- We managed to get number of critical and important fixes in after RC2 for the final release of 4.5.0. These fixes have come not just from the usual suspects such as Marco or myself, but also people such as Will Stephenson, Raphael Kubo da Costa, Alex Fiestas, Rafał Miłecki, Maciej Mrozowski, Jonathan Michael Thomas, Sebastian Kugler, Ryan Rix, Giulio Camuffo,
Jacopo De Simoi .. I love you guys and your commitment! As do our users, even if they don't know it. ;) - a cool new runner for Debianesque systems that helps you install software you want to run but which isn't yet installed: Command Missing Runner
- tons of work on Plasma Mobile, which can not only make phone calls now but which has an innovative and common sense approach to interacting with desktop widgets even on those tiny screens. Marco is doing some amazing work, including screencasts. It's Sunday today and guess what I see on the commit logs as they roll past my screen? Yep, Marco hacking on Plasma Mobile. Commitment, baby, commitment! :)
- We have a new addition to the Plasma Desktop Scripting: you can set the desktop theme now in response to a request from a packager with Unity Linux. As usual, it's also well documented
- Lion mail is alive and kicking!
- Ryan has started writing tutorials!
- We have a new class in libplasma called PluginLoader that centralizes access to Applet, Containment, Runner and Service plugins so that applications can even add their own internal objects (plugin or not) into the mix. This is driven by the needs of Skrooge, KDevelop and Kontact.
- The mobile system tray is taking shape
- Plasma's network manager Plasmoid is getting more mobile connection UI love
- Plasma Media Center is getting QML love for at least the welcome screen; I assume QML will spread further into PMC over time as well.
- The pastebin DataEngine has morphed into the Share DataEngine thanks to Artur and become a lot more generic and, most importantly imho, scriptable so it is easy to extend and update between releases.
- Giulo's Grouping Desktop is on its way into the KDE Plasma Add-Ons package for the 4.6 release day
- ... as is Jason's dictionary runner
- Activities efforts from the Plasma and the Nepomuk side are being merged, thanks to the leadership of Ivan and Trueg. It is going to freaking rock, capturing user events such as file interaction, window usage and Plasma layouts all in one tidy package for users to ride
- I've started a "Plasmoid of the Day" thing on my identi.ca profile and I update it nearly every day. :)
That's some of what has gone down in the last few weeks. Happy happy, joy joy!
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"...The pastebin DataEngine has morphed into..." -> You said "morphed" on purpose right? Just because my nick is MoRpHeUz :P
Hehe, just kidding :)
Cheers!
I wish KDE PIM would see as much attention as Plasma.
@pembo13:
KDE PIM is about the single most active subproject in KDE SC, accounting for a whopping ~25% of SVN code contributions over the last few months, and (I very strongly suspect) having the largest amount of paid contributors for any KDE SC subproject, courtesy of KDAB.
"It's Sunday today and guess what I see on the commit logs as they roll past my screen? Yep, Marco hacking on Plasma Mobile."
let's tell a little story: whole day of beautiful nature walk, getting at home sunday evening tired, and instead being a reasonable human being one just thiks "oh well, let's just check the mail, I will not work on anything serious..." then all we know how it ends up.
Does this scenaio sounds familiar to you? :p
I would love KDE on my phone; what is the possibility that KDE can/will run on Android phones? For example, I have a Motorola Cliq with its social-network based Blur interface; bleh! But searching the Android market for KDE only brings me an analog clock widget based on a Plasma clock; no actual KDE applications at all. Will this ever happen, or is there just too much need for various KDE libraries that it just won't happen except for dedicated devices such as the Nokia N900 and the like?
@lefty.crupps: "what is the possibility that KDE can/will run on Android phones?"
no one is currently working on it that i know of, so i wouldn't even be able to tell you the realistic feasibility of it.
that said, it's pretty hard to replace the home screen of phones with add-ons. ;) so plasma-mobile itself is probably "right out" for devices that don't ship with it. if a phone did let you do so, some adjustments, such as the API that the dialer Plasma::Service uses would need some mating to the underlying OS on the phone.
but it should be possible to install the KDE Plasma platform and then run KDE apps like kontact mobile and Plasmoids on such a phone. that's probably a much more achievable goal for phones that lock down your home screen choice and/or aren't based on meego.
@SSJ
my address book has been broken since KDE 4 came out with Akonadi. I have to restart Kontact every time I need to use the address book directly. My bugs have been closed as WORKSFORME. But the releases are delayed so I'm not seeing any patched in Fedora 13 land for who knows how many more weeks/months.
I know on many android devices its possible to install alternate home screen apps that respond to to the home button. On rooted devices this is even easier. Is android-lighthouse even up to snuff enough yet to support plasma and KDELibs?
All the work going into kde is very nice, but still some areas of it don't receive as much atention as they should. Kopete for instance. A new redesigned UI is very much needed. Kopete is the perfect example of how not to code a IM client. Look how nice and easy Empathy UI is!!! I think that this opinion has been shered by others already. Wish in the future someone who has the skils will take the responsability of turning kopete into of worthy member of the kde4 family!
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232054
If this bug is still there in KDE SC 4.5, KDE will have a lot of negative reviews :(
The bug is fixed for 4.5.1 but I hope this won't be a problem in 4.5.0 as well :/
@Framp: there have been emails on the release mailing lists about this and it seems that many distro packages of "4.5.0" will actually include the dolphin patches.
@Framp: and today:
"After discussing the amount of changes that have gone into the 4.5 branch
post-RC3, the release team has decided to wait another couple of days for
things to settle down and to re-tag the 4.5.0 release from branch in a bit
more than an hour, at 1600 UTC. We'll push the further schedule for the 4.5
series for 1 week as well"
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