Xanadu (not verified)

Hey!

Is Klickety still on the "Not Gonna Be In KDE4" list? Just wondering if it's still hanging from the Gallows Pole or not.

Thanx!
M.

by Matt (not verified)

Small suggestion for the Rockbox portion of Amarok: would it be possible to include some sort of feature that could automatically update your copy of Rockbox? They have daily snapshots, and it's in constant development, so that would be useful to have.