4th February 2005 by Derek Kite

This Week...

Digikam does black and white tonal conversion. KPDF implements history and KTTSD (screen reader) support. KMail adds graphical emoticons. KNotes implements read-only support. Konqueror shows document title and favicon in location bar autocomplete. amaroK supports the Akode engine.
An announcement from Stephan Kulow, our intrepid release dude:
KDE CVS is going into freeze for beta2

Today (thursday Feb 3) I will create a KDE_3_4_BETA_2 tag and with that being done, KDE CVS is in temporary freeze until the tar balls are reviewed. As I made snapshots before and tested them, I'm sure that this shouldn't show major problems and I expect the freeze over tomorrow already (Friday the 4th - 6pm CET unless said differently on this list).

Even beyond that time, there is now a message and feature freeze active for KDE 3.4. This means: no new strings, no changes to existant changes unless approved on kde-i18n-doc@kde.org and no new features even if listed on the KDE 3.4 Feature Plan.

From now on it's time to do bug fixing and translation updates.

So please everyone: double check your app/code and if in doubt: send your patch to kde-core-devel@kde.org and let it review. I will update the tag tomorrow, but try to review all incoming commits.

Translation and code commit outside of the released modules are allowed all the time, but I will take the translations of this morning in any way.

I would also like to remind all application maintainers, that today is a good time to update the version number and take a brief look if all features marked correctly on http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/kde-3.4-features.html
Kurt Pfeifle wrote a note regarding the What's This documentation. He committed a number of help notes for the KPrinter dialogs. As he mentioned:
My dream is that we may get that beyond the 80% completeness one day -- and that day may be the point where we can really ask people to use WhatsThis "?"-cursors to display them a short and comprehensive help text. (The way it is now, I am not particularly keen in pushing that, because it embarasses me very much to watch people clicking for WhatsThis in vain... and have them discover a corner of KDE that more looks like a quarry-pit than a polished desktop environment.
Here is the commit log for some of his changes. If you want to contribute, see http://bddf.ca/~aseigo/whatsthis_tutorial/ for directions.
The amaroK team is proud to announce version 1.2-beta4 of the amaroK audio player!
Changes since 1.2-beta3:
  • Multiple result selection for Amazon cover downloading
  • The loader is now more robust and should always find the main binary.
  • The search-browser has been integrated into the file-browser.
  • OSD can have fake translucency and new fancy shadow.
  • Fix crashes when writing tags. (BR 95344)
  • CoverManager updates its status display correctly.
  • Automatic crash report generator, sends backtraces to amaroK HQ.
  • Beginnings of a script-plugin framework
  • Playlist2HTML, a script for playlist exporting. (BR 96199)
  • Improved statusbar, with extra fanciness, and feedback
  • New background-task progress display system
  • Alarm script, starts playing music at specified alarm time.
  • Script-Manager for DCOP script extensions is now functional.
  • Attempts to make amaroK more accessable to new users
  • Runtime DB-backend selection (MySQL or sqlite)
  • Fabulous new amaroK icon "Blue Wolf", made by Da-Flow.
Please see our new wiki (http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/) if you want to get started writing a script plugin! Also please tell us what functionality you need so you can write the world's best script, and we'll try to cater to your needs.

Please download, enjoy and direct any feedback at our IRC channel or mailing-list (details below), we need all the bug reports you can throw our way to make the next release absolutely great! Thanks :-)

The amaroK team
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amaroK is a soundsystem-independent audio-player for *nix. Its interface uses a powerful "browser" metaphor that allows you to create playlists that make the most of your music collection. We have a fast development-cycle and super-happy users. We also provide pensions and other employment-benefits.

"Easily the best media-player for Linux at the moment. Install it now!"
- Linux Format Magazine

Statistics

Commits 4520 by 225 developers, 837446 lines modified, 2879 new files
Open Bugs 7829
Open Wishes 7223
Bugs Opened 324 in the last 7 days
Bugs Closed 381 in the last 7 days

Commit Summary

Module Commits
kde-i18n
2399
 
www
184
 
kdelibs
180
 
koffice
173
 
kdenetwork
159
 
kdebase
147
 
kdeextragear-1
143
 
kdepim
142
 
kdeextragear-3
133
 
kdeedu
107
 
Lines Developer Commits
275252
 
David Faure
355
 
42891
 
Stephan Kulow
229
 
109795
 
Gaute Hvoslef Kvalnes
226
 
9119
 
Pedro Morais
203
 
2143
 
Thierry Vignaud
174
 
1759
 
Adriaan de Groot
172
 
5682
 
Andrew Coles
147
 
112776
 
Donatas Glodenis
94
 
2961
 
Andras Mantia
91
 
11263
 
Marcus Gama
90
 

Internationalization (i18n) Status

Language Percentage Complete
British English (en_GB)
99.97%
 
Portuguese (pt)
99.87%
 
Swedish (sv)
99.09%
 
Danish (da)
97.41%
 
French (fr)
96.38%
 
Dutch (nl)
94.74%
 
Estonian (et)
93.85%
 
Italian (it)
90.82%
 
Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR)
88.42%
 
Spanish (es)
87.1%
 

Bug Killers

Person Bugs Closed
Olivier Goffart
29
 
Martin Koller
28
 
Max Howell
23
 
Matt Rogers
18
 
Christian Muehlhaeuser
17
 
Thiago Macieira
16
 
Tommi Tervo
14
 
Gregory Meyer
12
 
Stephan Binner
11
 
Kurt Hindenburg
9
 

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