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1st April 2005
by Derek Kite
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This Week...
ksvg2 can now do animations. Kexi gains read/write form support. Digikam adds a photo restoration plugin. New releases of Kile, amaroK and Kubuntu. Get ready for the move to Subversion!

Expect to see the CVS repository converted to Subversion on Monday April 4th. Here are some links that may be useful:

http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/subversion/
Perl script to retrieve password from ~/.cvspass
cvspwd.c .cvspass decoder

Jonathan Riddell announced a release candidate for Kubuntu:
The Kubuntu 5.04 Release Candidate is now available. This is the last testing release before our first full release next week.

The Kubuntu Release Candidate was announced at the same time as the Ubuntu Release Candidate, please see the Ubuntu Announcement for details.

http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2005-March/000022.html

The Kubuntu Release Candidate is available as Live and Install CDs for x86, AMD64 and PowerPC. You can download the CD images from:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/hoary/rc/

Please download using bittorrent if possible to stop the server being overloaded. We welcome feedback for this release, either on the mailing list or on our wiki page:

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/KubuntuReleaseCandidateComments

If you find a problem please check

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/KubuntuReleaseCandidateKnownProblems and report it to http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com.

If you need help or have a question try asking on our mailing list http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users or on our IRC channel #kubuntu on freenode.

Jeroen Wijnhout announced a beta release of Kile:
The Kile developers are pleased to announce the availability of the first beta release of Kile 1.8. Kile is a LaTeX editor for the KDE desktop.

The most important changes are:
  • QuickPreview: Compile and view a selection of your document. Very convenient if you want to preview a section, formula or paragraph of your document.
  • UserHelp: Add help documents of your choice to the Help menu.
  • 3 new wizards: Float, Math and Postscript Tools.
  • Several bugfixes and cleanups.
You can download the source here: http://kile.sourceforge.net/download.php

Please test and report back to: kile-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

Mark Kretschmann and the amaroK team announces version 1.2.3 of the amaroK audio player
We're getting you into the right mood for spring. Have a party, spin some music with the new amaroK release, and relax. Enjoy the good life.

ChangeLog relative to amaroK 1.2.2:

FEATURES:
  • Graphequalizer script can now enable and disable the equalizer.
  • New DCOP call "player: equalizerEnabled" returns whether or not the equalizer is enabled.
  • OSD notification for mute.
  • Mute global shortcut, Win+M.
  • Add %comment token for comment display in OSD. (BR 100944)
  • View/Edit track entry into context menus of ContextBrowser and CollectionBrowser.
  • You can mark/unmark albums as compilations via CollectionBrowser's right-click contextmenu.
  • New DCOP call "collection: query(const QString& sql)". Allows to make arbitrary queries on the Collection database.
  • New DCOP call "playlist: removeCurrentTrack()". (BR 92973)
CHANGES:
  • Show "Artist - Title" for compilation discs in CollectionBrowser and ContextBrowser.
  • Upgraded internal SQLite database to 3.2.0.
  • DCOP call saveCurrentPlaylist() now returns the path to current.xml.
BUGFIXES:
  • Appropriate context menu entry for changing queue status for multiple playlist items.
  • Fix regression preventing dequeuing multiple selected tracks.
  • 'Show Toolbar' remembers its settings between sessions. (BR 98662)
  • When doing Musicbrainz lookup from the Context browser, search for the real track, not the whole album.
  • Memleak when a radio stream stalled. (BR 102047)
  • The Collection Scan finally checks for the right file modification time.
  • Adding a compilation disc from ContextBrowser was broken.
  • GStreamer-engine: Reduced the gap when switching to next track without crossfading.
  • GStreamer-engine: amaroK was swallowing the beginning of a track when Fade-in was set to zero. (BR 94472)
  • Use a better highlight color in the "Configure Collection" dialog. (BR 102059)
  • "Remove Duplicates / Missing" fixed. Removes dead entries correctly.
  • Fix units for samplerate. (BR 101528)
  • amaroK using 100% CPU on some systems. (BR 101524) (a KHTML bug which got exposed by code in amaroK 1.2.2)
The amaroK team
---------------

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: 2780 by 204 developers, 406798 lines modified, 1311 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
1017
kdenonbeta
219
koffice
197
kdeextragear-2
169
www
154
kdeextragear-3
122
kdebase
115
kdelibs
114
kdeextragear-1
100
kdepim
96
Lines Developer Commits
21946
Spiros Georgaras
173
1068
Thierry Vignaud
137
16959
Nikolas Zimmermann
94
5980
Rinse de Vries
81
936
David Faure
79
110904
Chusslove Illich
73
843
Albert Astals Cid
73
19239
Gilles Caulier
66
6453
George Staikos
63
393
Alexander Neundorf
51

Internationalisation (i18n) Status
Language Percentage Complete
British English
100.00%
Swedish
100.00%
Portuguese
99.10%
Danish
98.27%
French
96.39%
Estonian
95.90%
Dutch
95.80%
Spanish
95.75%
Italian
94.40%
Serbian
92.04%

Bug Killers
Bug Killer Number Of Bugs Closed
Waldo Bastian
44
Kurt Hindenburg
28
Thiago Macieira
26
Olivier Goffart
24
Ingo Klöcker
15
Jesper Pedersen
15
David Faure
13
Aaron J. Seigo
13
Luboš Luňák
12
Stephan Kulow
11

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