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<body><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Danke!</p>
<br /><br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">On Sonntag, 3. April 2022 22:45:21 CEST you wrote:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> Hi!</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> I finally found some time to get things moving again, in RKWard</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> development, and by now a number of improvements are just waiting to be</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> released. Not for the first time, the timeline for this is being</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> constrained by an upcoming release of R (4.2.0, scheduled for April</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> 22) that will not work with our latest official release (0.7.2) out of</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> the box.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> From the other end of the timeline, we're currently being bitten by a</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> crash with KF5 5.92.0. This one should get resolved with the 5.93.0</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> release, next weekend, but it impacts our ability to build Mac and</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> Windows binaries in the meantime. (They work ok, as far as I am aware,</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> *but* with a rather non-professional-looking message up front. You'll</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> see for yourself.)</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> In other words, we're looking at a release in around two weeks, and I'm</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> hoping for your help in testing, to make sure we it will provide a</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> smooth user experience. A few hints what to look out for:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> Platforms:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> - As usual, MacOS is in most desparate need of testing:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> https://binary-factory.kde.org/view/MacOS/job/RKWard_Nightly_macos/</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> (build number 1021, today, has severe problems with displaying HTML,</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> but I'm hoping for 1022, tomorrow).</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> - I won't link to the nightly builds for all other platforms. You know</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> where to find those (I hope (*)).</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> Features:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> The development tree has many small fixes all over the place, not all</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> of which are even documented in the ChangeLog. Some features which may</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> be more noticeable:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> - The RKWard output has been reworked to behave more like a regular</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> document. You can save your changes or discard them. It is also stored</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> as a single file, now (which, internally, is a zip archive, that</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> gets unpacked, when you work with it).</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> - Support for color schemes: Settings->Color Scheme</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> - Full support for the graphics features added in R 4.1.0 and (to be</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> added in) R 4.2.0: custom clipping paths, patterns, gradients,</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> groups, masks.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> Looking forward to your feedback!</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> Thomas</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> --</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> (*): Speaking of which: You find our website is still a bit confusing</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> in many ways? I agree. But did you know, you can create merge requests</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> for the website, and even by editing the underlying markdown files</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> online? (https://invent.kde.org/websites/rkward-kde-org)</p>
<br /><br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">-- </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">PD Dr. Stefan Rödiger</p>
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