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KDE 4 porting continues at great pace, with more applications able to be compiled with CMake daily. Portability fixes for non-X11 platforms. KDiskManager, a KDE 4 application for disk management - based on Solid - is imported into KDE SVN.
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Andreas Nicolai, the maintainer and lead programmer of KTouch, a touch-typing tutoring application in kde-edu, starts a consultation regarding the future of KTouch:
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Hi folks,
I'd like to announce a new KTouch version (so far the last in the KDE 3.5 series) available on the sourceforge page: http://ktouch.sourceforge.net
I won't be able to contribute much until summer, but if you find the time to download and try it out, I would like to collect some opinions and suggestions regarding:- what should be improved to make it better usable for children
- what features are missing (see list below for planned features)
- compared to other touch typing programs, what are the shortcomings of KTouch?
- what do you think about the lectures? How could they be improved?
- KTouch typing games: what kind of games can you think of (I had a few suggestions already, see below)
As a small info ahead, here are the features I plan to have in KTouch 2.0 which will be in KDE4:- better keyboard drawing engine to support different keyboard layouts/character sets, also more keys can be printed on each key
- progressive build-up of the keyboard: only the keys that are known in the current level are drawn colored, others are still grey (thus helping kids to focus on the keys they should know so far)
- games:
- balloon game: balloons with character draw on them fly up, press the correct key and ***bang***
- block game: single colored blocks with characters fall down the screen in a grid, pressing keys with the characters makes blocks disappear, press them in a correct order to align 4 blocks of the same color to get extra points
- tests: for school kids and teachers, you can setup a test by defining the text to type (lecture and levels), and an optional time limit
- during the test you cannot change settings like auto-level-advance or manual-level advance or anything else (to avoid cheating and give teachers the means to evaluate kids).
Feel free to send me mails with your suggestions... I would like to get KTouch as good as possible for the KDE4 release.
Andreas
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If you would like to take part in this consultation on the future of KTouch, send an email to: comments@commit-digest.org. I will make sure all messages get to Andreas.
When browsing this week's selected commits, you may notice a new box under each commit message introducing the latest feature, diffs. As it is often difficult to grasp the purpose and scale of a commit from reading the commit message alone, each commit now has a extended information page (accessible by clicking the revision number). In the case of a visual change to KDE (for example, icons, wallpapers, and yes, even .ui files!), an extra link is provided where you can see the changed files side-by-side.
The best example of this new feature in this issue can be seen here.
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Gilles Caulier committed a change to /trunk/extragear/graphics/digikam/libs/dimg/dimg.cpp:
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digikam from trunk : DImg API to detect image file formatn we parse file extension in first, and in second, we parse file header.
This way is mandatory because some TIFF files are detected like RAW files by dcraw::parse method.
Please, update svn and give me a feedback (:=)))...
CCMAIL: digikam-devel@kde.org, frank@birnstiel.org, dudasg@freemail.hu |
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Paulo Moura Guedes committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/libltdl:
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Ups, there is a ltdl header file so move the exports to there.
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