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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
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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
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BUG: 126812
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