[dot] KDE Commit-Digest for 5th August 2007

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From: Danny Allen <danny at commit-digest.org>
Dept: developers-send-me-your-text!
Date: Monday 06/Aug/2007, @05:35

KDE Commit-Digest for 5th August 2007
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   In this week's KDE Commit-Digest
[http://commit-digest.org/issues/2007-08-05/]: Work in Plasma
[http://plasma.kde.org/], with extra sources for the Weather data
engine, work on the applet browser, and the start of SystemTray and
RSIBreak [http://www.rsibreak.org/] plasmoids and a "next generation"
application launcher, named Lancelot. Cut-down versions of Korundum and
Smoke libraries for writing scripted Plasma applets. More interface work
for Amarok [http://amarok.kde.org/] 2. More work on XESAM
[http://xesam.org/] (a shared metadata specification) integration in
Strigi [http://strigi.sourceforge.net/]. An Akonadi
[http://pim.kde.org/akonadi/] resource for Facebook information. Support
for compressed documents, and more work on DjVu support in okular
[http://okular.org/]. Several new features in the KRDC
[http://code.google.com/soc/2007/kde/appinfo.html?csaid=9064143E62AF5BA6]
Summer of Code [http://code.google.com/soc/kde/about.html] project,
including bookmark support, sound output, and toolbar options. Custom
text shaping in KWord [http://koffice.kde.org/kword/], and significant
progress in the colour mixing capabilities of Krita
[http://www.koffice.org/krita/] in KOffice [http://koffice.org/].
Various optimisations in KBounce, KPixmapCache, KDevelop
[http://www.kdevelop.org/], Marble [http://edu.kde.org/marble/] and
KOffice. KOffice 2.0 Alpha 2 (1.9.92) is tagged for release. Beginnings
of a D-Bus interface in KTorrent [http://ktorrent.org/] for KDE 4.
KNotes and Kompare begin to be ported, Kenolaba completely ported to KDE
4. Reworkings in Phonon [http://phonon.kde.org/], with the Phonon-NMM
backend moved to playground/multimedia, as it is not ready for KDE 4.0.
The Kaboodle music player is removed from the kdemultimedia module,
whilst kaudiocreator moves to extragear for KDE 4.0.