http://www.commit-digest.org/ A weekly overview of the development activity in KDE. en http://www.commit-digest.org/issues/2012-02-12/ http://www.commit-digest.org/issues/2012-02-12/ KDE Commit-Digest Team Julius (continuous speech recognition system), TTS to RSS and e-Mail. Konsole gains a Clone Tab action for cloning current tab; DBus objects for each Konsole window. Work on annotation view in Kst: items can now move with the data. Digikam can now be compiled with lcms2 (Little CMS, a color management library). Lightdm adds support for guest session. In KIPI, jpeglossless plugin now uses actionthreadbase class based on ThreadWeaver to use multiple CPUs. Change in Amarok's mass storage management: does not show unmounted USB devices and makes it clear when the device is not activated yet.]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:00:00 +0000 http://www.commit-digest.org/issues/2012-02-05/ http://www.commit-digest.org/issues/2012-02-05/ KDE Commit-Digest Team Plasma. Fix of drag and drop issues with non-local URLs. KStars FITS improved to work well in Ekos. Support for embedded album cover reading and writing, more natural drag-and-drop behaviour in collection browser in Amarok. Maintenance action in Tools menu in Digikam to maintain collections etc while scanning for new data. Refactoring in KisNodeModel, improved support for Excel and MSOffice in Calligra; start of Krita optimized for touch.]]> Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:00:00 +0000 http://www.commit-digest.org/issues/2012-01-29/ http://www.commit-digest.org/issues/2012-01-29/ KDE Commit-Digest Team Marble gains support for bicycle and pedestrian routing and an offline data model to manage offline routing and offline search data. Development of Ekos begins: a new tool for KStars to utilize INDI based devices in astrophotography. Digikam gets a progress manager and Notably a note information widget. A timeline and a tag widget and added to Plasma active, as well as filtering and zooming capabilities. A number of improvements in Calligra: slideshow feature, paragraph padding, new toolbar system, improved undo of style changes and updated MSOffice file format support. Conquirere's Zotero synchronization capabilities continue to advance. Bug fixes and improvements in Kwin. Improvements to Oxygen's gtk engine, icons, and fonts. Many small improvements to the KDE development tools and Nepomuk. A never-ending series of bug fixes for Dolphin and KDE PIM. Various bugs squashed across all areas of KDE: in KPhotoAlbum, Amarok, Network Management, Plasma addons, Plasma active, Konqueror, Konsole, Kajongg, Rekonq, and many others.]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:00:00 +0000 http://www.commit-digest.org/issues/2012-01-22/ http://www.commit-digest.org/issues/2012-01-22/ KDE Commit-Digest Team Python in KDevelop. Solid APIs are now used for DPMS (VESA Display Power Management Signaling) service jobs in kde-workspace. In Calligra, basic GUI for the character styles in the style manager, first version of the lindenmayer brush, new OpenFormula functions: CELL, SHEET and SHEETS; introduction of Page Layout tool. Unified album artist handling in Amarok; Albums with same name but different album artist are now correctly separated in USB Mass Storage, iPod and various online service collections. Support extended mouse coordinates in Konsole. Closer integration of KSudoku and the new generator/solver.]]> Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:00:00 +0000 http://www.commit-digest.org/issues/2012-01-15/ http://www.commit-digest.org/issues/2012-01-15/ KDE Commit-Digest Team Network Management now uses QtNetworkManager to activate connections. Non-QML TabBox removed in kde-workspace. Fix of high cpu usage in the fade effect in Kwin. Widget text color change possible in Umbrello. Initial prototype of support for view profiles in Okteta. Threading support, global search bar and tree of folders for bookmarks in Marble. Initial implementation og Google Reader API in Akonadi. Calligra introduces a gtl giant lock to make sure to avoid threading issues, tripleclick implementation.]]> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:00:00 +0000