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KGoldRunner begins the transition to a scalable graphics interface. okular gains support for DjVu metadata, and investigates the use of threaded text extraction in order to prevent interface freezes. Continued improvement in the font KControl configuration module. More 3d and contemporary effects in the kwin_composite branch. Multiple, discriminatory language spellchecking develops in Sonnet. Improved support for BMP and ZIP files in Strigi. Import of user documentation for Mailody. Optimisations in the Dolphin filemanager. An important stage in the replacement of kdesktop elements with krunner is completed. KTorrent makes exploratory moves towards a KDE 4 port. KSirc, an IRC client, is removed from KDE SVN.
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The past week saw the twin releases of KDE 3.5.6 and KDevelop 3.4 to favourable reception. KDE 3.5.6 was slightly delayed to fix a critical bug, and was released 2 days after the original schedule. Whilst it has not yet been conclusively determined whether there will be a KDE 3.5.7, development of course continues at full speed toward KDE 4.
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With KDevelop, the focus is now on KDevelop 4, where an unfortunate situation has developed, based upon disagreement of a name. Matt Rogers reports:
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So KDevelop 3.4 is finally released. yay! Sadly, the real start of KDevelop 4 development (where we actually have the majority of the team working on it) is overshadowed by the prospect of a fork.
We decided around the beginning of KDevelop 4 development, along with the Quanta guys, that we would export an SDK that could be used by people who were wanting to build on top of what KDevelop was already for plugin management and manipulation along with some other things. Thus, what would be known in the beginning as the KDevelop Platform was born.
Somewhere down the line, we decided that in the spirit of providing nice names for KDE 4 technologies, we’d get in on the action too and provide a name for our nifty little SDK. Seeing as how we’re not very creative people (at least when it comes to naming things), we’d come up with only one name: “KDevPlatform”. Of course, that was much too boring. When Alexander Dymo proposed “Koncrete” a week or two ago on the IRC channel, we jumped all over it. Nearly everyone that had been active at some point in time within the last year was on IRC. We all liked it. Nobody disagreed. I made the changes and gave our SDK a nice namespace (seriously, don’t shoot me, I’m just the messenger).
Well, there actually ended up being a couple of people who weren’t too hot on the new name of the KDevelop SDK that we’re going to provide. One of those people couldn’t get over the fact that we had renamed a part of KDevelop and will most likely end up forking. We didn’t even rename the application or the name of the project. We only changed the set of libraries that will make up the SDK.
We haven’t decided what we’re going to do about the name. Right now, we’re more interested in fixing up the current code that we have in KDevelop 4 so we can get on to more useful things, like actually being able to use the IDE. I imagine once we get closer to that point, we’ll revisit the name issue.
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On a more positive note, Aurélien Gâteau announces a resurrection of the graphics application Gwenview, only weeks after untimely reports of its demise:
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I'm not giving up maintainership of Gwenview anymore - in fact it has been decided that Gwenview will move to kdegraphics for KDE4! This is what I call great news!
The nice people from kde-usability and I have been working on the design of this new Gwenview. It's going to be a bit different from what you have been used to, but I believe it's more focused on the way most people use Gwenview: either to quickly view an image, or to browse all images in a folder.
To whet your appetite, here are two mockups of what Gwenview 2.0 will probably look like:
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Troy Unrau writes a brief, functional note about the recent krunner transition:
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Just a note to KDE 4 developers: if you are reinstalling kdebase (and not doing a fresh installation of kdebase), you will need to manually delete a lingering $PREFIX/share/autostart/kdesktop.desktop in order to prevent kdesktop from inadvertently loading at startup. krunner now handles CTRL-ESC, CTRL-ALT-DEL, screensavers/locking and more that kdesktop previously handled, and will load on startup. It still has some bugs, so help is welcome.
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Carsten Niehaus reports that KDE 4 compilation may soon need CMake 2.4.5, due to CMake functionality improvements which were not present in the previously-required CMake version 2.4.3. However, the changes in KDE SVN to enforce this change were not discussed widely, and so have been reverted pending further discussion.
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The world has gone through massive change and upheaval over the last six years, but one thing has been omnipresent and constant - the outstanding existence of Bug 20532: Undoing a copy operation might delete a modified file causing loss of data. However, time shifts and empires fall: likewise, Bug 20532, with its debut in KDE 2.0.1 has been crushed by David Faure this week, which is great news for certain modified data files!
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Hugo Parente Lima committed changes in /trunk/playground/devtools/grama:
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- Removed some bugs undoing/redoing items with dependents, dependents re-insertion code moved to commands.
- class Document merged with class DiagramController.
- Added support to many to many relations.
- Added a icon to the QUndoView clean state :-)
- Small cleanup in MainWindow code.
- Relation list on edittable dialog display tables name instead of relations name.
- Fixed a crash in edittable dialog box when he table does not have relations.
- Foreign keys can be primary keys... duh!
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