KDE Commit-Digest for 16th September 2007

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Continued work in Plasma, including a KMLDonkey data engine, a RSS data engine and news feed applet, and a Virtual Desktop switcher applet. More interface work for Amarok 2.0, with progress on alternate music service integration. Support for webseeding in KTorrent. Support for network access of colour palettes in KolourPaint. An Akonadi resource for the del.icio.us bookmarking service. CMake support for PyKDE4 applications. Wider logging support in KSystemLog. SVG caching optimises usage, resulting in speed gains in many applications. KTeaTime rewritten for KDE 4, KPlayer ported to KDE 4. New game based on "Deal or No Deal" arrives in playground/games. More code reorganisation in KDE SVN. KAider translation utility moves to kdereview.

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by Richard Van Den Boom (not verified)

Yes, he also replied to me on the ML (which means my mail did go through) and had a very positive attitude, and that's really a strong quality, as I suppose a lot of people make requests of specific features they would appreciate in Koffice.

Yes, its great. Hopefully something will emerge from this. :-)

On places like OSNews, there have been a number of people in the past who have been very wistful for a Lotus approach to one of the Linux wordprocessors, so if KWord takes these requests onboard, it should please quite a few users.

by kavol (not verified)

two weeks ago under the Digest, there was a discussion about Plasma improvements, I said that I do not see any and it was explained to me that they are in "playground" and that they should be moved to kdebase soon ... a few days later, after rebuild from svn, I experienced some of the Plasma-stuff working

now there is mentioned desktop switcher applet and other Plasma things, but I do not see anything like that (I am just finishing fresh rebuild from svn, kdebase already done, I would not expect it within kdegames which are not finished yet) - time for another complaint?

by Anon (not verified)

"time for another complaint?"

For God's sake, no.

Just build trunk/playground/plasma.

by Hans (not verified)

Isn't it trunk/playground/base/plasma?
Well, wherever it is, complaining won't help at all.

by kavol (not verified)

> "time for another complaint?"
> For God's sake, no.

do not take me wrong - I do not want to say that KDE developers are not doing good, but ...

> Just build trunk/playground/plasma.

... last time it was said something like that things in the playground are not meant to be used (and tested) by others; hey, we are after second beta, features should be frozen, and the users are told that there is much more than within the "standard" packages, and they still should not report bugs? - I smell something bad in it

(I repeat once again: I think that the developers are doing a good job, they are progressing nicely, but they are not meeting the user expectations based on what is told)

by Frando (not verified)

While playground is indeed a place for things that are not yet "ready" for the main trunk, no one ever said that stuff in there is not meant to be tested. Testing and constructive feedback is just what these things need (apart from developer's time, of course).

by Aaron Seigo (not verified)

theDot is like an automated TODO list where the next or current steps that are on the list are relayed here in the complaints, er, comments every week for me. yay! and here i was keeping my own TODO list.. pffft! ;)

by Leo S (not verified)

It's more efficient to let others do it for you anyway. Distributed processing and such, it's the future.

by scroogie (not verified)

Yeah, your TODO list has been gridified!!

by martin (not verified)

So in true swarm mentality, I suggest we help each other by typing one character each!
I start with...:
M

by Martin (not verified)

Mo

by Dan Leinir Turt... (not verified)

Moa

by jospoortvliet (not verified)

Moab

by Stefan (not verified)

There is only one word in my vocabulary starting with "Moab", and that is "Moabit", a district of Berlin.

by anonymous coward (not verified)

See? The mob is stupid! :)

But, the people have decided: Please welcome "Moabit" as one of the new pillars of KDE. What does it do?