Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 14th Jul 2005 17:50 UTC, submitted by anonymous
KDE This is the first of a new series of articles that keeps you informed of what's happening in KDE development. The hottest new features to hit SVN every month will be tested and sneak preview screenshots posted. Current issues are available from June and July.
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Google maps
by Anonymous on Thu 14th Jul 2005 18:28 UTC
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Thanks for the link as well as the target. Konqueror now supports Google maps. Great. I was hoping it would. Until now I've been bringing up Firefox for that. Maybe Konqueror can now get on Google's page of supported browsers. Google maps are great and hopefully will include more of the world in time.

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Very interesting
by Knuckles on Thu 14th Jul 2005 18:30 UTC
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Nice articles ;)

Would be nice if they would be posted on osnews every month, it's always very interesting to see what the kde dev's are up to.

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Re: Bounties
by Ronald Vos on Thu 14th Jul 2005 20:25 UTC in reply to "Very interesting"
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Nice read, although a bit much infomercial-like ;)

And 2000 dollar for a calendar syncing app? I wish I could program, dayamn.

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RE: Re: Bounties
by Anonymous on Thu 14th Jul 2005 20:36 UTC in reply to "Re: Bounties"
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( Gaim/Evolution presence integration )
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127546
bounty opened in 2003-11-20 20:11

( Outlook / Evolution dictionary )
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127544
bounty opened in 2003-11-20 20:05

ROTFL

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A Nice Job
by dswain on Thu 14th Jul 2005 18:42 UTC
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In regard to the development team over at KDE, they are doing a very nice job. Even though I choose not to use KDE anymore, or haven't recently at least, they still seem to produce many interesting things at a very consistant rate, at least from how those articles look. How about KDE4 though. Anyone have any ideas on a feature set for that release? It may be neat to take a look at.

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RE: A Nice Job
by Anonymous on Thu 14th Jul 2005 19:02 UTC in reply to "A Nice Job"
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For a small list of KDE4 goals, check out:

http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=KDE%204%20Goals

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RE: A Nice Job
by Anonymous on Thu 14th Jul 2005 19:20 UTC in reply to "A Nice Job"
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How about KDE4 though. Anyone have any ideas on a feature set for that release? It may be neat to take a look at.

Features are to be defined. For now, the only effort is to have kde compile with Qt4; kdelibs and kdebase are already working.
Apart from that, Plasma (http://plasma.bddf.ca) seems very interesting.

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RE[1]A Nice Job
by Anonymous on Thu 14th Jul 2005 18:59 UTC
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How about KDE4 though. Anyone have any ideas on a feature set for that release? It may be neat to take a look at.

A control in Konqueror that enables you to disable ipv6 support if you don need it.Seems if you don't use ipv6 that konqueror is very slow unless you have disabled ipv6 altogether.

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RE[2]A Nice Job
by cm__ on Thu 14th Jul 2005 21:54 UTC in reply to "RE[1]A Nice Job"
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> A control in Konqueror that enables you to disable
> ipv6 support if you don need it.Seems if you don't
> use ipv6 that konqueror is very slow unless you
> have disabled ipv6 altogether.

That problem is a sign that you have broken ipv6 support in your *DNS server*. Disabling ipv6 support in KDE is just a workaround for that. So what people should really do is fix the DNS servers.

See also http://docs.kde.org/development/en/kdebase/faq/webbrowser.html#id25...

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v I'm so excited
by Anonymous on Thu 14th Jul 2005 19:34 UTC
and all this without huge bounties!
by superstoned on Thu 14th Jul 2005 19:34 UTC
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isn't it amazing what these KDE guys can do WITHOUT all the money that is thrown (away?) in gnome (http://www.gnome.org/bounties/)??? i was astonished to see not just hundreds but thousands of dollars in bounties for quite obvious things... is Gnome really just driven by money? would it go away if the big sugardaddy company's stop spending? who's running gnome? Novell? this is no community project anymore...

i guesstimate if KDE got half as much money as gnome did over the years, gnome wouldn't even exist anymore - KDE would be far superior...

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RE: and all this without huge bounties!
by superstoned on Thu 14th Jul 2005 19:43 UTC
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>isn't it amazing what these KDE guys can do WITHOUT >all the money that is thrown (away?) in gnome >(http://www.gnome.org/bounties/)??? i was astonished >to see not just hundreds but thousands of dollars in >bounties for quite obvious things... is Gnome really >just driven by money? would it go away if the big >sugardaddy company's stop spending? who's running >gnome? Novell? this is no community project >anymore...

> i guesstimate if KDE got half as much money as >gnome did over the years, gnome wouldn't even exist >anymore - KDE would be far superior...

yeah yeah mod it down, flame KDE, not gnome. guess this does prove i'm right, isnt it? KDE doesn't get all this money (maybe that's good, as it also means the DEVELOPERS say what happens, not some big company) but gnome does - still KDE has the biggest share of the userspie... and once gnome was easier to use, but this (only) advantage is quickly dimmishing. And now QT is even more free than GTK (GPL versus LESSER GPL) there is no reason for gnome to exist anymore (as it was just created because Qt wasn't free enough - altough some say it is TOO FREE now?!?!?)

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Not a KDE fan but
by Anonymous on Thu 14th Jul 2005 19:52 UTC
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I must say I am impressed with all the work the KDE developers put into their product. The link above that someone used for plasma looks very cool as well.

Nice work KDE folks.

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RE: Not a KDE fan but
by superstoned on Thu 14th Jul 2005 20:08 UTC
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yeah, if aaron touches something... ;)

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KDE fan
by Anonymous on Thu 14th Jul 2005 20:09 UTC
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Keep up the good work.Thanks!

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kturtle
by evert on Thu 14th Jul 2005 20:17 UTC
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yeah, i suggested one syntax change, happy to see such big improvements coming to hally logo kturtle :-)

i mean, now i can explain kids and even my mom how computers /think/

gonna love the turtle :-)

slackware (PAT) was very right about dropping the difficult-to-package difficult-to-compile mess of code that is called gnome. of course, gnome has it's strong points, granted. i sometimes like to use it. but kde just looks more fresh, more modern, maybe it is only the feel but i really like kde.

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v Please!
by GhePeU on Fri 15th Jul 2005 09:52 UTC
future
by Anonymous on Fri 15th Jul 2005 10:17 UTC
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As is KDE good for the future of Linux so is the following link to a e-mail in which a SCO represetative say they knew befor they began their lawsuit it was defenitely unfounded..

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050714144923365

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hmmm
by Anonymous on Fri 15th Jul 2005 11:00 UTC
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What if you did something similar to pod-casting but with the SVN. Have some program monitor an RSS/CIA feed and do a checkout when a major feature is committed and then automatically built.

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RE: hmmm
by GhePeU on Fri 15th Jul 2005 11:16 UTC in reply to "hmmm"
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SVN (or CVS) commits aren't "a whole feature at once", most of the time there is an initial commit and then many other minor commits who fix problems. there's no way to automatically build when a new features is working

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