KDE Commit-Digest for 23rd December 2007

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Trolltech-sponsored development continues on Phonon backends. Support for saving to remote URL's in Gwenview. A "Now Playing" data engine and applet, and the train clock returns in Plasma. "Switch Tabs on Hover" can now be disabled, and other refinements in Kickoff for KDE 4.0. Work on a debugger (with a SpeedCrunch-inspired interface) for KHTML. Work to support the most recent release of the Flash (version 9) multimedia plugin in Konqueror. SOCKS support in KTorrent. Device handling fixes in KPilot. More work on music services in Amarok 2.0. Further work on the KChart Flake shape in KOffice. More panorama work, amongst other developments in KOffice. Support for the Bonjour protocol in Kopete. Initial import and development of a MS Cabinet format archive reader. The temporarily-named Video Player, formerly-known-as-Codeine, has been finally renamed to Dragon Player. Read the rest of the Digest here.

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by christoph (not verified)

Thank you, Danny, for yet another nice issue of our weekly digest.

by jospoortvliet (not verified)

You have no idea how perfect his timing was for me ;-)

by mactalla (not verified)

+1!

by BartOtten (not verified)

Have to save money for myself, but thank you very much! I read the digest for more then a year now and it was for me the start for looking at KDE4. Thank you so much :D

by Joergen Ramskov (not verified)

++

Donated a small amount too - you certainly deserve a new lappy :)

by T. J. Brumfield (not verified)

Donated a few bucks. Every bit helps!

by Lee (not verified)

Hmm. I like dragons as much as the next guy (probably more, actually) but... Dragon Player? Does it only play movies with dragons in 'em? Will it also run my old Dragon 32 games? ;)

It's easier to spell than Codeine; I'll say that for it :)

How about "Cinemagic" or something? It's overused in the world of Film festivals, but not yet for a movie player, as far as I know. "Flicks" (it has a K ;) ? "Visionary"? "Visionaire"? "Any other word plus 'dragon' in a really small font size"? ;)

Sorry, I'm not being very serious here. Dragon Player is OK, but it really could be better ;)

by Level 1 (not verified)

Cinemagic is already copyright MomCorp, along with "love". The only words that have not yet been copyrighted or trademarked are "Popplers" and "Tasticles".

by Brad Hards (not verified)

Taken - see http://poppler.freedesktop.org.

Not really "copyrighted" (well, we borrowed it :-), but still in use.

by T. J. Brumfield (not verified)

Damnit, someone is moments away from registering tasticles.com

by Ian Monroe (not verified)

Heh I've been open to ideas for about 9 months*. Not that I would've gone with "Cinemagic". ;)

Anyways dragons burninate peasants, generally kick ass and of course (and seriously) Konqui is our long-time mascot.

by Maarten ter Huurne (not verified)

Well, "player" is descriptive and dragons are powerful and something worth looking at, so I guess it's a decent name for a video player.

by reihal (not verified)

Flik would have been nice.

by Tim (not verified)

I agree. Dragon Player's not so bad though. At least it isn't Drakon or something equally contrived!

Also I think Konqui (sp?) makes KDE seem unprofessional - Kubuntu for example removed his image from the shutdown dialog. Maybe he should grow up into a more cool evil dragon!

by Ian Monroe (not verified)

...for a Flickr uploader.

by Diederik van de... (not verified)

Actually I like the name "Dragon Player". It's original, could be turned into a brand. And dragons refers to Konqi.

If someone said their music player could be called "Amarok", would you like that name? We all like Amarok now. Part of liking it comes from being a brand you can identify.

by Dave Taylor (not verified)

I've always liked Amarok as a name, it's unique yet the term 'rok' gives away its purpose.

by Anon (not verified)

So how about "Jibbleviewfilm"?

by Stefan Monov (not verified)

Or how about fuck you?

by Anon (not verified)

For a video player? No, sorry - I don't see it.

Maybe if it were optimised for porn ... ?

by anon (not verified)

KoMedian

by Dave Taylor (not verified)

'Dragon Player' is awful, it sounds like a Taiwanese board game or a Chinese DVD player for children covered in dragon decals.

'Ciniverse' FTW do I have any takers for 'Ciniverse'.

by Dave Taylor (not verified)

I must say though even if the atrocity of a name 'Dragon Player' is used but is still Codeine at heart (basically a bugfree version). Then it'll still be perfect for the task - Amarok is great but I see they are seriously on the precipice of bloat canyon and there's no way back apart from a sane fork.

by Ian Monroe (not verified)

Well Dragon Player is developed by the same people as Amarok, so who knows!

by Leo S (not verified)

And yet it is, more or less, entirely unlike Amarok in every way. And both apps are great :)

by blueget (not verified)

Hey, what about choosing "Drak" as name for that player? I don't like the name "Dragon Player" very much, it sounds awful. "Drak" is the Czech word for Dragon. It has even got a K in it, and it fits perfectly into the naming of other KDE apps (Especially Amarok :-D).

by tobami (not verified)

That's a good name!
Dragon Player is not awful, it just has something... maybe player is too generic, and Dragon Player sounds, like someone else said a bit like a tablecard game or something.

I am not a fan of K-names, but please consider Drak.

by Teo (not verified)

I really dislike some of the new K-less names, such as Dolphin, Plasma and now Dragon Player and I think these names could lead to a loss of identity for KDE. Remember the time when it used to be all about the K?

by Bobby (not verified)

Still I can't imagine a Kolphin or a Klasma. Maybe they ran out of K names like Ubunzu will soon run out of monkey names ;D

by Paul (not verified)

> fix crap-tastic wiki applet. it's so bad i don't even care anymore, as we need Qt4.4/Webkit for it to actually do anything useful.

Thankfully it will be there by KDE 4.1, thank you trolltech!

by Ian Monroe (not verified)

Amarok 2 is probably going to require Qt 4.4, regardless of whether KDE 4.1 is out yet or not. Granted its pretty likely that KDE 4.1 will be out by then.

by Patcito (not verified)

Anyone knows when Amarok2 and KDE 4.1 will be release more or less?

by Ian Monroe (not verified)

2008

by Shamaz (not verified)

yet another "khtml VS webkit" thread...
*yawn*
Don't feed the trolls please. (unless they are Norwegian)

by jospoortvliet (not verified)

yeah, it's good you mention that - Norwegian Trolls should be fed properly. We owe them a lot ;-)

by Richard Van Den Boom (not verified)

Agreed. I'll pass this one. :-)

by kwilliam (not verified)

All I can say? Damn, that is the least conspicuous "Make a Donation" button I've ever seen. Danny, whoever you are, you help keep me up to date on the KDE world. I appreciate it. (I read the Planet too, but it doesn't cover the Summer of Code projects, etc.) It took a while to figure out what $5 USD is in British pounds, but it's yours. Merry Christmas! The way I reckon it, all the Digests I've read surely equate to at least one issue of a magazine. (My brother is starting his own magazine, which has made me even more appreciative of the time and effort you must spend aggregating interviews together for the Digest.)

by usd (not verified)

Dont' get me wrong , i dont want to take this political,
but Dollars are nearly nothing worth here in Europe :-)

enter in google : "5 dollar in pound"

by T. J. Brumfield (not verified)

Yep, the dollar to pound rate right now is horrible.

by DeeJay1 (not verified)

You mean +2 ;) It's not much, but everything I can spare this month, hope you'll get some (K) Hot New Stuff soon ;)

by Marc (not verified)

>> ... and the train clock bla in Plasma

:-)) Yea, this is so cool, thanks for listening to your devote followers...
That made my day

by Anon (not verified)

I won't be happy until we have a steampunk-ish Nixie Tube clock ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixie_tube

by jospoortvliet (not verified)

+1 ;-)

by reihal (not verified)

Not nerdy enough. I want a binary clock with red LEDs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_clock

by Cyrille Berger (not verified)

yeah the binary clock ! the great missing feature of 4.0 !

by taurnil (not verified)

What would you digital-heads know about old school anyway :)

by sebas (not verified)

There's a binary clock in playground/base/plasma/applets/binary-clock.

It doesn't use red LEDs though right now, but I'm sure you can whip up a patch easily enough to make it the nerd's ultimate wet dream.

Ow, and Cyrille, check your facts :P

by reihal (not verified)

I mean a real binary clock, like this one:

http://www.abulsme.com/binarytime/

and not a girlie one like this:

http://www.glassgiant.com/geek/binaryclock/binary_clock_flash.swf

by T. J. Brumfield (not verified)

I'm very happy to see it return!

by joni (not verified)

hi,
i recently found a great tool for gnome, BUT completely gui-independent, which is really great for syncronization. with this tool, you easyly could upload/save your pictures on flickr, syncronisize with directories, files, gadgets, webpages etc. (http://www.conduit-project.org/)
check out the screencasts. it is very impressive.
after having seen the screencasts, i wonder if kde will ever integrate something like that. i mean, it is gui-independent, you "only" have to write an ui or integrate it into the "save-dialog". it would also allow things to save and store in the internet, comparable to the gnome online desktop.
what do you think? is something similar to this coming?