In this week's KDE CVS-Digest:
Valgrind gets a heap profiler.
KStars can show the sky objects' distance from earth.
Kopete has refactored password and KWalletManager code.
Many bugfixes in khtml, Kopete and KMail.
OSNews is featuring a detailed guide written by Carlos Leonhard Woelz on how to use CVS, a version control system also used for developing KDE, using KDE's CVS client Cervisia. It is a seven page long well-described article with many screenshots useful to both newbies and experienced users.
As the leading Open Source desktop, many from the private and public sectors have expressed interest in KDE and are currently using it on a daily basis. A message consistently received from those users has been that KDE's usability could be better. While the need for greater usability is not unique to KDE, what is unique is our ability to directly and positively affect the usability processes in KDE via the same Open Source methods that have been at the core of its success.
In this week's KDE-CVS-Digest: The LDAP kio-slave is improved with TSL and SSL for secure connections and SASL for authentication. KDEPIM has a new certificate manager. Work proceeds apace on the khtml XML parser and xpath libraries. Plus a large number of bug fixes in Kopete.
In this week's KDE-CVS-Digest:
KStars now has constellation lines.
Gwenview is now a KPart, for embedded use in Konqueror.
Plus many bug fixes and improvements in KMail and
Konqueror.
In this week's KDE-CVS-Digest: The
KDE Text-To-Speech Daemon improvements with GUI and speaker plugins.
KStars adds star motions.
And many bugfixes in KDevelop and
khtml.
In this week's KDE-CVS-Digest:
KStars adds more telescopic devices.
KAddressBook adds custom field support.
Krita gets working brush and new patterns.
CSS code from Safari added to KHTML.
kdenonbeta is KDE's source repository for code that is not ready yet to be included in KDE's beta releases. It can be considered a nursing ground for new software. Unfortunately not all software reaches adolescence.
Below you find a list of programs that have been removed from kdenonbeta due
to lack of development. If you are the author of a program in kdenonbeta that is still there after this cleanup, now is a good time to think about the future of your code.
You have a few options:
In this week's KDE-CVS-Digest:
amaroK adds graphic sonograms.
KolourPaint can be used as an icon editor.
KPilot PIM integration improves.
KMail folder code is refactored.
In this week's KDE-CVS-Digest:
Many changes in KDE-PIM; gpgme now used in