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Huge optimisations in ksysguard. Solid switches to CMake. aRts, KPDF removed in trunk/, whilst oKular continues to be developed as its replacement. amaroK gets support for Creative Zen devices. coreapps/ module created (as proposed on kde-core-devel). More work on supporting Intel compilers.
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In KDE 4, Plasma offers the possibility of new ways of working on the desktop. In response to a message regarding file management workflows, Aaron Seigo, lead developer of Plasma, reveals some of his thinking on the subject. With regard to saving files on the desktop workspace:
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why do people do this? so they can quickly get to that file at a later time. but not -too- much later probably otherwise you end up with 100s of icons on your desktop that are random files.
personally what i'd much rather provide is a way to tag files in the filesystem as "important" in some way and allow the desktop (or other applications) to list those files so tagged. this alleviates the rather abstract restrictions that come with having one folder being what is literally shown on the desktop.
i'd much prefer to offer a way to say "i'd like to email a file to someone". this is similar to the common workflow of "open a file that was emailed to me, open it, edit it, save it, email it back to the sender and other recipients"
right now we make our users go through all these steps manually (over and over again) without any sort of help. one of the SoC projects that looks likely to be accepted is for a timelining UI element, which could come in handy here.
there's also no reason the desktop couldn't show in a nice list the last N used files either.
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Now, this sounds great for native applications that are integrated with the KDE desktop platform: but what about other applications currently vital to the free desktop user (such as OpenOffice.org)?
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i can only see three options:- continue to provide a crappy user experience,
- encourage these apps to use emerging desktop integration tools like Portland and support those efforts with our new features, or
- write apps that feature the necessary integration features.
the latter 2 options in some combination seem to be the most realistic to me.
i really do have faith that if we drop what is a poor hack-of-a-solution we'll come up with clever means to truly address the real use cases. =)
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This week, David Faure has worked on two of the Top 20 Most Hated Bugs:Though these particular bugs may not affect everyone, i'm sure that everyone appreciates the effort to fix the most hated parts of KDE. So, thanks David!
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Carsten Niehaus puts out a final call to developers to ensure that the KDE 3.5.3 Changelog is complete. Once again, if you notice a missing notable bugfix, please mail Carsten so that he can update the Changelog!
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Open Bugs:
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Open Wishes:
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Laurent Montel
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Dirk Mueller
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David Faure
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Gilles Caulier
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Achim Bohnet
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Matthias Kretz
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Jaroslaw Staniek
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Ludovic Grossard
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Thiago Macieira
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Ihar Hrachyshka
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Thiago Macieira
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Seb Ruiz
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Andras Mantia
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Bram Schoenmakers
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John Tapsell
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Allan Sandfeld Jensen
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Chris Howells
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Mark Kretschmann
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Alexandre Pereira de Oliveira
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Boudewijn Rempt
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amaroK |
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2907 |
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Kopete |
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1200 |
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K3B |
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KMail |
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Kate |
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SuperKaramba |
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Kontact |
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KDevelop |
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Kicker |
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Quanta |
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Person |
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Tom Chance
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Aaron Seigo
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George Staikos
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Waldo Bastian
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Cornelius Schumacher
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Jonathan Riddell
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John Tapsell
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Anne-Marie Mahfouf
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Stephan Binner
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Marcel Wiesweg committed changes in /trunk/extragear/graphics/digikam/libs/dimg/loaders:
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digikam from trunk:
Use KProcess for RAW image loader.
Loading can now be cleanly aborted.
This is a good example that KProcess is not the perfect tool for use
with our shiny new multithreaded loader because KProcess is not reentrant,
but there are more advantages (wraps all system programming) so that
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Charles Samuels committed changes in /branches/KDE/3.5/kdelibs/khtml/rendering:
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Fix (remove) horizontal scrollbar on web pages with negative text indents.
Does not fix news.yahoo.com because that's a very different, and much
more complicated, bug. Updates to regression coming...
CCBUG: 118050
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David Faure committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kdecore/kurl.cpp:
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Revert nasty windows hack - "ftp://ftp.kde.org/C:/" doesn't make sense.
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