[dot] KDE Commit-Digest for 22nd July 2007

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From: Danny Allen <danny at commit-digest.org>
Dept: return-to-videos-galore
Date: Sunday 22/Jul/2007, @17:39

KDE Commit-Digest for 22nd July 2007
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   In this week's KDE Commit-Digest
[http://commit-digest.org/issues/2007-07-22/]: Plasma
[http://plasma.kde.org/] progress, with new Plasmoids: Browser, Notes,
3D Earth Model, Twitter, Desktop, and Tiger (scripting example), and the
development of a mouse cursor data engine. Bug fixing spree in TagLib,
K3b [http://k3b.org/], and the Kopete [http://kopete.kde.org/]
Cryptography plugin. Support for encrypted storage devices in Solid
[http://solid.kde.org/], with better integration of device support in
Amarok [http://amarok.kde.org/]. Further integration of Plasma in
Amarok. Work on making Konsole [http://konsole.kde.org/] follow KDE
settings more strictly. Much work on revamping Ark
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ark_(computing)] for KDE 4. Various
functionality improvements in Umbrello [http://uml.sourceforge.net/].
The start of a new version of the Smoke bindings access mechanism,
Smoke2. Continued work in kdegames, with the import of KBlocks, a
Tetris-like replacement for KSirtet. Rewrite of search-and-replace in
Kate [http://kate-editor.org/]. Import of the Kubelka-Munk mixing
algorithm, with a restoration of the MetaData framework in Krita
[http://www.koffice.org/krita/]. Work to enable networked document
collaboration imported in KOffice [http://koffice.org/]. GetHotNewStuff
experimentally reactivated in okular [http://okular.org/]. A rewrite of
the global shortcuts system added to KDE SVN. Pixmap Cache
[http://code.google.com/soc/kde/appinfo.html?csaid=1EF6392A4C8AEADD]
Summer of Code [http://code.google.com/soc/kde/about.html] project
merged into kdelibs, in time for KDE 4.0. KBoard, renamed Tagua, is
removed from KDE SVN to continue in an external code repository.