On 10/03/2014, at 8:20 AM, Jos Poortvliet wrote:

> On Friday 07 March 2014 20:17:16 Christoph Feck wrote:
>> On Friday 07 March 2014 11:29:52 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> The first beta of our applications and platform 4.13 is out. There
>>> are some major changes, the introduction of Baloo being first and
>>> foremost among them.
>> 
>> Yes, including Baloo integration in Dolphin and other applications
>> that are already ported.
>> 
>>> But there is more. We (the promo team) would like to write an
>>> article to ask our community to help test this release and we'd
>>> appreciate it if you could tell us WHAT exactly could use some
>>> extra testing!
>>> 
>>> The more specific you make it, the better it is, of course. Help us
>>> help our users help you ;-)
>> 
>> From quickly checking what was done for 4.13, I would also mention:
>> - fixes and new features in KMail (Laurent blogged about them)
>> - new features in Okular: tabs, magnifier, better media handling
>> - improvements in Kate (made during some sprint I guess)
>> - enhanced Palapeli (puzzle game)
>> and for those, who are interested:
>> - improvements and fixes in Umbrello (UML modeling)
>> 
>> Additionally, I would encourage users to test the PIM stack (again).
>> From looking at the stats, the number of new bug reports decline. This
>> could either be caused by people giving up on it, by the fact that
>> everything has already been reported, or by the ongoing improvements
>> in the KDEPIM stack, including work done by new Akonadi maintainers.
>> 
>> In other words, let us ask the "are we there yet?" question again for
>> KDEPIM, and invite users to report thing that still might need to be
>> addressed.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Christoph Feck (kdepepo)
> 
> Thanks. Any more? I'd like this to go out on Monday, if possible... If 
> nothing else is in the way, of course.
> 
> Current WIP draft:
> http://dot.kde.org/2014/03/10/applications-413-coming-soon-help-us-test

Thanks very much, Jos, for the section you put in re Palapeli.  I would just
like to add that the Palapeli Handbook has now been updated on master
and KDE/4,13 branches and contains details of how to solve large jigsaw
puzzles on a small screen.

Thanks again, Ian W.



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