KOffice 1.2.1 is a stability release, with the principal improvements over
KOffice 1.2, released last September, occurring in the spreadsheet program
(KSpread).
build when building koffice. Worse, if someone has installed libart2 for
some other reason then koffice will fail to build from that point on.
Perhaps a proper fix would be to change the pkgsrc system to allow for lines
like these to be added only if necessary but that is a much bigger project.
21th October 2002 - Fix available for KSpread's crash
A fix is available for kspread's crashes when working with long text
which overlaps several cells or when working with merged cells.
generalise the linker flags used to export symbols by setting them on
a per-OS basis.
> many packages force -Wl,-export-dynamic which is not portable outside GNU ld
> and cause problems e.g. on Solaris. some of these packages use if
> conditionals either only for NetBSD or except SunOS, but the state is not
> coherent and it may complicate later when support for new OS is added to
> pkgsrc (e.g. ongoing work on HP-UX support).
>
> jlam proposed the following framework in discussion on tech-pkg:
>
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2002/06/21/0009.html
>
> now, ${EXPORT_SYMBOLS_LDFLAGS} is used instead of directly defining
> -Wl,-export-dynamic which is set in appropriate defs.*.mk to reasonable
> values. packages should be converted to this framework by:
>
> 1) replacing LDFLAGS+= -Wl,-export-dynamic and LIBS+= -export-dynamic with:
>
> LDFLAGS+= ${EXPORT_SYMBOLS_LDFLAGS}
>
> 2) for use in patchfiles, add this variable to MAKE_ENV if needed:
>
> MAKE_ENV+= EXPORT_SYMBOLS_LDFLAGS=${EXPORT_SYMBOLS_LDFLAGS}
>
> 3) replace occurances of -Wl,-export-dynamic and -export-dynamic in patch
> files with:
>
> $(EXPORT_SYMBOLS_LDFLAGS)
all dependencies on packages depending on "png" which contain shared
libraries, all for the (imminent) update to the "png" package.
[List courtesy of John Darrow, courtesy of "bulk-build".]
Changes are:
Framework
- Startup notification activated for all KOffice applications
- Applications are ready for a future renaming of their native mimetype
name (more IANA compliant)
- Fixed loading of embedded kontour documents
- Refuse to load embedded documents with remote URL (e.g. http) for
security reasons
- "Skip" button in Find/Replace dialog works as intended with the
Backwards option
KOffice Workspace
- Fixed multiple confirmation requests when closing with an unsaved
document
KWord
- Famous bug "all letters squashed together when printing" fixed
- Undo/redo fixes for frame creation
- Fixed printing from preview mode
- Fixed slowness related to clipboard (e.g. when pasting text)
- Fixed crash on Ctrl+K at end of paragraph
- Fixed crash when hiding headers or footers (which contains a
variable)
- Transform into normal frame when copying header or footer
- Fixed charset conversion issue for "personal expressions"
- Save all frames, even for the main frameset, so that borders etc.
are kept
- Allow to insert GIF images
- Fixed applying a format change (e.g. new font family) to a selection
- Insert Frame Break at cursor position
- Make the document readonly during a search/replace or a spellcheck
- Fixed crash when undoing a format change, due to cursor positionned
too far right
KSpread
- Search/replace is now useful (highlights the current matching cell)
- Search/replace looks for cells in proper order (top-left to bottom-
right)
- Corruption when saving dates fixed
KChart
- KChart can load and save data again
- New type of chart: Polar (use wizard to enable this)
- Various fixes and UI improvements
The following features have been reactivated:
- setting a background color
- changing the grid color
- hiding and showing the grid
- hiding and showing the legend
- modifying the title of the legend
- modifying the x-axis labels
- adding one or two header and/or a footer text with user defined fonts
and color settings
Filters
- Translations were not used by many filters (for dialogs and error messages)
Davies <mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz> with changes by me. Pkgsrc-related changes
include:
* Strongly buildlinkifying.
* Using qt2-designer-kde for a uic that understands KDE2 widgets.
* Fixing sources to compile with egcs-1.1.2's much-less-than-compliant
C++ compiler.
Given the rapid development between the 1.0 and 1.1 releases, plus the
scope of the applications in the suite, it's difficult to summarize the
changes. The major change is that KIllustrator is now named Kontour
for trademark reasons. Aside from that, basically everything is more
featureful and more stable, plus there are more import/export filters for
other application suites.
KOffice is an integrated office suite for KDE, the K Desktop Environment.
Includes:
KWord - A frame-based wordprocessor comparable to FrameMaker
KSpread - A powerful spreadsheet application
KPresenter - A full-featured presentation program
Kivio - A Visio-style flowcharting application
KIllustrator - A vector drawing application
Krayon - A pixel-based image manipulation program like GIMP or
Adobe Photoshop
Based on package from Nick Hudson <skrll@netbsd.org>.
