[dot] KDE Commit-Digest for 22nd June 2008

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1217460020/

From: Danny Allen <danny at commit-digest.org>
Dept: eurostar-express
Date: Wednesday30/Jul/2008, @16:20

KDE Commit-Digest for 22nd June 2008
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   In this week's KDE Commit-Digest
[http://commit-digest.org/issues/2008-06-22/]: Work on a "Grid"
containment for Plasmoids. A Plasma [http://plasma.kde.org/] applet to
monitor the WiFi signal strength (on Linux systems). Infrastructure in
place for a network settings daemon in the NetworkManager Plasmoid. An
Akonadi [http://pim.kde.org/akonadi/] Plasma data engine, intended for
initial use by a "Plasmobiff" applet. "Previewer", a new Plasmoid for
previewing files using KParts technology. KDevPlatform (the basis of
KDevelop4) gets a plugin for basic Git source versioning control. Start
of resurrecting C# support in KDevelop [http://www.kdevelop.org/]. Key
bindings added to display various debugging information in KStars
[http://edu.kde.org/kstars/]. Progress in sound and scripting support in
Parley [http://edu.kde.org/parley/]. KTron gets a new maintainer, with
work on porting to KDE 4 and moving to SVG graphics. "Find duplicates"
tool in Digikam [http://www.digikam.org/] is now regarded as fully
functional. Initial efforts at using PolicyKit for the management of
system-wide fonts. Work on scrolling interaction in KOrganizer
[http://korganizer.kde.org/], and further development in the new
"Message List View" of KMail [http://kontact.kde.org/kmail/]. Copying
music tracks to an MP3Tunes locker, and experimental auto-fetching of
album artwork in Amarok [http://amarok.kde.org/] 2.0. Support for
authentication algorithm selection for WEP connections in
KNetworkManager [http://en.opensuse.org/Projects/KNetworkManager]. Early
beginnings of scripting plugin for KTorrent [http://ktorrent.org/].
Initial support for searching for placemarks, and undo/redo support in
the "GeoShape" of KOffice [http://koffice.org/]. Beginnings of work on
the "Presenter View" in KPresenter [http://koffice.kde.org/kpresenter/],
with two synchronised canvasses. "Web forms" component of Kexi
[http://www.kexi-project.org/] becomes based on the kde.org template,
for consistency and accessibility reasons. Provisional .wav support in
TagLib. Initial import of a Perldoc KIOSlave for KDE 4. Import of a KDE
4 port of sysinfo:/ (as seen in openSUSE 11). KDE 4.1 Beta 2
[http://dot.kde.org/1214311382/] is tagged for release. Read the rest of
the Digest here.
 [http://commit-digest.org/issues/2008-06-22/]