[dot] KDE Commit-Digest for 15th July 2007

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From: Danny Allen <danny at commit-digest.org>
Dept: it's-that-time-of-the-week
Date: Monday 16/Jul/2007, @04:33

KDE Commit-Digest for 15th July 2007
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   In this week's KDE Commit-Digest
[http://commit-digest.org/issues/2007-07-15/]: Much work in Amarok
[http://amarok.kde.org/], with the implementation of a CoverFlow-esque
OpenGL album art visualisation, codenamed "CoverBling", and Service
Framework and Plasmification efforts. Sample OpenGL-based applets added
to Plasma, [http://plasma.kde.org/], with Plasmoids to watch for changes
to files, for browsing files, and to monitor network interfaces. General
progress in the 2d projection
[http://code.google.com/soc/2007/kde/appinfo.html?csaid=DCE4DBD4A0509DC7]
and KML
[http://code.google.com/soc/2007/kde/appinfo.html?csaid=D67FADC741D4F4C4]
in Marble [http://edu.kde.org/marble/], OpenPrinting
[http://code.google.com/soc/2007/kde/appinfo.html?csaid=C3E84FB73E7DE5F8],
and KOrganizer Theming
[http://code.google.com/soc/kde/appinfo.html?csaid=5D66C1579098460C]
Summer of Code [http://code.google.com/soc/kde/about.html] projects.
KWallet support in KRDC. KMines essentially rewritten with a
QGraphicsView base, with support for multiple background SVG themes in
KGoldRunner. More manipulation and view work in Kreative3d.
Implementation of Kubelka-Munk paint mixing research in Krita
[http://www.koffice.org/krita/]. Internet integration in Kaider, with a
WebQuery view and example script to use Google Translate. okular
[http://okular.org/] becomes usable as a print preview component.
KTrace, a "strace" interface for KDE 4 added to playground/sysadmin.
Beginnings of support for ComunIP, a Brazilian IM protocol in Kopete
[http://kopete.kde.org/]. More progress in the porting of Digikam and
KTorrent to KDE 4. The start of a rewrite of the Oxygen
[http://oxygen-icons.org/] widget style. KBFX, an alternate K menu,
moves to kdereview.