2nd April 2004 by Derek Kite

This Week...

KStars adds ability to use V4L devices. KPilot adds interface to Python and Perl conduits. Kontact adds groupware configuration wizards for Kolab and eGroupware. KWord and KSpread support OpenOffice format natively.
Ariya Hidayat wrote to inform us regarding some happenings with KSpread
Lately there was initial work on KSpread to support OASIS format natively. This week we can already load simple OASIS document (like OpenOffice.org Calc files) without the import filter. If you have such files, just rename the extension from .sxc to .ksp and the native loader will work on them. There are many unsupported features yet, but hopefully in the near future we would be able to do the necessary improvements, until it reaches a usable state.
Andras Mantia gives us an update regarding some new features in Quanta
As you've already announced last week, Quanta got a new UI by using the KMDI library. Actually last week it was just a start, but as of now the transition to KMDI is basicly finished, only some minor polishing is needed. I can already recommend to anyone to try out the new version from CVS. As a side effect of this transition, it is possible to use other editors aside of Kate with Quanta. This was an often requested feature, but it is marked as (highly) experimental, and we don't have the power and time to actively maintain and support it. Users who want to play with it may enable the support for other editors with a configure switch. I let them discover the name of that switch. ;-)
Guillaume Laurent announced a new version of Rosegarden
The Rosegarden team are pleased to announce the release of Rosegarden-4 0.9.7, an audio and MIDI sequencer and score editor for Linux.

http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/

The main focus of this release is to introduce a new, more accurate and efficient audio layer with a mixer window, basic internal routing capabilities, more complete plugin support, and support for the JACK transport API.

This release also includes a number of other new features such as a dedicated tempo and time signature editor window, segment summary window, pitch-bend ruler, more useful controller rulers and various new editing operations and keyboard shortcuts in the graphical editors.

Features of Rosegarden include:
  • Score, piano-roll, event list and track overview editors
  • MIDI and audio playback and recording with ALSA and JACK
  • Audio plugin support using LADSPA
  • Score interpretation of performance MIDI data
  • MIDI file I/O, Csound, Lilypond and MusicXML export
  • Clear and consistent KDE-based user interface
  • Shareable device (.rgd) files to ease MIDI portability
  • Translations into Russian, Spanish, German, French, Welsh, Italian, Swedish and Estonian, as well as UK and US English.

Statistics

Commits 2142 by 211 developers, 138968 lines modified, 1651 new files
Open Bugs 6305
Open Wishes 6180
Bugs Opened 299 in the last 7 days
Bugs Closed 264 in the last 7 days

Commit Summary

Module Commits
kde-i18n
536
 
koffice
194
 
kdepim
191
 
kdelibs
155
 
kdeextragear-1
121
 
kdebase
114
 
kdenonbeta
113
 
kdewebdev
110
 
www
81
 
kdesdk
64
 
Lines Developer Commits
3454
 
Andras Mantia
110
 
1876
 
David Faure
80
 
516
 
Dirk Mueller
76
 
1178
 
Waldo Bastian
60
 
2155
 
Pedro Morais
56
 
1916
 
Mark Kretschmann
53
 
2386
 
Ariya Hidayat
53
 
1214
 
Laurent Montel
49
 
562
 
Nicolas Goutte
41
 
1667
 
Jarosław Staniek
40
 

Internationalization (i18n) Status

Language Percentage Complete
Danish (da)
99.77%
 
Swedish (sv)
99.41%
 
British English (en_GB)
98.76%
 
Estonian (et)
97.33%
 
Spanish (es)
96.46%
 
Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR)
96.3%
 
Portuguese (pt)
94.57%
 
Serbian (sr)
93.25%
 
Italian (it)
90.75%
 
French (fr)
90.43%
 

Bug Killers

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