[dot] KDE Commit-Digest for 13th August 2006

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1155495680/

From: Danny Allen <danny at commit-digest.org>
Dept: it's-that-time-of-the-week
Date: Sunday 13/Aug/2006, @12:01

KDE Commit-Digest for 13th August 2006
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   In this week's KDE Commit-Digest
[http://commit-digest.org/issues/2006-08-13/]: kdesu, the KDE
application privileges manager, gets long-awaited support for the sudo
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudo] method. Strigi
[http://www.vandenoever.info/software/strigi/] gets .rpm
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPM_Package_Manager] and .deb
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deb_(file_format)] package contents
indexing capabilities, and can now index UTF-8
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utf-8] encoded text. Guidance
[http://www.simonzone.com/software/guidance/] gets a new power manager
applet. Code import for the Physiks
[http://code.google.com/soc/kde/appinfo.html?csaid=9694A349D1C04E0C]
educational Summer Of Code
[http://developer.kde.org/summerofcode/soc2006.html] project. Amarok
[http://amarok.kde.org/] gets support for MTP media devices
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol]. Work starts on
porting KGoldRunner to KDE 4. Rewrites begin in the KReversi game and
Oskar [http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/multimedia/oskar/] media
player. GUI optimisations in KTorrent [http://ktorrent.org/] and KTU
(KDE Translation Updater). Experiments using Kexi
[http://www.kexi-project.org/] as a database backend in KPhotoAlbum
[http://kphotoalbum.org/], and rendering SVG
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics] in Unity.
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