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
* Rewrite the name-resolution routines so that true asynchronous lookups
are possible (multithreaded). Thiago Macieira
* kconf_update has now support for updating files other than config
files. Waldo Bastian
* Crypto certificates import without user interaction Helge Deller
* KEditToolbar: Add support for arranging actions via drag&drop. Sandro
Giessl
* Move KNewStuff to kdelibs, making it usable for KDE-Edu etc. Josef
Spillner
* Introduce KIMIface, a generic DCOP interface to instant messaging/chat
clients, and support libraries for other KDE apps, enabling loosely
coupled integration. Will Stephenson
* Show actions icons in the configure shortcut dialog. Olivier Goffart
* KKeyDialog: add widget (based on klistviewsearchline) for searching
shortcuts Cristian Tibirna
* User visible feedback if invocation of browser, help Center or mailer
fails
* KImgIO
o Add EXR image plugin, supports reading high dynamic range files.
Brad Hards
o Add support for SGI images (a.k.a. "RGB" images). These do typically
have file extensions *.rgb, *.rgba, *.sgi, or *.bw. The SGI image
file format is a de-facto standard for textures, for example in 3D
modeling. Melchior Franz
o Add read support for DDS images (Direct Draw Surface). This format
is mainly used for textures in DirectX. Ignacio Castaño
* libkabc
o Write support and SSL/TLS for the LDAP resource Szombathelyi György
* KLocale
o Try harder to find message translations if a string is not translated
in the primary language of the user, but available in other languages
that the user has chosen in kcontrol. Heiko Evermann
* KSpell2
o Introduction of the new spellchecking library fixing all of KSpell
shortcomings. Zack Rusin
* KHTML part
o KHTML: Merge text shifting from WebCore. Leo Savernik
o KHTML: Type-ahead find Arend van Beelen jr.
o Copy To->IM Contact... context menu entry. Using kimproxy, allow one
to initiate a file transfer from Konqueror. Will Stephenson
o Added "Open in This Window" in popup frame submenu
o New context menu when text is selected which allows lookup in default
search engine
o Fixed and improved Access Key support: now activated by pressing and
releasing the ctrl key. When activated, the accesskey mode displays all
accesskeys available in tooltips Jean-Baptiste Mardelle
Changes:
Libraries
* Hidden methods in DCOP interfaces - DCOPIDLng Alexander Kellett
* Documentation parsing (kdoc based) and inclusion in generated .dcopidl files
(note: kdebindings dcopidlng only) Alexander Kellett
* Kalyptus based rewrite of DCOPIDL - DCOPIDLng Alexander Kellett
* Thumbnail generator for DVI files. Stefan Kebekus
* Thumbnail generator for Xcursor files. Fredrik Hoeglund
* KMainWindow can now maintain the statusbar and corresponding action (duplicate
(99% of the time broken) code removed from countless applications in KDE).
Benjamin Meyer
* KMainWindow, KToolbar, and several other core classes now will only stores
settings if those settings are not the default values (helping to reduce the
huge size of config files). Benjamin Meyer
* Add support for International Domain Names (IDN). Thiago Macieira, Waldo
Bastian
* KDE Password Registry and Wallet. George Staikos
* SSL session ID reuse. George Staikos
* KCookiejar: Support HttpOnly cookies. Waldo Bastian
* KLocale: support for different calendar systems Hans Petter Bieker
* KCalendarSystem: support for Hebrew calendar system Hans Petter Bieker
* Support data urls. See rfc 2397. Leo Savernik
* New tab widget classes KTabBar and KTabWidget in kdeui Stephan Binner
* New KFile permissions panel Tim Jansen
* Support for mimetype inheritance and aliases David Faure
* KDialogBase: Replace setButtonOkText() & co. with setButtonOk() that takes a
KGuiItem instead (deprecating the old methods) Martijn Klingens
* Move KPrefs from libkdepim to kdelibs. Cornelius Schumacher
* Support for "extra fields" in KIO slaves and in Konqueror / KFileDialog
David Faure <faure@kde.org>
* Add KSplashScreen, a splash screen class based on QSplashScreen (with support
for KDE's Xinerama options) Chris Howells
* KPasteTextAction: enhanced action for pasting text by offering a list with
the clipboard history. Andras Mantia
KHTML
* Non-modal find dialog David Faure
KDEfx
* Added KCPUInfo class which makes it possible for applications to do runtime
checks for architecture specific CPU features, such MMX, 3DNow! and AltiVec.
Fredrik Hoeglund
* Added MMX and SSE2 optimizations to the blending functions in KImageEffect,
that among other things are used to blend the translucent menus when the menu
effect is set to software blend, and to tint icons when they're selected in
icon views. Fredrik Hoeglund
Kate Part
* File type specific settings Christoph Cullmann
* vi style cmd line Christoph Cullmann
* Support variable lines in files Anders Lund
* Color Schemes Christoph Cullmann
* Indentation based code folding Christoph Cullmann
* Implement more DCOP interfaces and clean up the ktexteditor dcop interfaces
Christoph Cullmann
KImgIO
* Add PCX image plugin, supports reading and writing 1, 4, 8 and 24bpp images
Nadeem Hasan
* Add TGA image plugin, supports reading and writing true color TGA images
(compressed and uncompressed) Dominik Seichter
Interfaces
* Interfaces for KBytesEdit widget part Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
KSpell
* Adding ability to spell check HTML, TeX and nroff documents. Zack Rusin
* Completely reworking the spell checking dialog. Adding language selection
combo. Zack Rusin
Changes:
* networking: Fix crash related to SOCKS
* kate: C syntax highlighting
* konqueror: Improved handling of long filenames in icon view.
* khtml: Minor rendering fixes
* khtml: Improved loading of large images
* java: Crash fix
* webdav: Fixed renaming of files via secure connection
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
