[dot] KDE Commit-Digest for 18th May 2008

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From: Danny Allen <danny at commit-digest.org>
Dept: lots-happened-this-week
Date: Saturday 14/Jun/2008, @05:41

KDE Commit-Digest for 18th May 2008
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   In this week's KDE Commit-Digest
[http://commit-digest.org/issues/2008-05-18/]: Improved drag-and-drop of
applets, and enhanced usability using the "Panel Controller" in Plasma
[http://plasma.kde.org/]. Grouping of notifications in the "Notify"
Plasmoid, and continued progress in the "NetworkManager" applet.
Animations in the "Pager" applet. SuperKaramba
[http://netdragon.sourceforge.net/] integration into Plasma is revived.
More work on theming in Amarok [http://amarok.kde.org/] 2.0, with the
"Current Track" and "Wikipedia" applets re-enabled. A return to work on
the Raptor [http://raptor-menu.org/] menu. Initial steps toward a
"satellite layer" plugin for Marble [http://edu.kde.org/marble/], with
initial support for molecular editing in Kalzium. Copy-and-paste of
vocabulary entries in Parley [http://edu.kde.org/parley/]. "Singmaster"
moves functionality in Kubrick. Support for searching the database by
GPS position, and "fuzzy searches" (using a user-drawn sketch) based on
the Haar algorithm (from imgSeek [http://www.imgseek.net/]) added to
Digikam [http://www.digikam.org/]. A "start page" is added to Gwenview
[http://gwenview.sourceforge.net/]. More functionality added to Beagle
KIOSlave. A "quick reply" function is added to Mailody
[http://www.mailody.net/]. Kontact [http://www.kontact.org/] gets a
plugin for KJots. An import dialog added to assist in migrating from the
KDE3 to the KDE4 version of KTorrent [http://ktorrent.org/]. Full
support for the Windows platform in KTorrent trunk. Optimisations in the
next-generation tile system of Krita [http://www.koffice.org/krita/].
Work on loading ODF presentation notes in KPresenter
[http://koffice.kde.org/kpresenter/]. KNewStuff2 moves to Goya for
handling and displaying items. Support for AIFF and RIFF audio file
formats in TagLib [http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html].
Initial import of Nonogram into playground/games. libkscan replaces
libksane in kdegraphics. kdelirc moves from kdeutils to
playground/utils. Phonon [http://phonon.kde.org/] moves from kdelibs to
kdesupport, "the never-freezing new home of Phonon". Read the rest of
the Digest here.
 [http://commit-digest.org/issues/2008-05-18/]