In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Old-school desktop patterns return as a Plasma wallpaper, along with an interactive Marble-based wallpaper display. A simple video player Plasmoid based on Phonon. Continued optimisations in Plasma and KDevelop. Various new colour schemes for KDE 4 added to KDE SVN. KSysGuard processes can now be "dragged into a text editor, word processor or spreadsheet program". More progress in the functional refactoring of the Kigo game. Support for compiling sources at runtime with the C# language bindings for KDE. Backup functionality added to KJots. Last.fm service converted to use the KDE system-wide proxy settings, and basic filtering capability added to the service browser in Amarok 2.0. Further work on the new DeviceSync application. KConfigEditor begins to be ported to KDE 4. KitchenSync and the Akonadi OpenSync plugin are disabled for the KDE-PIM 4.2 release. kdekiosk becomes officially unmaintained due to a lack of developer interest. Final preparations for release and the tagging of Amarok 2.0 Final.Read the rest of the Digest here.

Posted on Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:27:14 +0000 at http://dot.kde.org/2008/12/31/kde-commi ... ember-2008