KDE-CVS-Digest

Weekly View of KDE CVS commits

February 7, 2003

By Derek Kite

This Week:

Work continues on the Kde Personal Information Manager and Koffice. Filters to interoperate with other applications and formats such as Outlook Express, OOImpress, MSWrite, rtf and ApplixGraphics were improved. Plus the continuing improvements to Konqueror, Kopete and many others.

An error slipped in the last two weeks. The krdc improvements were not attributed properly. Arend van Beelen jr. was the author of the patches in question.

Users of Kmail are waiting patiently for the imap support to be completed. I asked Zack Rusin:

Could you give an idea how imap support is going in head?

For someone who needs the functionality, is one or other of the
branches working well enough? make_it_cool or kroupware?

Zack responded:

Well, make_it_cool is basically gone and at this point there's very 
little reason for using it. Don told me that he'll be merging it as 
soon as I get folderjobs in. kroupware is also obsolete. All 
development is now in HEAD. 

Just yesterday I integrated folderjobs, which make all jobs on folders 
asynchronous. That merge alone should fix a lot of imap related 
problems. Basically now that folderjobs are in, you can and will expect 
a lot of imap related improvements all over KMail. Carsten has been 
doing an awesome job, fixing a lot of imap related problems and with 
folderjobs it looks like, finally, we will have a stable and complete 
imap support in KMail.

I received a note from Sarang Lakare, who said:

I just wanted to point out that kmag was 
added to KDE last week but there was no mention in last weeks digest nor is 
it there in this weeks digest.
...
Could you please add it to the digest so that people know that 
kmag is part of KDE now?

Being lazy and impertinent, I asked what kmag was. Sarang responded:

kmag is screen magnifier for KDE. http://kmag.sourceforge.net

It is part of the kde-accessibility module. It is useful for those with vision 
disability and those working with images and graphics (like icon drawing 
etc.)

KFS is described as a simple tool for 'synchronising' files between two sites. Usually, these two sites will be a local directory on your machine and a remote directory via FTP. This project was added to the kde repository.

Many thanks to the developers for those updates.

On another subject, think what you may of ESR, this quote seems to capture the essence of this community. From The Art of Unix Programming:

The fun factor started a virtuous circle early in Unix's history. People 
liked Unix, so they built more programs for it that made it nicer to use. 
Today people build entire, production-quality open-source Unix systems 
as a hobby. To understand how remarkable this is, ask yourself when you 
last heard of anybody cloning OS/360 or VAX VMS or Microsoft Windows for 
fun.

Application	Features	Optimize	Security	Bug Fixes
Development Tools
Educational
Kde-Base
Kde-Pim
KdeGraphics
Koffice
Konqueror
Multimedia
Networking Tools
Utilities

Click on the icons to go to the respective section!

New Features

Development Tools

Primoz Anzur committed a change to kdelibs/kate/data

Full JavaScript 1.0 support (RFC from Netscape)

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Stanislav Visnovsky committed a change to kdesdk/kbabel

Move to next/prev tag using Ctrl+ and Ctrl- (wishlist item 51641).

It does not work with tags containing end of the line ATM.

Refer to Bug 51641 - Shortcuts for skipping tags
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Roberto Raggi committed a change to kdevelop

added text hints support to qeditor

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Roberto Raggi committed a change to kdevelop/parts/qeditor

now you can use Tab or Space to complete a word

Diffs: 1, 2

Educational

Dominique Devriese committed a change to make_it_cool: kdeedu/kig

Add a translation object.  This works like it (imho) should: click on
the translation button, click the point to be translated, and click on
a vector to translate it by..
Internally, it looks quite nicely too, each ObjectImp is responsible
for transforming itself according to a given transformation..

CCMAIL:paolini@dmf.unicatt.it

Maurizio: another status update, all objects are working in the
make_it_cool branch.  Locuses work ( better than before ).  saving,
loading, macro's, rmb popups are still disabled though..  I'm
currently working on transformation stuff a bit, but i will only do
the easy part of this job yet, and then try to get the important save
and load things up and running again..

Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Kde-Base

Luboš Luňák committed a change to kdebase

XRANDR support.

Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Luboš Luňák committed a change to kdelibs/kdeui

XRANDR support, commented out as long as there's no official Qt support.

Diffs: 1, 2

In response to this, Volker Augustin asked:

What exactly is XANDR?

Luboš Luňák responded:

XRANDR is a new extension in XFree version 4.3, allowing to switch resolution 
(really, not just Ctrl+Alt+keypad+ ).
 
 I forgot one detail, officially supported not sooner than in Qt3.2,
  because TT doesn't allow API changes in patchlevel releases (but they already 
accepted the patch from Hamish Rodda, who's the developer of 
kdenonbeta/kcmrandr and these patches, I just helped a bit with it).

Kde-Pim

Holger Freyther committed a change to kdelibs/kabc/plugins

add a currently only read only Resource
to read the Evolution Personal Addressbook
Once vCard2.1 output exists writing will be enabled

Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Zack Rusin committed a change to kdepim/kmail

Let it burn. Folderjobs are in. Now to stabilize imap...

CCMAIL: kmail@kde.org

Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18

Don Sanders committed a change to kdepim/kmail

as-you-type spell checking and color quoting for the composer.

Thanks to Trolltech.

Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Koffice

Lukáš Tinkl committed a change to koffice/filters/kpresenter/ooimpress

tadaa, slide transitions done

Diffs: 1, 2

David Faure committed a change to koffice/filters/kword/ascii

Added hints for end users: (Unix) after "Line feed only",
(DOS/Windows) after "both: line feed and carriage return".
Is there anything using CR (\r) only? Old macs?

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Clarence Dang committed a change to koffice/filters/kword/mswrite

- portable rewrite of mswriteimport (Sparc & Alpha users, please test :))
- NEW mswriteexport filter which supports pretty much everything
  mswriteimport does, including full character and pargraph formatting
  plus images.  There's also basic table, list and variable support.

Both filters use LibMSWrite (http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmswrite/),
a platform-independent C++ library that can import and export Microsoft(r)
Write files.  A BIG THANKYOU must go to Shaheed Haque and Nicolas Goutte
who explained _absolutely_ everything I needed to know about writing
portable code (see the thread "Portable Code (am I dreaming? :))" in the
koffice-devel archives).  Without Shaheed and Nicolas, LibMSWrite would
not have been possible (oh, and Shaheed, your code generator idea is
wonderful! Now, LibMSWrite has one too! :)).

And yes, this is MS _Write_ from Windows 3.x, not MS _Word_ (before I get
flooded with emails :)) but combined with the new rtfexport, KWord should
now be fully capable of saving documents in MSWord-compatible formats,
for those who still need to exchange documents with Windows(r) users.

This filter pair is "symmetric" so if you open a Write document and save
it, you will practically get the original document back.  So this means
that you can now rely (don't bet your life on it but it works for me :))
on Write as a truly cross-platform format with great read/write support
in both Windows (including 3.0!) and *NIX.

So there you have it, 13,000+ lines of code :)

CCMAIL: srhaque@iee.org, nicolasg@snafu.de

Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 
21, 22, 23, 24

David Faure committed a change to koffice/filters/kword/rtf/export

Don't eat the first word of the heading which has a "page break before"
(missing space between \page and the first word). My doc is loaded fine
with MSWord97 now (I think the #if 0 code for page breaks can indeed be
removed), but there's a recent regression with the beginning of the text,
there's some garbage at the top.

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Norbert Andres committed a change to koffice/kspread

- started the backend for recording changes in a document

Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Konqueror

Daniel Molkentin committed a change to kdebase/kcontrol/ebrowsing/plugins/ikws/searchproviders

Ok, as we figured in berlin many developer use that shortcut anyway, so
I add it to cvs. If you don't like the fact that it uses doc.trolltech.com,
simply change the entry locally and point to to $QTDIR/doc/html instead.

-"qt:index" gives doc index
-"qt:classes" gives an overview over all classes
-"qt:classname" gives docu for the respective class

Diffs: 1, 2

Multimedia

Arnold Krille committed a change to kdenonbeta/arts/simpleartscontrolapplet

Adding a Simple Volume-Slider applet.

I am planning to extend it with the full artscontrol-abilities...

Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Networking Tools

Jason Keirstead committed a change to kdenonbeta/kopete/plugins/perlscript

Commited my perl plugin. 
I do *NOT* want / expect any of this to go in 0.6, I just wanted to add it 
to CVS now that it is pretty stable / functional.

Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Utilities

Hamish Rodda committed a change to kdenonbeta/acap

Beginnings of a new ioslave:
ACAP -- Application Configuration Access Protocol (rfc 2244)

Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Hamish Rodda committed a change to kdenonbeta/kcmrandr

updated information

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Hamish Rodda committed a change to kdenonbeta/kcmrandr/patches

Patches to make the rest of kde/qt play nicely with RANDR.

I wrote quite a bit of this originally, and Lubos & Trolltech refined it greatly (thanks :)

Please note that the qt patch is going to be a part of 3.2 (not 3.1.x) so
if you distribute it as 3.1 make sure it is acknowledged that the resized()
signal is not official api.

Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Julian Rockey committed a change to kdenonbeta/kfs

Move KFS into kdenonbeta

Status:

Vendor Tag:	jrockey
Release Tags:	start

Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

Jean-Baptiste Mardelle committed a change to kdenonbeta/kgpg

major rewrite. merged kgpgapplet with kgpg.

Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 
21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30

George Staikos committed a change to kdenonbeta/kwintv3

A rather crappy but somewhat usable first implementation of snapshots.
Also adds support for status messages.  There is a race though, so
messages that come too quickly consecutively will disappear too quickly.
This can be fixed in mainwindow.cpp/h later.

Optimizations

Kde-Pim

Zack Rusin committed a change to kdepim/kmail

Expiring should behave a lot better but it still sucks rather badly. 
From the "stupid things KMail does" series : on expunging folders or removing
series of messages we feed the reader window with a new message after removing each 
email. So deleting 1000 emails forces KHTML to parse and display 1000 emails (how's that
for a stress test for khtml ;) ). That's why expunging and deleting series of messages is so
damn slow.

CCMAIL: kmail@kde.org

Diffs: 1, 2

Zack Rusin committed a change to kdepim/kmail

Heh, that's pretty funny. Speeds up expiring and general deletion of messages
by a factor of 100 or so (I'm leaving the details of measuring it to SadEagle ;) ).

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Security

Konqueror

Peter Kelly committed a change to KDE_3_0_BRANCH: kdelibs/khtml/ecma

backport of XSS security fixes from 3.1

Diffs: 1, 2, 3

Bug Fixes

Development Tools

Hamish Rodda committed a change to KDE_3_1_BRANCH: kdebase/kate/app

Backport for bug 51033: Fix "must select a file before Alt+Left/Right works"

Plus:
* Add myself to authors (no new i18n)
* Change KateFileList to use the execute() signal to honour KDE single/double click settings.

Refer to Bug 51033
 - When Kate first starts you must select a file from the File List in order 
 to use file hot-key switching.
 Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Hamish Rodda committed a change to KDE_3_1_BRANCH: kdelibs/kate/data

Backport fix for bug 53004: fix highlighting files

Refer to Bug 53004 - kate reports errors with syntax highlighting
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Hamish Rodda committed a change to kdelibs/kate/part

Expand all folded code.  Changed shortcuts for expanding and collapsing all
nodes to Control+Shift+Plus/Minus, to be consistent with the expand/collapse
one local node.  I hope the kate devs agree this is better ;)

Needs my next commit to activate the gui.

CCMAIL53577-done@bugs.kde.org

Refer to Bug 53577 - Code folding: unfold throughout entire file
Diffs: 1, 2, 3, 4

Dirk Mueller committed a change to kdelibs/kate/part

- ever tried kate /dev/zero ? :-)
CCMAIL:51360-done@bugs.kde.org

Refer to Bug 51360 - HTML object tag with link to devices /dev cause malfunctions
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Hamish Rodda committed a change to kdelibs/kate/part

Fix cursorPosition() for non-wordwrap mode.

Needs a backport.

CCMAIL53690-done@bugs.kde.org

Refer to Bug 53690 - tag completion window is offset out of quanta window
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Dirk Mueller committed a change to KDE_3_1_BRANCH: kdelibs/kate/part

backport fix for khtml bugreport 51360

Refer to Bug 51360 - HTML object tag with link to devices /dev cause malfunctions
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