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Issue 88
9th December 2007
by Danny Allen
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This Week...
The "simple menu" (similar to the menu found in the KDE 3 series) becomes usable. The clock receives a popup-based calendar widget, with KRunner becoming multi-threaded in Plasma. Work continues the long-awaited update of KBugBuster, with important development milestones reached. Version Control and other general work in KDevelop. Start of a DirectShow (for Windows) backend for Phonon, and the integration of this backend in Amarok 2.0. Continued work on the BitTorrent plugin for KGet. KBlogger gets KWallet integration. The beginnings of a simple vector text shape with support for text-on-path and exact positioning, and the start of another painting framework in KOffice. A bitmap (BMP) export filter for Krita. Support for SVG animations in KDM. Important work on the KNewStuff2 framework, through the work of a new maintainer. Adjustments in colour schemes intended for KDE 4.0, more work on adapting icons to the FreeDesktop.org icon naming standard. Abakus, a calculator application, begins to be ported to KDE 4. KDE 4.0 Release Candidate 2 is tagged for release.

This week saw the final adaptation of the "Simple Menu" (started off weeks ago by Robert Knight) into a working mechanism, by Sebastian Sauer. For all those menu-fanatics outh there, proof of this new development (and also of the clock calendar popup also added this week):


As every detail of KDE 4.0 seems to need a water-tight disclaimer these days, i'll just state that the green colour scheme shown in the screenshots is not the default of KDE 4.0!

Rolf Eike Beer talks about recent developments in a redeveloped KGPG application, KGPG2:
My name is Rolf Eike Beer, also known as Dakon on IRC and in KDE SVN. In real life I prefer my second name, Eike.

KGPG is a graphical frontend for GnuPG and has been shipped in the kdeutils package for ages. Since I felt it became orphaned I started working on it last year with a major boost this year. Before that I had done little C++ work and no Qt programming at all, so it is both an improvement in my programming skills as well as (hopefully) for the application. Currently there are three flavors of KGPG which I would like to introduce to you. I've taken three pictures of the same keyring with all three different versions so you can easily compare them.

Screenshot of KGPG 1.2.2 as in KDE 3.5.7

KDE 3.5.x contains version 1.2.x (currently 1.2.2) which is the classical, Qt3 based application I have only touched very little. This version is considered stable for everyone and is only touched for bug fixes. There will be no new features for this series (at least from me).

KGPG 1.7.2 as found in KDE 4.0 RC1

The KGPG 1.7 series is included in KDE 4.0 and is basically a port of the 1.2 series to KDE4. It still uses the Qt3 compatibility classes and also suffers from some regressions compared to 1.2. The most visible one is that dropping a text or file on the systray icon does not have any effect as those icons are no longer a anchestor of QWidget. One the other side it has a number of improvements, some of them can be seen in the screenshot:
  • The key groups are much more usable now compared to KGPG 1.2 as you can now expand them and see there members in the key manager. In KGPG 1.2 you have to open the group edit window to find out the group members.
  • The key sorting has been improved for usability. On the top are always the key groups, followed by your private keys (not shown in the pictures) and the public ones. The signatures are also sorted to show the ones from unknown keys at last.
  • There are more colors for the different trust levels so you can now distinguish between fully and ultimately trusted keys as well as disabled and expired keys.


The first version of what will eventually become KGPG2

In /branches/work/kgpg2 you can find a version of KGPG that will eventually grow into KGPG2. I just started porting this to model/view architecture and neither is this finished nor is it very usable. You can see that the old KeyListView widget is still around (the debris on the upper left) as well as the column headers are not set. The goals for this branch include:
  • full port to model/view framework
  • port to gpgme or similar library where useful
  • remove more limits, like where only one signature at a time can be deleted
  • add some often requested features like editing or signing single identities

Ian Monroe provides a progress update on Video Player, the video application formerly-known as Codeine:
Recently, i've been working again on Video Player. The codebase of Video Player is nice and small, and so it's pretty easy to make significant progress. First thing I did was remove the remaining dependencies on KDE 3 Support and Qt 3 Support elements. I can't really say that the application is fully ported yet, but it is certainly no longer using any deprecated APIs. Thanks to some help from Matt Rogers of Kopete fame, it also no longer crashes on exit. In fact it has no known crashes, an important milestone with any software, though a state that's usually short-lived!

Phonon in KDE 4.0 will not have APIs for subtitle or multiple audio streams (like on DVDs and .mkv files). So Matthias Kretz added a property to the Phonon xine backend to give direct access to xine_stream_t, an important data structure in xine. I was able to use this property to add subtitle support for Video Player. Currently, it doesn't have any way of knowing when a new subtitle is available (for instance on a DVD, the title screen may have no subtitles, but then they are available when you start playing the movie), and it just asks xine every 5 seconds. Hopefully I can find some solution for this, perhaps from the Phonon xine engine or directly from xine.

This all means that Video Player will have a direct dependency on xine and the Phonon xine engine until at least KDE 4.1 (though it could probably work with other engines, just without subtitle or multiple audio streams).

Last night I re-added fade-out on exit (as seen in Codeine). And when I have more time, I plan on fixing up all the other little features that make Codeine great, mostly involving keeping state.


I think kdemultimedia has a need for a simple video player. Video Player would fit this niche nicely. I hope to make some indepedent releases and then with community approval be included into kdemultimedia in KDE 4.1.

I actually do have an idea for a less generic but still simple name for Video Player, but i'll keep it private until I buy the domain.

Sebastian Trueg writes a report on the status of NEPOMUK in KDE 4:
After months and months of development, Soprano, the RDF storage framework all of NEPOMUK is based on, has finally reached "release candidate" status. Version 2 is nearly a complete rewrite of Soprano 1, and brings a lot of nice features, including a full-text index based on CLucene, which indexes all RDF literals. Soprano has storage backends for Redland and Sesame2.

Yes, Sesame2 is a java RDF store, I know. Anyway, I would hope that until we have a proper (i.e. fast) C(++) implementation of an RDF store, distributions could ship Sesame2 as its performance is so much better than Redland's (especially regarding queries).

Soprano of course has a nice D-Bus interface when run as a daemon. Each RDF model (one big graph of RDF quadruples) has one D-Bus object. Querying the model creates a new object which has an iterator interface. The best way to test that is to use the powerful 'sopranocmd' command-line client. Or if you are within an application, just forget about D-Bus and let Soprano handle it all internally using Soprano::Client::DBusClient and Soprano::Client::DBusModel (Actually this is done internally by libnepomuk when using Nepomuk::ResourceManager::mainModel()).

Well, so much for Soprano, the data foundation of it all. What has happened in SVN? We now have the NEPOMUK Server in kdebase/runtime. NEPOMUK Server is a KDED module which provides the NEPOMUK data store (based on Soprano) and controls Strigi. The latter meaning that it starts and stops Strigi (well, at least tries to stop, as Strigi does not actually like being stopped and is a D-Bus autostart service anyway. But we will get there! ;))

With the KDED module comes a configuration KCModule called "kcm_nepomuk" which allows to enable and disable both Strigi and NEPOMUK. Disabling NEPOMUK makes Strigi use its plain CLucene backend instead of the NEPOMUK store.

Yes, Strigi can now use the NEPOMUK store as data backend. Thus, metadata indexed by Strigi and metadata created through NEPOMUK (like tags or ratings) can be queried in combination. And thanks to the CLucene full-text indexing in Soprano queries are as fast as they are with the default Strigi backend.

I also did some development in playground again: in playground/base/nepomuk-kde/filewatch you can find yet another KDED module which updates the metadata when files and folders are moved or deleted. As it is based on inotify, you may run into problems with more than 8000 folders in your home directory. Any help for improvement is greatly appreciated.

As for the NEPOMUK library - which is used by Dolphin to do the tagging and rating and so on - I am currently experimenting with some caching methods. It looks promising.

Ok, enough talk, I did a little screencast. Actually I made it for an internal NEPOMUK project presentation, so there is quite a lot of RDF to see. But maybe it is of interest to you, too.

Download First Steps With NEPOMUK video (8.6 MB, AVI)

As a final note I would like to say how happy I am that I get the chance to introduce NEPOMUK technology into KDE.


Statistics
Commits: 2594 by 228 developers, 5513 lines modified, 1190 new files.
Open Bugs: 15214
Open Wishes: 13336
Bugs Opened: 375 in the last 7 days.
Bugs Closed: 302 in the last 7 days.

Commit Summary
Module Commits
/trunk/KDE
966
/trunk/l10n-kde4
687
/trunk/playground
150
/branches/work
126
/trunk/www
113
/trunk/extragear
113
/trunk/koffice
110
/trunk/l10n-kde3
66
/branches/stable
61
/branches/extragear
44
Lines Developer Commits
233
Pino Toscano
98
138
Andreas Pakulat
83
53
Leang Chum
53
200
Jakob Petsovits
51
120
Allen Winter
49
69
Sébastien Renard
46
100
Dirk Mueller
45
96
Oswald Buddenhagen
43
77
Laurent Montel
42
115
Rafael Fernández López
42

Internationalisation (i18n) Status
Language Percentage Complete
Portuguese
99.78%
Swedish
99.77%
Greek
99.62%
Japanese
94.64%
German
89.71%
Estonian
88.47%
Spanish
86.85%
Chinese Traditional
85.23%
Dutch
83.65%
Polish
82.79%

Bug Killers and Buzz
Bug Killer Number Of Bugs Closed
Thomas Friedrichsmeier
40
Boudewijn Rempt
27
Pino Toscano
24
Nickolai Shaforostoff
20
Andreas Pakulat
18
Tommi Tervo
17
Urs Wolfer
13
Seb Ruiz
12
George Goldberg
12
Gilles Caulier
10

Program Buzz
Amarok
  6305
K3B
  5640
KMail
  5120
Kopete
  4330
Kontact
  3948
Kate
  3880
KDevelop
  3205
digiKam
  2798
Kicker
  2436
SuperKaramba
  2154


Person Buzz
David Faure
  856
Sebastian Kügler
  854
Stephan Kulow
  771
Matthias Kretz
  654
Adriaan de Groot
  630
Allen Winter
  629
Waldo Bastian
  440
Aaron J. Seigo
  364
Boudewijn Rempt
  340
George Staikos
  322
Commit Countries

Commit Demographics
Sex
91.5 %       Male
5.45 %       Female
3.04 %       (unknown)
Motivation
47.3 %       Volunteer
43.1 %       (unknown)
9.55 %       Commercial
 
Ages
62.7 %       (unknown)
16.2 %       25 to 34
12.2 %       18 to 24
3.59 %       35 to 44
3.32 %       45 to 54
1.81 %       Under 18


Contents
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Office [*]
Konqueror
Multimedia [*] [*] [*]
Networking Tools [*] [*]
User Interface [*] [*]
Utilities [*] [*]
Games [*]
Other [*] [*]


Bug Fixes
KDE-Base
Allan Sandfeld Jensen committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/khtml/ecma/kjs_navigator.cpp:
Change default navigator.appName to 'Netscape', and default navigator.product to 'Gecko'

Improves compatability with Safari and Iceweasel, "fixing" an embarrasing amount of site bugs
Diff Revision 743937

John Tapsell committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdebase/apps/dolphin/src:
The first columns model and selection model should be the same as the view's model and selection model.

This means
1) We don't leak memory switching to and from column view
2) Selection is preserved when switching views
3) We don't have 2 models running for the root directory
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4 Revision 744386

Eduardo Robles Elvira committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdebase/apps/konqueror/src:
Fix: now session management actually restores history items for each view when a konqueror is restored in context of the restoring of a KDE session
Diffs: 1, 2, 3 Revision 744864

Eduardo Robles Elvira committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdebase/apps/konqueror/src/konqmainwindow.cpp:
Bug fix: closing tabs with splitted views was crashing, now it's not.

David, I see you're busy so as this seems to work here I commit the 3 line fix so it enters in RC2 - I hope I'm doing the correct thing :P
Diff Revision 744963

Maksim Orlovich committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/khtml/imload:
Fix decoding of progressive + alphablended PNGs --- the premultiplication code is not designed to handle multiple combinding passes, so disable it in this case. Also noticed that the RGBA enums should be ARGB, so fix that.

(Thanks to FredrikH for providing analysis and a testcase)
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4 Revision 745245

Hamish Rodda committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kate/view/kateviewinternal.cpp:
Commit slightly modified version of patch provided by Thomas Friedrichsmeier to fix bug 153375 (select all not correctly rendered)

The only modification was to place the update call after the sanity checks, if the tagging was not for lines on the view, we don't need to update at this point.

BTW, much of this will have to be re-done post 4.0 in order to fix an entirely separate issue (memory usage terrible for large files without newlines)
Bug 153375: [PATCH] Select All does not select all
Diff Revision 745398

Multimedia
Dan Meltzer committed changes in /trunk/extragear/multimedia/amarok/src/configdialog/dialogs:
Fix the size of the config dialog. it now is a maximum of 600 px high in theory. There is still a lot of space we could cean up in there, with lots and lots of space between lines in entries. Maybe a todo for later
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4 Revision 744841
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Dan Meltzer committed a change to /trunk/extragear/multimedia/amarok/src/MainWindow.cpp:
Fix local shortcuts mostly. Quitting now works with ctrl + q! The other shortcuts seem strange still. SeekForward is being triggered by the left arrow key.. even though its shortcut is set to the right arrow. Seek backward is not being triggered at all
Diff Revision 745018

Koos Vriezen committed changes in /branches/extragear/kde3/multimedia/kmplayer/src:
End of live handling is making troubles, some fixes but do this better still ..
AVMediaType didn't play links that had network resolving delays
Don't enable audio vis. for Xine if we know we're in smil
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 2 more) Revision 745277

Networking Tools
Joris Guisson committed changes in /branches/extragear/kde3/network/ktorrent:
Fix zeroconf crashes by switching from threaded to qt poll in avahi
Bug 151448: Ktorrent crashes every time when I stop undownloaded torrent by p...
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Revision 744476

Urs Wolfer committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdenetwork/krdc/mainwindow.cpp:
Fix: KRDC with more than two open tabs works now too.

Thanks Yuri Timenkov for pointing in the right direction. Please verify if that fixes the problem for you. Thanks!
Bug 153213: KRDC displays remote desktops in wrong tabs when opening more tha...
Diff Revision 744478

Urs Wolfer committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdenetwork/krdc/vnc/vncclientthread.cpp:
Fix HUGE memoryleak, which occured in very special circumstances: KRDC ate several GB of memory in a couple of minutes...

Thanks to Apol for his hints and Mark Williamson for reporting it.
Bug 153317: Rapid memory leak and many 'VncClientThread:outputHandler: "...
Diff Revision 744609

Will Stephenson committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdenetwork/kopete/protocols/groupwise:
Kopete's Groupwise support works again. The problem was not calling QCA::TLS::continueAfterStep(). Also fix a lot of stupid stuff in the core protocol, and some UI porting.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 45 more) Revision 745193
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Features
Development Tools
Andreas Pakulat committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdevelop/plugins/appwizard:
Start support for importing a new project into version control system
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Revision 744113
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Dmitry Suzdalev committed changes in /branches/work/kbugbuster-dimsuz:
- Finally made model display actual data. I'm starting to be familiar and familiar with model/view ;)
- Replace some iterators-based loops with foreach-ones
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 2 more) Revision 744125

Andreas Pakulat committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdevelop/plugins/appwizard:
Move the pages into the dialog class, needed to properly validate/invalidate the next button.

Also add a ApplicationInfo class to carry the new apps data to the plugin which still does the actual template extraction and creation of dirs..

Also changes the logic for the location a bit, the user now has to provide an empty or non-existing directory as location and the application name won't be added to that location. Application name and location on disk need to be completely separate.

Unfortunately this is somewhat broken right now (some paths are wrong when creating a project).
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Revision 744183
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Andreas Pakulat committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdevelop/plugins/appwizard:
More code for importing+checking out of a VCS, doesn't work yet as none of the VCS' currently implements those two operations
Diffs: 1, 2 Revision 744198

Andreas Pakulat committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdevplatform/plugins/subversion:
Implement checkout, including a small checkout widget.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 3 more) Revision 744237
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David Nolden committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdevplatform:
Add a new quickopen interface that allows some data-providers to serve file-lists for other data-providers.

That way we only need one single data-provider for all the duchain stuff, and it queries the file-lists from all other enabled data-providers.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 1 more) Revision 745108

Dmitry Suzdalev committed changes in /branches/work/kbugbuster-dimsuz:
I continued to make backend API look better when I suddenly realized I need to do something more major.

Using an old code as a useful reference.
So meet The Broken KBugBuster and Dimsuz learning TDD :)
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 5 more) Revision 745166

David Nolden committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdevplatform/plugins:
Add a new wonderful plugin: When a declaration or use is under the text-cursor, highlight all other uses+the declaration.

This allows getting a better overview, and can help us debugging the du-chain until it is reliable enough for refactoring.

Also this is our first duchain feature plugin, and it shows how easy such a thing can be. :)
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Revision 745200

Allen Winter committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdesdk:
add nice feature logging for SVN in the subversion ioslave.
the same needs to be done for all the other other packages in kdesdk.
Diffs: 1, 2 Revision 745228

Dmitry Suzdalev committed changes in /branches/work/kbugbuster-dimsuz:
Added KBBServerManager, KBBServer, KBBProduct classes.
Made KBBServerModel compile with them.

Next: make some basic GUI
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 2 more) Revision 746280

Dmitry Suzdalev committed changes in /branches/work/kbugbuster-dimsuz:
My KIO learning curve grows up :)
Created kbbjobmanager class which will handle all kio jobs for kbugbuster
It even retrieves contents of b.k.o front page now.

Woo hoo! :)
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 5 more) Revision 746309

Dmitry Suzdalev committed changes in /branches/work/kbugbuster-dimsuz:
I guess this can be called a certain milestone ;)
KBugBuster is able to retrieve a product list from server.
And display it in a sidebar treeview
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Revision 746374

Games
Pierre-Benoit Besse committed changes in /trunk/playground/games/kapman:
- Ghosts model, view and tests implemented
- characters initial position changed
- kapman's speed increased
- all characters positions and speed will be qreal instead of int
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 8 more) Revision 744414
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Andreas Beckermann committed changes in /trunk/playground/games/kpoker:
adding some very early QGraphicsView classes
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 5 more) Revision 745655

Graphics
Cyrille Berger committed changes in /trunk/playground/graphics/krita-plugins/filters:
add a contraction filter which do the opposite of expansion : increase the transparency area of an image
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Revision 744934

Aurelien Gateau committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdegraphics/gwenview/app/infocontextmanageritem.cpp:
Replaced the QLabel displaying meta info with a custom widget.

This new widget is capable of fading out values when they don't fit the sidebar instead of wrapping and/or causing horizontal scrollbar to appear.
Diff Revision 745174

Pino Toscano committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdegraphics/okular/ui:
Add a simple GUI to configure the tickness for line annotations.
Two new messages OK'ed by translators.
Diffs: 1, 2 Revision 746224

KDE-Base
Paolo Capriotti committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/plasma:
Package refactoring as discussed on panel-devel.

* Icon, preview, screenshot and release notes are gone.
* Everything in a package (except metadata) is in the contents/ directory.
* Package::createPackage and Package::installPackage cleanup.
* Added Package::metadata method to retrieve a metadata object.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Revision 743935

Oswald Buddenhagen committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/kdm/kfrontend/themer:
make svg animations work (those few that are supported by QSvgRenderer).
on the way, refactor half of the code ...
also, make tinting work.
finally, don't invalidate cached images more often than necessary.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3 Revision 744410

David Faure committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/khtml:
We've always gotten some trouble from the fact that KHTMLFactory has a dual purpose;
being the KParts::Factory (when khtmlpart is dlopened, e.g. in konqueror), and being the repository for a bunch of global things needed by khtml.

I've separated those two things, creating a KHTMLGlobal for the global stuff and leaving the KHTMLFactory to being the kparts factory only. It solves some life-cycle issues and allows to remove the ugly bool clone from the constructor. I also improved the refcounting mechanism in KHTMLGlobal to make it debuggable.

This doesn't fix the KHTMLFactory assert though; this only showed that the problem lies in DocumentImpl refcounting, not in KHTMLFactory itself...

OK'ed by carewolf.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 11 more) Revision 744435

Aaron J. Seigo committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/applets/launcher:
add text to icons, patch by Marco Martin. thanks =)
Bug 151629: icons on the desktop don't display a filename
Diffs: 1, 2 Revision 744441

Oswald Buddenhagen committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/kdm/kfrontend:
add "button" item type for accessiblity support and gdm compatibilty.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Revision 744459

Fredrik Höglund committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/khtml:
Add an ImageFilter class with a modified stack blur algorithm that's optimized for generating drop shadows.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3 Revision 744495

Robert Knight committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdebase/apps/konsole/src:
Show normal context menu actions in addition to content-specific ones (eg. 'Open Link', 'Copy Email Address') when right clicking on links.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3 Revision 744499

Rafael Fernández López committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdelibs:
Important changes on our models. The sorting of the categories is being done internally, taking info from data() with role CategorySortRole, while we use CategoryDisplayRole for displaying the information on the view itself.

This leads us to do a natural comparing (if needed it can be removed), and therefore, moving the naturalCompare method from KDirSortFilterProxyModel to KCategorizedSortFilterProxyModel.

This way categorizing is even easier. This patch has been developed by John Tapsell and me.

More changes will follow on Dolphin to fit this changes.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Revision 744625

Rolf Eike Beer committed a change to /branches/KDE/3.5/kdelibs/kio/kio/karchive.cpp:
Make KArchive include hidden files in directories

acked by dfaure

Backport of r744752
Bug 129958: files of type "hidden" in directory to be encrypted go...
Diff Revision 744863

Jeremy Paul Whiting committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/containments/desktop:
add move-up and move-down buttons so you can re-order when images are shown, I probably should add a randomize checkbox like 3.5 has soon also
Diffs: 1, 2, 3 Revision 745169
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Sebastian Kügler committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/applets/digital-clock:
* A calendar popup, based on the new Plasma::Dialog.

I'm using a simple calendar right now. I was planning to use KDatePicker for that, but KDatePicker crashes when setting a stylesheet. So keep it simple for now, and try to find out how to fix KDatePicker->setStylesheet()

* Also, fix saving showTimezone and add an option to easily switch back to the local timezone.
* Clean up some remains from the SVG themable thing

Last, if someone knows a way to prevent the widget from getting a shadow, feel free to tell me. The transparent borders don't look so sexy with shadows, and it kind of conflicts with the visual appearance of the panel.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Revision 745304
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Thomas Friedrichsmeier committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kate:
Correctly update view when smart highlighting regions change.
This also allows for removing a bunch of workaround code in KateSearchBar.As discussed on kwrite-devel.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4 Revision 745326

Aaron J. Seigo committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/plasma:
save/restore lock status
Diffs: 1, 2, 3 Revision 745809

Matthew Woehlke committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/kcontrol/colors/schemes:
add inactive effects to schemes, now that they are easily (and by default) turned off :-)
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 5 more) Revision 746055

Germain Garand committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/khtml:
- complete the separation of zooming from font-size increase/decrease.
- rewire font increase/decrease action to the correct effect.
- disable zooming to size < 100% for now.

showstopper
Bug 153037: font size +/- actions don't work as expected
Diffs: 1, 2, 3 Revision 746299

Jeremy Paul Whiting committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/knewstuff:
install image files, enable searchbox which works now
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Revision 746398

Frederik Gladhorn committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/knewstuff/knewstuff2:
Keeping track of files during the installation. For compressed files this is achieved by going through the archive.

Uninstall now works using the above.

An app may access the list of files that were installed by using KNS::Entry::installedFiles() to get a QStringList of the files.

In detail:
- added a stringlist for the files to entry
- add handling of installedfiles tag in entryhandler (xml)
- use the local registry entry for these (obviously)
- add (set)installedFiles to entry class
- KNS::CoreEngine::unregisterEntry(Entry*) removes the associated files and registry entry - Zip and Tar code is now sharing the same code since both are derived from KArchive
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Revision 746452

KDE-PIM
Volker Krause committed changes in /branches/kdepim/enterprise/kdepim/libkcal:
Support for reading extended free/busy lists.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Revision 744087

Jakob Petsovits committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdepim/kmail:
Adapt a lot of KMail icons to the new naming scheme.
I think I should not have broken anything;
if I did, come and beat me.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 42 more) Revision 744223
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Christian Weilbach committed changes in /trunk/playground/pim/kblogger/src:
Some more steps towards KWallet integration.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Revision 744247

Jakob Petsovits committed changes in /trunk/KDE:
Masses of icon fixes and adaptions, caused by the original desire to rename "edit" to "object-edit". I changed my mind in the middle of the process (but had lots of other changes lying around already and really need to stop), so many or all of the newly renamed "object-edit" icons might vanish again.

But all in all, there are improvements in many places.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 13 more) Revision 744272

Antonio Aloisio committed changes in /trunk/playground/pim/kblogger/src:
KWallet integrated
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Revision 744784
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Christian Weilbach committed changes in /trunk/playground/pim/kblogger/src:
Added automatical blogId fetching via the Fetch ID button. It works for all API's :D The only problem is the visual representation in the dialog at the moment as the fetchedBlogId() slot only changes the KLineEdit for the first ID found and all others are dropped. That is ok for the moment, but the dialog should imho use a drop down list or a some list window/dialog.
Diffs: 1, 2 Revision 744997

Thomas McGuire committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdepim/kmail:
Rewrite the layout code of the main widget.

The splitter layout has many interesting special cases, which were all spread around in the code. Now it is all in layoutSplitters().

Now widgets shouldn't be hidden anymore because the splitter sizes were zero after changing the layout. This needed some more config keys.

Cleaned up readConfig a bit, and other places as well.
Plus some style fixes.
Bug 153346: Main splitter size set to zero
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4 Revision 745697

Multimedia
Shane King committed changes in /trunk/extragear/multimedia/amarok/src/engine/phonon:
Start of a DirectShow (ie Windows) backend for phonon. Only a framework at the moment, nothing implemented, but at least it stops amarok complaining at startup about not having an audio backend.

My intention is to only implement enough to get playback working with amarok, hopefully the qt 4.4 phonon backend will replace this eventually. In the meantime it'd be nice to actually be able to have the windows version do something useful. ;)
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 1 more) Revision 745115

Shane King committed changes in /trunk/extragear/multimedia/amarok/src/engine/phonon/directshow:
Implementation of an audio backend for windows using DirectShow. Should mostly work, at least well enough to play a few tunes from the collection.

Amarok is now somewhat usable under windows! :)

TODO:
* Code needs more documentation.
* Some methods are left unimplementation because Amarok doesn't currently make use of them but probably will before release (eg cross fading).
* Doesn't do streaming, only local files.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 2 more) Revision 745583

Networking Tools
Jernej Kos committed changes in /trunk/extragear/network/kftpgrabber/src:
Reuse the bookmark editor as a quick connect dialog. Fixes in the directory lister and proper error reporting when a primary connection fails to establish.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 10 more) Revision 744101

Giovanni Venturi committed changes in /trunk/playground/network/ksniffer:
Added and implemented the "Show the RAW Packet frame on the right/bottom of the Packet Details frame" option
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 3 more) Revision 744210
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Romain Castan committed changes in /branches/work/kopete/iup-isi-group/testUpnp:
Adding test application for libupnp not dependent on kopete it needs to use libupnp 1.3.1
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 2 more) Revision 745562
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Lukas Appelhans committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdenetwork/kget/transfer-plugins/bittorrent:
Initial *.torrent-File downloading, is not finished at all...
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Revision 745709

Charles Connell committed changes in /trunk/playground/network/kopete/plugins/pipes:
Initial commit of pipes plugin. I plan to have it reviewed and put in the kopete source tree. See bug 99060.
Bug 99060: JJ: Plugin to pipe incoming/outcoming messages through outside pr...
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 10 more) Revision 745781
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Jakob Petsovits committed changes in /trunk/KDE:
Icon renaming (code changes - KDE/):
mail -> mail-message, or mail-message-new, or whatever

...plus a number of other adaptions & fixes
of icons that dared to stand in my way.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Revision 746368

Lukas Appelhans committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdenetwork/kget/transfer-plugins/bittorrent:
Initial chunk-view, mostly working...
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Revision 746376
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Office
Sebastian Sauer committed changes in /trunk/koffice:
Added KoMainWindow::viewFullscreen(bool) to be able to switch between fullscreen and normal modes.

The method does not more then calling showFullScreen()/showNormal() atm but could be later extended to e.g. hide dockers at fullscreen. IMHO it would make sense to introduce a way to differ between different modes and there view-settings to be able to say that e.g. in fullscreen-mode only docker "xyz" should be displayed while in normal-mode others should be displayed. Anyway, that's todo for later :)

To add it to your ko-app, just put a <Action name="view_fullscreen"/> into your apps *.rc file and in the view do something like

actioncollection->addAction("view_fullscreen", view->shell()->actionCollection()->action("view_fullscreen"));
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Revision 744586

Jan Hambrecht committed changes in /trunk/koffice:
The beginning of a simple vector text shape with support for text on path and exact positioning.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 8 more) Revision 744942
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Emanuele Tamponi committed changes in /trunk/koffice/krita/plugins/painterlyframework:
First commit for the new framework.
Diffs: 1, 2 Revision 745308

Jan Hambrecht committed changes in /trunk/koffice:
KoPositionSelector:
- center radio buttons inside row/column
- center all radio buttons inside widget

DefaultToolWidget:
- follow some suggestions from Thomas by:
- removing group boxes
- moving ascpect button to the right side

I hope that is a compromise all can live with.

Comments or suggestions are welcome. :-)
Diffs: 1, 2 Revision 745320
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Boudewijn Rempt committed changes in /trunk/koffice/filters/krita/bmp:
Add stupid simple bmp export filter.
Bug 144551: krita 1.5.2 can't save images as bmp
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Revision 745943

Other
Benoît Jacob committed changes in /branches/work/eigen2:
Much more convenient, less over-engineered NumTraits. Done during this KDE-Edu weekend.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Revision 744122

User Interface
Jakob Petsovits committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdebase/runtime/pics/oxygen:
Tango and GNOME use an icon for document-properties which resembles more our "edit" icon than the currently used "info" one. If you need the "info" icon, please use "help-about", or wait for me porting all that crap.

This move should help for better theme interoperability, and with a little luck we might get rid of both "edit" and "object-edit".
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Revision 744207
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Jakob Petsovits committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdebase/runtime/pics/oxygen:
I realized that we didn't yet have a KDE icon that reliably (also in other themes) can ensure that it does indeed contain the KDE icon and not some generic fallback. So, copy our KDE icon to apps.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Revision 744213
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Casper Boemann committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdebase/runtime/kstyles/oxygen:
And Oxygen gains west and east tabs. This is a first for KDE

Many thanks to Michael Lentner for providing the patch
Diffs: 1, 2 Revision 746098

Utilities
Tom Patzig committed changes in /branches/work/~tpatzig/kifer/src:
- generated libkifer to use with plasmoid and tray
- send single clipboard entry to buddy
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 37 more) Revision 744405
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Optimise
Educational
Torsten Rahn committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdeedu/marble:
* Sorting out performance problems related to QVariant usage
* Adding alignment capability for labels to satisfy ingwa's complains ;)
* adding data for english country names (translation of displayed data is scheduled for 4.1)
* Some minor fixes and added source comments.

The appearance of features per zoom level still needs trivial fine tuning which I'll do later today.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 23 more) Revision 745576
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KDE-Base
Ryan P. Bitanga committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace:
Say hello to multithreaded krunner ;)
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 4 more) Revision 743865

Rafael Fernández López committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kdeui/itemviews:
Tiding up the _AMAZING_ patch proposed by John Tapsell. His idea was to place the categories by an int instead of a boolean, depending on if the value is negative, 0 or positive you know that the category is before, the same, or after for two given indexes.

This simplifies amazingly the KCategorizedSortFilterProxyModel. This patch is fundamental for .0. We get rid out of some annoying bugs, so this is a bugfix also (like selections when changing sortings not being kept correctly).
Diffs: 1, 2, 3 Revision 744215

Jason Stubbs committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/applets/systemtray:
Updated to use methods provided by libplasma for handling geometry
This should also speed things up a fair bit
+37/-106 diff - awesome!
Diffs: 1, 2 Revision 746175

Rivo Laks committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/kwin/effects:
Reworked shadow effect which should bring nice speedup (especially on cards where fill rate is expensive).

It optimizes shadow rendering a lot by eliminating tons of overdraw:
- Windows are not forced to be drawn bottom-to-top anymore.
- For opaque windows, shadows are drawn only to where they will actually be visible, not under the whole window.
Diffs: 1, 2 Revision 746296

Other
Development Tools
Dirk Mueller committed a change to /trunk/quality/krazy2/plugins/c++/license:
okay, I give up. krazy2 is just too buggy and randomly forgets files during each run.

Therefore I add an optional mode to determine licenses directly.
The disadvantage: it is slightly faster than krazy2:

krazy2: 9 min 48s
direct: 0 min 3s
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Graphics
Gaël de Chalendar committed changes in /trunk/extragear/graphics/kgraphviewer:
Nearly ready for release. Mainly corrected configuration stuff and print previewing
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 16 more) Revision 744588

KDE-Base
Peter Penz committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdebase/apps/dolphin/src:
Allow turning off the feature that additional information might be shown in the icons view. Per default the setting is still on, but for people who prefer browsing with the details view and only temporary switch to the icons view (e. g. for having a larger preview), this feature gets a showstopper (discussed with Eike Hein).

Got the OK from the translator team for adding the new string.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Revision 744901

Peter Penz committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kdeui/colors/kcolorscheme.cpp:
As the next RC is tagged in 2 hours and people will complain again about the low contrast of Oxygen: Make the default background color a little bit darker, so that the contrast of Oxygen is improved and looks like in the screenshots from Nuno (http://www.nuno-icons.com/images/estilo/vertical.png).

Please note that this is still _not_ the default color set for Oxygen! Matthew and Nuno still investigate for finding a proper default configuration.
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Shawn Starr committed a change to /trunk/playground/base/plasma/applets/weather/weatherapplet.cpp:
Disable selecting multiple places for now until KDE 4.1, we dont have all the pieces yet to handle watching multiple places per applet just yet. So just add some restrictions and comment out the working code for now. Gotta see the finish line somehow :)
Diff Revision 744996

Allen Winter committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdebase/apps:
first part of moving kinfocenter into kdebase/apps from kdebase/runtime.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 32 more) Revision 745257
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Allen Winter committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdebase/runtime/kcontrol:
remove kcontrol, which was where kinfocenter lived.
kinfocenter has been moved to kdebase/apps/kinfocenter.
Diffs: 1, 2 Revision 745313

Sebastian Sauer committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/applets/kickoff:
Added simple KMenu Applet as alternate to kickoff as requested by report #150883

Thanks goes to Robert Knight for this great implementation and to everybody who did provide feedback on that topic :) Through don't expect a full powered mega-giga-menu like we had in KDE3.

So far it's "only" a simple + fast application started.
Bug 150883: please provide alternative to kickoff for KDE 4
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Revision 745333

Matthew Woehlke committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/kcontrol/colors/schemes/WhitePeach.colors:
Eike Hein wants a "beige" scheme (this one is based on Charamel - http://members.shaw.ca/lucx/), let's see what he thinks of "White Peach" taken in the logical direction of using green accents instead of blue :-).
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KDE-PIM
Allen Winter committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdepim/akonadi/resources/CMakeLists.txt:
comment out the experimental openChange resource
Diff Revision 746085

Multimedia
Ian Monroe committed changes in /trunk/playground/multimedia/videoplayer/src/app:
removed Video Settings. The GUI would have to be all ported anyways, and I'm not sure I want to keep this feature. Might dig it up later.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Revision 744202

Dan Meltzer committed changes in /trunk/extragear/multimedia/amarok/src/images:
Delete album cover images as we use images from the collection instead
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Revision 744685

Dan Meltzer committed a change to /trunk/extragear/multimedia/amarok/src/MainWindow.cpp:
Revert Markeys revert, api changes at this point in the game are ridiculous, but meh
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Ian Monroe committed changes in /trunk/playground/multimedia/videoplayer/src/app:
Change license to GPLv2/3/e.V.
Max Howell OKed it.
The included Kaffeine4's code is GPLv2+ already, so I think this change is OK.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 10 more) Revision 744796

Ian Monroe committed changes in /trunk/playground/multimedia/videoplayer:
K3ListView->QListWidget port
Now Video Player is 100% Qt4/KDE4. Hooray!
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Revision 744840

Ian Monroe committed changes in /trunk/extragear/multimedia/amarok/src:
The Amarok 1.4 file browser was based on Kate code. To fix ours I just reimported it from the Kate in KDE 4.

* Need to re-add Amarok specific features. Mydirlister and MyDirOperator might be useful for that, so they are not built, but I kept them in the filebrowser directory.
* It crashes on quit if you open the bookmark menu.
* Revert whatever the heck Hydrogen decided to do while talking to me and sent me into git hell.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 6 more) Revision 745517

Other
Matt Rogers committed a change to /trunk/bugs/3.0/wizard.cgi:
Yay! The wizard works now!

You have to be logged in first before starting though. I still need to fix that, but at least I can report bugs using it now. There are other bugs too but they can be fixed. :)
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Dirk Mueller committed changes in /tags/KDE/3.97:
KDE 4.0 RC2 (l10n comes later)
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 8 more) Revision 745132

User Interface
Matthew Woehlke committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/kcontrol/colors/schemes/Rocky Coast.colors:
Ok... another shot at a 'default-worthy' scheme, this one using eos colors and complements thereof... feedback, please! :-)
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Casper Boemann committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdebase/runtime/kstyles/oxygen/oxygen.cpp:
disable progressbar timer when no progressbar is visible also default to no timer - but this migh change once we start animating in 4.1
Diff Revision 746337

Sandro Giessl committed changes in /trunk:
Move Plastik to playground, http://lists.kde.org/?t=119668566800002&r=1&w=2
Diffs: 1, 2 Revision 746357

Utilities
Sebastian Sauer committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdeutils/superkaramba/skapplet:
disable the locked-status if run as applet since Plasma will take care of it now :)
Diffs: 1, 2 Revision 744699

Allen Winter committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdetoys/kworldwatch:
this project will be renamed to what it should be, namely kworldclock.
Diffs: 1, 2 Revision 745231

Allen Winter committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdetoys:
kworldwatch is called kworldclock.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 32 more) Revision 745233
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Michael Pyne committed changes in /trunk/playground/utils/abakus:
Start on port of abakus to KDE 4. Not much works right now but it at least builds (if you have flex and bison) and does not crash horribly often as long as you leave user-defined functions alone.
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (+ 26 more) Revision 745795

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