Latest revision as of 12:24, 11 January 2009

[edit] Workspace

• policykit (probably beta2)
• Use knotify in kwrited
• option for full path in breadcrumb mode
• VI input mode in kwrite and kate
• PowerDevil
• kephal for better xrandr-support.
• Add ConsoleKit support to kdm
• Changed layout of several config pages (mainly systemsettings, konqueror) to fit 1024x600 netbook screen.

[edit] Plasma

(see also plasma changelog)

• KRunner: Noun-Verb support
• Konqueror history runner
• Kate sessions runner
• Recent Documents runner
• Notifications and jobs in systemtray
• panel->desktop dragging
• Improved Battery applet for Powerdevil
• Wallpaper plugins
• Python support
• Ruby support
• Plasma Popup Tips
• Taskbar grouping
• Weather Plasmoid
• Plasma On Screensaver
• Add New Widgets: Pluggable widget browser
• Activity<->Virtual Desktop Affinity (no UI)
• Panel Autohide
• Keyboard Shortcut Config UI
• Save icon positioning in folderview
• Quicklaunch Plasmoid
• drop indicator in panel
• make the panel controller a bit more usable
• nicely draw the desktop toolbox when it's moved because of a panel
• Various widgets (TODO)
• Panel form factor support in the folderview applet, twitter, news, ...
• Improved folderview configuration
• Keyboard status applet

[edit] KWin

• Move maximized windows between Xinerama screens
• Support for decoration shadows
• Implement _NET_WM_FULLSCREEN_MONITORS EWMH spec hint
• Compositing enabled by default
• Compositing self-check
• Global animation speed setting
• Motion dynamics
• Improved UI for selecting window/desktop switcher
• UI for assigning effects to screen edges
• Cube/cylinder/sphere effect
• Magic lamp minimize effect
• Animation in box switch effect
• Mouse interaction for cover switch Effect
• Thumbnail bar in the cover switch effect
• Improved snow effect
• Improved desktop grid
• New present window layout modes
• Invert only selected windows
• Unredirecting of fullscreen windows (flicker-- w/ bad video drivers)

[edit] Applications

• Kate: snippets plugin ported, ctags plugin, build plugin improved
• perldoc kioslave
• Lokalize: MDI tabbed interface
• Lokalize: Improved translation memory
• Lokalize/kdelibs: widget text capture for any KDE application (by middle-clicking the widget)
• Gwenview: support for animated gif and mng
• Okular: support fax documents
• Konqueror: bookmarks page (+kioslave)
• Dolphin: previews in tooltips, zoom slider in statusbar

[edit] Edu

• KAlgebra: new parser / lexer, import for MathML presentation markup
• KBruch: UI improvements and merge of KPercentage functionality
• Python bindings to Marble widget classes
• KStars: Display millions of stars, many more
• KTurtle: color picker, command line, export image
• Parley: UI improvements and automatic translation fetching from online sources
• Marble: Moon Map, Historical Map, Marble Runners, On-Screen Navigation, Worldclock Plasmoid

[edit] Admin / Utils / Network

• system-config-printer-kde and printer-applet
• Improved support for LDAP (Microsoft Active Directory) in KRDC
• improved per host settings in KRDC
• Okteta: new row-oriented view option, int64 and UTF-8 included in decoding table
• Ark: service menu and password support
• Ksnapshot: recording of window title, multiscreen improvements
• KCharSelect: history and "instant search"

[edit] PIM

• Akregator: basic support for enclosures
• KAlarm: Option to exclude holidays in recurring alarms
• KAlarm: Improved layout for configuration dialog
• KAlarm: New simple mode for alarm edit dialog
• KAlarm: Ability to set global shortcuts to create alarms
• KJots: Importing notes from knowit
• KMail: Nicer attachment view
• KMail: New message list
• KNotes: Zeroconf support for sending notes on LAN
• Kontact: new planner summary
• Kontact: Drag and drop in free/busy view

[edit] Games

• Dragging jewels and untimes games in kdiamond
• Ksirk: jabber-based netgame finding, scrolling improvements, skins via GHNS, skins editor
• KGoldRunner: new levels
• KBlocks: sounds support
• New game: Killbots
• New game: Bomber

[edit] Libraries & development platform

• Phonon: VideoWidget snapshot function
• KHTML: Early domain name resolution (prefetch)
• KHTML: embedded search/find-as-you-type bar
• CMake: Reduced library link interface
• Eigen (how's that interesting?
• PyKDE: KCM and oder plugins support
• Various improvements in the Kross Ruby and Python engines
• New Kross engine: Falcon
• fish and sftp support on Windows

[edit] NEEDINFO

• kpackagekit?
• QTScript improvements (which? mail@dipe.org)
• SVG support in KHTML (Vyacheslav Tokarev <tsjoker@gmail.com>)
• Support for CSS3 border-* properties (Fredrik Höglund and Maksim Orlovich <fredrik@kde.org>)
• support of Video/Audio elements (Germain Garand <germain@ebooksfrance.org>)
• kdeui: Rich text builders for KTextEdit, including BBCode, html, plain text markup, mediawiki and markdown output (Stephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com>)
• NX support in krdc David Gross <gdavid.devel@gmail.com>