Schedules/KDE4/4.2 Changelog
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
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
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)
Applications
- Kate: snippets plugin ported, ctags plugin, build plugin improved
- perldoc kioslave
- Lokalize: MDI tabbed interface, improved translation memory, 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
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
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: various UI improvements
- Ark: service menu and password support
- Ksnapshot: recording of window title, multiscreen improvements
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
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
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
NEEDINFO
- kpackagekit?
- QTScript improvements (which? [email protected])
- SVG support in KHTML (Vyacheslav Tokarev <[email protected]>)
- Support for CSS3 border-* properties (Fredrik Höglund and Maksim Orlovich <[email protected]>)
- support of Video/Audio elements (Germain Garand <[email protected]>)
- kdeui: Rich text builders for KTextEdit, including BBCode, html, plain text markup, mediawiki and markdown output (Stephen Kelly <[email protected]>)
- NX support in krdc David Gross <[email protected]>