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____/ Tony(UK) on Wednesday 20 August 2008 05:31 : \____
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:11:00 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> KDE Commit Digest: 3rd August 2008
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>> | The Plasma "extenders" project is merged into kdebase, with initial |
>> integration into the kuiserver applet. Continued work on the |
>> systray-refactor, and more work on the "Weather" Plasmoid. A whole load
>> of | bugfixes for Kicker 3.5.10. A new "Magic Lamp" minimize effect, and
>> a rework | of the "Grid" effect in kwin-composite. Support for
>> extracting artwork from | iPod's, tag editing and removing files from
>> MTP devices, and scriptable | services (including a "web control"
>> script), and lots of other developments | in Amarok 2.0.
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>> http://commit-digest.org/issues/2008-08-03/
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>> Configuring the Plasma Panel
>
> ....or not, as the case may be. KDE 4 is going the wrong way!
> Has anyone bothered to tell the developers that although quite attractive
> for some, thousands of XP and Vista users turn off (or try to) the eye-candy
> because of visual impairment or other accessibility requirements.
> Last time I looked at the wife's machine (Kubuntu KDE 4.1) I could find no
> way of turning off the visual effects. Wrong way to go!
>
> If developers continue to develop a desktop where large sections of potential
> users cannot use their offerings, then this means that /all/ KDE 4x distros
> cannot be used by visually impaired people, eventually leaving Gnome to
> fulfil their needs. This verges on discrimination IMO.
>
> As an aside Roy, your post shows up here with a time-stamp of 10.11PM.
> Moshe posted a reply, timed at 9.24PM
> How can this be?
My clock is set correctly and timezone set to GMT (+0:00). I don't know what's
causing this (I see my posts showing at the correct time over here), but I'll
check. Maybe it's the server that relays posts whose clock is misaligned...
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