9th April 2004 by Derek Kite

This Week...

KJSEmbed adds support for KParts and QComboBox. Beginnings of next generation user guide. More IMAP and icon view optimizations. Kexi now supports forms. KIMProxy, a library to enable IM from any application. CSS emca bindings added in KDOM.
Enrico Ros sent a note with patches to kde-devel regarding some optimizations:
I've been working on konqueror to address and solve all (I hope :-) the problems that were preventing a smooth and fast navigation in "IconView" mode.

So I've investigated over qt, kio, libkonq, konqueror/iconview and finally managed to get some patches working. You can find the results on:
http://robotics.dei.unipd.it/~koral/KDE/kflicker.html

Short index of patches:
  • 02: bugfix: solves bugs 67866 67793 (repaint when entering/leaving window)
  • 03: bugfix: saves N (=items in directory) icon paints (speeds up browsing of large dirs (2x.. 3x faster on a 600 files directory!!))
  • 04: bugfix: sometimes appeared an "unsorted" frame before the final drawing
  • 05: feature: disables background clearing when switching from an URL to another to smooth navigation
  • 01: feature: buffered QIconViews, this solves the flickering at-its-roots using the well known back buffering technique (note: every IconView will have a backbuffer. If you have 256MB of ram or more you won't notice the loss)
Thanks goes to David Faure, the main author and editor of the cool code I've been looking to.
Things are progressing on the CVS-Digest rewrite. Most of the existing functionality is working, and I expect in a week or two to the same content in the new format. When things look stable, then I'll discontinue the old. Here is the index page, an image diff page, and a commit query. The KC-KDE folks let us use their list for development. If you have any suggestions, find some bugs, or want to help, please jump in.

Statistics

Commits 1787 by 188 developers, 205736 lines modified, 1480 new files
Open Bugs 6444
Open Wishes 6227
Bugs Opened 302 in the last 7 days
Bugs Closed 160 in the last 7 days

Commit Summary

Module Commits
kde-i18n
528
 
kdenonbeta
165
 
kdepim
154
 
koffice
126
 
www
87
 
kdeedu
86
 
kdelibs
81
 
kdebase
77
 
kdeextragear-1
71
 
kdeextragear-2
68
 
Lines Developer Commits
1499
 
Anne-Marie Mahfouf
107
 
2382
 
David Faure
72
 
1764
 
Laurent Montel
69
 
632
 
Stephan Binner
54
 
86
 
Éric Bischoff
54
 
1872
 
Mark Kretschmann
47
 
660
 
Dirk Mueller
45
 
1734
 
Andras Mantia
45
 
14062
 
Andrey Cherepanov
39
 
23791
 
Rinse de Vries
38
 

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%
 

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