[dot] KDE Commit-Digest for 31st August 2008

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From: Danny Allen <danny at commit-digest.org>
Dept: boo
Date: Monday 01/Sep/2008, @06:47

KDE Commit-Digest for 31st August 2008
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   In this week's KDE Commit-Digest
[http://commit-digest.org/issues/2008-08-31/]: Interface work and new
applets specialised for use on MID (small form factor) devices,
beginnings of applets-in-the-systray, and work on a new calendar popup
widget design in Plasma [http://plasma.kde.org/]. A collection of new
comic provider sources, and use of Solid [http://solid.kde.org/] to
detect network availability in the "Comic" Plasmoid. The "Spellcheck"
runner moves to kdeplasma-addons, a revival of the "Strigi"
[http://strigi.sourceforge.net/] Plasmoid, and a new "XEyes" Plasma
applet. Two new layout modes for the "present windows" effect in
KWin-Composite. Even more bug fixes in Kicker for KDE 3.5. A basic
"revision history" implementation, and the beginnings of code generation
support, in kdevplatform (the basis of KDevelop
[http://www.kdevelop.org/] 4). Support for loading 100e8 stars in KStars
[http://edu.kde.org/kstars/]. Get Hot New Stuff for downloading new
skins in KSirK [http://home.gna.org/ksirk/]. Support for exporting to
JPEG in Darkroom. The ability to pick a colour from the desktop in
KColorEdit. Support for video annotations (using Phonon
[http://phonon.kde.org/]) in Okular [http://okular.org/]. Marble
[http://edu.kde.org/marble/] integration in Mailody
[http://www.mailody.net/] displaying the network route an email has
taken. Automatic language detection and a range of bug fixes in Sonnet.
Dramatic speedups in AdBlock filtering in KHTML
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML]. A configuration dialog and KConfig
support in kio_bookmarks. Initial implementation of KOSDWidget-based
KNotify OSD plugin. Various work on PowerDevil, with a move into
kdereview. Import of a KIO thumbnailer plugin for RAW camera files. An
experimental library to abstract away media player interfaces. Initial
version of an Open Collaboration Services client, "Attica", and an
Akonadi [http://pim.kde.org/akonadi/] resource for handling users.
Version 1.0 of the Lancelot alternative menu is tagged for KDE 4.1. KDE
4.1.1 is tagged for release. Read the rest of the Digest here.
 [http://commit-digest.org/issues/2008-08-31/]