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Issue 30
29th October 2006
by Danny Allen
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This Week...
Work on Decibel and the KDE-based NEPOMUK components accelerates. The Unity web rendering engine experiment is removed from KDE SVN, due to a change in the circumstances that prompted its creation. KTabEdit, a guitar tablature editor is imported into the KDE SVN playground. A branch of kde-pim for improvements in future 3.5 releases shows promise with the introduction of several new features. QMA, an experimental email client, continues to mature and is renamed Mailody. Usability and file format support refinements in Amarok. Speed optimisations in KViewShell and KFTPGrabber. More improvements in the state of games in KDE 4.

Ian Ventura-Whiting introduces the three database tools imported into KDE SVN last week:
Even though the Kexi team, as well as others, are adding some excellent database tools to KDE, ODBC support is one area that is still poorly supported. ODBC is used in a wide variety of business applications and is a key requirement for more advanced users. I have been working on a number of tools to help bridge this gap and plan to work closely with developers of other KDE database tools.

The first program, Data Sources, is a tool for configuring ODBC drivers and data sources. Users of similar tools on other platforms will be pleased to see how similar this tool looks, feels and operates. Data Sources makes things even simpler, with auto-detection of missing ODBC drivers and wizard-based configuration. It also shows users only the options needed to configure a data source, whilst advanced configuration options are still accessbile. At the moment, the program is a fully working Qt 4.2-based application and I intend to move it into a KCM module. (Currently located at trunk/playground/base/datasources, screenshot)

SQL Query, as the name suggests, is a tool for querying databases. It allows a user to open ODBC data sources, or use the Qt database drivers. Users can browse databases, execute SQL statements or run SQL scripts. I plan to add many more features to this program, including importing and exporting database data. This program is currently Qt 4-based and I intend to make use of the KDE 4 libraries, add syntax highlighing to the SQL editor and add other important functionality. (Currently in trunk/playground/office/sqlquery, screenshot)

The last tool, ODBC Statistics, is a small tool for monitoring ODBC connections. (Currently in trunk/playground/sysadmin/odbcstats)

The past weekend saw the second bug triage day, concentrating on the kde-pim module. This follows on from the highly-effective first bug triage day which targeted Konqueror several weeks ago.

To gauge the scale of the existing bug mountain, there are approximately 2600 open bugs registered against KMail, with a further 700 outstanding in KOrganizer. With the bug-crushing effort on Saturday, Will Stephenson reports that there were over 40 people in the co-ordinating IRC channel (#kde-bugs) at the peak of the bug-fixing zeal, with many non-programmers using their talents with good effect.

With two successful events now completed, we will surely see a fresh announcement and challenge within a few weeks - which part of KDE should fear the wrath of the KDE Bug Squad next?


Statistics
Commits: 1991 by 194 developers, 4576 lines modified, 1053 new files.
Open Bugs: 13166
Open Wishes: 11842
Bugs Opened: 254 in the last 7 days.
Bugs Closed: 345 in the last 7 days.

Commit Summary
Module Commits
/trunk/KDE
325
/trunk/www
274
/trunk/l10n
252
/trunk/extragear
243
/trunk/playground
194
/branches/stable
164
/branches/work
151
/trunk/koffice
119
/branches/KDE
70
/trunk/kdenonbeta
47
Lines Developer Commits
237
Laurent Montel
79
147
Gilles Caulier
62
115
Stephan Kulow
57
115
Pino Toscano
48
107
Sebastian Trueg
42
155
Frans Englich
40
97
Tom Albers
36
85
Martin Aumüller
36
35
Erik Kjær Pedersen
34
180
Jaroslaw Staniek
34

Internationalisation (i18n) Status
Language Percentage Complete
Portuguese
99.98%
Danish
99.82%
Swedish
99.73%
Spanish
96.92%
Dutch
96.48%
Greek
95.21%
Italian
93.88%
French
93.40%
Estonian
92.77%
German
92.60%

Bug Killers and Buzz
Bug Killer Number Of Bugs Closed
Will Stephenson
43
Alexandre Pereira de Oliveira
40
Bram Schoenmakers
33
Martin Aumüller
23
Maks Orlovich
19
Volker Krause
18
Martin Koller
17
Tommi Tervo
15
Allan Sandfeld Jensen
10
Jeff Mitchell
10

Program Buzz
Amarok
  6765
KMail
  4320
Kopete
  3800
Kate
  3650
K3B
  3180
KDevelop
  2910
Kat
  2046
digiKam
  1835
Kontact
  1494
Quanta
  1446


Person Buzz
Adriaan de Groot
  1018
David Faure
  895
Stephan Kulow
  793
Waldo Bastian
  610
Jaroslaw Staniek
  418
Jonathan Riddell
  368
Zack Rusin
  362
George Staikos
  342
Stephan Binner
  266
Aaron J. Seigo
  258
Commit Countries

Commit Demographics
Sex
92.7 %       Male
6.71 %       (unknown)
0.062 %       Female
Motivation
41.9 %       (unknown)
41.5 %       Volunteer
16.0 %       Commercial
 
Ages
78.0 %       (unknown)
11.9 %       35 to 44
11.8 %       25 to 34
6.65 %       18 to 24
0.188 %       45 to 54
0.125 %       Under 18


Contents
  Bug Fixes Features Optimise Security Other
Accessibility
Development Tools [*] [*]
Educational [*]
Graphics [*] [*]
KDE-Base [*] [*] [*]
KDE-PIM [*]
Office [*] [*] [*]
Konqueror
Multimedia [*] [*] [*]
Networking Tools [*] [*] [*]
User Interface [*]
Utilities [*] [*] [*]
Games [*] [*] [*] [*]
Other


Bug Fixes
Games
Stephan Kulow committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdegames/kpat/dealer.cpp:
don't allow autodrop if cards are moving
Bug 56637: Corrupt foundation in Klondike
Diff Revision 600180

KDE-Base
David Faure committed a change to /branches/KDE/3.5/kdelibs/kio/kio/kmimetype.cpp:
Patch from Modestas Vainius to fix Bug 122020 (kdesvnd action menu issues)
He said, and I agree:

Do not time out when waiting for the reply for the X-KDE-GetActionMenu DCOP call. DCOP protocol is synchronouos by design and a reply for the timed out call (i.e. garbage) still arrives and might be falsely returned as a valid reply for the subsequent DCOP call on the same connection. The application currently known to be badly hurt by this is kdesvn and its konqueror service menu integration. Its X-KDE-GetActionMenu might take longer than current 100 milisecond timeout to complete. As a result then, a late reply will "pollute" a main DCOP connection of the client application (e.g. konqueror) causing further DCOP failures.
Bug 122020: doesn't start kdesvnd fast enough
Diff Revision 599200
Discussion

Maks Orlovich committed changes in /branches/KDE/3.5/kdelibs/khtml:
Prevent crash-inducing recursion of detach due to blur events
happening when widgets with focus get destroyed, by quietly shifting
the focus to the view...(#135384, probably #124342 --- best I can tell given
imperfect information); also affects some bugs which I separately closed as
non-reproducible, but which involved such a sequence

Also fixes freezing in #92497, as we no longer try to find something
to focus when nothing is focusable..
Bug 92497: Konqueror freezes at ifilm.com when cookies are disabled
Bug 124342: [site-issue] Segmentation fault after deleting messages in gmail...
Bug 135384: Konqueror crashes when closing a full screen javascript "Pro...
Diffs: 1, 2 Revision 599857

Jessica Hall committed changes in /branches/KDE/3.5/kdebase/doc:
fix up various typos in kdebase docs. Natalie, I suspect that the go menu missing is a Kubuntu customisation since it is here in my vanilla 3.5 branch. Thanks for filing such great bugreports so faithfully.
Bug 135691: Typos, oopsies and nitpicks in /kdebase docs
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Revision 599918

Multimedia
Alexandre Pereira de Oliveira committed a change to /trunk/extragear/multimedia/amarok/src/contextbrowser.cpp:
when the track (and thus the lyrics) changes, reset scrollbar position of lyrics tab to the top
Bug 135907: lyrics tab is not scrolled to the origin when changed
Diff Revision 598567

Martin Aumüller committed a change to /trunk/extragear/multimedia/amarok/src/playlist.cpp:
make playlist context menu tall enough for the side pixmap by always showing the 'stop playing after this track' entry
Bug 126598: stop after track menu function missing
Diff Revision 599116

Networking Tools
Jernej Kos committed changes in /trunk/extragear/network/kftpgrabber/src/widgets:
Hide passwords from recent site list in quick connect dialog.
Bug 134049: Hide password in the quick connect dialog
Diffs: 1, 2 Revision 599327

Joris Guisson committed a change to /trunk/extragear/network/ktorrent/libktorrent/mse/streamsocket.cpp:
Addes some safety checks on IP addresses before connecting to peers. This should prevent bug 136392.
Bug 136392: crash after loading new torrent
Diff Revision 599703

Utilities
Eike Hein committed changes in /trunk/extragear/utils/yakuake:
Fix crash when kpart in a tab other than the currently selected tab goes down.
Bug 124129: Segmentation fault killing a bash session from another session
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Revision 600111

Features
Development Tools
Alexander Dymo committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdevelop/languages/ruby/parser:
More ruby parser improvements:
- recognize comments
- recognize scoped names (ala Foo::Bar ) as proper module names
- recognize ruby symbols
- recognize if/unless/while/until statement modifiers
- two consecutive method calls without parens are no longer parsed as one statement

Now the parser understands pretty sophisticated ruby programs!
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Revision 598875

Educational
Jason Harris committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdeedu/libkdeedu/kdeeduplot:
Implementing non-colliding text labels in kdeeduplot, based on kmplot code.

It works, but it could probably be faster. You don't need to know anything about it to use the feature, it all happens behind the scenes. Just add some items with labels and enjoy the magic.

However, in the interest of inspiring optimization, here's a brief description of how it works.

KPlotWidget now has a private array of floats: PlotMask[100][100]. This is a rough division of the content of the plot into a 100x100 grid. Where the plot is empty, the array is zero, where it has content, it is >0. When items are added to the plot (points, lines, bars, or labels), the corresponding positions in PlotMask are incremented by an amount that can vary for different kinds of items (for example, right now Bars don't increment as much as points or lines).

The function KPlotWidget::placeLabel() is responsible for positioning item labels. It attempts to place the label close to the point to which it belongs, while minimizing the label's overlap with masked regions of the plot. Ideally, it won't overlap with masked regions at all. This is done in a rather brute-force way: it tests label positions in a 40x40 grid around the position of the point, and determines the "cost" for placing the label at each position. Higher cost is incurred for (a) overlapping with a masked region, (b) being further from the point position, and (c) extending beyond the bounds of the plot. The position that has the lowest "cost" is then adopted, and the label is drawn at that position.

You can get an idea of the CPU impact of this cost-analysis using the test suite I added to kdeeduplot. Display the "Points, lines and bars" plot, and then resize the window. Note the smoothness of the redraws. Now display "Points, lines and bars with labels" and resize the window. The redraws take much longer in this case.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4 Revision 599914
Discussion

Games
Mauricio Piacentini committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdegames/kmahjongg:
Reenable Board Editor and the ability to load a layout from disk. Editor is restored to previous functionality, but it needs new controls to specify the initial board size and to add/remove lines and columns now that the game supports dynamic board sizes.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Revision 599647

Graphics
Pino Toscano committed changes in /trunk/playground/graphics/okular/ui:
Create a new AnnotationEngine to select some text from the current page, and make it able to distill Highlight annotations. Now you can hightlight th text in your document, wooo :)
Diffs: 1, 2, 3 Revision 598201

Gilles Caulier committed changes in /trunk/extragear/libs/kipi-plugins/htmlexport/themes/s0:
kipiplugins from trunk : new HTML Export theme named "s0" from Petr Vanek
See http://www.yarpen.cz/digikam for details
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 1 more) Revision 598959
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Pino Toscano committed a change to /branches/KDE/3.5/kdegraphics/kpdf/core/generator_pdf/generator_pdf.cpp:
Show a 'keep password' checkbox when using a wallet so the user can decide if he wants the password saved in the wallet.
Bug 122605: KPDF should remember document passwords in kwallet
Diff Revision 599720

Jesper Pedersen committed changes in /trunk/extragear/graphics/kphotoalbum:
* The feature dialog now test if we can show video thumbnails.
* The feature dialog now tests better to see if we can show videos.
* New application icon
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 5 more) Revision 600187
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KDE-Base
Kévin Ottens committed changes in /branches/work/kdehw/backends/hal:
Add a new power management backend using HAL.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 2 more) Revision 598219

Kévin Ottens committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/solid:
Add a kcm to control backend preferences.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Revision 598771
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Luboš Luňák committed changes in /branches/work/kwin_composite:
Support for animations, still some todo's pending.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Revision 598831

Jos van den Oever committed a change to /trunk/playground/base/strigi/src/streams/zipinputstream.cpp:
Check the header of streamed zip files as valid too, because we now support it in Strigi.
Diff Revision 599311
Discussion

Torsten Rahn committed changes in /trunk/playground/base/marble/src:
Adding initial support for default placemark binary cache
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 8 more) Revision 599725

KDE-PIM
Allen Winter committed changes in /branches/work/kdepim-3.5.5+/kmail:
New template goodies from Dmitry:
1. Conversion phrases into templates
2. Per-identity templates
3. Templates are used also with multi-message forward (was missed)
4. C-style correction of templatesconfigurationimpl.cpp
5. Minimal and default sizes of templates configuration widget diminished a
little; folder properties are not so huge now.
6. Several commands added: %CCADDR, %CCNAME, %CCFNAME, %CCLNAME, %OCCADDR, %OCCNAME, %OCCFNAME, %OCCLNAME

Please continue testing templates.
Great work Dmitry! Glad to have you helping with KMail.

Now we need to get some code from Johnathan :)
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 3 more) Revision 597910

Tom Albers committed changes in /trunk/playground/pim/qma/src:
Make it possible to send attachments. Will tune later...
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Revision 597923

Tom Albers committed changes in /trunk/playground/pim/qma/src:
Composer attachment experiment failed. Show attachments in a separate listview next to the addresses. Sort of Thunderbird solution. Hide/Show automatically.
Diffs: 1, 2 Revision 598455

Tom Albers committed changes in /trunk/playground/pim/qma/src:
- Save all the sizes of all the splitters and all the listviews out there

- Implement poor mans autoexpand folder with childeren on hover when dragging message, wonder if I missed something in the api....
Almost time to prep a tarball.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Revision 598490

Allen Winter committed changes in /branches/work/kdepim-3.5.5+/kmail:
Monur's KMail Message Tagging
as found on http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=36322

Cleaned-up just a bit by me.

Monur, didn't you want to do more with this feature, like adding colors?
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 12 more) Revision 598587
Discussion

Allen Winter committed changes in /branches/work/kdepim-3.5.5+:
Johnathan Marten's Create Template from Composer.

When creating a new message you can save that message as a template.
Templates are stored in a new "templates" folder.

Hand-patched by me, with style changes.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 9 more) Revision 598593

Tom Albers committed changes in /trunk/playground/pim/qma:
from the todo list:
- dont close composer without warning when there is data
- check for duplicate addresses in the composer
- sort indicators in the composer missing
- reworked the listviews, so the delete column is always visible and column 1 always takes as much space as possible.
- context menu with delete is not needed now in those lists
- renamed 'file' to 'attachment' in composer
- add a space between organisation and emailaddress
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4 Revision 598787

Tom Albers committed changes in /trunk/playground/pim/mailody:
Logo!!!!
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Revision 599119
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Allen Winter committed changes in /branches/work/kdepim-3.5.5+/kmail:
HTML Signatures

Apply patch that Jason Keirstead provided over 1.5 years ago.
Please test.
Bug 81989: kmail need to support HTML signature
Diffs: 1, 2 Revision 599323

Allen Winter committed changes in /branches/work/kdepim-3.5.5+/kmail:
Improved templates support from Dmitry:

1. Coding style fixes.
2. Little refactoring.
3. Custom reply/forward templates added (David Faure ask for them on list)
4. Various bug fixes, including major one -- wrong charset on %TEXT command
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 19 more) Revision 599665
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Allen Winter committed changes in /branches/KDE/3.5/kdepim/libkholidays/holidays:
Add a holidays for Greece.
Submitted by Dimitris. Thanks!
Diffs: 1, 2 Revision 599759

Tom Albers committed changes in /trunk/playground/pim/mailody:
Improve communication with KAddressBook:
- addressbook is now loaded asynchronous, so the composer opens instantly and addressess follow later.
- delete from addressbook and open address from the addressbook sidebar
- add an address to the addressbook from the addresslist.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4 Revision 600084

Multimedia
Alexandre Pereira de Oliveira committed a change to /trunk/extragear/multimedia/amarok/src/organizecollectiondialog:
Improve layout of organize files dialog a bit.
Bug 135995: organise files dialog: weird spaces in layout with details off
Diff Revision 598017
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Martin Aumüller committed changes in /trunk/extragear/multimedia/amarok/src/metadata:
read audio properties from wav files
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Revision 598178

Martin Aumüller committed changes in /trunk/extragear/multimedia/amarok:
allow for transferring .wav files to ipods
Bug 131130: Not possible to copy WAVs to an iPod
Diffs: 1, 2, 3 Revision 598180

Mark Kretschmann committed changes in /trunk/extragear/multimedia/amarok/src:
Magnatune icon for the browser. Thanks to apachelogger for making it! :)
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Revision 598234
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Tim Beaulen committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdemultimedia/phonon-gst:
Implement seeking.

Now trying to get Juk to actually seek.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Revision 598471

Gwenael Casaccio committed changes in /trunk/playground/multimedia/ktabedit:
Add zoom support and correct the view
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 89 more) Revision 599324

Alexandre Pereira de Oliveira committed changes in /trunk/extragear/multimedia/amarok/src:
*Try* to convert old dynamic playlists, instead of just ignoring them.
Diffs: 1, 2 Revision 599374

Seb Ruiz committed changes in /trunk/extragear/multimedia/amarok/src:
Support for %genre and %composer fields when guessing tags from filename
Diffs: 1, 2, 3 Revision 599500

Maximilian Kossick committed changes in /trunk/extragear/multimedia/amarok/src:
support for user-definable labels:)
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 1 more) Revision 599504
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Alexandre Pereira de Oliveira committed a change to /trunk/extragear/multimedia/amarok/src/contextbrowser.cpp:
When the script can't find lyrics, provide a link for a web search.
Bug 136355: add "Search in Google for this lyric" message when find...
Diff Revision 599604

Mark Kretschmann committed changes in /trunk/extragear/multimedia/amarok:
Playlists are now saved with relative paths by default. I think this is what most users want.
Diffs: 1, 2 Revision 599733

Networking Tools
Joris Guisson committed changes in /trunk/extragear/network/ktorrent:
Changes :
- Added advanced preference page
- Moved GUI update interval and memory usage option to advanced pref page
- TOS field of IP packets is now configurable
- Hash checks during uploading of big chunks can now be turned off
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 3 more) Revision 598498
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Roman Jarosz committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdenetwork/kopete/protocols/oscar:
Add support for editing ICQEmailInfo and ICQNotesInfo.
All user info classes are implemented :)
Bug 120588: [liboscar/icq] add support for editing ICQ user info
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Revision 598552
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Jernej Kos committed changes in /trunk/extragear/network/kftpgrabber/src:
Added two more per-site settings, "use site IP for passive mode connections" and "disable 'force active mode to use this IP' for this site".
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4 Revision 598768
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Andre Duffeck committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdenetwork/kopete/protocols/yahoo:
Now it's possible to send messages to chatrooms. i've also removed the possibility to have several chats opened, as the yahoo
protocol apparently does not allow that.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Revision 598806

Christian Hubinger committed changes in /trunk/extragear/network/kmyfirewall:
* WARNING: APPLICATION NOT RELIABLE AT THIS POINT! DO NOT USE FOR PRODUCTION!
* More work on MultiTarget configuration
* Make new Target Configuration handling work
* Import old setting in localhost, on upgrade
* Lots of code cleanup & small fixes
* Update Version String to 1.1.0 - to much changes and new features -> name it so
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 39 more) Revision 599091
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Michaël Larouche committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdenetwork/kopete/protocols/telepathy:
List contacts from Telepathy and create Temporary MetaContact from now.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Revision 600208

Office
Casper Boemann committed changes in /trunk/koffice/krita/ui:
When hitting escape during dragging a point the drag will be canceled

When dragging a point more than 15 pixels outside the widget the point
is deleted (unless you drag it back inside)

hitting exacpe while dragging outside will probably crash at the moment

Can't test it as krita is not working at the moment
Bug 136125: remove points in curve by dragging them out of the area
Diffs: 1, 2 Revision 598084

Martin Pfeiffer committed changes in /trunk/koffice/libs/kformula:
first draft for the attribute processing system, the functionality is outlined, the class does not compile nor is any mehtod complete especially the scriptLevel things will be changes again as they are wrong designed... so much to do
Diffs: 1, 2 Revision 598107

Cyrille Berger committed changes in /branches/koffice/1.6/koffice/filters/krita:
import/export eps files using graphics magick
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4 Revision 598224

Jaroslaw Staniek committed changes in /branches/koffice/1.6/koffice/kexi:
* Kexi Query Designer supports parameter queries *

Query Designer
- New: Added support for parameter queries in design and SQL view.
User is asked for entering value of a parameter in a dialog window.
Paramers can be of any type except Object.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 23 more) Revision 599352

Sebastian Sauer committed changes in /trunk/koffice/libs/kross:
more work on kjsembed-backend
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Revision 599384

Jan Hambrecht committed changes in /trunk/koffice/karbon/dockers:
Implemented thumbnail painting for shape containers
(see http://www.gfai.de/~jaham/karbon/karbon_hidden_rect3.png)

Nice eh!
Diffs: 1, 2 Revision 599413

Thomas Zander committed changes in /trunk/koffice/krita/image:
New class;
we need a better way to do progress notification for various actions.
A simple usecase is a user action or filter that can be split into multiple
subactions which each have their independent progress indication.
We want to show the total progress in a progressBar.

This new class does that and all of the following features:
* threadsafe
* be able to handle more than one concurrent action
* be safe
* be cancelable
* non-modal
* be fast
* be really easy to use
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Revision 599863

User Interface
Nuno Fernades Pinheiro committed changes in /trunk/playground/artwork/Oxygen/theme/svg/actions:
new icons
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4 Revision 597908
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Nuno Fernades Pinheiro committed changes in /trunk/playground/artwork/Oxygen/theme/svg/actions:
new icons
Diffs: 1, 2, 3 Revision 598215
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Riccardo Iaconelli committed changes in /trunk/playground/artwork/Oxygen/ruphy:
New icon (beta) for recycled files
Diffs: 1, 2 Revision 600127
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Riccardo Iaconelli committed changes in /trunk/playground/artwork/Oxygen/theme/svg/devices:
Two new icons for the cdaudio device (mount and umount).
Diffs: 1, 2 Revision 600148
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Riccardo Iaconelli committed changes in /trunk/playground/artwork/Oxygen/ruphy:
Changements are now reflected in my folder.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Revision 600172
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Utilities
Stephan Binner committed changes in /trunk/kdereview/kerry:
finish rewrite as kcm modules
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 5 more) Revision 598193

Jaison Lee committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdeutils/kjots:
Better exporting, and add ability to import.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Revision 598254
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Michaël Larouche committed changes in /trunk/playground/games/gamefu:
Add gamefu_launch, a commandline tool that launch the specified URL in arguments.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 1 more) Revision 598863

Optimise
Development Tools
David Nolden committed changes in /branches/kdevelop/3.4/languages/cpp:
limit the maximum count of computed comments to 1000, so showing a VERY long completion-list doesn't take all that long
Diffs: 1, 2 Revision 598450

Games
Mauricio Piacentini committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdegames/kmahjongg:
After a lot of preparation, finally removed full redraw at every tile addition and removal. There is still some room for optimization, but at 800x600 play area the game is now using less than 1% of a 2GHz cpu, with minimal redrawings.

Unfortunately, this change is for KDE4 only and can not be backported to 3.5.x series.
Bug 62109: Redrawing is very slow over network connection
Bug 62109: Redrawing is very slow over network connection
Diffs: 1, 2 Revision 599425

Graphics
Wilfried Huss committed a change to /branches/work/kviewshell-0.7/kviewshell/shell/marklist.cpp:
Don't rebuild all of the thumbnail widgets everytime their size has changed.
This makes rotation in large documents much faster.
Diff Revision 599795

Wilfried Huss committed changes in /branches/work/kviewshell-0.7/kviewshell/shell:
Optimizations of the Thumbnail list.

We now only create thumbnail widgets for thumbnails that are really visible in the viewport. That means we need to create only a very small number of widgets, and not one widget per page as before.

This gives a huge performance boost for all operations, expecially loading and closing of documents, and rotating the view, since the creation and especially deletion of QWidgets is quite slow.

The performance gain is only noticable for very large documents with 1000 or more pages.

There are still a few little regressions, which I will fix later.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Revision 600195

Networking Tools
Jernej Kos committed changes in /trunk/extragear/network/kftpgrabber/src:
Basic queue and transfer speed optimisations.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Revision 598099

Office
Ariya Hidayat committed changes in /trunk/koffice/libs:
this is my fourth-attempt on memory-efficient DOM.
now it's faster, using less memory, and more compatible with Qt 4.2's QDom
Diffs: 1, 2, 3 Revision 599952

Other
Games
Mauricio Piacentini committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdegames/CMakeLists.txt:
KBattleship is broken (unmaintained?) Re-enable it when it is working with KDE4, or when a maintainer is found, as it is preventing the building of the kdegames module at this time
Diff Revision 598522

Stephan Kulow committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdegames/kpat:
ported simple simon (I wanted to create an animation for whole slots, but I'm unable to beat that freaking simon)
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Revision 598632

Mauricio Piacentini committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdegames:
Reenabled kbattleship, problem was in CMake files modified a couple of
days ago.
Diffs: 1, 2 Revision 598902

Frans Englich committed changes in /trunk/kdenonbeta/kdom/patternist:
Dump dependency on QtGui by not using Qt::escape. This makes libpatternist link to about half as many libraries.

Some things are, pardon my french, hard to understand in Qt, in my eyes. Qt::escape(), a practical little helper function for escaping text, is placed in the Qt namespace but then in the QTextDocument header, as opposed to QtGlobal. Implicitly, a function that has nothing to do with GUI, is placed in QtGui, creating a dependency on a whole new library for only that function.

Same goes for QAbstractProxyModel. The item/view framework provides a nice separation between content and presentation, but by placing QAbstractProxyModel, a class that operates on the data level independently of display details (right?), in QtGui, one again prevents modularization.

The argument I've heard is that QtCore is supposed to stay small, but I wonder if such optimizations(can Qt::escape() and QAbstractProxyModel really be considered big?) are more worth than proper engineering.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Revision 599033

KDE-Base
Volker Krause committed a change to /branches/work/akonadi-autodbcode:
Work branch to port Akonadi to auto-generated database code. It just breaks too much to do it in-place.
Diff Revision 598453

Simon Hausmann committed a change to /branches/work/unity:
- this is obsolete, thanks to Nikolas's excellent work of feeding everything
back into Apple's repository (and more!)
Diff Revision 598456

Thiago Macieira committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/startkde:
Use a slightly more intelligent way of detecting whether the D-Bus daemon is running: instead of trying to kill -0 it, try to connect to its address (using qdbus).

This has the added benefit that it works with the autolaunch method that was introduced with D-Bus 0.94. If you're using 0.94, you no longer need to run "eval `dbus-launch --auto-syntax`" before starting your KDE4 applications (this is valid for individual applications, not just startkde).

Note: this requires qdbus to be in your $PATH. But everyone has Qt 4.2's bindir there, right?
Diff Revision 598899

Tobias Hunger committed changes in /branches/work/decibel:
Initial checkin. Please read the README for infos on status, etc.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 30 more) Revision 599056

Scott Wheeler committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kdecore:
This function is both broken and unneeded (QKeySequence has a constructor for int). BIC, but not SIC.

Alt-Tab and friends all work properly now (in KWin).
Diffs: 1, 2 Revision 599667

Multimedia
Gwenael Casaccio committed a change to /trunk/playground/multimedia/ktabedit:
Import KTabEdit, a tablature editor
Diff Revision 598083

Office
Boudewijn Rempt committed changes in /trunk/koffice/krita:
Reinstate the filters menu -- and the filters
appear to be working just fine.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4 Revision 599870

Cyrille Berger committed changes in /trunk/koffice/krita:
- first step of refactoring the configuration of the filter system (more on a mail later), the configuration isn't anymore created in the filter but in the widget
- disable most of the filters, as the change need more work on libraries
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 12 more) Revision 600144

Inge Wallin committed changes in /branches/koffice/1.6/koffice/kchart/kdchart:
Import KDChart 1.1.4.

I had to disable support for QSA, since it didn't compile. If you
want to reenable it, then remove the # in Makefile.am and remove #if 0
in KDChart.cpp.

In KDChartVectorTable.cpp, I had to disable the destructor since it
was defined in both the .h file and the .cpp file. Apparently, the
author works with gcc version 3.x. :-)
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 38 more) Revision 600194

Utilities
Daniel Gollub committed changes in /branches/work/kdebluetooth-dbus-integr:
Got kio_bluetooth working with the latest bluez DBus API.
Removed bluez linking and any socket communication.
kio_bluetooth is at the moment hardcoded on the first Adapter.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Revision 599560

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