In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Support for MTP devices, a script-based integration of the "Free Music Charts", and beginnings of a "first run tutorial" added to Amarok 2. More steps towards supporting other planets than Earth in Marble.
Bugsquad will be revisiting PIM bugs next Sunday, concentrating on KMail and KOrganizer.
Recently the number of people hanging out and doing bugs in our IRC channel regulary has increased considerably. As there is almost always someone hanging around (and because some people specifically requested it), we decided we could extend our events. So, if you are one of those people who just can not spare time on Sundays, rejoice for Bugweeks.
I hereby announce our first KDE PIM Bugweeks. It will start this Sunday the 23rd and end December the 6th.
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: More improvements in KBruch as part of a Brazilian student projects initiative. Ability to search by "HD Catalog Number" in KStars. Initial Kross support in the Rocs educational tool. Multiple projection support in the Marble Plasmoid.
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Support for image file previews in the "FolderView" Plasmoid, which are enabled by default. Kross support for making comic providers using scripting languages in the "Comic" Plasma applet. First fully-working version of the QEdje script engine for Plasma is moved into kdereview, then into kdebase. More progress in the "Weather" Plasmoid, more integration of D-Bus in PowerDevil.
KDE 4.2 is approaching. Now that the end of the creative feature implementation phase is almost at an end with the Hard Feature Freeze on the 17th of November, BugSquad is once more striving to help the developers clean up their old bug reports and do the best it can to prevent new, vital bugs creeping into our release.
To help the upcoming final release of KOffice, Bug Squad will be having our first KOffice Day this Sunday. We will triage the old bugs, and look for new ones (krush). We will be starting at around 07:00 UTC (be aware that summer time ends in various European countries on the 26th). As always we will be gathering in #kde-bugs on freenode IRC. You do not need any programming knowledge. All you need is a copy of the new KOffice Beta from your distribution with the debug packages installed. This is an easy way to give back to the KDE community, and also an excellent way to get involved.
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Continued work on PowerDevil, and the "NetworkManager" and "Weather" Plasmoids. Monochrome action icons in Plasma expand to cover KRunner. A first working version of QEdje script engine, and the import of a "Window Manager" runner. Work on new containments and a mobile internet devices (MID) panel in Plasma. Various improvements in Konsole and the Kvkbd keyboard utility.
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Various work across Plasma, including improved applet handles with monochrome icons, work on the Weather Plasmoid and the start of an extender-based notification applet. Continued development in PowerDevil, including support for suspend. Long-standing "slow deletion of many files" bug is finally fixed. A System Settings module for choosing the default file manager.
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: "Shortcut Scheme" support allows creation of shortcut themes (Emacs, etc.) for use in KDE applications. A "Media Player" runner (with support for Amarok 2), more work on panel hiding, and support for text zoom in the "Web Browser" Plasmoid in Plasma. The "Weather Station" applet moves to kdereview. More refinements in PowerDevil, in preparation for a move to kdebase.
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: A KPhotoAlbum developer sprint leads to various developments, including a new viewer and support for image "stacks". Initial lyrics support and a new "Albums" applet in Amarok 2.0. Support for export to OpenDocument text and HTML formats for certain file types in Okular.