For the last few days, I have been busy implementing translation support for the KDE Commit-Digest. Both the website and the actual digest introduction are now able to be translated and displayed in other languages. Translating the digest introduction every week is a much bigger undertaking than a one-off translation of the website, and so only for the hardcore.

Right now, thanks to the following people, the site is available in 4 languages (excluding English):

• Italian: Leonardo Cassarani (emc2[]) and Pino Toscano (pino)

• Slovenian: Jure Repinc (JLP)
• Dutch: Rinse de Vries (rinse)
• German: Carsten Niehaus (carsten) and Martin Pfeiffer (hubipete)

(To make a permanent selection from the (soon to be increasing? ) languages, use the Options panel)

Which I think is pretty nifty. But, of course, that is not too impressive considering the variety of languages that KDE is available in .

So, if you are able to translate the Commit-Digest website to be available in your language, get in touch (email, #digest on IRC, or midnight arrival at my house? ), and i'll walk you through the proceedure. This fun activity should only take about 45 minutes, and you'll be credited on the translation page that i'm about to make.

And I'll have more announcements shortly

So, it is that time of the week again... commit-digest time!
Read the latest issue here

This week, I have enhanced the commit-digest.org site quite a bit (though I am certainly not finished) - now there are actually links in the sidebar, so it is now a functional random strip of blue, and I have implemented the options page that I always wanted. This means that you can now modify how the digest looks in your browser, for example, if you don't like the italic quotes, change to regular. And if you want the sections to be a bit more defined, turn on "highlight headers". These are all features that have been requested, so hopefully at least Pino will be happy

I've also extended the archive by adding another 32 digests, extending back to 3rd January 2003. I still have a lot of work to do on the archive, as it doesn't even have entries for all the digests that existed yet. But it it moving ahead. I need to think about how I am going to extract and then represent the information from the CVS days, as webcvs is now offline... i'll be adding all the introduction segments from the digests to the archives first, as they are the most interesting to the casual reader.

Enjoy the latest digest, and don't forget to leave any comments at this dot story!

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The KDE Commit-Digest, written by Derek Kite for many, many issues is back... only this time, i'm producing it

So, here is the first issue of my new digest: http://commit-digest.org/issues/2006-04-09/

It is from last Sunday (yes, it is 2 days late, but what is 2 days after 6 months? ) On the positive side, that means you only have 5 days to wait to the next issue - which will be better, I promise It might even have

If you go to http://commit-digest.org/archive, you can find the issues written by Derek - the archives are currently incomplete, but should be finished by this Sunday.

The people I need to thank are: Pino, for listening to the result of my poor PHP and HTML skills, Paleo for hosting my website projects and of course, Derek, for firstly bringing us the digest for so many weeks, and for answering my questions about the digest production process.

Things learnt so far: that my time predictions are too optimistic, and that perl is unreadable

Anyway, please leave any comments/suggestions in the comments section on the dot story (keeping in mind that this first issue is not an example of the completeness of the next issues!).

I have now extended a certain myscreen feature kde-wide... buzz ratings!
Check the charts at http://myscreen.org/buzz

As this is the first calculation, naturally the "change" indicator is flat - however, I will probably run the calculation once a day.

Now, to stop everyone asking me how they are calculated, here is what I have written on the FAQ page:

"...a number of sources, including commit activity, mentions on webpages, and short-term news and discussion. Each source is weighted based on overall importance and influence on "buzz", then added together to produce the buzz rating."

If I have left you or your application out, it wasn't really on purpose - if you want to be added to the charts, find me on IRC.

More to come soon.

So, by writing now I am keeping my last promise that my next entry would be about the project that I have been working on. However, maybe I should have written earlier than exactly 2 months later.

Anyway, as the title of this entry says, my project is myscreen.org - an interactive way to watch various KDE people work and play. As of this entry, there are 14 people from all areas of KDE. As well as viewing the screen of the user, you can also view stats about them, which are also updated live.

The map at http://myscreen.org shows all the users on the site - the red dots are people who are active at this very moment! Some people are more active than others, but you can bet that whenever I am at my computer, I am active at http://myscreen.org/dannya

That's enough about the site for now, I think

Also, for you superkaramba users, there is now an applet available now, so you can watch us from your desktop. Grab it here: http://myscreen.org/applet

Oh yes - and if seele asks you to complete a survey in #kde-devel, help our usability people out and say "Yes!"

More soon...

Some of you may now have guessed the project that I hinted at in my last entry. Well, I am not going to talk about that this time (I will in my next entry, I promise!), other than to say that it is running fine after switching servers - sorry for using so much of your traffic allocation, cmk!

Working for the past few months with in kde-edu with Albert (of KPDF fame), we have been creating a new educational game for KDE, called KSimon.

KSimon is a clone of the electronic "Simon" game that many of you may remember from the late 70's. The gameplay consists of ever-increasing sequences of lights appearing, which you must re-enter in the correct order. We think it is a lot of fun

As we believe that KSimon is now a fully-functional, ready-to-be-released app, we invite you to test it (yes, software testing can sometimes be fun!). KSimon is currently located at kdereview/ksimon.

Enjoy, and don't forget to tell us what you think in #kde-edu!

Finally time to write a first entry.

There have been so many things to do lately, which means that I won't get bored - though my head may explode

Within KDE, I work with the kde-edu project. I also created the monochrome iconset for KDE 3.4

In the kde-edu realm, nice things are happening. KSimon and Kanagram are getting to a nice stage, and we hope to get them into KDE 3.5 - for those that have tried KSimon, do you think it should be in kde-edu, or kde-games?

I felt the effects of yesterday's plasma slashdotting, the second link of that submission linking to my mockups. As cmk generously hosts various things for me, his site (kde-forum.org) was also taken down. I feel bad about that

It seems that I will have to use bittorrent for the plasma *video* that I am preparing.

Also hosted at that server is a project that I am working on, that I hope to show you all very soon. Though this situation has slightly put back my plans, I am now back in business

p.s. Enjoy your holiday annma, you deserve it!