kdecore
* Fix compiling on Solaris.
kdeui
* Now KKeyChooser does not steal focus when created.
* Fixed the terrible flickering in KDateTable like for example when
resizing Kicker.
kio
* Make move not do a copy and delete in some cases.
* Fix problem with inotify causing crashes...
KIOslave
* Fixed referrer not sent back to client when using https.
KHTML
* Lots of fixes
kjs
* Enumerate array properties in order of addition, matching other
browsers.
* Support the "debugger" keyword.
kssl
* Increase usability of KIO KSSL dialog.
* Update netlock QA class certificate.
* Add startcom CA.
mimetypes
* Add *.tor pattern for bittorrent mimetype.
* Add x-mplayer2 (Microsoft media) mimetype.
Changes:
* KHTML
o Don't crash when triple-clicking on a line that has :after or
:before content, or anything that isn't in the DOM
o Implement nondeterministic CSS matching
o Do not crash if an old target got destroyed.
o Fix static Y position of positioned objects in initial whitespace
(3.5 regression).
o Fontrendering: A few percent speedup by caching font scalability
info
o Konqueror will crash if a floated link uses :hover:before or
:hover:after to create a positioned element.
o Text selection misbehaves for devanagari.
o Fix crash when hovering a HTML menu item
o Don't crash when null pointer passed to removeEventListener
o Prevent an infinite loop in parseToken() when dealing with broken
HTML.
o If we saved creating a renderer at attach. Create it if we later
need it.
o Don't allow to find text in password fields.
o Improve XHTML CSS styling
o Handle CSS restyling for all types of dynamic DOM changes and
user interaction
o Only repaint the expossed background when scrolling. Optimizes a
few slow pages with unoptimized X11 drivers.
o Speed-up painting and selections on pages with large tables.
o Match better the error-handling capabilities of Firefox with
respect to DL/DT/DD elements.
o Added missing sanity check which caused crashes in caret mode on
pgup/pgdn when there was no valid caret.
o Make sure copyBlt doesn't fail because of different depth.
o No other property depends on background-image, and applying it
before the rest of the background short-hand breaks it under
inheritance.
* KIO
o Add media kioslave support to KFileDialog
o KPropertiesDialog first renames the file, then allows all plugins
to save their changes.
o Make KDirSelectDialog work with media:/ and similar. Fixes JuK.
* KDEPrint
o Fix usage of private methods in CUPS which broke KDEPrint with
CUPS 1.2
o Allow adding multiple file to the to-be-printed list.
o No fax sent when special characters are included in the sender
information
o Kdeprintfax ignores paper size setting when using Hylafax
* KDE-UI
o Use KConfigGroup to reset the config group automatically.
o Give a possibility to disable spellchecking.
* KIO-Slaves
o KIO-HTTP
o Keep the fragment when doing redirections. (the HTTP requests
and redirections don't include fragments; it's a browser thing).
* Don't restore files to recent files list that don't exist anymore.
* KIO-KFile: Fix problems with mounting filesystems with ACL
* Kate
o Make the spelling dialog modal.
o Make updates incrementally and limit to 2000 messages
o Alternate Bash heredoc style highlights correctly.
* KHTML
o Performance improvements:
+ Improve rendering speed of some semi-transparent pixmap
backgrounds.
+ Improve performance of JavaScript error logging widget, to
help deal with sites with completely broken JavaScript which
continuously causes errors.
+ Better performance for the classname selector
o Get iframes, objects and some other overlaid widgets to obey
their stacking context at last (a.k.a, keep flash and iframes
*under* dhtml menus).
o Implement CSS2.1 quirk about behavior of overflow and root and
body. Now we pass Acid2 according to Opera's standard, but in
an actual release version.
o Implement selectionStart, selectionEnd, setSelectionRange on
textarea and text input tags.
o Improved keyboard event support, implementing the API in the
latest DOM3 Events working group note.
o Properly scale CSS line height when zooming.
o Multiple fixes to the table DOM.
o Better frame sizing calculation.
o Better handling of the case where form-related tags get moved
by parser during residual style handling.
o Fix the DOM operation handling to not be so picky about the
DTD. This makes us match other browsers better, and lets us
remove various evil hacks in the XML parser
o Various getComputedStyle improvements.
o Various text-indent fixes.
o Some fixes for namespace handling in XML and CSS.
o Compatibility improvements in some collections.
o Fix JavaScript timer events over midnight.
o Fix handling of error event.
o Do not assign the same AccessKey to different javascript:
links.
o Do not improperly honor maxlength on file input elements.
o Properly reload iframe when source re-set.
o Make usemap case-insensitive.
o Better parsing of malformed cols and rows parameters of
textarea.
o Various fixes to DOM and non-standard bindings to CSS.
o Various rendering fixes
* KJS
o Performance fix: do not redundantly re-attach the JavaScript
debugger.
o Free up some "future reserved keywords" for use as identifiers,
to match other browsers.
o Accept trailing semicolons in initializer lists.
o Various RegExp object improvements: support .compile, properly
report some errors, plug some memory leaks.
o Give JavaScript debugger some stack room to operate when
handling stack overflow exceptions.
o Fix bugs in latin1 to ucs conversion.
Changes:
* Improved performance under some conditions on the networking classes.
* (KIO-slave http): Work around Apache2 DAV module's insistence on
trailing slashes at the end of requests on directories.
* (KIO-slave kfile): enabling of the normal permission dialog takes
effect only after closing after doing changes on acl
* (KIO-slave kfile): problems with changing permissions in the mask
entry
* KDirWatch: KDirWatch stopDirScan affects outside KDirWatch instances
also.
* KCrash: Make KCrash more rebust (eg. in malloc())
* Mimetype detection: add more "magic" patterns to recognise shell
scripts
* KJS: avoid buffer overflow on decoding utf8 uri sequences.
* Kate
o Wrong syntax highlighting chosen for filetype
o Clear selection when closing a document.
o Text-files displayed in konqueror are saved with 0 bytes.
o Backspace key does not work when shift key is held
o PicAsm highlighting is missing IORWF, RLF, RRF
* Kicker
o Turning off tooltip doesn't work
o Don't crash on logout.
o app started by kmail does not show in kicker
* KDesktop
o Desktop icons move down at each login due to child panel at top
of screen
* KHTML
o Performance improvements:
o Add caching for getElementById
o Much faster appending of options to selects, and clearing of
selects
o Simplify dirty region computation, to speed up cases of lots of
small updates
o Small improvements in efficiency of URL handling in image loader
o Match other browsers and not the DOM on behavior of getAttribute
with non-existent attributes. Fixes reply buttons on Yahoo mail
o Hidden field is not sent (Fixing OSNews.com)
o Konqueror consumes all memory when printing specific web page
o Do not lose server-specified encodings when going back in history
o Make behavior of named objects access under document more consistent
with other browsers
o Various crash fixes
o JavaScript debugger more reliable
o Support window.scrollX, window.scrollY,.click on anchors
o behave sanely for Roman counters > 4000
o Optimize appends and clears to/of selects via explicit APIs.
* KDEUI
o Set default parameter in KRandomSequence to 0 instead of 1 for
randomness if no seed is provided
Many new features and refinements.
Notable changes include:
* Konqueror is the second web browser to pass the Acid2 CSS test,
ahead of Firefox and Internet Explorer
* Konqueror can also now free web pages from adverts with its
ad-block feature
* SuperKaramba is included in KDE, providing well-integrated and
easy-to-install widgets for the user's desktop
* Kopete has support for MSN and Yahoo! webcams
* The edutainment module has three new applications (KGeography,
Kanagram and blinKen), and has seen huge improvements in Kalzium
Changes:
* kdecore: Fix in command-line argument handler for clicking on mailto
urls while kontact was started with arguments
* kdecore: Fix the support for Dante proxies
* kdecore: Fix the "random resolver failure" problem
* kdecore: Fix the support for the IPv6 Blacklist in ioslaves
* kdeui: Fix "Change Icon" in the toolbar editor
* khtml: Fix submitted position for scrolled imagemaps
* khtml: Load external CSS style-sheet with correct charset
* khtml: Apply CSS padding to tables
* khtml: Improve PRE parsing
* khtml: Fix links with WBR tags
* khtml: Parse CSS3 pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements more strict
* khtml: Fix document.all.item
* khtml: Return meaningful HTMLTableCellElement::cellIndex() values
* khtml: Unbreak setting of location.href on windows opened by
windows.open()
* khtml: Various crash fixes
* khtml: Fixed infinite loop due to onChange from textareas
* khtml: Fix crash in window.setTimeout when Javascript is disabled
* khtml: Fix server-side-push handler to accept bugzilla sending
"text/html; charset=utf-8" as Content-Type
* khtml: Fix for MMB-pasting onto an empty konqueror window
* kjs: Allow non-ascii letters in identifiers
* kjs: More flexible date string parsing
* kjs: Fixes in escape() and unescape() functions
* kjs: Fixes in RegExp constructor
* kssl: store SSL passwords in the KDE wallet and reuse as needed
* kio: KZip: Fixed double-deletion bug when trying to write to a
non-writable directory.
* kio: Fix for print:/manager not embedding the right part in Konqueror
* kio: Use correct window icon in Konqueror when showing trash:/
* kfile: Don't show edit dialog when drop-adding items to sidebar
* kfile: If Shift is pressed when menu opens show 'Delete' instead of
'Trash'
* kio-http: Prevent endless busy loop
* kio-http: Massive speed improvement for deleting Webdav folders
* kio-ftp: Try non-passive mode if passive mode fails
* kio-ftp: Fix parsing of Netware FTP servers, so that files don't all
appear with a lock (no permissions)
* kutils: Fixed support for back ref \0 (entire matched text)
check, but it is not obvious whether it will catch all cases, in
particular with corrupted TIFF files. Was the last occurence of an
not-explicitely-checked QImage construction, so things are consistent now.
Highlights at a glance
* Text-to-speech system with support built into Konqueror, Kate, KPDF
and the standalone application KSayIt
* Support for text to speech synthesis is integrated with the desktop
* Completely redesigned, more flexible trash system
* Kicker with improved look and feel
* KPDF now enables you to select, copy & paste text and images from
PDFs, along with many other improvements
* Kontact supports now various groupware servers, including eGroupware,
GroupWise, Kolab, OpenGroupware.org and SLOX
* Kopete supports Novell Groupwise and Lotus Sametime and gets
integrated into Kontact
* DBUS/HAL support allows to keep dynamic device icons in media:/ and
on the desktop in sync with the state of all devices
* KHTML has improved standard support and now close to full support for
CSS 2.1 and the CSS 3 Selectors module
* Better synchronization between 2 PCs
* A new high contrast style and a complete monochrome icon set
* An icon effect to paint all icons in two chosen colors, converting
third party application icons into high contrast monochrome icons
* Akregator allows you to read news from your favourite RSS-enabled
websites in one application
* Juk has now an album cover management via Google Image Search
* KMail now stores passwords securely with KWallet
* SVG files can now be used as wallpapers
* KHTML plug-ins are now configurable, so the user can selectively
disable ones that are not used. This does not include Netscape-style
plug-ins. Netscape plug-in in CPU usage can be manually lowered, and
plug-ins are more stable.
* more than 6,500 bugs have been fixed
* more than 1,700 wishes have been fullfilled
* more than 80,000 contributions with several million lines of code and
documentation added or changed
Changes:
* kdecore: recognize known names for the MacRoman charset
* khtml: only disallow fixed positioning on body, not relative/absolute
* khtml: added Javascript-support for HTMLDocument.compatMode
* khtml: fixed textarea manipulation by DOM
* khtml: paged media support (page-break-before and -after)
* khtml: correctly handle text-transform on first-letter
* khtml: fixed display: block on pseudo-elements
* khtml: return Undefined instead of Null for out-of-range indices
* khtml: fixed stopPropagation when called from the target node itself
* khtml: fixed htmlCompat mode for documents served as text/html
* khtml: fixed display: compact
* khtml: support z-order for text areas and list boxes
* khtml: don't set assume <select> got items when we calculate a height
for items
* khtml: changed default horizontal margins for H1-H6 from auto to 0
* khtml: escape otherwise unencodable characters in form submits
* khtml: merged min,max-height fixes
* khtml: merged handling of event handlers
* khtml: implemented CSS 2.1 compliant parsing of background-position
* khtml: fixed m_value vs ATTR_VALUE problem which didn't allow sending
mail on gmail
* khtml: make use of the suggested filename for images
* khtml: tons of bidi fixes
* khtml: enable strict CSS parsing also for transitional doctypes
* khtml: ignore height element for input elements that are not image
* khtml: form widget fixes for plastik (and others)
* khtml: make sure we are layouted before scrolling if we are still
loading
* khtml: add compensated font scale from Todd Fahrner's "Toward a
standard font size interval system"
* khtml: avoid triggering full repaints of the view before the first
layout is done
* khtml: implement CSS3 property box-sizing to match MacIE, Opera and
Mozilla
* khtml: fix globeandmail.com famlily of crashes
* khtml: floats and flowing around floats improvements
* khtml: fix textarea scrolling positions
* khtml: tons of fixes for tables
* khtml: remove hidden widgets from the painting
* khtml: avoid crashes on XML documents
* khtml: ignore relative positioning on table sections
* khtml: fix static position calculation for positioned elements
* khtml: support insertAdjacentHTML
* khtml: fix crash in sites manipulating frames
* khtml: async kwallet support
* khtml: fix selectorText() when no namespace is specified
* khtml: update the layout before fetching the computed values
* khtml: color 'http://foo' links as visited if 'http://foo/' is in
history
* khtml: corrected ref-counting error leading to segfault/invalid
memory usage
* khtml: fixed some memory corruptions with garbage HTML
* khtml: account for scrollbar height when sizing variable
overflow:scroll/auto boxes
Changes:
* KHTML: fixed spurious deletion of textarea contents
* KHTML: fixed innerHTML getter to not behave like outerHTML
* KHTML: fix crash in caret mode
* KHTML: added missing <marquee> ECMAScript bindings
* KHTML: fixed missing Javascript-support for HTMLDocument.compatMode
* KHTML: fixed off-by-one error which caused decorations to exceed the
selection-end by one pixel
* KHTML: fixed wrong positioning of text-decorations in selections
* KHTML: small paint optimization for render texts
* KHTML: fixed spurious scrollbars on the canvas when overflow of clipped
children exceeds the viewport boundaries
* KHTML: fixed unreachable relatively positioned content on viewport
* KHTML: fixed unreachable positioned content in clipped blocks
* KHTML: fixed selection not being redrawn in overflow-area
* KHTML: jump-to-anchor fixes
* KHTML: Don't warn that a form was not submitted after pressing back button
* KHTML: fix crash on illegal CSS
* KHTML: On popular demand, double-click between two words selects both
again as in KDE 3.2.
* kfile: Added "New Folder..." in context menu within KDirSelectDialog
* kfile: Enabled dragging of directories within KDirSelectDialog
* kfile: KURLRequester now popups KDirSelectDialog when a directory is
requested
* kfile: Toggling hidden files didn't refresh the file selection list
* kio: Separate general from meta info in filetips
* don't crash when right clicking on a toolbar in some applications that
are using KParts
Changes:
* general: More and better usage of icons in different widgets
* kiosk: Support for user profiles
* kfile: directory chooser dialog now hides hidden directories, added
context option to show
* uiserver: Fix KIO: Progress Dialog - 'Keep open' + 'Open File' - Problems
* kwallet: Keep KWallet's password dialog above other windows
Changes:
* Fix CR at end of line in source file
* Make the kalyptus script install with the executable bit set
* Respect "EffectsEnabled" for tearoff handle setting
Changes:
Improve suggestions given when in the rename dialog shown when copying/moving
files
Progress dialog: large files (>4GB) fixes; make "keep open" work again
Progress dialog (all in one): don't block logging out from KDE
KIO: Preserve file premissions when copying from remote protocols that support
listing
KIO: Give again the choice to overwrite when moving/renaming files
KIO: Make 'overwrite' ask only once for a given dir (when moving a directory
with subdirs)
KSystemTray: if the mainwindow is minimized or not on the current desktop,
clicking will show it instead of hiding
KLocale: fixing support for YY aka %y
KDatePicker: fixing layout of close button
KatePart: fixed broken "replace from cursor"
KatePart: fixed some redraw problems (no artefacts while scrolling)
Don't let knotify start aRts if aRts is disabled in its kcontrol module.
kdeprint: Added check for print file names given by the rename dialog
KHTML: fix crash in parsing weired pages
KHTML: fixing support for clear:both
KHTML: better support for DOM Test Suite
KHTML: fix Heirmenus
KHTML: fix animated GIFs not looping
KHTML: don't recurse when printing
KHTML: use content, not viewport coordinates for server side image maps
KHTML: fixing overflow content
KHTML: fix repainting logic to optimize for reduced X server load and minimum
CPU
KHTML: Reduce window. to forms, images and applets, like document.
KHTML: restore KDE 3.1 behavior of <font size=-1>
KHTML: update frame sizes before returning value for innerWidth/innerHeight,
in case the window was just resized
KHTML: return attribute names in lowercase in compatibility mode (DOM L2/L3)
KHTML: fixing insertRow for tables without tbody
KHTML: implementing TreeWalkerImp
KHTML: fixing javascript events with frames
KHTML: fixing attributes for repeated body elements
KHTML: implement support for pageX/pageY. fix layerX/layerY
KHTML: Activate merged alternate code path for inline boxes
construction/painting
KHTML: implementing incremental XML parsing
KHTML: fix detection of the selector
KHTML: implementing CSSStyleDeclarationImpl
KHTML: skip pseudo styles when updating anonymous blocks'style
KHTML: fixing pure punctuation/single letter text childs
KHTML: fixing user-defined stylesheets
KHTML: fixing mixed block/inline content
KHTML: fixing relayouting of childs with floats
KHTML: respect padding and borders on cnn.com
KHTML: treat xhtml transitional that way
KHTML: enhanced border drawing code for dotted and dashed lines
KHTML: fixing handling of <nobr>
Changes:
Libraries
* Hidden methods in DCOP interfaces - DCOPIDLng Alexander Kellett
* Documentation parsing (kdoc based) and inclusion in generated .dcopidl files
(note: kdebindings dcopidlng only) Alexander Kellett
* Kalyptus based rewrite of DCOPIDL - DCOPIDLng Alexander Kellett
* Thumbnail generator for DVI files. Stefan Kebekus
* Thumbnail generator for Xcursor files. Fredrik Hoeglund
* KMainWindow can now maintain the statusbar and corresponding action (duplicate
(99% of the time broken) code removed from countless applications in KDE).
Benjamin Meyer
* KMainWindow, KToolbar, and several other core classes now will only stores
settings if those settings are not the default values (helping to reduce the
huge size of config files). Benjamin Meyer
* Add support for International Domain Names (IDN). Thiago Macieira, Waldo
Bastian
* KDE Password Registry and Wallet. George Staikos
* SSL session ID reuse. George Staikos
* KCookiejar: Support HttpOnly cookies. Waldo Bastian
* KLocale: support for different calendar systems Hans Petter Bieker
* KCalendarSystem: support for Hebrew calendar system Hans Petter Bieker
* Support data urls. See rfc 2397. Leo Savernik
* New tab widget classes KTabBar and KTabWidget in kdeui Stephan Binner
* New KFile permissions panel Tim Jansen
* Support for mimetype inheritance and aliases David Faure
* KDialogBase: Replace setButtonOkText() & co. with setButtonOk() that takes a
KGuiItem instead (deprecating the old methods) Martijn Klingens
* Move KPrefs from libkdepim to kdelibs. Cornelius Schumacher
* Support for "extra fields" in KIO slaves and in Konqueror / KFileDialog
David Faure <faure@kde.org>
* Add KSplashScreen, a splash screen class based on QSplashScreen (with support
for KDE's Xinerama options) Chris Howells
* KPasteTextAction: enhanced action for pasting text by offering a list with
the clipboard history. Andras Mantia
KHTML
* Non-modal find dialog David Faure
KDEfx
* Added KCPUInfo class which makes it possible for applications to do runtime
checks for architecture specific CPU features, such MMX, 3DNow! and AltiVec.
Fredrik Hoeglund
* Added MMX and SSE2 optimizations to the blending functions in KImageEffect,
that among other things are used to blend the translucent menus when the menu
effect is set to software blend, and to tint icons when they're selected in
icon views. Fredrik Hoeglund
Kate Part
* File type specific settings Christoph Cullmann
* vi style cmd line Christoph Cullmann
* Support variable lines in files Anders Lund
* Color Schemes Christoph Cullmann
* Indentation based code folding Christoph Cullmann
* Implement more DCOP interfaces and clean up the ktexteditor dcop interfaces
Christoph Cullmann
KImgIO
* Add PCX image plugin, supports reading and writing 1, 4, 8 and 24bpp images
Nadeem Hasan
* Add TGA image plugin, supports reading and writing true color TGA images
(compressed and uncompressed) Dominik Seichter
Interfaces
* Interfaces for KBytesEdit widget part Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
KSpell
* Adding ability to spell check HTML, TeX and nroff documents. Zack Rusin
* Completely reworking the spell checking dialog. Adding language selection
combo. Zack Rusin
Changes:
* networking: Fix crash related to SOCKS
* kate: C syntax highlighting
* konqueror: Improved handling of long filenames in icon view.
* khtml: Minor rendering fixes
* khtml: Improved loading of large images
* java: Crash fix
* webdav: Fixed renaming of files via secure connection
KDE is never going to build on NetBSD<1.0 so don't bother testing a
version, just assume we have setproctitle in libc.
Should fix a gcc3 build problem mentioned by Juan RP.
