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Kdevelop adds extension support. kommander improves signal and slot editor. Kwallet is now asynchronous. juk adds support for gstreamer 0.8. KPasswordDialog adds password strength meter.
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The Kde development process is remarkably open. With a cvs account you can contribute to almost any part of Kde. Most developers work on specific areas, others touch almost all the code at one time or another.
What happens when someone oversteps the rules? (Yes, there are rules) I don't want to embarass anyone, but not everyday does someone have the privilege of being chewed out by our release coordinator. And it is a good reminder for everyone.
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It all started with a rather large commit to kdelibs/kdeui changing all instances of (foo==false) with (!foo), etc. The response was swift. Lubos Lunak wondered:
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Hmm, I don't remember seeing any mail on any of the lists about uglifying KDE code. What should be the point of this commit, besides making cvs annotate worse and offending a bunch of those people whose coding style you have changed without asking them? Doing such things is never a good idea.
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Maks Orlovich asked:
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Reviewed by? Approved by? IMHO it's very disrespectful to go touching people's coding style without asking for their OK. And wholesale commits in kdelibs are just utterly risky.
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Stephan Kulow didn't hesitate:
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You broke rule 8 of the little rules we have for KDE CVS: http://developer.kde.org/policies/commitpolicy.html#8 I disabled your CVS write access and I won't enable it for another two weeks. You're still welcome to contribute to KDE CVS, but you will have to do so using patches for the time being.
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Quite a surprise to find in your inbox when sitting down to do some coding. All worked out for the best when apologies were offered, misunderstandings were cleared up, and cvs write privileges were restored.
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David Faure explained why the strong response:
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What hasn't really been said is why we all object to this.
Changes like "== QString::null" -> "isNull()" are accepted, because they make things a tiny bit faster without hurting readability.
But changes like
- while ( ( wdg = it.current() ) != 0 ) {
+ while ( ( wdg = it.current() ) ) {
don't make it faster, and do hurt readability (the changed line looks to me like it might be a typo for wdg == it.current(), whereas the original line didn't have that problem.
Same thing for myint == 0, this is more readable than !myint, when the int can take several values and we're only testing against 0 here, but maybe 1 and 2 later on. There is nothing to gain by writing !myint here, only loss of readability.
Some people might be able to read !myint and to notice the double parenthesis in the above while loop. Good for them. But that's no reason to make it harder for the others by changing the existing kdelibs code.
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Renchi Raju announced the immediate availability of digiKam-0.7-rc1.
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The highlights of this release are a number of bug fixes, updated documentation and various usability/cosmetic fixes since the beta1 release. The scheduled release for 0.7 stable is this weekend (Nov 7). The primary reason for this release is to give translators enough time to update the translations (the string freeze has been in effect since Oct 31).
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digiKam is a digital photo management application for KDE, which makes importing and organizing digital photos a "snap". The photos can be organized in albums which can be sorted chronologically, by directory layout or by custom collections. Additionally images can be tagged and these tagged images can be viewed in virtual albums. An easy to use interface is provided that enables you to connect to your camera and preview, download and/or delete your images.
More details available at: http://digikam.sourceforge.net
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Petter Stokke announced KMLDonkey 0.10:
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KMLDonkey 0.10 was released today, the 1st of November 2004. KMLDonkey is an advanced GUI frontend for the MLDonkey P2P core, offering a wealth of useful features and tight KDE integration for MLDonkey users.
Download and installation instructions can be found at the following address:
http://kmldonkey.org/node/view/21
An overview of KMLDonkey's major features can be found here:
http://kmldonkey.org/node/view/13
Aside from being an official release, version 0.10 contains only a few bug fixes since the 0.10pre4 release. The changes since the last official release, 0.9.1, are too numerous to list - please consult the aforementioned feature overview.
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by 213
developers, 429017
lines modified, 1114
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Open Bugs:
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Open Wishes:
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7223
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Bugs Opened:
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324 in the last 7 days. |
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Bugs Closed:
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381 in the last 7 days. |
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kdenonbeta |
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kdepim |
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kdelibs |
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koffice |
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Stephan Kulow
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Stephan Binner
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David Faure
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Pedro Morais
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Benjamin Meyer
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Hasso Tepper
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Till Adam
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George Staikos
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Chris Howells
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Stephan Kulow
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George Staikos
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Aaron J. Seigo
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Tom Albers
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Tobias Koenig
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Scott Wheeler
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Tommi Tervo
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Luboš Luňák
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Ingo Klöcker
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Stephan Binner
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There are 81 selections this week.
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Anders Lund committed a change to kdelibs/kate/part:
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This adds a feature for reading "local variables" to the katepart
editor.
"local variables" are like vim commands or emacs local variables: a
simple way to embed document configuration into the document itself.
The kate version hereby comitted has the following simple syntax:
kate: VARIABLE VALUE;[VARIABLE VALUE;...]
which can be expressed as
"kate:<variablename><space><value>semicolon".
Space is allowed in any amount, and the text may be placed in
comments, for example
/bin /boot /crystalsvg /dev /etc /gnuplot.cfg /home /initrd /initrd.img /initrd.img.old /lib /media /mnt /opt /proc /root /sbin /srv /sys /tmp /usr /var /vmlinuz /vmlinuz.old /xtra kate: auto-brackets on; */
// kate: indent-with 4; space-indent on;
are both valid.
VALUE can be a integer, a boolean expressed as "on", "off", "true",
"false", "1" or "0", or a string not containing a semicolon.
Currently, the first and last 10 lines of a document are parsed for
valid variables, i will add configuration options for that later.
Variables are read in the events of load and save.
Unknown variables or values are silently discarded - you don't even
get a line in the debug output for now..
The supported variables are
word-wrap <bool>
block-selection <bool>
auto-indent <bool>
backspace-indents <bool>
replace-tabs <bool>
wrap-cursor <bool>
auto-brackets <bool>
persistent-selection <bool>
keep-selection <bool>
del-on-input <bool>
overwrite-mode <bool>
keep-indent-profile <bool>
keep-extra-spaces <bool>
tab-indents <bool>
show-tabs <bool>
space-indent <bool>
smart-home <bool>
tab-width <uint>
indent-width <uint>
word-wrap-column <uint>
undo-steps <uint>
end-of-line | eol <"unix"|"dos"|"mac">
document-name | doc-name <string>
encoding <string>
syntax | hl <string>
I will add variables concerning the views later, as well as an
interface exposing the feature to plugins/apps.
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Anders Lund committed a change to kdelibs/kate/part:
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Adding view/renderer "document variables"
The following new variables are now accepted:
dynamic-wordwrap BOOL
icon-border BOOL
folding-markers BOOL
auto-center-lines INT
iconbar-color STRING
background-color STRING
selection-color STRING
current-line-color STRING
bracket-highlight-color STRING
word-wrap-marker-color STRING
font STRING
font-size INT
The COLOR settings accept either a HTML style hex color (#ffffff) or
a color name for a color in the X colors.
the "font" variable should be the font name ("bitstream vera sans",
"times").
the "font-size" is the point size.
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Richard J. Moore committed a change to kdenonbeta/kuiviewer:
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Added a quick hack KPart that can view Designer's ui files using
QWidgetFactory. Does anyone have time to clean this up for inclusion
in 3.2?
Rich.
CCMAIL: kde-core-devel@kde.org
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Alexander Dymo committed a change to kdevelop/lib/astyle:
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Added sourceFormatter() to KDevPlugin interface and corrected
AStylePart to be the default source formatter part. Astyle library
is separated from the part.
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Roberto Raggi committed a change to kdevelop/src:
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*first* implementation of profile support for kdevelop
now is possible to launch kdevelop with a profile (like konqueror). so, for instance
if you execute
gideon --profile roberto
kdevelop starts with the profile "roberto" and all plugins settings are stored/loaded
from this profile.
for more informations
gideon --help
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Andras Mantia committed a change to quanta:
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Rewritten tag parser (more accurate, fixes some bugs, handles valid but not usual cases).
Specify a default directory when opening a file, instead letting KDE chose one.
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Lucas Fisher committed a change to kdebase/kioslave/sftp:
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Added support for OpenSSH 3.6+.
Changed ssh client version detection to assume the highest version supported by
the slave when the client version is not specifically recognized by the slave.
Added SIGCHLD handler to clean-up after terminated ssh processes.
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Michael Goffioul committed a change to kdelibs/kdeprint:
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Added support for persistent option in driver (hence, print filters as well).
Persistent options are always considered as non default, so they are always taken
into account (for example when building the command line of a print filter). Added
an example of use to the psnup filter.
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