2nd July 2004 by Derek Kite

This Week...

kword now can mailmerge from kspread as data source. Less flicker in Konqueror and Kicker. And many bugfixes in KSnapshot, Konqueror, Khtml and KMail.
Mark Kretschmann announced version 1.0.1 of the amaroK audio player:
This is a maintenance release, fixing the following issues:

=ChangeLog=
  • FIX: Short dropouts after starting a stream with GStreamer.
  • FIX: amaroK starting invisible when systray icon is disabled.
  • FIX: Playlist analyzer looks freaky on some systems. (BR 83671)
  • FIX: Display filename in title column for wav files. (BR 83650)
  • FIX: Don't show crash dialog when no engine plugins are found.
  • FIX: Compile issue for KDE 3.2.0 users.
Artemio wrote on the kde-core-devel list about his work with KDE system sounds:
today I have completed creating the sounds that will replace the old ones in KDE 3.3. There are 64 jingles and sound effects in total, taking up 1.7 Mb. Although some of them might change a bit to better, this set is what I feel will make KDE the best-sounding desktop ever ;-)

URL: http://artemio.net/projects/kdevibes/vibes/kde3.3

Here are the things I'd like to ask from you:
  1. Rehearse the sounds, examine the 3.2->3.3 migration map, and tell me if you don't agree with certain replacements
  2. Spread the word to developers of games, toys and education application developers, as there are around 25 new high-quality sound effects that thay can get some use of.
With KDE 3.3 being the last major release of the 3.0 series, discussion begins on what KDE 4 will look like. It starts with QT4, making any changes necessary in the libraries to work with the new QT. Sprinkled throughout the codebase are notes referring to KDE4, mostly marking functions for removal. Fabrice Mous started a thread about KDE4 on kde-core-devel where developers comment on their goals for KDE4. The wishes on bugs.kde.org, and notes in the TODO files in the repository were mentioned. In other words, there are many things yet to finish. And a desire to clean up and remove obsolete classes and methods. But, as someone mentioned, let's not get ahead of ourselves here. There is a release to get ready.

The latest KDE CVS-Digest can be accessed by http://cvs-digest.org/index.php?issue=latest. Thanks to Stefan Gehn for the suggestion.

Statistics

Commits 2701 by 199 developers, 301789 lines modified, 736 new files
Open Bugs 6868
Open Wishes 6657
Bugs Opened 251 in the last 7 days
Bugs Closed 223 in the last 7 days

Commit Summary

Module Commits
kde-i18n
1174
 
kdenonbeta
153
 
kdebase
120
 
kdepim
119
 
www
115
 
koffice
114
 
kdeextragear-2
97
 
kdeextragear-1
90
 
kdewebdev
79
 
kdeextragear-3
73
 
Lines Developer Commits
26174
 
 Stephan Kulow
214
 
2371
 
 Stephan Binner
170
 
4842
 
 Pedro Morais
119
 
3419
 
 Andrew Coles
105
 
2870
 
 Marek Laane
75
 
3707
 
 David Faure
70
 
883
 
 Laurent Montel
69
 
369
 
 Nicolas Goutte
63
 
1903
 
 Gilles Caulier
55
 
2825
 
 Stefan Asserhäll
54
 

Internationalization (i18n) Status

Language Percentage Complete
Estonian (et)
99.82%
 
Swedish (sv)
98.95%
 
British English (en_GB)
97.51%
 
Danish (da)
97%
 
Tamil (ta)
96.02%
 
Portuguese (pt)
95.99%
 
Dutch (nl)
90.67%
 
Spanish (es)
90.64%
 
Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR)
88.81%
 
Italian (it)
84.56%
 

Bug Killers

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