In this week's CVS digest:
The KWin rewrite has been merged into mainline KDE. Optimizations in KABC, the address book framework, and the
Konqueror listview.
QtRuby gains support for KDE classes. KJSEmbed, a JavaScript implementation for KDE,
now has SQL database bindings. Plus a large number of bugfixes.
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>> I think it is not hard to implement these features.
Never underestimate the art of adding a new feature.
1. Developers are going to do little more than giggle about feature requests posted here. We have a bug tracking system for that. bugs.kde.org is where this belongs.
2. We're already several weeks into the feature freeze for 3.2, so if it's not on the feature plan and not already done, it ain't gonna happen this go around. ;-)
3. Please people, don't say, "this should be easy" if you don't know any of the issues involved. If it's "easy" then where are your patches? ;-)
[steps off of soapbox]
Better and unified Graphics for KDe Games. Draughts and Chess...
> 1. Per site loading policy for images and flashes (like for javascript and cookies).
well, ok.. one point to you
> 2. Downloading of files by external program (like galeon does).
What are you talking of? KGet (an "external" download manager) ist the way it works... right now
> 3. Possibility to save loaded into konqueror window by kparts .pdf,.dvi,.ps files.
> Ability to download these files by (external) download tool instead of loading by kdvi etc.
I don't get the point here, but out of a guess: either preview a file with the kparts component, open it separately or choose "save link as"... it's your choice
> 4. Change in zooming policy, instead per page to per site or per tab (like in galeon).
Well it _is_ per tab or per site (in a tab)
> 5. Blocking popups.
ufff...konqueror actually blocks popups (Choose "smart" for the "open new windows" policy in the javascript settings)
I want to respond to point #3:
Often, save link as... does not work. the link is often a script, and downloading the script is not what you want. Moreover, this whish should be easy to fulfill:
since the "send file..." menu item is often present, a "save as..." menu item could be easily added. It simply means renaming a temporary file, instead of encoding it and sending it via mail.
Fix the long-standing bug (since Mosaic) which allows a linewrap before any start-tag, even if it's not preceded by space. Example: ...mail me for help ([email protected]). If this occurs such that the email address has to be wrapped to the next line of display, it leaves the open-parenthesis all by itself at the end of the line! (Go on, do it...create a file with a long line ending as above, display it, and then narrow the window until it wraps.)
Right-click on a link should include a "Copy Email Address", the same as "Copy Link Location" but without the "mailto:" method.
Right-click on a link should include a "Send this Link by Email", so you don't have to load a page just to be able to send its URI in an email message.
Pop-up control on a per-site basis.
Don't tinker with the toolbars, they're just fine as they are.
A Print Preview would be nice (export to PDF/PS?)
Add much better recognition of common filetypes. Having it ask if you want to open a .asp file in Kword is not useful.
ADD XML and XSLT! PLEASE! Having it spawn Moz every time is a pain.
Fix printing so it uses the configured fonts. Right now (3.1-15, KDE 3.1-12, RH9) everything prints in 10pt Times or smaller, regardless of what the CSS said and regardless of what display font you have set. If necessary, have a "Print Magnification" setting that will let you blow everything up x% for printing.
A new "Syphon Image URIs" and "Syphon Link URIs" function would be useful, either to a file or to a new tab for cut and paste. This is equivalent to the --images and --links options of dog (a drop-in replacement for cat, see http://jl.photodex.com/dog/): I'm sure Jason and Jacob would let you use their code.
Make Konqueror restart with menus, a toolbar, bookmarks, and a location bar after a crash: currently it loses all these settings, sometimes even after a normal exit. If this config is read from a file on startup, do a close() when it's been read.
///Peter
> Fix the long-standing bug (since Mosaic)
khtml/Konqueror was never based on Mosaic.
> Pop-up control on a per-site basis.
> A Print Preview would be nice (export to PDF/PS?)
Let me guess, you never used Konqueror 3.2 or in case of print preview even KDE 3.1.
> khtml/Konqueror was never based on Mosaic.
But it displays the same error. Try it. Something, somewhere, must be using the same broken model of parsing as all the other browsers. The existence of a start-tag in a document does *not* mean this is a posssible line-wrap point: in particular, a start-tag immediately following an open-bracket is precisely *not* a place the line should be wrapped. Let Konqueror be the first browser to fix this bug!
> Let me guess, you never used Konqueror 3.2 or in case of print preview even KDE 3.1.
No, for support reasons I'm dependent on the RPMs available from RH's up2date.
This is excellent news, thanks. My problem.
Unfortunately preview via the KDE print filter hangs more often than not (I just tried it on this page...sure enough), and only displays Times, regardless of the fonts on the screen display. I was hoping for something a little more robust.
///Peter