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| − | * | + | This page reflects the changelog of KDE Software Compilation 4.4. |
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| + | = Plasma Workspace = | ||
| + | == Basic Functionality and Work-flow == | ||
| + | * Storage devices can now automatically be mounted | ||
| + | * Widgets can be published on the network and be accessed remotely | ||
| + | * Desktop configuration is now scriptable using JavaScript | ||
| + | * Browsing through recent notifications | ||
| + | * Work-flow and layout improvements in the device manager widget | ||
| + | * System tray items can now be automatically shown or hidden | ||
| + | * New Plasma Netbook shell (Technology Preview) | ||
| + | * Applets can now be associated to an application (e.g. picture frame with gwenview, etc.) Makes it possible to open the associated application using an icon on the hover bar | ||
| + | * Mouse action plugins allow flexible interaction configuration | ||
| + | * New widget explorer improves the work-flow of adding widgets to the desktop | ||
| + | * Plasma widgets can now be added to the system tray | ||
| + | * Wallpapers can now be set using drag&drop | ||
| + | ** Support for dropping remote content to use as wallpapers or create a desktop widget | ||
| + | * KNetworkmanager: new Network Management frontend | ||
| + | ** Additionally, a richer Plasma widget as technology preview | ||
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| + | == User Interface == | ||
| + | * Kinetic scrolling | ||
| + | * Taskbar entries, window buttons and other elements of the Plasma interface now have sublte animations | ||
| + | * Animation of popups uses OpenGL for animations | ||
| + | * Improved KMix on-screen display | ||
| + | * Improved layout for the battery widget's popup | ||
| + | * Taskbar previews are now clickable | ||
| + | * Desktop theme configuration has been moved to System Settings -> Style | ||
| + | * Plasma's default Air theme has been further polished and improved | ||
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| + | == Window & Compositing Manager == | ||
| + | * New: Window maximizing and tiling by snapping to the screen-edges ("Quick tiling and maximization") | ||
| + | * Native window tabs: Arbitrary windows can be grouped in tabs | ||
| + | * Window Management Plugin for KRunner | ||
| + | * Subtle animations in the window decoration, and other options to customize the window behavior | ||
| + | * Alt+Tab window switching improvements | ||
| + | * Improvements in present windows, flip switch, logout effect | ||
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| + | == Other widgets and addons == | ||
| + | ===Widgets=== | ||
| + | * NEW Blackboard: a simple paint canvas, it's possible to paint with the mouse or with multitouch events on platforms that supports them | ||
| + | * NEW KDE Observatory: keep track of the development of your favorite KDE projects | ||
| + | * NEW KIMPanel: KDE Input Method Panel for multibyte input | ||
| + | * NEW Knowledge Base: query the knowledgebase of opendesktop.org | ||
| + | * NEW On-screen keyboard | ||
| + | * NEW OpenDesktop.org Activities: activity infomration from opendesktop.org | ||
| + | * NEW Qalculate math expression evaluator, based on libqalculate | ||
| + | * NEW Spellcheck: a quick spell checking area | ||
| + | * NEW Webslice: a plasmoid displaying a part of a web page | ||
| + | * NEW Window list | ||
| + | * Battery: Improved layout, better support for bigger fonts | ||
| + | * Clock/Calendar: Ability to configure Calendar System to display | ||
| + | * Device notifier | ||
| + | ** Visual revamp to make it look and feel more Plasma | ||
| + | ** Supports non-removable volumes | ||
| + | ** Can show/hide devices from the interface | ||
| + | ** Popup autohides after 10s of inactivity | ||
| + | * Picture Frame: now supports loading and displaying of remote images | ||
| + | * Microblog: can view replies and direct messages | ||
| + | * Quicklaunch: ascending and descending sort for applications in quicklaunch applet. | ||
| + | * SystemTray | ||
| + | ** Now can embed other Plasma widgets | ||
| + | ** Supports the finalized version of the StatusNotifier specification | ||
| + | ** Old notifications remains accessible for a while, separated by application name, browseable with a tabbar widget | ||
| + | * Tasks | ||
| + | ** Clicking on a window preview now activates that window | ||
| + | ** Mouse over on a window preview highlights the window if the highlight windows KWin effect is activated | ||
| + | ** Control+click on a window group launches the KWin present windows effect if activated | ||
| + | ** New taskbar animations | ||
| + | * Weather widget now supports wetter.com | ||
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| + | === KRunner === | ||
| + | * NEW audioplayercontrol: control any MPRIS enabled audio application (amarok is the default) | ||
| + | * NEW plasma-desktop: "desktop console [script file]" triggers the interactive scripting window | ||
| + | * NEW solid: devices and hotplug support using Solid | ||
| + | * NEW mediawiki: generic mediawiki searching with .desktop files for wikipedia, techbase, wikitravel and userbase by default | ||
| + | * NEW windows: switch between and control windows and desktops | ||
| + | * Service runner: a query on a freedesktop application category, like "network" will show all applications of that category | ||
| + | * Bookmarks runner: | ||
| + | ** The query "bookmarks" (or its translation) lists all the bookmarks | ||
| + | ** Also supports Firefox' bookmarks | ||
| + | * Contacts runner: the query "contacts" shows all contacts | ||
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| + | ===Other=== | ||
| + | * NEW Pastebin dataengine | ||
| + | * DataEngines can now also be written in JavaScript | ||
| + | * Image wallpaper combobox has been replaced with a nicer view. | ||
| + | * Image wallpaper offers 'Next Wallpaper Image' contextual action in slide-show mode. | ||
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| + | = KDE Development Platform = | ||
| + | * KAuth: Authorization framework, harnesses PolicyKit, currently used in Font installer and System Activity | ||
| + | * Multitouch resize, rotate and move on platforms that support multitouch | ||
| + | * New high-level animation API in Plasma, based on Qt Kinetic | ||
| + | * Nepomuk Semantic Desktop: | ||
| + | ** New Virtuoso storage backend, significantly faster and more scalable | ||
| + | ** Nepomuk: KIO slave for querying Nepomuk resources | ||
| + | ** Nepomuk is now able to search on non-mounted media | ||
| + | * libksane (scanner library): basic scanner support for Windows | ||
| + | * Improved exiv2 support in libkexiv2 | ||
| + | * Printing: Add Odd/Even page selection and server-side page selection when using CUPS | ||
| + | * KDE integration of QtWebKit (cookies, proxies, etc. but not KPart) | ||
| + | * Thumbnail previews for Comicbook format | ||
| + | * New calendar systems: Indian Civil (Saka), Ethiopian, Coptic, Julian, Proleptic Gregorian | ||
| + | * ISO Currency Code support | ||
| + | * The "Save or open" messagebox now offers all associated applications in a popup menu | ||
| + | |||
| + | = KDE Applications = | ||
| + | == Basic == | ||
| + | * Konqueror: | ||
| + | ** New history sidebar module | ||
| + | ** More details in restore session dialog | ||
| + | * Dolphin File Manager: | ||
| + | ** Integrated searching | ||
| + | ** Version control integration | ||
| + | ** New timeline view, accessible as timeline:/, showing files by modification date | ||
| + | * Gwenview Image Viewer | ||
| + | ** Image thumbnails on Folders | ||
| + | ** Reworked start page | ||
| + | ** New picture importing tool | ||
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| + | == PIM / Groupware == | ||
| + | * KAddressbook now uses Akonadi for storing contacts | ||
| + | * KMail: | ||
| + | ** Archiving of emails | ||
| + | ** Improved recipient picker | ||
| + | ** Searching by tag | ||
| + | ** Clickable HTML statusbar | ||
| + | ** Collapsible recipient fields | ||
| + | ** Error messages are now passive, less disturbant to workflow | ||
| + | ** Templating improvements for e.g. signatures | ||
| + | * Akonadi | ||
| + | ** New POP3 resource | ||
| + | ** IDLE Support for IMAP resource | ||
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| + | == Accessibility == | ||
| + | * KDE's text-to-speech subsystem now uses Speech Dispatcher for synthesis | ||
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| + | == Educational & Games == | ||
| + | * New Edu app: Cantor | ||
| + | * New Edu app: Rocs | ||
| + | * New game: Granatier (bomberman game) | ||
| + | * New game: Kigo (Go board game) | ||
| + | * New game: Palapeli (puzzle game) | ||
| + | * KStars: new observation plan manager | ||
| + | * KAlgebra | ||
| + | ** Support for lists | ||
| + | ** Better MathML presentation support, lambda expressions, jump detections | ||
| + | ** New 2d parametric function plotting | ||
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| + | == Graphics == | ||
| + | * Okular: Support both inverse search and forward search for dvi and pdf | ||
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| + | == Network == | ||
| + | * Kopete: Create avatars from a webcam | ||
| + | * KRDC Remote Desktop Client: | ||
| + | ** Telepathy Tubes support | ||
| + | ** Full screen switching | ||
| + | * KGet Download Manager: | ||
| + | ** better support for verification of downloaded files | ||
| + | ** Broken downloads can be repaired | ||
| + | ** Support for adding mirrors, moving and renaming files while downloading | ||
| + | ** New assistant to create metalinks | ||
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| + | == Utilities == | ||
| + | * Okteta Hex Editor: | ||
| + | ** NEW Analyzing/Editing with user-defineable data structure templates | ||
| + | ** NEW Editing of values in the decoding table now possible | ||
| + | ** NEW Split views | ||
| + | ** NEW Storing of bookmarks | ||
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