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In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

          <ul><li><a href="http://www.calligra-suite.org/">Calligra</a> sees further work on modern menu, pdf export, soft page breaks, autoshapes support, and vertical alignment support amongst continued bugfixing and optimization</li>
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In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• KIO Proxy continues to receive an overhaul for KDE 4.7 with fixes and features including SOCKS proxy support, functions for obtaining multiple proxy URL addresses and support for obtaining system proxy information on Windows and Mac platforms
• Amidst much bugfixing, Calligra gains a map widget in Kexi, improved xlsx support, initial porting to the new textlayout-library, "search from cursor" support, improved OpenOffice.org interoperability, and a more robust table of contents generator
• Work to turn KMix into a plasmoid alongside work on improved PulseAudio support, UTF-8 support, and memory leak fixes
• The start of a new simple editor and re-written spellchecking support in Parley
• Further work on the routing manager in Marble amidst much bugfixing
• Digikam's theme engine is ported to KDE's engine, closing 7 related bugs
• Large merger of Exif, Iptc, and Xmp editors into a common dialog in Kipi-Plugins
• Amongst much bugfixing, KDevelop gains support for predefined indentation styles and a Python interpreter using Kross
• A new code import wizard in Umbrello
• SVG file support and EPS and PDF export added to Kst
• KWin gains support for diagonal navigation in mouse emulation
• Plasma widgets gain access to the QScriptEngine
• Improvements to Storage and File Watch services in Nepomuk deprecate the removable storage service
• Much bugfixing and work on Rekonq leading up to 0.7 release
• Initial avatar support and tootips added to Telepathy-Contact-List amongst other bugfixes
• Further work on Oxygen-GTK and new Oxygen icons
• Ksaolaji gains profiles, a marbletilecache cleaner and basic NewStuff support
• Implementation of Achievement and Forum services in Attica
• More touch options added to the Wacom Tablet KCModule
• Object-Oriented Rewrite System (OORS) highlighting rules added to Kate
• Improvements to the animated sprite renderer in Gluon
• Adblock fixes in KWebKitPart
• Much bugfixing throughout KDE-PIM and NetworkManagement.

Read the rest of the Digest here.

Calligra Sprint in progress (click image to enlarge)

Over the April 1st - 3rd weekend, the first Calligra sprint took place at the KDAB office in Berlin. With a total of 31 people from 14 nations, the room was crowded to the bursting point! It was a very successful sprint, and the first KDE sprint for many of the attendees.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Initial implementation of new shadows in KWin
• Bugfixing and feature work throughout Calligra, including further work supporting missing MS Office 2003 autoshapes, improved support for DOC, DOCX, and ODF file formats, a new EPUB-ODF import filter, and work on an initial Modern Menu implementation and a new map widget in Kexi
• Improved support for 3G connections in NetworkManagement along with other bugfixes
• Work on KDevelop-Python
• Support for Windows Live Photo Gallery tags in Digikam
• Application uninstall feature added to Kickoff
• Work throughout Skrooge including improvements to category editing and initial work on a Scheduled Operations applet
• Work on handling multiple selections in DVD ripping view in K3B
• Phonon-Gstreamer now supports subtitles
• Memory usage optimizations for big puzzles and replacement of the tabwindow interface by a standard XMLGUI window in Palapeli
• Improved handling of URL drag and drop handling in Rekonq along with other bugfixing
• Mechanism for adding new contacts and spell checking added to Telepathy
• The Wacom Tablet KConfig Module now has an extra tab page for touch features and support for different tablet areas for the stylus and touch
• Rework of panel management in Krusader
• Improved handling of special characters in Owncloud's media player
• Feature and usability work on guidance mode and the routing info box in Marble
• Repair of printing regressions in KHTML
• Bugfixing in Oxygen-GTK.

Read the rest of the Digest here.