KDE Commit-Digest for 13th July 2008

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Work on themed buttons and a TabBar (with animations) in Plasma, initial work on a "grouping taskbar", and a "server hotlink" Plasmoid imported. Many KDE games get new sound effects. The start of a graphical user interface for the StepGame project. Basic Git, Bazaar, and Mercurial version control system support in KDevPlatform (the basis of KDevelop4), with Kross scripting interfaces. A new reflection architecture in the Kross Falcon bindings. A new "components and libraries" information dialog in Digikam. Minimal proxy support in the HTTP KIOSlave. D-Bus actions for invoking the Klipper context menu. Xinerama support in KSplash. Native "Open With..." dialogs for the Windows platform. Beginnings of a "bias editor" UI, and a rating widget added to the current track applet in Amarok 2. Added support for saving and removing profiles in the Karbon Calligraphy tool. First working KSpread/ODS export for Kexi reports. An experimental "cylinder" effect for switching desktops in KWin-Composite. Beginning of a KControl module to configure standard action shortcuts. The start of the PowerDevil (power management) KControl module, with D-Bus support. A new game, "Bomber", is imported into KDE SVN. Initial import of Dekoroom, a "new home designer" (with Ogre + Blender support). The NEPOMUK filewatch service moves into kdebase. Initial commits of Kommodity/GIO (Qt/C++ bindings for GIO/GVFS). Results of the "Fusion of Web Services with local services" diploma thesis, making the D-Bus web service proxy widely usable. KOffice 1.9.95 (Alpha 9) is tagged for release. KDE SVN is branched to prepare for the release of KDE 4.1, with KDE 4.1 Release Candidate 1 released. Read the rest of the Digest here.