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KDE Commit-Digest for 13th April 2014

Fri, 30 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

 <ul><li>Exponential zoom in/out feature in "Solar System Viewer" of <a href="http://edu.kde.org/kstars/">KStars</a></li>

Lessons pane gets expand / collapse all buttons in Parley

Fixes to placement of KRunner on multi-screen setups

More grid presets and shortcuts for toggle and snap, and improvements to the EXR file format converter in Calligra

Fixes to opening documents in new tabs in Okular

Speedups in item synchronization in Akonadi

Notification support removed from KGlobalAccel

Further progress in ktp-text-ui and libqgit2

Dolphin starts to support being compiled with KF5.

 <a href="http://commit-digest.org/issues/2014-04-13/">Read the rest of the Digest here</a>.

KDE Commit-Digest for 6th February 2011

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000

In the latest KDE Commit-Digest:

 <ul><li>KWin developer Martin Gräßlin works hard on porting KWin’s graphical effects to OpenGL ES, with the effects receiving many visual improvements in the process</li>

KWin’s problematic "Shadow" and "Snow" effects are removed and await a better implementation in the future

Muon supports offline installation of packages and gains a .deb format thumbnailer plugin

Improvements are made to the artistic style formatter in KDevelop

A "Color Label Selector" is implemented in Digikam, which also sees an update of its internal libraw library which provides improved support for more cameras

Support for asynchronous SFTP downloading is implemented in kio_sftp

BlueDevil can now share files with an OBEX FTP server

Initial work on a user interface to control change tracking options in Calligra

Cirkuit gains options for manual and automatic backend selection

The functionality for creating a Table of Contents in Calligra Words is improved

The game dialog of Knights is redesigned

A large refactoring of the code for the KPatience game is done

Bug fixes in Kst, the Kipi plugins, Digikam, power management, kdelibs, the Plasma Desktop, KDE-PIM, Calligra/KOffice, Amarok, Kopete, and KTorrent

Plasma-addons, kdebase, kdelibs, the KDE Build Tool and KDE’s Qt copy (qt-kde) move to Git.

 <a href="http://commit-digest.org/issues/2011-02-06/">Read the rest of the Digest here</a>.

KDE Commit-Digest for 30th January 2011

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000

In the latest KDE Commit-Digest:

 <ul><li>Work on the CSV importer in <a href="http://www.kmymoney2.sourceforge.net">KMyMoney</a></li>

Work across the board in Calligra, including improved PPT format support

Work on video and sending/recieving files with the Yahoo protocol in Kopete amongst other changes

Work on search history support in KDevPlatform

New Booksmarks Manager (including support for importing bookmarks) in Marble, amongst many bug fixes

Much work throughout Kst including optimisations

KFileDialog now automatically chooses file type from typed extension

Work on the Public Transport Plasma data engine

Improvements in ad blocking code in KWebkitPart

Features and bugfixing in KDE-PIM, Lionmail, and Knights

Fixes for header-protected RAR and 7z files in Ark

Audio streaming support in Gluon

Optimisation and feature work in Digikam

Optimisations in the Webslice Plasma widget

All launcher config reading/saving has been moved into the new Group Manager

KDE-SDK's Kdesrc-Build moves to Git

KDE-PIM libs move to Git

Fsview is now Qt3Support-free

Bugfixes in Gwenview, Konsole, KPat, Rekonq, Muon, Oxygen-Gtk and throughout Plasma and its addons.

 <a href="http://commit-digest.org/issues/2011-01-30/">Read the rest of the Digest here</a>.

KDE Commit-Digest for 23rd January 2011

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

 <ul><li>Minor features are added to <a href="http://www.digikam.org/">Digikam</a> and the "Public Transport" Plasma applet</li>

Importing MySQL database tables is now supported by Kexi

Calligra Plan’s scheduling speed is significantly improved

The KOffice "change tracking" feature sees more improvements

Much work is done on Calligra’s Colour Management System (CMS), Pigment

Bug fixes to KDE’s basic software (such as Dolphin and Solid), the KDE libraries, Nepomuk, KDE-PIM, Skrooge, Calligra and Amarok

BlueDevil’s user interface for sending files is simplified so that it fits in one page

Improvements to tagging functionality in Amarok

A lot of work is done on ownCloud

Knights can now support a match between two chess engines

KTorrent’s performance is improved in situations with many torrents open

 <a href="http://commit-digest.org/issues/2011-01-23/">Read the rest of the Digest here</a>.