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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.
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Ian Ventura-Whiting introduces the three database tools imported into KDE SVN last week:
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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)
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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?
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David Faure committed a change to /branches/KDE/3.5/kdelibs/kio/kio/kmimetype.cpp:
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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. |
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Maks Orlovich committed changes in /branches/KDE/3.5/kdelibs/khtml:
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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
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Jessica Hall committed changes in /branches/KDE/3.5/kdebase/doc:
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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. |
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