http://www.commit-digest.org/ A weekly overview of the development activity in KDE. en http://www.commit-digest.org/issues/2012-05-06/ http://www.commit-digest.org/issues/2012-05-06/ KDE Commit-Digest Team Marble gets first version of FlightGear position provider. KPhotoAlbum saves the video length in a database; search for the length is also possible. KWebkitParts gets an option that allows the user to disable the internal handling of flash and java applets. KDE-PIM extends the notes class, there are some new properties. Calligra allows dragging of selected text, it works with drag and drop too. Amarok can write album covers to iPods and USB Mass Storage devices; changes in cover art reading and writing. Solid adds proper support for volumes, storage disks and storage access, which was not working on Windows. Soprano uses non-Qt local socket communication on Unix systems.]]> Sun, 6 May 2012 12:00:00 +0000 http://www.commit-digest.org/issues/2012-04-29/ http://www.commit-digest.org/issues/2012-04-29/ KDE Commit-Digest Team Dolphin view can be synchronized with terminal location. Konsole has two new profile options for the copy & paste mouse behavior. More search options in Dolphin with Nepomuk. Google Sync Bookmarks implemented in rekonq. The order of units is now ensured in the whole Calligra UI. The star rating may be hidden in KPhotoAlbum.]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:00:00 +0000 http://www.commit-digest.org/issues/2012-04-22/ http://www.commit-digest.org/issues/2012-04-22/ KDE Commit-Digest Team Konsole gains Web Shortcus menu that allows searching selected text using any of the search providers; search scrollback is now possible in Konsole KPart. New placement policy is now possible in KDEWorkspace: under mouse; work t include screenlocker into ksmserver. Amarok ships the Free Music Charts by default; Amarok's iPod completely rewritten. Digikam supports keyboard shortcuts in the timeline view. GlobalShortcuts Plugin added into ActivityManager in KDE-Base. Work on the rule files in kdemultimedia. ]]> Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:00:00 +0000 http://www.commit-digest.org/issues/2012-04-15/ http://www.commit-digest.org/issues/2012-04-15/ KDE Commit-Digest Team Dolphin now uses KMessageWidget for error and information messages and has faster file sorting. Initial Fuse backend implementation for Solid. It is now possible to save images from HTML mails in KMail. OSRM (Open Source Routing Machine) is supported as routing backend in Marble. Lokalize adds basic support for QT Linguist's .ts files. Improved sorting by meridian transit time / observation time for an observation session in KStars; improved DSS image retrieval feature.]]> Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:00:00 +0000 http://www.commit-digest.org/issues/2012-04-08/ http://www.commit-digest.org/issues/2012-04-08/ KDE Commit-Digest Team KDevelop, C++11 now gets noexcept keyword support; external scripts can be run from Project context menu; performance improved in compiler error-detection regexps. Amarok gets a diagnostics dialog to easy bug reporting. Konversation supports SSL Client Certificate authentication using PEM files. Nepomuk metadata can be shown inside views. Amarok can distinguish between mp4, m4a, m4v types in Amarok::FileType. New functions in Kate document JavaScript API. New option that allows to specify whether an upscaling of images should be done.]]> Sun, 8 Apr 2012 12:00:00 +0000