KDE-CVS-Digest for August 15, 2003

In this week's KDE-CVS-Digest: Kooka, the KDE scanning application, now supports
ocrad, a GPL OCR engine.
JuK gets a history playlist feature, along with
some serious optimizations.
KMenu, the KMail address selection dialog,
KOrganizer and KSnapshot get usability improvements.
KStars gains the capability of generating skymaps from the commandline.
And many bugfixes in KOffice,
Kate and
Kopete.

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by Dan (not verified)

Never expected it to be out so fast, tahnks a lot!

by MK (not verified)

Jesse Yurkovich committed a change to kdelibs/kate/data
* Add REXX and CUE sheet hightlighting wish 55321
Refer to Bug 55321 - korn is using way to much memory

Huh?

Probably a reference to bug 55312 makes more sense ;-)

by Derek Kite (not verified)

Fixed. Thanks for pointing it out. The entry was moved to the feature section since it was a wishlist.

Derek (who fondly remembers REXX)

by andrianarivony (not verified)

REXX (OS/2) and AREXX (Amiga) were powerful languages.
Here you can find a list of implementations:
http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/rexx/rexxplat.htm
(have a look also in dmoz.org)

And here are the 3 available REXX interpreters for Linux:
- Object REXX from IBM (freeware _not GPL_ under Linux)
http://www-3.ibm.com/software/awdtools/obj-rexx/
- REXX/imc, GPL
http://users.comlab.ox.ac.uk/ian.collier/Rexx/index.html
- Regina, GPL and cross-platform
http://regina-rexx.sourceforge.net/

by Jason Harris (not verified)

Kate has Smart Indent !! :) Just for C-Style languages for now.

YES!! Thank you Jesse! Time to 'cvs up', methinks...
:D

(ps- why do my HTML tags never work? :( )

by Justin (not verified)

HTML posts have been disabled for around 3 years now, ever since dot.kde.org was goatsexed.

by fault (not verified)

>why do my HTML tags never work?

A long, long, time ago, someone created a javascript that when posted here, replaced all links with hrmm.. other websites :)

by Jesse (not verified)

Thanks! :)
I have some more improvements for C Style sitting locally too ... just waiting for the ok from the other Kate devs about some source organization issues. Should be noted that C Style just insn't for C/C++ ... should work for C#/Java/ and possible Perl (somewhat :)

BTW: Python is done now too and Pascal is in the works :) ... anyone code in Ada still ;)

by Sting (not verified)

Haskell! Haskell! :)
Now seriously for languages like haskell, which are indentation sensitive, automatic indentation is particulary usefull and help avoid many annoyoing errors.

Sting

by not_registered (not verified)

now all kate needs is to forget about project management and get a dark background (aka black) colour scheme. let people choose between dark or light, or just rip out vim's wonderful syntax highlighting...

this is the major reason why i dont use kate often.

by Thomas (not verified)

As long as I am sitting in front of a crt Monitor I always choose a dark background because it is better to the eyes. With a lcd display it's the other way round. A white background seems to be less straining to the eyes ...o.k., off topic...

by also_not_registered (not verified)

If you like vim more than kate, check out http://www.freehackers.org/kvim/

As always, choice is good.

by KUser (not verified)

Totally agree! Black backgrounds rule!

Seriously, I would probably switch from Xemacs to Kate if there was a light text on dark background color theme and a drop down list of key bindings: emacs-key-bindings for me!!!

-Amit

by Jasem Mutlaq (not verified)

Thanks Derek! I've always enjoyed reading your fine CVS digest :)

by ac (not verified)

>Here's a pretty significant speed improvement that takes an "n" out of
>the time it takes to paint a listview. This is very noticeable on
>large lists where rendering the list is very time consuming. This still
>isn't as fast as painting QListViewItems, probably because itemBelow()
>isn't as fast as it ideally would be, but it's a big step in the right
>direction.

any chance to have this backported into the 3.1 branch?

by Scott Wheeler (not verified)

Optimizations aren't typically backported unless they fix a bug, which this doesn't.

by Vasten (not verified)

Let us see if at this point I can find a little disc space and compile it, I have desire to prove that new KDE.

by Jan (not verified)

Huh? Now what exactly do you want to tell us with that?
*puzzled*

by Derek Kite (not verified)

You may want to put it off for a few weeks. There is a bit of brokeness currently, and you may have a challenge getting it to compile. I suspect post n7y things will be much better.

Derek

by Haakon Nilsen (not verified)

"Ohhhhhh... this feels good... bye bye SCO..."

A little less SCO support in KDE, even though it was obsolete :) Good going.

by Lee (not verified)

ocrad is linked to an https url...

by Anonymous (not verified)

You consider a secure link broken?

by Lee (not verified)

Given that it doesn't work, and that changing it to http does work? Yep ;)

by cm (not verified)

The https version https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/ocrad/ works for me...

by thefrog (not verified)

These days I read an interesting article in a german computer magazine about self learning spam filters, the so called Bayes- filters.
As I deleted around 600 (!) spams from an email account yesterday, I'm just courious if somebody knows about such filters for kmail?

just interested ):-

thefrog