KDE Commit-Digest for 4th November 2007

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Krushing day concludes with focused bug fixing for the KDE 4.0 release. Work on various "runners" in Plasma, with general work on applets and the addition of binary and fuzzy clocks. Consraints support in the Step physics simulation package. Work on icons across KDE Games applications. Support for the Scalix groupware server in KDE-PIM. Entry editing improvements in KOrganizer. Improved Blu-Ray format support in K3b. Solid gets support for Video(4Linux) devices. Kopete uses Solid for network detection and support of audio/video devices. Various progress across KOffice.

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by Augu (not verified)

I like very much the ideas behind Raptor, especially the intelligent way of offering the applications you mostly used.

I see some connections with krunner, which is useful to launch "everything", but also applications as Raptor does.

Could krunner and Raptor share the same "usage database", or could them be more integrated?
I like very much also the graphic part of Raptor (of course, I will like also the Krunner one).

To make the story short: I think that in my case I will use both Raptor and Krunner (the latter for example as a quick calculator), but I'd like very much to have a unique launcher with "mixed functions" between these two.
I'm asking too much? I agree... :)

by Hans (not verified)

The "connection" is called runners. "these plugins, known as runners, are based on a class in libplasma called Plasma::AbastractRunner. this means that any app that links against libplasma can get the same functionality. neat."

More information: http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2007/10/runnersimprove.html

by TeeZee (not verified)

A big thank you for the commit digest.

Ive been waiting the whole sunday + monday + tuesday for this. im really glad you managed to finish this even though you have other work to do which slightly delayed this.

thank you very much!

by Danny Allen (not verified)

Yeah, thanks - i've been waiting a long time since the last messages of thanks regarding the Digest. I know it's an appreciated publication, but it's still nice to see messages like this from time to time!

Thanks,
Danny

by Leo S (not verified)

Your commit digests rock! Thank you Danny. The most informative OSS publication out there. There is lots of work done by people that don't blog much, so your digest is really the only way to keep up with KDE development for users.

by T. J. Brumfield (not verified)

I frantically refreshed over and over again. I really look forward to this every week.

by Marc (not verified)

Same for me, each monday I frantically check the dot to see the commit digest appear :)

Thanks a lot Danny

by Louis (not verified)

I, too, checked over and over like a mad man. This is like the third week that it's come out on Tuesday. Not complaining, but if you told me that was to become the more likely release day, maybe I could get my OCD under control. :-)

Thanks.

by mactalla (not verified)

I rarely post a comment to the Dot, but I want to add my voice to the 'thanks' in this thread. Every week I keep refreshing the direct link to the upcoming digest so I can get it earlier than waiting for the Dot. And sometimes it shows up temporarily before you've compiled all the summaries at the beginning. I use that as a chance to read through the commits while you're finishing up the summaries and then I go back to read that part.

So, again, sorry for not saying thanks much, but it is eagerly awaited every week. You do a fabulous job!

by harold (not verified)

I enjoy the digests.

by A KDE advocate (not verified)

Man, the Commit-disgust/The Road to KDE/KDE 4 Pillars (unfortunately the latter two seem to be now dead) are some of the most unique and very pleasing-to-read semi-regular publications in Free Software! Thanks heaps!

by A KDE advocate (not verified)

** grrr I meant "digest".. Damn KDE's 3.X awesome spell checker ;)

by yxxcvsdfbnfgnds (not verified)

Yeah, the commit digests rock.

by Aaron J. Seigo (not verified)

thirded.

by Emil Sedgh (not verified)

Thanks Thanks Thanks...hunderds of thanks for you Danny...

by MM (not verified)

Is there any website where I can follow progress within KDE-PIM incl. syncing?

best wishes
MM

by Aaron Seigo (not verified)

you can follow the commits (using http://commitfilter.kde.org/ of course =) as well as the devel mailing lists. but most projects don't have enough people hanging about how follow and understand development progress well enough to keep websites up to date with development progress.

by ac (not verified)

Hello, I saw nobody of KDE talking about so I wanted to mention it somewhere:
Google's open source phone system Android is using the KHTML based WebKit. Congratulations for one of the most viral piece of KDE software!
http://webkit.org/blog/