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
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:
* sidebar newsticker: Better error handling in case no connection to the
DCOP service is possible
* sidebar newsticker: Remove newsticker from the default sidebar
configuraton (usability fix)
* sidebar mediaplayer: Remove mediaplayer from the default sidebar
configuration (usability fix)
All library names listed by *.la files no longer need to be listed
in the PLIST, e.g., instead of:
lib/libfoo.a
lib/libfoo.la
lib/libfoo.so
lib/libfoo.so.0
lib/libfoo.so.0.1
one simply needs:
lib/libfoo.la
and bsd.pkg.mk will automatically ensure that the additional library
names are listed in the installed package +CONTENTS file.
Also make LIBTOOLIZE_PLIST default to "yes".
Changes:
Addons
* FSView Part
o Reduced memory requirements for large directory trees Josef
Weidendorfer
* Sidebar Plugins
o NEW IN KDE: Newsticker sidebar applet for viewing RSS feeds Marcus
Camen
* Konqueror Plugins
o NEW IN KDE:Plugin for accessing <link> elements (document relations)
Franck Quelain
o NEW IN KDE:Search Bar Plugin. Provides quick access to Find In This
Page, Google and other search engines. Arend van Beelen jr.
* Kate Plugins
o Kate Tab Bar extension Dominik Haumann
* KFilePlugin
o Meta Info for Windows .lnk files (where does it point to) and tool
(lnkforward) to follow this "link" Martin Koller
* Kuick
o Added option to disable plugin in context menus
Artwork
* Screen Savers
o Enhance Euphoria and Banner screensavers to run smoothly and look
nicer. Enrico Ros
Changes:
Konqueror webarchiver plugin: webarchiver didn't get images for XHTML pages
Konqueror webarchiver plugin: including original URL in .war archives
Changes:
Addons
Vim KPart
* NEW IN KDE: A Vim KPart for embedding in KMail, Develop and other
programs Mickael Marchand
Konqueror KPart FSView
* NEW IN KDE: View mode for directories, showing files/directories as
rectangles with area proportional to sizes. Josef Weidendorfer
KBinaryClock
* NEW IN KDE: KBinaryClock is a panel applet for KDE that displays the
current time in binary. Benjamin Meyer
Many bugfixes and functionality enhancements including:
kdeaddons
NEW IN KDE: Noatun plugin to search for lyrics of the current song.
kdeadmin
kcmlinuz: is now a standalone application
kcmlinuz: Added capability to search for configuration options
kdeedu
NEW IN KDE: Kiten, a Japanese Reference Tool.
NEW IN KDE: FlashKard, a vocabulary tool. Is able to read KVTML files which
were written by KVocTrain.
NEW IN KDE: started a libkdeedu, which allows interopability and code
sharing between KDE Educational applications.
kdepim
libkabc
Plugin interface for resources and formats.
Control module for configuring multiple resources.
Optional directory resource which stores each entry as own file.
LDAP resource.
Optional binary storage format for better performance with large
addressbooks.
Completed support for vCard entities: sound, geo, key and some more.
vCard 2.1 import.
LDAP aware mail address input field.
KAddressbook
New card and icon views.
Multiple configurable views.
"kab-style" details view for selected entry.
Customizable view filters.
Customizable categories for addressbook entries.
Support for transparently accessing multiple addressbooks.
Redesigned entry editor widget.
Printing option supporting two different styles.
Optional embedded entry and ditribution list editor.
"Jump bar" for quick alphabetical access of entries.
Fetch addresses from LDAP servers, including support for multiple servers.
Importing of vCard 2.1 files.
Improved CSV import (including template for import from Outlook 2000).
vCard export.
KAlarm
Added option to execute commands in alarms.
Implemented daily, weekly, monthly and annual recurrences.
Optionally play audio notification when an alarm triggers.
KPilot
Added time conduit
VCal conduits (TODO and Calendar) have been improved to function properly.
Addressbook conduit has been ported to use libkabc.
KOrganizer
General
User definable templates for events and TODOs.
Alarms for TODOs.
Added support for automatic HTML export on save of a calendar file.
Time table print view.
New "location" attribute for events.
Experimental "Get Hot New Stuff" button for downloading and uploading
calendar files of common interest.
Views
Added new "Next 3 days" view.
Added selection of time span for a new event in day and week views.
Direct manipulation of priority, completion status and categories of
TODOs by context menus added.
Deletion of individual instances of recurring events.
Rewritten month view.
Coloring of events in month view based on categories.
Coloring of due and overdue todos.
Improved "What's Next" view.
Configurable cell height in week and day views
Group scheduling
iMIP group scheduling functions for TODOs.
Publishing of Free/Busy information by iMIP conformant email.
Improved automatisation of group scheduling.
Interopability and integration
Support for "webcal" URLs in Konqueror (known from Apple iCal).
Support for iCalendar based drag&drop.
KOrganizer now shares the dialogs for categories with KAddressBook.
Improved iCalendar conformance.
Improved right-to-left languages support.
Bug fixes for non-latin1 encodings.
Plugins
New plugin for importing Birthdays of contacts in the KDE address book.
New plugin for accessing calendar data stored on an Exchange 2000 server.
kdeutils
Partially ACPI support in KLaptop.
- Build all packages with a --disable-static libtool. This is how the
packages should be built and means that we don't get a load of useless
static libraries.
- Use x11/kde3/files/foo_main.cpp instead of creating N copies with
patches.
- Some other PLIST fixes
- Fix PR 19848. kspell doesn't find dictionaries.
