Krusader NewsLetter: Volume 2, Number 1, Febr-13-2006
Frank Schoolmeesters
Krusader NewsLetter, Febr 13, 2006
(c)2005-2006 by The Krusader Krew, All Rights Reserved
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Welcome to the Krusader Newsletter with news, views and
information about recent developments and ongoing issues in the
Krusader Project. Our aim is to inform of recent developments, give
a preview of upcoming features, and let our loyal users have a
direct line to the Krusader Krew.
Krusader-1.70.0 "Round Robin" released
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After a long Bug hunting season _many_ bugs where fixed [1],
and Krusader-1.70.0 "Round Robin" was finally released [2].
Thanks to all for sending in bug reports, feedback and patches!
1. http://krusader.sourceforge.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=1458
2. http://krusader.sourceforge.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=1465
IMPORTANT REMINDER: Crashes in Krusader caused by Qt 3.3.5
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We've been getting a lot of emails and bug reports regarding random
crashes in Krusader, especially during some file operations
(copy/move etc.).
These crashes are related to Qt 3.3.5 and NOT Krusader.
It seems that Qt 3.3.5 introduced a serious bug which is now
causing random crashes in many KDE applications including
Konqueror. You can google for it to find out more.
As far as we know, Debian (and SuSE?[4]) already posted new Qt binaries
that fix the problem, and gentoo has masked Qt 3.3.5 completely.
As for now, you either need Qt 3.3.4 or a fixed Qt 3.3.5, depending
on your distribution.
More information is available on our website [3].
Our Krusader developer Heiner Eichmann encountered Qt 3.3.5
unstability problems on SuSE [4], Csaba Karai recommends to
to use Qt 3.3.4 since SuSE RPM-s from www.kde.org seems to be buggy.
More feedback regarding this issue is always welcome in the forum tread [3].
Since _many_ bugs where fixed since 1.60.1 , we also recommend that you
upgrade to Krusader-1.70.0 "Round Robin".
3. http://krusader.sourceforge.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=1407
4. http://groups.google.com/group/krusader-devel/browse_thread/thread/f423672c630d113e/7db4ac5af3e01ecb#7db4ac5af3e01ecb
US$250 donation by Distrowatch.com
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The Krusader project is pleased that we have received a US$250
donation from distrowatch.com[5], we would like to thank everyone
who has nominated Krusader for the Distrowatch dontation program,
and all previous donations[6]. Krusader folows in the footsteps of
distrowatch donations of The GIMP, K3b, Vim, amaroK, MPlayer,
GNOME, Enlightenment, Quanta Plus, ... Also thanks for the nice
comments about Krusader on distrowatch.com [5]. Donations[7] will
be used for further development of Krusader. Thanks, all!
5. http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20060206
6. http://sourceforge.net/project/project_donations.php?group_id=6488
7. http://sourceforge.net/donate/index.php?group_id=6488
Spread the Word Krusader
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If you like Krusader, let people know! Write articles and reviews
[8] for internet or print publications. Encourage your friends to
give Krusader a try. Participate in forums to help others in the
community. Blog about Krusader, talk about Krusader in forums, ...
Help us spreading the word, KRUSADER! You can also support Krusader
by putting a Krusader button on your website [9]. Thanks!
8. http://krusader.sourceforge.net/press.php
9. http://users.telenet.be/franks.website/downloads/spreading/
Krusader contributions on kde-files.org
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Recently several new Krusader contributions where added on
kde-files.org[10] . It features Keymaps[11], Colormaps[12], User
Actions[13] and JavaScript Extensions[14].
Special thanks goes to Frank Karlitschek for providing the KDE
community with these excellent facilities[15].
Please consider uploading your contributions at kde-files.org.
We are collecting them. If your contribution is selected by us it
will be shipped with Krusader at the next release. Thanks!
10. http://www.kde-files.org/index.php?xcontentmode=660x661x662x663
11. http://www.kde-files.org/index.php?xcontentmode=660
12. http://www.kde-files.org/index.php?xcontentmode=661
13. http://www.kde-files.org/index.php?xcontentmode=662
14. http://www.kde-files.org/index.php?xcontentmode=663
15. http://www.kde-files.org/
Krusader and Konqueror - Twin versus One-panel filemanagers
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Linuxtoday.com [16] has published Matej Urbancic article [17] that
explains about the differences between Krusader, as a member of
twin panel file managers, and Konqueror, as single panel
multi-purpose manager.
Matej Urbancic [18] is a Gnome user who tested numerous file
mangers available for Linux.
After finding the best OFM available, he joined the Krew to support
the Krusader project and help in spreading the usage of twin-panel
file managers. This year he started a blog [19] in which he
focuses on understanding the OFM paradigm.
16. http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2006012500726RVKESW
17. http://murban.blogspot.com/2006/01/krusader-and-konqueror-twin-versus-one.html
18. http://kde-apps.org/news/index.php?id=223
19. http://murban.blogspot.com/
Krusader on (K)Ubuntu
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A MainInclusion Report for Krusader is created [20],
and now Krusader is added in the UbuntuMainInclusion Queue [21].
Any help to get Krusader into (K)Ubuntu main is verry appriciated.
Thanks!
Unofficial (K)Ubuntu packages for krusader-1.70.0 are already
available for download [22], one day after the release. Thanks!
20. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MainInclusionReportKrusader
21. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuMainInclusionQueue
22. http://krusader.sourceforge.net/downloads.php
Website XHTML 1.1 / Search 2.0
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The website has undergone some changes [23]. First, the website is
fully XHTML 1.1 compliant now. That was about time. Furthermore
the search box has been moved for better visibility. While there
is nothing special about the search itself, the text next to it
has this cool vanishing effect. It's powered by Thomas Fuchs' most
excellent script.aculo.us JavaScript framework, which brings some
Web 2.0 flavour to the site. Many files are affected by the
changes - please report any oddities you might notice.
23. http://krusader.sourceforge.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=1431
Distribution News
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Distrowatch.com reports several Linux distros that include
Krusader 1.60.x [24] [25] and Krusader 1.70.0(-beta2) [26]
24. http://distrowatch.com/search.php?pkg=krusader&pkgver=1.60.0
25. http://distrowatch.com/search.php?pkg=krusader&pkgver=1.60.1
26. http://distrowatch.com/search.php?pkg=krusader&pkgver=1.70.0
* ArcheOS: 1.0.1 (1.60.0) [27]
* Karamad Linux: 1.4.2 (1.60.0) [28]
* Atomix: 3.2 (1.60.1) [29]
* ASPLinux: 11-beta (1.60.1) [30]
* ISlack (1.70.0-beta2) [31]
* ROCK Linux (1.70.0-beta2) [32]
27. http://distrowatch.com/archeos
28. http://distrowatch.com/karamad
29. http://distrowatch.com/atomix
30. http://distrowatch.com/asp
31. http://distrowatch.com/islack
32. http://distrowatch.com/rock
Help and feedback
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That's all the news for this edition ;)
Help, feedback and contributions [33] are always welcome.
Your feedback on this newsletter, and suggestions for
the format, size, and content of future newsletters will be
appreciated!
33. http://www.krusader.org/help.php
Thanks for reading, and if you have any ideas to improve
Krusader, feel free to let us know. We do it all, for you....
Kind regards,
The Krusader Krew
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