Monday, 19 January 2015
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Gwenview gains "Recent Files" option
- Cantor sees multiple backends (R, Lua, KAlgebra/analitza, Maxima, Qalculate) and KLetters ported to Qt5/KF5
- Refactoring in of the custom defines and includes plugins in KDevelop: the compiler provider is a library now
- Skrooge adds new advice detecting scheduled operations having date not aligned with the last inserted operation
- Heavy development including introducting a base class Resource; also bugfixes.
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Read MoreThursday, 27 November 2014
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Marble can preview Geo Data files (GPX, OSM, KML, ESRI) in the file manager or file dialogs
- Plasma workspace introduce a list of apps that are limited to single notification only to limit the number of notifications the user sees
- KDE-PIM gains an initial implementation of native Gmail resource
- Krita allows global selection masks to be shown in the Layers docker to be used with other tools; implements drag & drop of multiple layers
- First approach to a KF5 port of KDE Connect.
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Read MoreThursday, 20 November 2014
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Calligra adds Okular generator for DOC/DOCX, based on the one for ODT
- Marble supports polygon moving, node deletion and adding polygon holes
- Solid offers more detailed battery status information
- KDevelop plugin controller architecture gains important optimizations
- Kdelibs sees config file parsing optimization thanks to reduced number of memory allocations
- Krita adds a Scalable Distance option to Weighted Smoothing
- In KDE Frameworks, Step has been ported to Qt5/KF5
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Read MoreSaturday, 8 November 2014
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- In KDevelop it is now possible to modify many include directories and defined macros at the same time
- KStars adds an "eyepiece view" feature to the observation planner; It renders a view of the eyepiece and DSS / other imagery if available, side-by-side
- Digikam adds a geotagging status for thumbnails when viewing the album
- Calligra adds Okular generator for ODT (and OTT) files
- Solid now has a proper Inhibition object, with start/stop methods
- Trojita implements PasswordWatcher for imap access
- Akonadi implements direct streaming of part data
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Read MoreMonday, 25 August 2014
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Amarok implements popular demand to restore scroll location when collection filter is cleared; adds a new option to support icon-view large thumb size (over 256x256 px)
- Plasma desktop streamlines comment fields of KCMs by applying common language and type-setting to the systemsettings modules in kde-workspace
- Kopete adds support for SOCKS5 proxy in ICQ protocol
- Umbrello sees work on UML 2.0
- Krita adds the indexed color filter
- Porting to KF5/Qt5 continues, including massif-visualizer and partitionmanager.
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Read MoreMonday, 30 June 2014
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Clang backend of KDevelop gains basic implementation of adjust signature assistant
- Kscreen KCM has been rewritten; the interface has two parts: a view with monitors that can be dragged around to reposition screens, and a widget-based part, that provides detailed configuration for each screen, like resolution, rotation, etc
- The screen locker gets the KCM back too
- Akonadi gets incremental changes for MERGE and tag support for MERGE and APPEND
- KMyMoney supports SQLCipher database driver
- Plasma Media Center prioritizes photos taken by a camera-like device.
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Read MoreSunday, 15 June 2014
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Umbrello adds find text in tree view, current diagram and all diagrams feature
- KDE Telepathy can share images over common image sharing networks
- Sflphone-kde adds security evaluation framework with GUI
- Punctuation data is accessible to Jovie
- Initial import of Application Menu aka (Homerun) Kicker
- In IMAP-Resource, refactoring of retrieveitemstask introduces multiple improvements
- Kexi is on the way to Qt5: Forms ported to Qt4's scroll area.
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Read MoreSunday, 15 June 2014
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- KDE-PIM sees huge performance improvement for POP3 users with large maildirs
- KAddressbook adds a category filter
- Krita implements support for more types of palettes
- Also in Calligra, Docx export filter has partial support for comments
- Digikam sees work on better support of multicore CPUs with important performance improvements
- Bluedevil has an initial port to KF5.
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Read MoreTuesday, 3 June 2014
In
this week's KDE Commit-Digest you can find an interview with Aaron Seigo about KF 5 and a look into KDE SC on devices. And of course, the overview of the development effort is there as every week and includes:
Read MoreFriday, 9 May 2014
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- KWallet adds support for pam-kwallet in kwalletd
- KWin introduces a X-KWin-Internal in kwineffect services
- Krita shows rulers in pixel units by default (user can change this)
- Smb4k implements permanent (re)mounting of shares
- Choqok adds preview of images from Twitter.
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Read MoreFriday, 9 May 2014
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- KDE Frameworks changes default font settings to Oxygen font
- KDevelop improves Custom Buildsystem Plugin, and it is now possible to define macros and add include directories/files through GUI and the GUI is always accessible by clicking on Project->Open Configuration
- Kwin introduces a new Effect Loading mechanism
- Trojita distinguishes between IMAP errors and network failures
- In KDEPIM, work starts on mailmerge support
- Skrooge can reorder the suboperations in the split operation
- Plasma MediaCenter adds a Baloo plugin
- Baloo reduces memory usage of the Akonadi indexer.
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Read MoreFriday, 9 May 2014
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Baloo reduces I/O usage during initial indexing; introduces a new database wrapper which adds features such as combining a writable + read only db and many convenience functions
- Plasma Framework makes the desktop scripting activity-aware
- KDE-PIM makes some of the IMAP dialogs asynchronous which improves error handling
- Umbrello adds synchronous message support to collaboration diagrams
- Skrooge filters date better in operation page
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Read MoreFriday, 9 May 2014
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Plasma Desktop can highlight currently open applets
- Plasma framework adds an optional EGL/X11 backend for WindowThumbnail QQuickItem
- KDE-PIM can create calendar events from e-mail
- Kate substantially improves highlighting of reStructuredText (rest.xml)
- Skrooge adds "quarter" and "semester" period in graph and "Incomes & Expenditures" dashboard widget.
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Read MoreSaturday, 22 March 2014
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Amarok merges advanced track statistics importers (a GSoC project)
- KDevelop allows language plugins to provide styles to formatters
- Konsole stores terminal size in the profile, each profile can now set desired column and row size; allows users to specify css file for tab bar style (this can be used to set minimum width of the tabs, distinguish active tab, etc)
- Kwallet replaces SHA with PBKDF2-SHA512+Salt
- Porting to Qt5 and Frameworks 5 continues, we have initial ports of kfind and konq.
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Read MoreSaturday, 15 March 2014
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Akonadi server now supports searching via 3rd party search plugins which means it can retrieve results very quickly; it also supports server-search (searching items not indexed by a local indexing service)
- Systemtray allows DBus-activation for Plasmoids
- Dolphin and KMail's messagelist filter and search windows have been ported to Baloo
- Okular adds tabbed interface
- In KDevelop, it is now possible to jump to runtime output error messages
- Kate adds keyword-based completion model
- Google Drive API support has been added.
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Read MoreSunday, 2 March 2014
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- KDevelop gets a new widget for the code assistant, which is more flexible in how it looks and behaves; adds a possibility to (de)serialize problems from/to disk; sees various optimizations
- KDE-PIM adds support for interval refresh of Google calendars and contacts
- In Skrooge, monthly report is now able to display reports on months, quarters, semesters and years
- Baloo adds a plugin for Akonadi
- libmm-qt implements OMA (Open Mobile Alliance) interface
- Umbrello adds additional debug support
- Ktexteditor adds a status bar.
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Read MoreMonday, 20 January 2014
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Umbrello offers more intelligent context menus: when multiple widgets are selected, a context menu is shown containing only the actions that work on the whole selection; better undo support and visual properties improvements
- Marble supports nautical miles as a measurement system
- Digikam improves detection of new images on the camera and sees a bug in face detection fixed
- Krita improves usability of Shade Selector
- Multiple bug fixes in Krita, digikam, KMyMoney and more.
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Read MoreMonday, 9 December 2013
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- In KDE Frameworks 5, multiple modules and applications ported, including the Locale Systemsettings module
- Plasma Calendar now uses lazy loading
- Multiple improvements in Kate plugins, especially in the Python ones
- Kooka sees improvements in the Auto Select user interface and the scan previewer
- New Calendar Applet in KDE Frameworks
- In Krita, various improvements to the crop tool, improved and faster mirroring device mirroring
- More improvements in the dialog for organizing collections in Amarok.
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Read MoreSunday, 24 November 2013
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- In KDE Frameworks, new KColorSchemeManager supports changing color scheme in apps
- Kate adds an option to flash matching brackets
- Krita allows multibrush to use an angled axis and have an option to show the axis; new implementation of the brush outline display
- KStars sees major update of Ekos and KStars FITSViewer tool
- Trojita adds support for more decoding formats.
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Read MoreTuesday, 19 November 2013
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- In KTouch there is an easy way to train on self-supplied texts, resolving a feature regression in a much improved way
- Systemtray makes the grid view more dynamically sized, removes pulse animation when battery is low to save energy even more
- KCachegrind adds "cost per function call" column in the call view
- KDEConnect improves package dispatch to the different plugins
- Konversation makes it possible to disable notifications for certain highlights
- Important optimizations in Kate code completion and Dolphin item sorting.
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Read MoreSunday, 10 November 2013
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Big change in screen management: krandr is removed and replaced by kscreen
- New backends in Cantor: Scilab backend returns with syntax highlighting, tab-completion and more; new Python2 backend is added
- Kate adds advanced completion list filtering: abbreviation and "contains" matching
- Skrooge now imports (csv, qif) support date format like: 31Dec2012
- Okular adds audio and video support for epub
- Sflphone KDE gets fully implemented global presence tracking
- KReversi is ported to QML.
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Read MoreFriday, 11 October 2013
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- KDevelop adds a new tool: RegistersView
- In KDE-PIM, KMail gains adblock support
- Krita adds an option to hide preset strip and/or scratchpad; improves memory efficiency and conversions
- Porting to KDE Frameworks and Plasma 2 still in progress, this includes the icon applet; porting to Qt 5 is also in progress for the KCM modules
- Work is in progress on systemtray 2.
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Read MoreFriday, 4 October 2013
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Krita gains Clones Array extension: it creates a number of clones for the current layer, so the user can paint on it as if the tiles were repeated (useful for painting texture tiles for web-games); implements the Select Layer by Mouse Click feature and shows brush outline in line tool (and other tools)
- Skrooge downloads and adds bills as properties by using boobill (weboob)
- KDE-PIM adds a migration agent that schedules various migrators and exposes an interface for status and control
- Bug fixes in Amarok, Calligra and many other programs.
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Read MoreFriday, 20 September 2013
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- In KDE Frameworks, a new utility function can paint icon overlays; a basic declarative (QML) interface for Solid is added as well as support for keyboards and pointers in udev backend; more porting effort in progress
- All Marble plugins are ported to Qt5
- Nepomuk does not allow items to be indexed in parallel: the CPU usage for virtuoso is too high
- in Umbrello, associations can now be drawn with different layouts
- Calligra adds support for choosing the composite op for Indirect Painting mode
- Knetwalk is ported to QML and adds an option to show the solution.
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Read MoreThursday, 5 September 2013
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Amarok now supports direct download of Jamendo albums instead of downloading via BitTorrent; the download is now far more reliable, and on-the-fly transcoding to other formats is possible
- Kate Vim support adds a new extension: interactive sed replace when the 'c' flag is used when also using the emulated command bar
- Marble adds overlay rendering support
- Digikam adds Multi-core support for Metadata Synchronizer tool
- Calligra adds an API for writing ODF that is generated from the ODF RNG file
- Much activity in KDE Frameworks: adjustment of ThumbnailItems to QtQuick2, a new program which takes a .desktop file and writes out a .json file from it and more.
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Read MoreWednesday, 28 August 2013
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Kate adds an extension to Kate Vim: new shortcut ctrl-e in the emulated command bar, that makes refactoring duplicated complex expressions easier; other search and replace improvements include multi-line text searches and upper/lower-casing replacement captures
- KDE-PIM supports CONDSTORE IMAP extension for incremental flags change synchronization
- Akonadi implements server-side notification filtering, adds support for a globally unique identifier for items
- Artikulate adds multiple recordings for courses
- Krita implements anisotropic spacing for brushes
- KDE Frameworks porting continues, for instance in the new i18n semantics.
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Read MoreSunday, 21 July 2013
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- In kdelibs, kfiledialog remembers settings correctly
- Plasma applet for Network Management adds OpenConnect VPN plugin
- KDE Telepathy's authentication supports Google accounts
- Kopete activates webcam preview in settings dialog only if webcam tab is selected
- Zanshin adds DataStoreInterface that allows to decouple Akonadi access from the rest of the application (useful for testing, for example)
- Tellico Collection Manager allows Bibtex text to be drag/dropped on the main window to import
- Skrooge imports Microsoft Money documents (.mny), both protected and not
- Bodega server (Plasma Active Appstore) sees much work, including implementation of posting of assets, publishing and "Partner Manager" role
- Optimizations in Trojitá, KDE-PIM and KDevelop
- GSoC work in KStars and Kreversi.
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Read MoreSunday, 30 June 2013
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- In Calligra, the tag categories the user can define for various resources will update for any resource of the same type; in Krita, Pixel Selection can be converted into a Vector Selection
- KDevelop makes it possible to pull includes and defines from the CMake targets
- Battery applet animates the battery icon when charge is below 5%; batteries are sorted by name
- Plasma Media Center sees much work on youtube videos
- KGet merges work from GSoC 2012 on Metalink HTTP Headers
- KGPG sorts keys by domain name of email address
- Optimized calendar handling in KDE-PIM, file indexing in Nepomuk, gradients in Calligra, and Analyzer drawing in Amarok.
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Read MoreThursday, 20 June 2013
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Kickoff shows new applications for 3 days in a separate submenu "Recently Installed"
- KWin adds a helper effect for KScreen integration
- Skrooge allows changing operation date through "Search & Process"
- In Amarok, TrackLoader and PlaylistController support for treating remote playlists as streams, OpenGL analyzers appear, analyzers are configurable now
- Network Management allows configuring band/channel for ad hoc wifi mode
- KDE Telepathy supports persistent chats in the plasmoid
- Bug fixes in Umbrello, Dolphin, KMail.
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Read MoreSunday, 16 June 2013
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Amarok harmonizes playlist-related actions (double-clicking, pressing Enter, middle clicking...); optimization: removing tens of thousands of tracks from a playlist is now much faster
- Nepomuk simplifies storage code with big performance gains; user data needs to be migrated to the new format
- Calligra updates author profile actions when configuration changes
- Krita adds Clipboard brush, Isolated Mode for nodes, can convert a paint layer to any mask and back using a menu
- libkface introduces new face recognition API.
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Read MoreTuesday, 11 June 2013
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- In KDE Workspace, Battery Monitor improves the way multiple batteries are displayed; KWin introduces cross-fading with previous pixmap and adds Wayland seat and backend support; a new"Configure" button for notifications that opens KNotify settings for the app that emitted the notification
- KStars gets a new Data menu and sees multiple menu reorganizations
- Solid add support for the Power Supply property
- Akonadi introduces NotificationMessageV2 that supports batch operations on set of entities
- Calligra adds resource categorizing with tags
- Amarok gains an audio analyzer visualization applet, fixes playing of tracks passed on command line; pressing enter when searching collections now adds found tracks to the playlist and clears the search bar
- NetworkManagement adds initial Wimax support
- Kopete gains a new history plugin based on sqlite
- Print manager can filter the jobs again.
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Read MoreSunday, 28 April 2013
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- KDE-PIM extends support for Facebook notifications: whenever the user receives a notification, it's displayed with direct links and an option to mark all notifications as read; work starts on grammar checker
- Calligra expands the References section by adding features to insert hyperlinks, bookmarks and links to bookmarks
- Network Management autoconnects to a VPN when a device gets connected; work in progress on mobile broadband wizard integration
- Rocs adds script engine documentation widget feature
- Work on Youtube support in Plasma MediaCenter
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Read MoreSunday, 28 April 2013
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Amarok can now read & save .asx playlists, becomes power-management aware: it can inhibit automatic system suspend and pause on resume (configurable); reads playlist files asynchronously when possible
- A new simple template to create a Plasma applet with Plasma QML components
- Skrooge adds monthly reports and the main page uses the standard KDE font
- Kdenlive adds reverse clip to clip actions
- KWin sees big code re-organizations: splits out screen handling from Workspace into own-class Screens, and separates Activities-related code out from Workspace
- Work on Calligra on Android (Coffice) continues.
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Read MoreSunday, 21 April 2013
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- KMail gets an important bug fixed: if more than one mail is received in one batch, mail filtering ignored some mails
- KDE Telepathy improves name display from profiles and plugins, adds KDE global menu support
- Akonadi improves Google services support by updating to LibKGAPI2: full support of contacts groups, improved fetching contacts photos, status and progress reporting, should be faster and more stable
- Konsole makes search strings per-tab, not per-window
- Work on LDAP password storing in KWallet
- Wacom tablet support sees many improvements for button action selection, including widget and dialog
- KDevelop's Ruby lexer is partially re-written
- KTouch sees a rewrite of lesson text rendering that brings up support for non-Latin languages
- Deletion from Amarok playlist works much faster.
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Read MoreMonday, 25 March 2013
- KDE Telepathy fixes having a notification "a new contact has added you" even when you are offline, adds .desktop-based tubes channel approver
- Nepomuk changed DBus interface to the FileIndexer for status messages
- Improvements in kscreen API
- Calligra changes as to when config ui are in a docker and when it is in a tool
- Work on new dashboard in Skrooge
- Amarok optimizes dynamic playlist generation.
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Read MoreSunday, 3 March 2013
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- KDevelop adds basic support for type-defined function pointers; introduces fast documentation access; improves performance by caching the hash of indexed set nodes
- KWin adds a new effect: Glow on approaching Screen Edge; Non-composited Outline is ported to XCB
- Marble can now open .kmz files
- Calligra adds an ability to transform layers recursively with a Transform Tool
- Marble sees work on a plugin to draw polygons and placemarks on a map
- Skrooge shows buttons on dashboard widgets to discover the contextual menu.
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Read MoreSaturday, 26 January 2013
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- KWin adds "visible" property on EffectWindow needed by various effects and improves resolving whether a window is on local machine
- In KDE-PIM, Facebook resource is now installed by default
- Calligra gets a new tool to automatically fix trivial errors in source files
- Amarok resurrects Audio CD playback, at least with phonon-gstreamer
- Juk supports reading/writing Ogg Opus tags
- Rekonq migrates to Nepomuk2
- Kipi sees work on the infrastructure to upload to galleries in Imageshack.
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Read MoreTuesday, 1 January 2013
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Calligra increases modularity step by step; Words allows for ebook cover images to be added
- Batch Queue Manager in Digikam offers more options to end users
- Nepomuk FileIndexer gives plugins better control over indexing; indexing based on MIME types is now available
- KTorrent introduces a more user-friendly syndication interface
- Rekonq sees work on cookie management in private browsing mode
- Apper adds a feature to automatically download updates (without installing) and sees multiple other improvements
- PublicTransport gets global QML dashboard.
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Read MoreFriday, 28 December 2012
This week's KDE Commit-Digest starts with two stories: insights about Google Code-In work on KDE-PIM and interesting recent events in the spotlight. Of course, there is also a summary of development effort:
Read More Sunday, 9 December 2012
This week's KDE Commit-Digest brings three stories: recent KDE-PIM activities, changes in Strigi and Google Code-In. The commit list includes:
- Kate adds "Keep highlighting" next to the close button
- KDevplatform optimizes document loading
- KDEPIM updates holidays for several countries
- libnm-qt implements GSM settings
- Muon-backends gets extensive work, including being split in two--libmuonapt and libmuon (no QApt dependency)
- Calligra's Experiment PaintOp now uses highly optimized Displacement option.
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Read MoreSunday, 2 December 2012
This week KDE Commit-Digest introduces QML containments. Additionally, the list of changes includes :
- Amarok can now transcode even with ffmpeg >= 1.0; statistics synchronization work is merged
- PublicTransport adds numerous improvements: new provider states, prevents multiple feed imports, provider model/dialog gets dynamic
- KDevelop memory footprint reduced
- KDE-libs introduces an optimization by caching locally favicon names
- Krita improves zoom factor handling
- KDE PIM fixes implementation of the PurgeBuffer.
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Read MoreSaturday, 24 November 2012
This week's KDE Commit-Digest starts with three short stories: Kate search and replace changes; Homerun; and Linux Color Management Hackfest 2012. Of course, it also gives the overview of development activity:
Read More Monday, 12 November 2012
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- KDevelop sees multiple improvements. It is nowpossible to plug custom actions into the 'Open With' from extensions; updates and fixes in patch-review; optimization of icon loading for large projects
- Kate adds Mini-Map of the document, allows user to override automatic encoding detection
- Kdenlive implements analysis load/save
- KTouch gets user interface changes
- KDE-PIM optimizes contact search queries
- KOrganizer reminders work reliably again for people who do not have KDE running 24/7 (this was broken since the switch to Akonadi).
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Read MoreSunday, 11 November 2012
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- SMB KIO (Samba) stores passwords in wallet when the "Remember password" checkbox is checked in the authorization dialog
- KCachegrind loads multiple files on command line into one window
- In Calligra, "Rename" action in Project Navigator can be used to change object's caption
- Amarok supports Amazon MP3 in Spain and Italy
- Konqueror reports the open/close document events to Activity Manager daemon
- Digikam disables the current implementation of a Digikam-Nepomuk integration, work being done on a new one
- Gwenview adds the possibility to adjust the aspect ratio of a thumbnail
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Read MoreSunday, 11 November 2012
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Calligra improves Video Shape: adds playback controls to video playback (Volume Control, Playback seeker), ability to save video within ODF documents and thumbnails; Kexi shows indication that edited or pasted text is trimmed
- KDevelop adds bookmarks functionality to Filesystem Toolview; massive code refactoring and bug fixes
- Rocs adds initial version for documentation widget
- KWin gains a new effect: Maximize Window
- Rekonq reports the open/close document events to Activity Manager daemon.
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Read MoreSunday, 28 October 2012
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Konsole reimplements KDE3's print screen functionality
- Calligra adds animation tool docker for editing shape animations
- KDE-Workspace splits SceneOpenGL into a concrete SceneOpenGL1 and SceneOpenGL2
- In KStars, Star Hopper now takes the field of view from the current visible FOV symbol
- Okular optionally shows a complete file path in window title
- Updated internal libraw in libkdcraw supports new cameras
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Read MoreThursday, 25 October 2012
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Calligra adds a new application, Author
- Kexi gets support for user data storage and remembers column widths of table views
- Aurorae supports Plastik's configuration options
- KGeography can scramble colors
- PublicTransport improves the presentation of a journey
- User can configure application shutdown time in KDE Workspace
- Numerous refactorings in KDE Workspace in Bookmarks runner, including new support for Chrome/Chromium bookmarks, and both Chrome and Firefox favicons
- Phonon-VLC offers a new state: paused before playing.
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Read MoreThursday, 11 October 2012
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Rewrite of INDI code in KStars
- EPUB 2.0.1 export filter for Words finished in Calligra
- Improvements in dashboard and patch review in KDevPlatform
- Muon Package Manager provides more information on estimated time needed to commit updates
- Cantor adds support for scrolling with an active drag
- Kothic JSON parser for vector data tiles added to Marble
- Kate plugins benefit from better signalling making it easier for plugins to talk with each other
- Lightdm saves/restores last logged in user.
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Read MoreWednesday, 10 October 2012
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
KDE Commit Digest is getting back up to speed!
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Work started on declarative canvas for Krita
- Work on Sphinx support and face detection in Simon
- Seamless login from LightDM-KDE to KSplash
- Improved KWin decoration engine when switching themes
- Aurorae Previewer added to Plasmate
- Support for config values in QML decorations in KDE-workspace
- Season of KDE (SoK) work in KStars
- Work on the import tool in digiKam
- New application: NepomukCleaner
- Bugfixes in Gwenview, kwebkitpart, kmix and others
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Read MoreSunday, 26 August 2012
In this week's KDE Commit Digest:
- Re-implemented dropping of files on folders in the Places panel in kdebase
- Improved CMake and auto-completion support in KDevelop
- Line spacing can be now configured in Konsole
- Better equation support in analitza, a library to add mathematical features in KDE-Edu
- Image conversion to portable pixmap format (ppm) stream in kipi-plugins
- Improvements in LogViewer in Ktp, part of KDE Telepathy
- Akonadi now caches prepared queries and re-uses them whenever possible
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Read MoreSaturday, 21 July 2012
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Kexi's data handling library KexiDB became a common component of Calligra
- Remote installer implemented in Plasmate
- Work on the GUI for video slide shows in Kipi
- Smarter manual save dialog in Skanlite
- Digikam can be compiled with paralelized PGF codec
- DocumentCursor class added to Kate
- Activity ranking plugin in its own thread and a separate GlobalShortcuts plugin added to KActivities
- Work on recursive move replay in KDE-PIM
- In Phonon-VLC, new videomemorystream is implemented and vdo is based on it now
- Performance improvements in KDE-PIM
- Important refactoring work in libksane and kdelibs
- Bug closing continues: 320 opened, 843 closed.
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Read MoreThursday, 5 July 2012
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Multiple new features in Calligra: better support for paragraph merging in Words, hover buttons for quick actions in Stage Slide Sorter, unlimited dragging of objects from outside supported in Stage and Flow, better monitor profile update of canvas, more options for styles in charts, most of the CPU-based OCIO implemented
- Improved last commits history dialog in KDevelop
- Work started on OpenGL rendering in RasterImageView in Gwenview
- Added support for Like, Comment and Application objects in KDE-PIM
- Support for many types of graphs in analitza
- Changed the Note tab in the sidebar widget in conquirere
- Formatting plugin added to Ktp
- GSoC work on Cantor
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Read MoreMonday, 2 July 2012
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Multiple new features for a non-editable view of animations in Calligra; contour data is created and removed using image analysis from UI and a ClipCommand, a page/slide navigator control for the statusbar is used in Stage and Flow; Kexi gets an option for setting default length limit of text values and Kexi forms get Date Picker widget
- Pate plugin (plugins in Python) can add configuration pages to Kate's settings; initial version of Script IDE submitted
- Public Transport gains new KDevelop-like TimetableMate GUI, update accessor file format and fixes in a single commit
- Faster computation of the shortest path in Rocs
- Season of KDE and Google Summer of Code work in several projects, including Plasma, Marble and Cantor
- Bugfixes in Calligra, Amarok, Konversation, Muon and other programs
- Amarok developers start giving bug fixes as birthday presents
- Bugs status: 438 opened, 419 closed.
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In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Okular saves annotations locally
- Delayed search in Calligra allows the users to type the whole word; adding image lists possible; brush rotation is absolute to canvas rotation
- Amarok is now capable of transcoding music when copying it to USB Mass Storage devices
- Exponential notation supported in Kst
- Play Previous and Play Next and other updates in miniplayer
- Further preparations for drag-and-drop support in the Places Panel in Dolphin
- Refactoring work in Kdenlive
- GSoC work in Cantor.
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In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
<ul><li>Basic drag and drop support enabled for the Places Panel and bookmark synchronization in <a href="http://dolphin.kde.org/">Dolphin</a></li>
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Saturday, 2 June 2012
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- On startup, KPhotoAlbum can search for videos without thumbnails
- Dolphin allows remembering view properties for the search mode
- Screen edge bindings for scripts and scripted effects implemented in KDE Workspace
- New assert methods and Get Hot New Stuff support are available for KWin scripts
- Abstract calendar and printing of the highlighted part of an email in KDE-PIM
- In Calligra, author information gets configurable on a settings level, floating message class added
- GSoC work in cantor and bibliography database in Calligra
- Bugfixes in Amarok, KDE-PIM and the KDE base packages.
- Statistics are back...and they are impressive.
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Sunday, 13 May 2012
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest, Frederik Gladhorn writes about the current state of development in KDE-Accessibility.
As usual, there is also a change list that includes:
- Marble gets the first version of FlightGear position provider
- KPhotoAlbum saves the video length in a database; search for the length is also possible
- KWebkitParts gets an option that allows the user to disable the internal handling of flash and java applets
- KDE-PIM extends the notes class; there are some new properties
- Calligra allows dragging of selected text. It works with drag and drop too.
- Amarok can write album covers to iPods and USB Mass Storage devices; changes in cover art reading and writing
- Solid adds proper support for volumes, storage disks and storage access, which was not working on Windows
- Soprano uses non-Qt local socket communication on Unix systems.
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Tuesday, 1 May 2012
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Konsole gains a Web Shortcuts menu that allows searching selected text using any of the search providers; search scrollback is now possible in Konsole KPart
- New placement policy in KDEWorkspace: allow "under mouse"; work to include screenlocker into ksmserver
- Amarok ships the Free Music Charts by default; Amarok's iPod collection completely rewritten
- Digikam supports keyboard shortcuts in the timeline view
- GlobalShortcuts Plugin added into ActivityManager in KDE-Base
- Work on the rule files in kdemultimedia
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Sunday, 22 April 2012
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Dolphin now uses KMessageWidget for error and information messages, and has faster file sorting
- Initial Fuse backend implementation for Solid
- It is now possible to save images from HTML mails in KMail
- OSRM (Open Source Routing Machine) is supported as routing backend in Marble
- Lokalize adds basic support for QT Linguist .ts files
- Improved sorting by meridian transit time / observation time for an observation session in KStars; improved DSS image retrieval feature.
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Friday, 13 April 2012
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- In KDevelop, C++11 gets noexcept keyword support; external scripts can be run from Project context menu; performance improved in compiler error-detection regexps
- Amarok gets a diagnostics dialog for easy bug reporting
- Konversation supports SSL Client Certificate authentication using PEM files
- Nepomuk metadata can be shown inside views
- Amarok can distinguish between mp4, m4a, m4v types in Amarok::FileType
- New functions in Kate document JavaScript API
- Previously hidden option allows for specifying whether an upscaling of images should be done.
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Wednesday, 29 February 2012
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Addition of a video wall script in KDE-Workspace
- Support of third party window switchers by a KCM service that finds all available window switcher layouts
- Work on extended quick search to include fulltext results from Nepomuk in KDE-PIM
- Improved Nepomuk feeder throttling
- Improvements in Kexi Feedback Agent
- Astromobile subproject has been added to Simon
- Audio alignment works in Kdenlive
- New History Manager in rekonq
- Addition of FileDeleter which manages the removal of files in KGet
- Work on history and state saving and management in KPatience.
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Monday, 20 February 2012
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Important improvements in simon. The first working speech recognition implementation based on stock Julius (continuous speech recognition system) Text To Speech (TTS) to RSS and email
- Konsole gains a Clone Tab action, DBus objects for each Konsole window
- Work on annotation view in Kst: items can now move with data
- Digikam can now be compiled with lcms2 (Little CMS, a color management library)
- LightDM adds support for guest session
- In KIPI, JPEG lossless plugin now uses actionthreadbase class based on ThreadWeaver to use multiple CPUs
- Change in Amarok's mass storage management: does not show unmounted USB devices and makes it clear when a device is not activated.
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Friday, 10 February 2012
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Partial port of kdelibs to Qt5
- RSS feed handling in Plasma
- Fix drag and drop issues with non-local URLs
- KStars FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) improved to work well in Ekos
- Support for embedded album cover reading and writing, more natural drag-and-drop behaviour in collection browser in Amarok
- Maintenance action in Tools menu of Digikam to maintain collections etc. while scanning for new data
- Refactoring in KisNodeModel, improved support for Excel and MSOffice in Calligra; start of Krita optimized for touch.
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Saturday, 4 February 2012
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Work on lambda expressions and handling of the override token in c++11, C# import, new features in list generator for Python in KDevelop
- Solid APIs are now used for DPMS (VESA Display Power Management Signaling) service jobs in kde-workspace
- In Calligra, basic GUI for the character styles in the style manager, first version of the Lindenmayer brush, new OpenFormula functions: CELL, SHEET and SHEETS; introduction of Page Layout tool
- Unified album artist handling in Amarok; albums with same name but different album artists are now correctly separated in USB mass storage, iPod and various online service collections
- Support extended mouse coordinates in Konsole
- Closer integration of KSudoku and the new generator/solver.
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Friday, 27 January 2012
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Aurorae goes QML, ClientGroup becomes scriptable in KDE base
- Calligra sees work on footnotes, all interactive painting tools are threading-friendly; Kexi introduces Simple User Feedback Agent
- Rekonq adds about:tabs, an easy method to manage rekonq tabs
- Support for Twitter photo upload API method in ChoqoK
- Board Editor and random layout addition to KMahjongg
- Circular reference memory leaks fix and other updates in Amarok
- Initial port of Calendars resource to libKGoogle 0.3 in akonadi-google
- Skrooge has "Show" menu in scheduled operations.
Read the rest of the Digest here. The Commit-Digest team is aware of the lack of top level statistics. The issue is being worked on.
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Friday, 30 December 2011
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Embedded mode for TabBox in KWin
- Reimplemented name filtering in Dolphin
- Initial support for resource events in read-only kparts in kdelibs
- Calligra updates include improved opening of .kexis files, and creating new app instances and main window UI changes in Kexi; support for filled radar charts, updated document handling and optimization of reverse iterator and ODF saving
- Improved download management and shortcut+slot to Open Downloads page in rekonq
- KDevelop supports configuration of some environment variables for CMake jobs
- Export of non-local files in Skrooge.
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Monday, 5 December 2011
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest, Boudewijn Rempt writes about the 2.4 version of Krita. In addition, the usual list of updates:
- Progress in the work to separate QGraphicsView from libplasma
- Calligra sees work on docx support and autocolor
- Telepathy sees UI refactoring; there is now extended away support and dialog-less setup for link-local XMPP
- Marble gets 'space view' activity
- Digikam gains Aspect Ratio Crop tool and Kodak HIE infrared filter in Image editor converter
- Plasma Active gets UI for setting start page, adblock and history; lockscreen
- KMyMoney can show the balance of a budget.
plus many statistics on bugs, wishes, commits, i18n, bug fixes
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Thursday, 24 November 2011
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest we have included a feature on updates in Plasma Active from Marco Martin.
In addition, the usual list of updates:
- Window Thumbnail support for QML in Plasma Workspaces
- Mouse cursor size is now configurable, Oxygen mouse cursors (pseudo) scalable
- Basic routing activity added in Marble
- Import of internal libraw 0.14.3 to libkdcraw, with support of new cameras
- Porting of gamma table editing finished in Kooka
- Final border refactoring, initial support for filtered frame layers and bugfixes in Calligra
- Multiple crashes fixed.
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Friday, 18 November 2011
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this week's KDE Commit-Digest, we have included a feature on the recent release of Necessitas Alpha 3—the project to get Qt working on the Android platform. Several tasks are listed that must be completed for the project to move out of alpha; no coding expertise required. Pitch in if you want to help get Qt working on Android.
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Friday, 30 September 2011
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- New render plugin in Marble: GpsInfo
- A new service for powermanagement tasks such as suspension and shutdown
- Dragon Player now uses Phonon instead of xine-lib for DVD menus
- Overburn tolerance is increased in K3b from 10% to 25%
- Basic drag-and-drop support for contact list is added in Telepathy
- In Network Management, DSL connections can be associated to Ethernet interfaces
- First implementation of Plasma applet in wicd-kde
- Public Transport sees much work, especially around GTFS feeds
- Adblock improved in rekonq
- KSecret file serialization logic rewrite
- Calligra sees work on PPT and ODT formats, anchoring, search from cursor and other changes.
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Friday, 2 September 2011
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Digikam now offers deferred scanning of files
- KStars has seen work in the Print Wizard, optimization of sky drawing and bugfixes
- KNewstuff3 supports GnuPG2
- In Calligra, among other improvements, SVG support has been added to the flake library
- Rekonq can restore tab history when restoring tabs/sessions
- There are various improvements around the popup icon in Public Transport
- Performance optimizations have taken place in Plasma, KWin and KDEPIM
- There are multiple updates in different areas of ownCloud
- Some of the GSoC contributions have been merged, including the improvement of user experience in Kiten.
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Friday, 26 August 2011
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest, Shaun Reich comments on his work to port KDM to Plasma. In addition, the change list for this week includes:
<ul><li>Drag and drop for images and URLs is implemented in <a href="http://www.calligra-suite.org/">Calligra</a> Stage and Flow.</li>
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Friday, 19 August 2011
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
<ul><li>The refactoring of <a href="http://api.kde.org/4.0-api/kdelibs-apidocs/">kdelibs</a> for Frameworks 5 has started</li>
There have been much work in the Kate printing module, the changes include an attempt to work around Qt printing bugs, fixes in page numbering and othersKonsole can use images as backgroundKate support for different syntax format has been extended and now includes also Verilog 2001, Maya MEL and DOS batch files and some other formats have been updatedKMail can search by datePerformance optimization in Digikam, KDE PIM and PublicTransportBasic keyboard navigation in Icons and Compact View in Dolphin has been implementedBug fixes in multiple applications including Calligra, Kate, Network Management. <a href="http://commit-digest.org/issues/2011-08-14/">Read the rest of the Digest here</a>.
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Saturday, 13 August 2011
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Calligra sees work on DOC list styles, improved drag-and-drop in Document Structure Docker and multiple bugfixes; kformula becomes a shape
- The split/migration of image and thumbnails databases has started in Digikam
- There is a new and improved describeResources method in KDE-Runtime
- Kate now highlights GNU LD scripts
- There is a new journey search string parser in PublicTransport
- Optimizations have been made in route rendering in Marble, and preview rendering in KDE-Base
- Umbrello receives work on the new code importing wizard
- The way Konsole queries for the PTY size is changed, this should fix multiple problems with terminal dimensions
- Bugfixes in Kate, Amarok, Phonon, Network Management.
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Saturday, 6 August 2011
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest Artem Serebriyskiy introduces the new Nepomuk Web Extractor in a featured article. The list of changes include:
<ul><li>Desktop layout control moves from pager to <a href="http://userbase.kde.org/KWin">KWin</a></li>
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Friday, 29 July 2011
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest, we have a featured article by Ivan Čukić on the new activity manager. The code changes this week include:
- Calligra Stage gets a new user interface for creating and editing custom slide shows in its Slides Sorter View.
- Gapless playback is implemented in Phonon-GStreamer.
- For rekonq adding favorites is made easier and a user interface option for configuring the do not track header is added, there are also updates to the SSL support.
- The Public Transport applet can now show stops in Marble with the updated OpenStreetMap data engine.
- In kdelibs, we have a usability improvement in the Edit File Type button and an introduction of package cache for Plasma.
- Kate now correctly handles comments when doing static code wrap.
- Bugfixes were made to a diverse range of applications, including KDevelop, Marble, and Network Management.
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Friday, 22 July 2011
This week's KDE Commit-Digest brings two featured articles: Milian Wolff writes about his work on C++2011 support in KDevelop and Dominik Haumann presents improvements in Kate Variable Editor. The changes review brings:
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Sunday, 10 July 2011
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- In Calligra, CMYK color support in Krita, improvements in Web widget of Kexi, updated RTF support and bugfixes
- Multiple improvements in Public Transport Widget, including a new filter structure and the possibility to highlight a stop
- Addition of development mode for system tray, DMS query optimization and other changes in Nepomuk
- Addition of manual creation of plain text emails in KDE-PIM
- Amarok now compiles with Clang
- Marble sees memory optimization in offline maps and GSoC work
- Fixes in font display, non-local URLs and other changes, removal of the last OpenGL code from kwineffects and fixes in global shortcuts in KDE's Plasma Workspaces
- Fixes in KMail, KAlarm, KDE-PIM, Juk, Amarok, NetworkManagement, and KDevelop.
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Friday, 1 July 2011
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Work on Wayland support in KWin continues
- In Calligra, among other changes, we can see performance improvement in plugins, fixed soft page break, added footnotes, and more work on DOC support
- Updates in brush, stroke, and font support in Kst
- Improved Python support in KDevelop
- Improved map quality in Marble
- GSOC work in SDK Dolphin plugin and Gluon
- Fix in QIF import in KMyMoney
- Skrooge sees properties that can be copies or links to a file
- Updated line wrap handling and multiple session management in Kate
- Bugfixing in KDevelop, KPhotoalbum, and Digikam.
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Friday, 24 June 2011
This week, the Commit Digest includes an article on the Kdenlive video editor.
Also in this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
- Among other work, Calligra sees improved OOXML, DOCX and MSWord support, Recent Projects assistant implemented in Kexi and numerous bugfixes
- Window decoration support for Wayland clients and other Wayland-specific modifications are added to Kwin
- Event loop in the IndexScheduler is added in Nepomuk
- Reduced memory usage for timezones in KDE-Libs by using a private class in KTimeZoneBackend
- Reworked item retrieval for Maildirs in KDE-PIM
- Fixed magnitude parameters calculation for comets in KStars
- Fixes to pgf and OpenMP support in Digikam
- Bugfixes in Krusader, including crash during a file move
- Added Qt Mobility Location plugin as a position provider in Marble
- Added working archiver and extractor in Gluon
- Bugfixes in KDE-Libs, KDevelop, Amarok, NetworkManagement.
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