[dot] KDE Commit-Digest for 14th September 2008

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From: Danny Allen <danny at commit-digest.org>
Dept: I-saved-the-Dot!
Date: Thursday 18/Sep/2008, @17:36

KDE Commit-Digest for 14th September 2008
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   In this week's KDE Commit-Digest
[http://commit-digest.org/issues/2008-09-14/]: "Shortcut Scheme" support
allows creation of shortcut themes (Emacs, etc.) for use in KDE
applications. A "Media Player" runner (with support for Amarok
[http://amarok.kde.org/] 2), more work on panel hiding, and support for
text zoom in the "Web Browser" Plasmoid in Plasma
[http://plasma.kde.org/]. The "Weather Station" applet moves to
kdereview. More refinements in PowerDevil, in preparation for a move to
kdebase. Lots more functionality in Attica, the Open Collaboration
Services desktop client. Start of session support in KDevPlatform (the
basis of KDevelop 4). A "McCabe cyclomatic complexity metric engine" in
KDevelop [http://www.kdevelop.org/] 4. Support for image rating (using
KRatingWidget) in the interface of KPhotoAlbum
[http://kphotoalbum.org/]. Progress towards real levels in the KPicross
game. More work towards Jabber-based network games in KSirK
[http://home.gna.org/ksirk/]. A "black screen" presentation feature in
Okular [http://okular.org/]. Various work in Akonadi
[http://pim.kde.org/akonadi/] and KDE-PIM [http://pim.kde.org/]. Start
of the NetworkManager KControl module (for use in System Settings, etc).
Incremental scanner support returns to Amarok 2. New plugin to specify
the download order of multi-file torrents in KTorrent
[http://ktorrent.org/]. Passwords saved per LDAP login (not host) in
KRDC, greatly improving the experience for LDAP administrators. An
OpenGL to demonstrate various parts of Eigen
[http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/] 2. Some work to make KDE application
dialogs fit into 1024x600 pixels. Merge of improvements to
KFontInstaller. Import of QuickSand, an alternative front-end for
KRunner. A proof-of-concept "decibel-kde" [http://decibel.kde.org/]
library for representing contacts "based on the representation used by
Kopete". WLM protocol imported into Kopete [http://kopete.kde.org/].
Asciiquarium screensaver moves from kdereview to kdeartwork. Kugar and
koshell are removed from KOffice [http://koffice.org/] 2. Read the rest
of the Digest here.
 [http://commit-digest.org/issues/2008-09-14/]