KDE Commit-Digest for 20th July 2008

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: The "Web Browser" Plasmoid now uses the Konqueror bookmarks system, and gains support for favicons. Improvements to the D-Bus interface of Plasma, with continued developments in the Plasmoids-on-Screensaver project. More animations in Plasma, and custom colors support in the "Binary Clock" and "Notes" applets. First implementation of a browserbar, and wheel scrolling support in the "Previewer" applet. A new "Screen Management" Plasmoid for showing connected displays. Start of a set of 40 Oxygen weather icons, for use in various Plasma applets and across KDE. Basic implementation of javascript window operations in WebKit-KDE. More work in DVCS support in KDevplatform (the basis of KDevelop4). Initial work on a Kross backend and automatic Qt bindings for Lua. A QtScript module for scripting C# applications. The start of a flashcard mode in Parley. Return of spellchecking support in the KPhotoAlbum annotation dialog, and improved spellchecking support in Kopete chat windows. "SystemC" syntax highlighting in Kate. Start of using Akonadi to store contacts in KPilot. A new "Albums" context view applet, and a "Script Console" script (using Qt bindings) in Amarok 2. Playback of DVD ISO's in DragonPlayer. Support for EMule collection files in KMLDonkey. Support for the NX protocol in KRDC. More page transition effects in KPresenter. Start of work on an authorization framework in the Kexi "Web Forms" project. A PackageKit backend plugin in the Shaman package manager. KDiff3 moves from playground/devtools to extragear/utils. Start of porting KMathTool to KDE 4. The KHotKeys redesign is merged back into kdebase. A new KWin branch for window tiling experimentation. Initial import of DarkRoom, an experimental raw decoder based on top of libkdcraw. Read the rest of the Digest here.