Changes:
Base
Kate
* Moving KATE view management over to KMDI Joseph Wenninger
* Basic project managment Christoph Cullmann
KControl
* Xinerama KControl module, enhanced KDE Xinerama and dual-head support
George Staikos
* add/update control module for configuring per-domain settings. See Bug
49145. Leo Savernik
* Support for per-style configuration settings in the style control center
module, a module for Keramik Maksim Orlovich
* Add support for installing/removing- and switching Xcursor themes to the
mouse KControl module Fredrik Hoeglund
* Font installer - create fonts:/ ioslave, and modify KControl module to
use this. See http://members.lycos.co.uk/cpdrummond for (old)
screenshots/download Craig Drummond
KHotKeys
* Update to version 2.0, which includes more features like mouse
gestures. Lubos Lunak
KWin
* Full support for latest NETWM spec version in KWin, and seamless usage
of other compliant window managers with KDE. Lubos Lunak
* New API for window decoration plugins. Lubos Lunak
* Focus stealing prevention. Lubos Lunak
* Add an option to allow wide borders to some of the window decoration
styles Gunnar Schmi DT
Kicker
* Make addition of non-KDE applications to Kicker easier Alexander Kellett
* Enable backgrounds for child panels and all applets, allow for
colorization of background pixmaps Aaron J. Seigo
* Allow applets to export a menu to the handle Aaron J. Seigo
* User defined plain colors for tiles Aaron J. Seigo
* Make the panel transparent. Zack Rusin
* Add an option to the RMB-menu and to the "Advanced Options" in kcontrol
to enable/disable the panel handle when "Custom" size is selected.
KDM
* More sophisticated session definitions, common with GDM Oswald
Buddenhagen
* Pluggable greeter input methods; better architectural compliance with
PAM's input model. Oswald Buddenhagen
Various (kwin, kdesktop, kcontrol, ksmserver)
* Optimally support the X Resize and Rotate extension. Hamish Rodda
All KDE applications (kdebase/kdenetwork/kdepim/kdegraphics,...)
* No absolute paths to user home directories in KDE config files. This
allows to support roaming users. Helge Deller
Konsole
* Add a better interface to konsolepart for other apps. Dominique Devriese
* Added "Set Selection End" to right mouse button menu.
* Column text selecting when Ctrl and Alt are pressed
* Uses now KTabWidget, allows tab context menus and more Stephan Binner
* Utilize KNotify (e.g. passive popup) for "Activity", "Bell",
"Shell Exit" and "Silence" events
* ZModem up- and download (requires rzsz) Waldo Bastian
* Make bidi rendering (for RTL languages) configurable. Meni Livne
KEditBookmarks
* Export to HTML and printing of bookmark collection. Alexander Kellett
* Recursive favicon updates in bookmark editor. Alexander Kellett
* Field for incremental searching on titles. Alexander Kellett
* Opera and Internet Explorer bookmark collection exporting. Alexander
Kellett
* Bookmark editor now includes an extra pane to allow title/url editing
without use of context menu / keyboard shortcuts. Alexander Kellett
* More detailed bookmark access information (last viewed, first seen, view
counts). Alexander Kellett
* Recursive - entire collection, per folder - alphabetical sorting
Alexander Kellett
Konqueror
* Enhanced Konqueror statusbar and kpart statusbar extension. Statusbar
notifications for secure connections, wallet, js errors. David Faure,
George Staikos
* Bookmarklets support in the form of a "Mini-tools" konq-plugin
Alexander Kellett
* Addition of an advanced Add Bookmark dialog. Alexander Kellett
* Read-only bookmark menu includes. Alexander Kellett
* Ability to select which items should be shown in the bookmark bar.
Alexander Kellett
* Servicemenu improvements: placed in a common Actions submenu, allow
grouping into submenus, allow for separators, allow simple mimetype
globbing Aaron J. Seigo
* Bookmarking of all loaded tabs as a folder. Alexander Kellett
* Lightweight bookmark editing from within bookmarks menu via context
menu. Alexander Kellett
* New sidebar module: Web. Implements sidebar modules similar to those
introduced in Netscape 6/Mozilla. George Staikos
* Konqueror "preloading", often reducing Konqueror startup time. Lubos Lunak
* Spellchecking in text forms and spelling highlighting Scott Wheeler,
Don Sanders
Tabbed Browsing
* "New Tab" and "Close Tab" buttons besides the tab bar Stephan Binner
* Loading/read state indication by tab color Stephan Binner
* Drag and drop support from/to tabs and to empty tab bar space Stephan
Binner
* Allow to reorder tabs with pressed middle mouse button Stephan Binner
* Middle mouse button on tabs or empty tab bar space opens clipboard
content Stephan Binner
* Support for opening external URLs and popups in new tabs Stephan Binner
* Optional permanent close buttons within tabs and permanent shown tab
bar Stephan Binner
KHTML part
* KHTML: Implement caret mode. This is a prerequisite for designmode.
See Bug 48302. Leo Savernik
* KHTML: add infrastructure for per-domain settings. See Bug 49145.
Leo Savernik
* better support for samba shares through libsmbclient of samba 3.0
Stephan Kulow
KIO Slaves
* kio_smtp: SMTP pipelining support for faster submission, esp. over
high-latency links. Marc Mutz
KDesktop
* Added GUI for "Mouse wheel over desktop switches desktop" option.
* Make screen savers capable of being DPMS aware, so they can be disabled
when watching a movie or TV if the app sets up X DPMS appropriately.
Gregor Jasny
* Screen locker: pluggable greeter input methods; better architectural
compliance with PAM's input model. Oswald Buddenhagen
* Shadow behind the text of the desktop icons, for more readability Laur
Ivan
* E-mail addresses entered in "Run Command..." (Alt-F2) will start mailer.
Waldo Bastian
* Numeric expression in "Run Command..." (Alt-F2) is evaluated. Waldo
Bastian
Changes:
* konqueror: Fixed "Location bar forgets what you type if you dont press
enter and change tabs"
* konqueror: Fixed "tabs resize (shrink) when clicked on while loading"
* konqueror: Don't show hardcoded shortcuts in tab context menu
* konqueror: Made "Detach Tab" create new konqueror window of proper size
* konqueror: Set location bar URL for new tabs immediately
* konsole: Fixed "List Sessions" feature.
Also add a kdm rc.d script (from Julio M. Merino Vidal)
Changes:
* kdialog: Fixed "--warningcontinuecancel".
* Konqueror: Don't crash when opening a directory in tab from the navigation
panel
* KDM: Fix weak cookie generation / local root
* smb:// slave: improve error handling.
* khotkeys: allow usage of global config file for site-wide configuration.
* kwin: fix mouse grabbing problem with _NET_WM_MOVERESIZE.
* krdb: improve exported colorsheme for Adobe acroread.
* fonts kcontrol: improve configure check to handle newer fontconfig releases
which use pkg-config.
* kwin: fix "left click into active window in background does not raise" bug
* KDM: implement parsing of display names that contain dashes.
* kicker: memory leak fixes.
* khotkeys: crash fix.
* konsole: ported grantpty to FreeBSD.
* ksmserver: support read-only home directory.
* Improve FreeBSD support in fish://.
* kdesktop: accept empty password if account has no password set.
* konqueror: ensure that we don't change the servicetype, in case the mimetype
is ambiguous.
* konqueror: Fix handling of wildcard file selection / unselection.
* konqueror: fix crash when trying to drag the location label.
* konqueror's listview: selected items don't get unselected anymore during
DnD operation
* thumbnail creator: fix filedescriptor leak.
* thumbnail creator: fix Postscript thumbnail rendering.
Changes:
* kate: Make saving of remote files during shutdown work.
* kcontrol/colors: Don't reset widget selection dropdown when selecting a different
theme
* kcontrol/filetypes: Fixed removing of mimetypes specified by a .kdelnk file
* kcontrol/input: fix application of large & white cursors
* kcontrol/services: don't show kxmlrpcd, kalarmd and kwrited if they're not
installed
* kdesud: support empty passwords
* kdm: Fix i18n support for the GuiStyle and ColorScheme combos
* kdm: don't reset local Xserver if termination is requsted
* keditbookmarks: Various bufixes
* kio_sftp: Support OpenSSH 3.6+
* kio_sftp: Support older sftp protocol revisions
* kio_smb: Huge update for samba 3.0.
* kicker: Improve icon scaling in service menus
* kicker: "Terminal Sessions" special button supports sessions with dots in filename
* kicker: "Terminal Sessions" special button with same sort order as the one in
Konsole.
* kicker: Fix mimetype resolution in the quickbrowser
* kicker: Fixes for stuck tooltips
* kicker: Do not create local directories for .desktop files used in service
buttons if no needed
* kicker: Fix apply button not working for quickstart menu entries settings
* kicker: Fix hide button preference effects reversed
* kicker:Various fixes for recent apps history
* kicker/minipager: don't show redundant tooltips when the page already shows names
* konsole: Added Ctrl+Shift+N as alternate default shortcut for "New Session".
* konsole: Fixed fixed-width with proportional-font drawing routine.
* konsole: Fixed problems with mouse and paste support and detached windows.
* konsole: Let new color schemes take effect once kcmkonsole tells to do so.
* konsole: Wheel mouse fixes for Mode_Mouse1000.
* konqueror: Flicker fixes inside the iconview
* konqueror: Fix for inter-process copy-past with the listview
* konqueror: Make sure the tab close button is properly enabled when a 2nd tab is
first open through context menu entries
* konqueror: Made Ctrl+Enter for new tab in URL combo working again.
* konqueror: Various sidebar fixes
* konqueror: make sure that the location label truly disappears when disabled
* konqueror: konqueror warning for repeated POSTs
* konqueror: Konqueror crash when dragging image from about:konqueror
* konqueror: Improve tracking of listviewitems so that we don't crash when they get
deleted somewhat unexpectedly
* konqueror: Don't crash when updating toolbars without a part load
* konqueror: Properly handle 'stop' when still listing the directory in the info
list view
* konqueror: Efficiency fix: make sure only one konqueror instance saves the history
when it changes
* konqueror: Don't use deleted KFileItems.
* Don't crash when doing a copy w/o a currentItem
* konqueror: Stop activity when the user tries hard to enter a URL
* konqueror: Properly calculate column indices for the meta info listview
* konqueror: Hide the find part on a second click on its toolbar button
* konqueror: Handle _top/_blank, and so on, case-insensitively
* libkonq: make sure KFileTip does not hold on to stale file items
* libkonq: precaution: make sure that no preview jobs hold on to icon view's items
when it's cleared
* libkonq: fixes to cut-and-paste
* libkonq: network-friendlier paste button state polling
* kwin: Fix deactivation of window when loosing focus
* kwin: New windows are drawn above open menus
* kwin: Some non-resizable windows can still be resized
* kwin: Fixes for click raise
* kwin: If a window is hover-unshaded, then it's not shaded for the outside world
* kwin: Keramik decoration: Properly detect XShape on Solaris
* nsplugins: Fix relative URLs.
Changes:
kdelibs:
* https authentication through proxy fixed.
* KZip failed for some .zip archives.
* Fixed a bug in socket code that made KDEPrint crash.
* kspell: Support for Hebrew spell checking using hspell (requires hspell 0.5).
kdebase:
* kwin: Alt+Tab works while drag'n'drop (unless the application also grabs keyboard).
* kio_smtp: Doesn't eat 100% CPU when connection breaks and fixed a confusing error
message when AUTH failed ("Unknown Command" vs. "Authorization failed")
* kscreensaver: Fixed issue where kdesktop_lock would stay running indefinitely in
the background if it could not grab the keyboard/mouse, preventing the screen from
being locked manually.
* kscreensaver: Screensavers are now stopped when asking for the password [#56803]
* kio_smb: Several bugfixes for the smbro-ioslave.
* kdesktop: fixed minicli layout problem with Qt 3.1.2
* kdm: fixed incorrect user window width with Qt 3.1.2
* Konqueror: Create DCOP interface for mainwindow when object begins to exist.
* Konqueror: Fixed tab open delays when it can't reach website.
* Konsole: Don't flicker when selecting entire lines.
* Konsole: Crash, selection and sort fixes in schema and session editors.
* Konsole: Fixed mouse-wheel in mouse mode.
* Konsole: Allow programs to resize windows if enabled.
* Konsole: Keep output steady when triple-click selecting.
* Konsole: Added "Print" menu command.
* kicker: Fixed kasbar only drawing last icon from a group.
Many bugfixes and functionality enhancements including:
General
New default widget style: Keramik
New default icon theme: Crystal
Created and enhanced framework to effectively disable certain features of
the GUI, like for example shell access, disallowing to select custom wall
papers. "Kiosk mode"
Usability improvements:
Kicker: Context menu, applet menus, wording and panel feature consistency
improved
Kicker: Redesigned control module.
KCalc: Usability Improvements.
KSnapshot: Usability Improvements.
KsCD: User Interface Improvements in configuration and information dialogs
kdelibs
Extended the DCOP commandline client to
enable nonGUI applications (such as shell scripts) to use DCOP
send DCOP messages to multiple users and/or sessions concurrently
Added to notification dialog to allow applications to configure their
notifications with a common GUI.
Added "Open File", "Open Destination" and "Keep window open" to download
progress dialog.
KDatePicker has now week number display and selection.
Added KLocale support for setting/retrieving the first day of a week
Support for "Multimedia keys" on your keyboard.
Added on-demand icon loading support to improve startup performance of
applications.
KHTML:
Improvements to printing support.
Page Info and Frame info dialog.
Auto-Scroll support of webpages using Shift combined with arrow keys.
Many, many Bugfixes and improvements.
Small codebase merges with Safari. The main merge is planned for a future
release however, as it requires more testing.
KIO:
Modified thumbnail ioslave that can extract a thumbnail from the file
directly if it contains one, rather than generating one itself.
Added fish:// protocol slave, which can access remote filesystems via
SSH and SCP
Cleanups and Corrections in smtp:// protocol slave.
Activated rtsp:// protocol slave.
Added support for Public Key Authentication and interopability with newer
versions of OpenSSH to sftp:// protocol slave.
KSSL:
SSL certificate policies can now be configured based on the host name
