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Release polishing for amaroK 1.4. New sounds for KTuberling. KDE 4 changes: The proposed kdepimlibs module is created. New SVG icon engine based on QsvgEngine. New capabilities added to Solid. Applications with simple audio needs start to migrate to Phonon.
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With the recent release of KOffice 1.5 a resounding success, Inge Wallin, the KOffice evangelist, writes about the near-future for KOffice:
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First off, let me just say that the reception of 1.5 has been fantastic. This is mostly due to the fact that we announced OpenDocument as the native file format and our strong commitment to make it perfect. We have also had a consistent message with KOffice as the upcoming contender for the Office Suite throne and it being the fastest developing and most comprehensive suite.
Most of the big tech news sites have written about the release and what I personally think is nice is that every time some non-tech journal write about OpenDocument, they mention OpenOffice.org and KOffice in the same sentence.
User reactions are also very favorable. Many people say that they prefer KOffice and some say that they are forced to use other suites because of some missing features in KOffice, but they would use it if they could. They like the speed and responsiveness of it and the advanced features of Krita and Kexi. Many are longing for the day when the individual components of KOffice are as powerful as the best program in their respective niche, like Inkscape for vector drawings, for instance.
KOffice 1.5.1 is in preparation right now, having been tagged on Thursday. The finer details of this bugfix release can be found in the Changelog.
The big future release is KOffice 2.0, which is being developed at full pace aside from our 1.5 branch commitments. KOffice 2.0 should be generally available in Q1 (probably end of Q1) 2007, in which we expect to have the following major features:- Platforms: Linux, Windows and Mac OS X
- New canvas
- Flake library
- Support for the Create Freedesktop project, which is a standard for shared graphics resources like brushes, colors, objects, etc.
- New rich text engine with better layout
We are investigating collaborative editing features (which would be fantastic to have, given the latest technology usage trends). Of course, all new features have not been decided upon yet - raw information on the planning of the 2.0 release can be found at this wiki page.
Flake is going to be the graphics library that will be common to all of KOffice and make all applications behave similarly. The goal of the library is to have the best of both worlds from KWord's frames and KPresenter's shapes down to Karbon's vector graphics. It will support layers, undo/redo and all sorts of manipulation.
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In the upcoming week (before the next digest issue), amaroK 1.4 will be released. The amaroK team provide an overview of their long-awaited release:
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The amaroK team pushed the fast foward button to bring you amaroK 1.4. Now, the most eagerly anticipated event of the 2006 multimedia calendar has finally arrived!
Those of you who have helped us test the new amaroK via beta versions and SVN will have had a sneak peek at the new features, but for everyone else, here's the lowdown.- Tagging support for all major audio formats (OGG, MP3, MP4, FLAC and RM)
- Enhanced media device support (iPod® IFP/IRiver®, generic devices)
- Reworked tagging dialog for better management of the collection
- Non-KDE users are now able to set their default browser without installing KDE-Base
- Consistent and independent icon set
- Option to view wikipedia articles in another language by default
- Gapless playback for the xine engine
- User-based rating system
- More options to configure the sidebar
For a full-featured guide of hottest new stuff, including screenshots, have a look at the What's new in 1.4 page.
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Look out for amaroK 1.4 on the 17th of May (Wednesday).
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Reinhold Kainhofer committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdesdk/scripts/licensecheck:
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Fix license check for libical files. They are dual-licensed as LGPL and MPL 1.0, but neither was detected. Also, all '0' were removed from the license check, which I don't think was intended.
I suppose these changes should also be merged into kde-common/svn/hooks/post-commit.pl, but I don't want to take the risk of breaking our commit system. So I'll leave this to Dirk or Thiago.
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Michael Brade committed a change to /branches/KDE/3.5/kdepim/kontact/plugins/knotes/knotes_part.cpp:
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Fix the implementation of killNote(), it did nothing when force == true.
Thanks for the report!
BUG:127063
This also fixes the embarrasingly wrong implementation of KNotesPart::notes(),
it returned the body of the notes, not the title. This is a behavior change
for the DCOP interface but the previous implementation was just plain wrong
and contradictory to the documentation and to the implementation of the
KNotes app itself.
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Frank Osterfeld committed changes in /branches/KDE/3.5/kdepim/akregator:
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I don't see a reason to disable javascript in the article viewer.
This fixes a crash when an error is returned (e.g. 404), which occurs only when
JS is disabled. I can't reproduce it in konqueror, so I assume our current Viewer classes
misuse the KHTMLPart interface too much.
BUG: 126812
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Reinhold Kainhofer committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdepim:
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If an Ok button is present in a KDialog, it should always be the default button (as discussed on IRC), so there is no need to set it manually. That the Ok button is currently not the default button is simply a bug in kdeui and needs to be fixed there |
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Bram Schoenmakers committed changes in /branches/KDE/3.5/kdepim/korganizer:
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More work on the month view:
o Handle multi-day recurring incidences properly (it looks quite messy when it's about daily recursion, but it's correct);
o Multi day events >2 days were not added correctly to the view, fixed;
o MonthViewCell::removeIncidence shouldn't assume that an incidence appears at most one time in a cell. It's return value was bool, back to void (it's result wasn't evaluated anyway);
o Use getTextColor for the item text color. Prevents some unreadable items on a dark background.
I've tested with events with combinations of the following variables: being multi-day, floating or recursive. In all cases it seems to work.
I think the month view can survive until KDE 4 now :)
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Andrew Turner committed changes in /trunk/extragear/multimedia/amarok/src:
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Leaving entries in the DB when they aren't going to be used anymore can't be good. And
retagging something from "foo" to "Foo" should not change it in the DB for unselected
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Ian Monroe committed changes in /trunk/extragear/multimedia/amarok/src:
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Xine would stutter if it played a track without one coming after it due to the
gapless playback feature. It now checks to see if amaroK will continue playing
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Jeff Mitchell committed changes in /trunk/extragear/multimedia/amarok/src:
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Fix some ATF logic that would have files incorrectly get regenerated IDs. Also, if ATF is on, when a playlist is loaded it should
re-populate the unique IDs. Currently the IDs are being rescanned from the files for safety, but a small tweak in metabundle.cpp
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Alexander Dymo committed changes in /branches/kdevelop/3.4/src:
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This commit contains code nobody should ever write!
We have too many hacks to cope with KMDI library and that also affects
simple ideal which should be aware of the hacks!
Editor proxy, multi buffer should die!!!
Anyway. This commit enables current document to be shown in another
splitted area in simple ideal mode. Also it's possible to open a new
document after splitting editors area.
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Gilles Caulier committed a change to /trunk/extragear/graphics/digikam/utilities/cameragui/cameraui.cpp:
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digiKam from trunk : Gphoto2 camera drivers always return all JFIF APP1 section from JPEG file when Exif metadata are require by camera interface.
Exiv2 do not support to parse Exif metadata from APP1 directily. This commit cut APP1 header (10 first bytes) to please Exiv2 with this data.
You can display now your Exif/Makenotes metadata in camera gui with all Gphoto2 camera, PTP camera are includes (tested with my Dynax5d).
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George Staikos committed changes in /trunk/extragear/graphics/kst:
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Finally completed a major rework of the label parser and renderer. This makes
tabs, carriage returns, underline, bold, italic, superscript and subscript pass
every test I can throw at them. \textcolor will be working as soon as I get a
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George Staikos committed changes in /trunk/extragear/graphics/kst/src:
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Implement \textcolor{color}{text}. The color can be one of:
1) An entry from X11 rgb.txt
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RR,GG,BB is unimplemented but will come one day.
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Albert Astals Cid committed changes in /branches/work/kde4/playground/graphics/okular:
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The big poppler commit, we now don't use poppler but poppler-qt4 frontend, and that is GOOD
You need poppler from cvs as of today, i'll change the check to a bigger version number once a new poppler gets released
There are still some problems i think but i'm commiting to see if someone wants to help ;-)
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Hamish Rodda committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdelibs:
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Add cursor advancement api to smart cursors. Implemented for
character-at-a-time advancement (but not tested yet, need to get the
regression suite working again) but not for cursor-position advancement
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Fix actions not being added to a widget (+ thus not having their
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Fix selection on search |
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Allen Winter committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake:
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First attempt at support for the Intel C/C++ compilers.
Still to-do:
- shared and module linker flags
- visibility support
- shutup lots of harmless, annoying remarks
To play with this:
- install Intel C/C++ compilers.
- set $PATH and $LD_LIBRARY_PATH correctly for the new stuff
- export CC=icc; export CXX=icpc
- mkdir kdelibs/build-icpc
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- cmake ..
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Bonne Eggleston committed changes in /trunk/extragear/multimedia/amarok/src:
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Implemented playlist weighting (by number of tracks) for dynamic mode FEATURE:113120
More sensible usage of "Tracks to Append" and "Upcoming Tracks" BUG:113276 FEATURE:123041
This has been well tested on Sqlite and MySQL, but not Postgres.
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Jeff Mitchell committed changes in /trunk/extragear/multimedia/amarok/src:
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New option: [General]->AppendAsDefault
If true, sending new media to amaroK (i.e. via ampache) will do an append to the current playlist. Useful for i.e. Firefox, where you can
tell it to send M3U files to amaroK, but are unable to specify the -a flag so your current list is not overwritten. Will GUI-fy it into
Options somewhere once string freeze is over, for 1.4.1. |
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Jeff Mitchell committed changes in /trunk/extragear/multimedia/amarok/src:
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First actual ATF usage implemented. Turn on ATF, put some stuff in the playlist. Then move some of the files somewhere else and try to play
the files. Watch them get disabled. Wait for the incremental scanner to pick up the files, then try playing them again...watch them get
dynamically updated to use the right path and everything work swimmingly! |
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Jeff Mitchell committed changes in /trunk/extragear/multimedia/amarok/src:
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Make the playlist check for the existence of files when double-clicking, hitting next track and previous track. If the file doesn't exist,
disable it and move on. If it was disabled but the file does exist now (or has been updated due to the awesomeness of ATF), re-enable it and
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Ivan Vasic committed changes in /trunk/extragear/network/ktorrent:
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ADD:
Torrents can be enqueued/dequeued from context menu or toolbar.
FIX:
Small bug in QueueManager causing all torrents to be started/queued.
ScanFolder plugin wasn't working until settings are applied.Scheduler plugin now updates hourly (was - every minute). |
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Marcos Fouces committed changes in /branches/work/media-renew:
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More complex approach to a full CSS layout for kde.org sites. I wrote
only one style sheet (for screen media). So, there is no RTL nor
printing support.
I tested it with
* Lynx 2.8.5rel.1
* IE6 (There is some problems with fonts in the table that hold the news).
* IE7
* Firefox 1.5
* Opera 8.54
* Konqueror
TODO:
* Migrate old accessibility style sheets.
* RTL support for screen and print.
* Support for handheld and aural medias.
* Accessibility checks.
* Test with an old version of Konqueror.
* There is surely some XHTML and CSS validation errors.
There will be a testbed available at Adriaan's server (http://www.englishbreakfastnetwork.org/media/). Please, report any
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Martin Aumüller committed changes in /trunk/extragear/multimedia/amarok:
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- hide some tokens that just don't make sense when organizing albums: Mood, PlayCount, LastPlayed, Score
- added help for custom format string (disabled because of string freeze, but i think untranslated help is a lot better than no help at all, so it should be enabled)
BUG: 126936
- %discnumber was already available for the disc number in a multi-disc album
- now only %albumartist gets set to 'Various Artists', %artist remains the track's artist
BUG: 124337
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Laurent Montel committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdegames:
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Remove Makefile.am, all is into CMakeLists.txt
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Gábor Lehel committed changes in /branches/work/kde4/playground/libs:
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templatize and rename
(mornfall on irc thought AtomicString wasn't a very descriptive name, and I agreed; but couldn't think of anything much better. It's a bit similar to the 'legendary' mechanic in Magic: the Gathering, so that it is, for now.) |
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Reinhold Kainhofer committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdepim/korganizer:
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Try to convert the ui files to Qt 4 .ui files. As far as I can see, it's impossible to create a QButtonGroup in designer (so you can easily obtain the index of the selecte
d radio button without having to subclass or manually add the buttons to a button group, where the list of radio buttons in the ui file and in the code needs to be manuall
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So, I'll simply leave the Q3ButtonGroup widgets in there until we find a nice way to achieve the same with Qt4. |
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Michael Pyne committed changes in /branches/work/abakus-qt4:
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Add CMake infrastructure for port of abakus to KDE 4. (Still needs checks for libraries)
Remove bksys stuff.
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Michael Pyne committed changes in /branches/work/abakus-qt4/src:
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Make improvements to abakus KDE 4 port. Almost trashed some files with a sed script
gone wrong, figured I'd better commit now before I do it again. :)
It works for the most part actually, surprisingly well for the amount of time I've put
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