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:
* GCC 3.4 compile fixes, compiler warning fixes
* Allow the application to query if the server is suspended.
* arts_suspend() returns 0 if arts doesn't have device open.
* add -V command line switch to set initial volume.
* Compilation fix
* Build system update
The s/mcop_mt/mcop/ hack that worked with pth doesn't work in -current.
Make libmcop_mt build with pre-current and pth by providing sem_* calls
based on a mutex and a condition variable.
Changes:
kdemultimedia:
* Ogg Vorbis Info List view column titles were incorrect.
* kmix: Vertical label widget to sliders in replacement of large horizontal labels
* kmix: Fixed alsa 0.9x to restore current volumes
* kmix: Fixed multiple alsa 0.9x cards detection
Changes:
arts
* Several memory corruption fixes.
kdelibs
* kdialog: Fix screen numbering problem for centerOnScreen() static method
* kprogress: Fix math problem in displaying correct percentage for large
numbers
* kio_http: Fix data processing for webdav(s) listing of directories and files
* kate: Many small bugfixes, including:
+ Fixed code completion drop-down box position
+ Fixed "wrap cursor disabled" bugs
+ Fixed vertical scrollbar middle mouse behaviour
+ Fixed remove whitespace feature
+ Now clears the redo history when it is irrelevant
+ Fixed crash after starting up with a non-existant directory in the file
selector history
* kparts: Fix extension of transparently downloaded files, this fixes ark
(used to display temp file instead of archive content)
* klauncher: Fixed support for "Path=" entry in .desktop files. This entry
can be used to specify a working directory.
* kio: Don't let ChModJob's -X emulation interfere with mandatory file locking.
* kdeui: Fix for alternate background coloring in Konqueror list views.
* kdeui: Fix to prevent an event loop in conjunction with Qt 3.1.2.
* kio/bookmarks: Properly handle multiple shown bookmarks with the same URL;
fixes crash on exit in Konqueror when bookmarkbar is on and some bookmarks
points to the same place
* kstyles: Handle focus indicators on label-less checkboxes better
* kdeprint: Don't freeze when there is no route to the selected CUPS server
* SSL: add support for OpenSSL 0.9.7
* SSL: ADH ciphers are now explicitly disabled in all cases
* SSL: new CA root certificate added
* Several Xinerama related fixes
* QXEmbed fixes for various situations that don't handle XEMBED well
* Java on IRIX with SGI 1.2 VM is fixed
* khtml: Several major bugfixes, partially incorporated fixes from Safari as well.
kdeaddons
kdeadmin
* Linux Kernel Configurator: Add details about the lightbulb icon's meaning
* Linux Kernel Configurator: Support for more incorrect kernel configuration
files
kdeartwork
kdebase
* kcmshell: Restored backwards compatibility wrt KDE 3.0 module names
* klipper: Escape "&" everywhere.
* konsole:
+ Removed "get prompt back"-hacks, don't assume emacs key shell bindings.
+ Fixed usage of background images with spaces in the filename.
+ Profile support fixes (disabled menubar etc.)
+ Bookmarks invoked from "Terminal Sessions" kicker menu now set correct
title.
+ Fixed a problem with the "Linux" font that prevented it from being used
with fontconfig.
* kdesktop: Made desktop menus pop up in unused Kicker space work.
* kicker: Fixed empty taskbar sometimes showing scroll buttons.
* konqueror:
+ Various startup performance improvements
+ Fix crash when sidebar tree expands hidden directory
+ Fix crash when config button hidden from config button's menu
+ Extensive fixes to Netscape plugins, fixing crashes and plugin support
+ Changes to default preview settings, making the defaults safer on various
platforms
* Java configuration module: Make it possible to properly configure Java in
all cases
* Previews: Fixed a privacy issue where previews of HTML files could access
files or hosts on the network.
kdeedu
* KStars:
+ Fixed bug #51708: No longer exits if starting position is below horizon
(only affected some systems)
+ Fixed bug #52205: Country of Lhasa is China, not Tibet.
+ Fixed too-narrow coordinates field in statusbar.
+ Fixed bug in "length of day" calculator module; it now properly accounts
for latitude and longitude
kdegames
* Atlantik: Many small bugfixes, including:
+ Better handling of incoming messages
+ Fixed token animation
* kbackgammon: Common crash fix.
kdegraphics
* KIconEdit: Fix the ellipse/circle tool not to leave any "holes" in the
drawings
* Kooka: Some UI crashes fixed
* KViewShell: Default paper size is fixed
* KGhostView: Fixed wheel-mouse scrolling
kdemultimedia
* KsCD:
+ Stopped KsCD from pausing after tracks in random mode
+ Correctly associate extra CDDB information with tracks
+ Support non-Latin encodings properly in CDDB entries and elsewhere
+ Proper systemtray behaviour
+ Updated key accel code to avoid depricated calls
* Movie previews have been removed due to severe unresolved stability problems
kdenetwork
* Desktop Sharing server (krfb):
+ fix problems on X11 servers with 8 bit depth
+ fix problems on X11 servers with big-endian framebuffer
+ allow X11 servers without XShm (thin clients). Warning: requires a lot
of bandwidth
+ remove read timeouts. This should solve problems with some clients that
got disconnected after a minute of inactivity (but increases the time to
detect dead clients)
+ fix problem with clients that support both RichCursor and SoftCursor
encodings (like krdc from HEAD)
* Desktop Sharing client (krdc):
+ fix: when an error occurred in fullscreen krdc did not restore the
original resolution
+ fix: krdc stopped to repaint the framebuffer after a disconnect while
the error dialog was displayed
+ the quality setting in medium quality mode has been increased because
the original setting looked too bad with Keramik
kdepim
* KOrganizer bug fixes:
+ Use correct default duration for events crossing a day boundary (#53477).
+ Correctly save category colors (#54913).
+ Don't show todos more than once in what's next view.
+ Include todos in print output of month view (#53291).
+ Don't restrict maximum size of search dialog (#54912).
+ Make cancel button of template selection dialog work (#54852).
+ Don't break sorting when changing todos by context menu (#53680).
+ Update views on changes of todos directly in the todo list (#43162).
+ Save state of statusbar (#55380).
* knotes: Escape "&" in note titles
kdesdk
* Cervisia:
+ Fixed line break in protocol view
+ Fixed timestamp for files that are not in cvs (#55053)
+ Fixed handling of Cervisia's options like 'Update Recursively' when run
as embedded part in konqueror (#55665)
kdetoys
* kworldclock: Fixed that all clocks show the same time.
* kweather: Made it work again with non-english locales. (#52147)
* kweather: Prevent KWeather from looping and freezing Kicker when not
connected to the internet.(#49191)
kdeutils
* klaptopdaemon: Fix serious stalling problems on GNU/Linux with ACPI
* kcalc: Now a KMainWindow instead of a KDialog to fix various UI
inconsistencies
* kdf: Support escapes in fstab
quanta
* Bugfixes:
+ Allow resizing of the main window even with large user toolbars [#53230]
+ Insert valid DTD definitions [#53274]
+ Honor the View Default settings from Settings->Configure Editor [#53569]
+ Be less braindead regarding the Show DTD Toolbar setting [#53739]
+ Be able to select also directories in tag dialogs [#54819]
+ Do not complain about text files being binary ones on a system with
broken mimetypes [#54924]
+ Bring up the "File Changed" dialog only, when the file content has
changed[#55678]
+ Select Tag Area behaviour fixed for optional tags
+ Insert non-translated string in CSS code parts
+ Insert "border-top", "border-right", etc. correctly in CSS
+ Don't quote the script line more than once in the action configuration
dialog
+ Memory leak fixed: editor parts were not deleted when a file was closed
+ Fix insertion of "img" tags in HTML documents
+ Upload/rescan project/add to new project tree view behaviour fixed
+ Fix renaming of file in the Project Tree, when a file with the new name
was already present in the project
+ Rename only what has to be renamed in the project and enable project
saving after a rename
+ Use the correct encoding for newly created files
+ Saving of Author and E-Mail project options was broken in some cases
+ Fix the numbering of new documents
+ Fix the execution of actions
+ Fix crash when deleting an action
+ Insert valid single tags from the toolbar
* Enhancements:
+ Show the tag attributes (Alt-Down) menu lower than the current line
+ "Insert in cursor position" for script actions replaces the selection if
there was some text selected
+ New DCOP interface (WindowManagerIf) added to enable the modification of
the opened documents from a script
+ DTD for Quanta tags (DTD definition) added
+ XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD added
Many bugfixes and functionality enhancements including:
kdemultimedia
Started a video framework
More consistent internationalisation in many applications.
NEW IN KDE: KAudioCreator, a CD ripper and audio encoder frontend.
NEW IN KDE: KRec, an audio recorder using aRts.
KMediaPlayer interface added to kdelibs to reuse Kaboodle.
Noatun: Added option to clear the playlist when running with a file as
command line option.
Added video thumbnail creator using xine-arts.
KMix: Added mute control support.
arts
* Compile fix for IRIX64
kdelibs
* KHTML : Fixed progress bar.
* KHTML : Fixed several crashes and misrenderings.
* KHTML : Fixed "HTML source displayed in text viewer" after viewing
text.
* KHTML : Only ask "download plugins?" once per requested mimetype in
the same page.
* Javascript : several fixes (row.cells(), tablecaption.*, heading.*,
event.x/y) .
* libkscreensaver : Fixed bug that in rare cases prevented the
screensaver from showing anything.
* kio_file : Proper "disk full" error message in mkdir
* KIO : Dropping links to webpages onto the desktop works in all cases
now
* Drag-and-drop of URLs : Improved compatibility with non-KDE apps
* KToolBar : fix for oversized comboboxes in toolbars, e.g. in KOffice
kdebase
* NSPlugins : Compatibility with gcc-3.x
* Konqueror configuration : fixed default font size value
* KDesktop : better determination of icon heights, for "lineup Icons"
* KDesktop : Don't rearrange all icons when changing the font size
* KControl : Fixed proxy configuration dialog layout
* Fix a lot of mem leak
* Kaddressbook : fix crash when we export CSV list
* KDM
* Security: proper temp dir creation for QT and disabled
crash dialog
* Made chooser work at all
* Fixed compilation with older glibc
* Fixed bad lilo interaction wrt. warnings
kdegraphics
* Kamera: Fixed crash when we didn't select camera in kcmkamera
* KGhostview: Security related fixes
kdemultimedia
* KMix : Fixed compilation on Solaris
* Kaboodle : fixed when it was embedded in konqueror
* Fix a lot of memory leak
kdenetwork
* kpf: Security related fixes
kdepim
* KAlarm: Fix right-to-left character sets not being displayed in
message edit control
* KAlarm: Make "Help -> Report Bug" use the KDE bug system (bug
#43250)
* KNotes: Fixed session management (bug #22844)
* KNotes: Fixed mouse behaviour to be like kwin's (raise and lower
already on mouse press)
* KNotes: Fixed (in)famous bug that caused the big black windows
and lost data (bugs #22062, #44870, #45084, #45386, #45451,
#46570, #47352)
* KNotes: Fixed drag'n drop of links and plain text
kdesdk
* Disabled kbugbuster compilation because bug system changed. Use CVS
version if you need it.
While I'm here do the a.out dance for kuickshow and a couple of other
minor clean ups.
Changes are:
kdelibs
kprocess / kprocctrl: fix problem with hanging kdevelop.
Javascript (core): more robust stack overflow check
Javascript (html): allow to set a JS (non-CSS) property to a style object
Javascript (html): improved result of navigator.platform using uname()
Javascript (html): more aggressive garbage collection on clear, fixing many
crashes
Javascript (html): global object (window) has a correct object prototype now
khtml: several crashes and bugs fixed
kssl: Always verify the basic constraints on certificates (SECURITY)
kdefx: Make the blending routine used by transparent menus work properly on
big-endian platforms
kdeui: Fix KDialog::setPlainCaption()
kdebase
Build fixes for IRIX / MipsPro (kcontrol, konqueror, konsole).
Kicker: Quick browser escapes ampersand characters in file names.
Konsole: Don't prepend ESC if Meta is pressed if key definition is for "+Alt".
Konsole: Fixed crashes at startup related to broken font installations.
Konsole: Fixed crashes when selecting in history buffer.
krdb: Smarter handling of multiple and symlinked KDE and Qt installs when
exporting plugin path to Qt.
kdenetwork
KMail: allow an ampersand as last char of an URL.
KMail: Don't crash when custom drafts or sent-mail folders have been deleted or
renamed.
KMail: Fix auto charset detection for empty strings.
KMail/KNode: Correctly handle quotes in user ids of OpenPGP keys.
KMail: Make custom (global) Bcc headers work correctly with encryption and
distribution list expansion.
kdepim
KAlarm: Fix session restoration often not occurring at login.
KAlarm: Adjust wrong summer times stored by KDE 3.0.0 version of KAlarm.
KAlarm: Make Close button on message window not the default button to reduce
chance of accidental acknowledgement.
KAlarm: Make Help button in configuration dialog display KAlarm handbook.
KNotes: Compile fix for Qt 3.0.5
KOrganizer: Fixed context menu of todo list/view and event list which
disappeared when using Qt 3.0.5
Also, allow the arts SSE detection code to run on modern NetBSD systems.
Changes are:
arts
Again Build fixes.
Realtime priority configuration fix
kdelibs
dcop: Make it possible to disable the Qt bridge.
make sure tooltip effects can be configured.
kbuildsycoca: avoid crash on unreadable directories.
kdockwidget: fixing reading of configuration.
kedittoolbar: fix leak.
khtml: many fixes.
kded: signal handling fixes.
kio-http slave: fixes related to form posts and cache handling.
kjs: added max recursion limit.
kjs: leak and compatibility fixes.
kdebase
kicker: &-escaping fix
audiocd: fix cddb computation
thumbnail previewer: calculate the number of bytes to read instead
of hardcoding it.