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
