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Umbrello gets a code generator for the D programming language. Further work in Plasma. Initial work to allow the Dolphin file view component to be embedded into Konqueror. More work in the KOrganizer Calendar and KRDC Summer of Code projects, with the start of the Icon Cache, TextTool Plugins in KOffice and Kopete Messenger update projects. Start of a Solid interface in Amarok, with breakthroughs in support for the Jamendo music service. KDevelop begins to be ported to the KDevPlatform structure. A return to progress on the Cokoon SVG window decoration engine, with the addition of PyQt4 bindings. A streamlined command-line screenshot utility, kbackgroundsnapshot, is created. The Gwenview image viewer moves to the kdegraphics module, whilst KPF, KWifiManager and KDict are removed from the kdenetwork module for KDE 4.
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Rafael Fernández López illustrates his latest work on KListView (implemented in Dolphin) with a video:
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KListView work has been started in Dolphin. It will live in the Dolphin project util it becomes mores mature, when it will be moved into the libraries. All applications will be able to benefit from it, and from its categorizing functionality. KListView has been developed to make the user experience with file managers as easy as possible, as well as intuitive.
However, file managers are not the only area which can benefit from these features. It is possible to create a custom categorizer, which will categorize items as needed, for example "ADSL Connections" and "Dialup Connections" in a configuration window.
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Frederik Gladhorn discusses recent and future changes to KVocTrain and its vocabulary manipulation libraries:
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Hi, my name is Frederik Gladhorn and I'm working on KVocTrain since the beginning of this year. Initially spending some time in Spain made me learn vocabulary once again - not my favorite task. Using KDE, KVocTrain was a natural choice, but it was soon driving me crazy! That's how it all started... a small patch to Peter Hedlund who thankfully kept KVocTrain alive for quite some time. KVocTrain has improved quite a bit since February. The search finally works like in other apps (such as KMail or Amarok for example). My first real change was to make the funny little unusable combo box that was used to select a lesson go away. It was kept in the toolbar and is now replaced by a list of lessons within the main window. This makes it much easier to use.
Another change is the wizard which was added to make it easier to create a new vocabulary, which has traditionally been a bit of a pain for new users, since they were required to dive into the deeper depths of the configuration options, of which we have plenty to offer. So hopefully just using the program became a little easier. And of course the general aesthetics have been polished, already earning a few positive comments.
Since this already required some changes to the library handling the documents, I started looking at that code. Let me say it's not the most beautiful code in the world. There are several bugs regarding KVocTrain, that will be solved best by structurally changing this library. One great feature of KVocTrain is that it has support for more than one language in a vocabulary. But it has a big deficiency in this implementation. It has been a wish for a long time to be able to practice an arbitrary combination of the languages contained in one vocabulary for example. So far one language is deemed the original language, and one can only practice this language with the other ones. Also much of the code is basically a duplication handling once the index 0 and then index 1..n.
During the next months I hope Jeremy Whiting and I will be able to bend the library to our will. I estimate some files can shrink to about two thirds of their current size because of the widespread redundancy which will be eliminated, while some new classes will see the light of day making it a little more object-oriented, making the API nicer to use. Another point is the output XML. KVTML is our file format (XML) which contains the vocabulary. It will be much more human readable, whereas it used to be pretty cryptic because of using many attributes and one letter abbreviations.
For the future of KVocTrain I hope to be able to improve the statistics a bit, so that a per-session result can be displayed, then make the practice dialogs look a little nicer (artistic and usability comments are very welcome!) and polish them under the hood to make them share more common code and easier to add a new ones. There are many improvements that I'd like to see, but this will keep us busy for quite a while already.
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Peter Penz committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kdeui/widgets:
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The size of the docks inside KMainWindow has not been saved in the following use case:
- open an application which has several docks
- resize the docks without resizing the window or adding/removing docks
- close the application
This has been fixed now.
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Thomas Michel committed changes in /branches/extragear/kde3/network/kwlan:
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- Fixed Setting to show New Interface Wizard was not stored correctly.
- Fixed Adding new network from Scanning didn't fill in encryption settings automatically
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