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20th May 2005
by Derek Kite
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This Week...
KNode rewrites article viewer. KViewShell adds basic printing support. Juk adds a cover manager. KDE4 porting continues apace.

George Staikos announced the release of Kst 1.1.0:
TORONTO, Canada - May 20, 2005 - Staikos Computing Services Inc. and The Kst development team today announced the immediate availability of Kst 1.1.0, a real-time data viewing and plotting tool with basic data analysis functionality. Kst 1.1.0 consists of a KDE based application and a set of data analysis and manipulation plugins. Kst ships complete with documentation, and is translated to over 25 languages.

Kst, including all its plugins and documentation, is available for free under Open Source licenses. Kst can be obtained in source and numerous binary formats from http://download.kde.org/stable/apps/KDE3.x/scientific/.

Release Highlights
  • New data file reader: NetCDF
  • Numerous new plugins
  • Various performance enhancements
  • Additional configuration options for ASCII files
  • Enhanced time support
  • Additional documentation
  • More verbose error reporting
  • Various additional UI features
  • Tighter KDE integration
  • General bugfixes and smaller improvements
Installing Kst 1.1.0

Packaging Policies. Kst is distributed by the developers in source form only. Several individuals have provided third party binary packages for various Linux and UNIX operating systems and KDE combinations. These packages are available for free download from KDE's download servers at http://download.kde.org/stable/apps/KDE3.x/scientific/. These packages are provided for your convenience only, and are not supported by the Kst developers.

Source Code

The complete source code for Kst 1.1.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing Kst 1.1.0 are available from the Kst homepage at http://kst.kde.org/.


Statistics
Commits: 3018 by 217 developers, 67147 lines modified, 8696 new files.
Open Bugs: 8988
Open Wishes: 8402
Bugs Opened: 321 in the last 7 days.
Bugs Closed: 325 in the last 7 days.

Commit Summary
Module Commits
kde-i18n
716
work
491
www
264
extragear
254
kdenonbeta
140
kdepim
127
kdelibs
124
kdebase
112
playground
91
kdenetwork
90
Lines Developer Commits
15146
Stephan Kulow
143
698
David Faure
110
773
Maks Orlovich
107
442
Nicolas Goutte
93
861
Mickael Marchand
86
261
Christoph Cullmann
59
442
Rob Buis
46
186
Federico Zenith
45
401
Luboš Luňák
41
897
Nikolas Zimmermann
40

Internationalisation (i18n) Status
Language Percentage Complete
British English
100.00%
Swedish
100.00%
Danish
98.66%
Portuguese
97.39%
French
97.01%
Estonian
96.07%
Spanish
95.88%
Brazilian Portuguese
95.08%
Dutch
94.97%
Serbian
94.08%

Bug Killers
Bug Killer Number Of Bugs Closed
Volker Krause
22
Olivier Goffart
18
Thiago Macieira
16
Matt Rogers
16
Alexandre Pereira de Oliveira
16
Michael Brade
15
Jason vanRijn Kasper
14
Tommi Tervo
14
Nicolas Goutte
13
Stephan Binner
12

Contents
  Bug Fixes Features Optimise Security Other
Accessibility
Development Tools [*] [*] [*] [*]
Educational [*] [*] [*]
Graphics [*] [*] [*]
KDE-Base [*] [*] [*] [*] [*]
KDE-PIM [*] [*] [*]
Office [*] [*]
Konqueror [*] [*] [*]
Multimedia [*] [*] [*] [*]
Networking Tools [*] [*] [*]
User Interface [*] [*] [*]
Utilities [*] [*] [*] [*]
Games
Other

There are 205 selections this week.

Bug Fixes
Development Tools
Oliver Kellogg committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdesdk/umbrello:
drawAsConcept(): Use UMLWidget::getFontMetrics() for fontHeight determination.
BUG:104637
Diff Revision 412607

Sascha Cunz committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdevelop/languages/php/data/phpfunctions:
Fix wrong order of arguments

BUGS: 98921
Diff Revision 413766

Alexander Dymo committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdevelop:
Fixed crashes at startup when splashscreen picture is not found.
CCBUG: 90992
Diff Revision 414754

Oliver Kellogg committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdesdk/umbrello/umbrello:
BUG:105564 - Right click on list view title ("UML Model") changes its name.
Diff Revision 414774

Educational
Carsten Niehaus committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdeedu/kalzium/src:
Fix in HEAD as well

CCBUG:104990
Diff Revision 414119

Graphics
Albert Astals Cid committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdegraphics/kpdf/ui/pageview.cpp:
Fordward port fix for bug 105454
Diff Revision 412670

Luboš Luňák committed a change to /trunk/extragear/graphics/gwenview:
Gwenview and Showimg have both their own checks for KIPI,
but both use HAVE_KIPI, and Gwenview defaults to KIPI support disabled ->
prefix the Gwenview variables to make them different.
BUG: 105507
Diff Revision 412720

Aurélien Gâteau committed a change to /trunk/extragear/graphics/gwenview:
In the "thumbnail with text on bottom" mode, show file size as well as image
size.
BUG:81479
Diff Revision 413770

Nicolas Goutte committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdebase/kioslave/thumbnailopop:
Give a mime type list to the image thumbnail creator
(Not all files with mime type image/* are QImageIO-compatible and may
want another thumbnail creator.)
Triggered by bug #50200, even if it does not fix that bug.
CCBUG:50200
Diff Revision 414975

Nicolas Goutte committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdebase/kioslave/thumbnail:
The missing files for the EPS thumbnail creator (Sorry.)
(Also I forgot to tell that it is bug #50200)
BUG:50200
Diff Revision 415014

Albert Astals Cid committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdegraphics/kpdf/core/generator_pdf/gp_outputdev.cpp:
Call m_text->endPage() on KPDFOutputDev::endPage() when generating text
Fixes bug 105630
BUGS: 105630
Diff Revision 415187

Lauri Watts committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdegraphics/doc/kghostview/index.docbook:
Apply patch from Virgil Nisily

BUG:96392

Diff Revision 415608

Nicolas Goutte committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdebase/kioslave/thumbnail:
Looking closer in kdegraphics/kfile-plugins/ps, I found there is already
a thumbnail creator for EPS file (which is much smarter).
CCBUG:50200
(So the problem of bug #50200 was really that the image creator felt
resonsible for all image/* mime types.)
Diff Revision 415729

KDE-Base
Waldo Bastian committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kio/kio:
Don't identify services by service name when determining service preferences
The name of a service may not always be unique, the storageId is.
BUG: 87120
Diff Revision 413932

Kurt Hindenburg committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdebase/konsole/konsole/konsole.cpp:
Copy KDE 3.3's ktip.png to silence.png and idea.png to activity.png for use with Monitor for Activity/Silence.

Will backport without the string changes.

BUG: 103554
Diff Revision 413941

Kurt Hindenburg committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdebase/konsole/konsole:

Add ESC code to change tab text color. Since t has to do with window
manipulation (according to xterm control seq), I decided to use it with
28. This doesn't do anything according to the specs as far as I can tell.

change tab text color : \e[28;t color: 0-16,777,215

CCBUG: 80725
Diff Revision 414407

Kurt Hindenburg committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdebase/konsole/konsole:
Previous code didn't take into account user changing sessions; also
detaching session will retain tab text color now.

CCBUG: 80725
Diff Revision 414464

Nicolas Goutte committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/mimetypes/application:
Troff files should use the embeded viewer, as KManPart only exists as viewer.
BUG:99290
Diff Revision 414962

Michael Brade committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kio/kio/kdirlister.cpp:
The evening begins quite well -- that was easy to fix, though a bit embarrassing :-\
My redirection code wasn't perfect.. ehm, complete, I forgot about 2 important lines.

What happened is this: When pressing up while being in an archive we end up in
e.g. tar:/home/michael, which redirects to file:///home/michael. The item is in
the cache already, but in this case I forgot to insert the listers and holders
with the new url back into the KDirListerCache. Sorry...

Many thanks for all the reports! Much appreciated.

BUG: 103795, 105827, 104973
Diff Revision 415093

Stephan Binner committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kio/kfile:
"Preview" tab to file properties dialog (#97151)
Diff Revision 415097

Stephan Binner committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kioslave/http/http.cc:
prevent endless busy loop (#102925)
Diff Revision 415103

Thiago Macieira committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kdecore/networkce.h:
These classes ought to be exported.
BACKPORT:414433,415197,415199
Diff Revision 415260

Gábor Lehel committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdebase:
Hooray, my first commit! (well, asides from detypoing my email in the
accounts...) hopefully I'll not break anything...
Restored the option to have the menubar panel transparent, in the
advanced options dialog (was previously removed due to possible
color conflicts between the menubar and desktop background). reviewed by
aseigo.

CCBUG: 62492
GUI:
Diff Revision 415573

KDE-PIM
Frank Osterfeld committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdepim/akregator/src/searchbar.cpp:
Remove "New&Unread", let "unread" show new articles as well
BUG:105562
Diff Revision 412888

Frank Osterfeld committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdepim/akregator/src:
make "show linked website" configurable per feed and disable it by default
CCBUG: 82660
Diff Revision 412913

Orville Bennett committed a change to /trunk/KDE/kdepim/doc/kmail/menus.docbook:
Minor corrections related to bug 96457