KDE 3.0.5 to KDE 3.1.0 Changelog

This page tries to present as much as possible the additions and corrections that occured in KDE between the 3.0.5 and 3.1.0 releases.

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.
• KFile plugins:
  • jpeg: From the GUI or the command line, able to display & set jpeg comments, and show digital camera exif (extended information) data. Who knows, one day it may even play audio files embedded inside images. Frank Pieczynski <pieczy at knuut dot de> and Bryce (bryce2 at obviously.com).
  • diff: Display some basic info about a diff file, such as number of lines changed, added, removed, format of the diff, etc. Otto Bruggeman <bruggie at bruggie dot dnsalias dot org>
  • c++: Get some stats like lines of code and comment and the number of included files, Rolf Magnus <ramagnus at kde dot org>
  • rpm: Information like package name and version, Laurence Anderson <l.d.anderson at warwick dot ac dot uk>
  • deb: Information like package name and version, Laurence Anderson <l.d.anderson at warwick dot ac dot uk>
  • ico: Display # of icons, resolution and # colors of 1st icon, Shane Wright <me at shanewright.co.uk>
  • targa: Display resolution, bit depth, and compression method, Shane Wright <me at shanewright.co.uk>
  • xbm: Display resolution, Shane Wright <me at shanewright.co.uk>
  • bmp: Display type, resolution, bit depth, and compression method, Shane Wright <me at shanewright.co.uk>
  • au: Display length, sample rate, encoding, Shane Wright <me at shanewright.co.uk>
  • html: Read title, doctype and metatags, and whether the file contains javascript, Rolf Magnus <ramagnus at kde dot org>
  • tiff: Read the usual image information like resolution as well as the comments that are available, Nadeem Hasan <nhasan at nadmm dot com>
  • txt: Create output similar to the wc command, showing things like number of words and lines, Nadeem Hasan <nhasan at nadmm dot com>
  • folder: Displays number of files contained and space used (Simon MacMullen)
  • avi: Displays resolution, length, fps and codecs used, Shane Wright <me at shanewright.co.uk>
  • message/rfc822: Displays From, To, Subject and Content-Type lines, Shane Wright <me at shanewright.co.uk>
• KSSL:
  • SSL certificate policies can now be configured based on the host name

kdeaddons

• NEW IN KDE: Noatun plugin to search for lyrics of the current song.

kdeadmin

• kcmlinuz: is now a standalone application
• kcmlinuz: Added capability to search for configuration options

kdeartwork

kdebase

• KAppfinder: Allowing to configure which entries should be added to the menu.
• Kate:
  • The XML completion plugin pops up now automatically.
  • Added an XML checker
  • Added "Dynamic Word Wrap" (soft wrapping of the textlines at the window border)
  • Add "Code Folding" (now you can collapse/expand for example functions on C++)
  • Improved printing, which means: print line number, print with syntaxhighlighting, ...
  • Fix XIM input, enhance Unicode support (sorry, bidi support still missing)
  • Updated Plugin-Interface, to make sure to be BC with 3.2 from 3.1
  • Static word wrap fixed (at least all known bugs solved)
  • Optional new GUI mode: "Modern Style"
• KControl:
  • Added control module for changing X11 resolution and configuring Gamma correction
  • Fonts module: Extra Anti-Alias settings for excluding range, sub-pixel type.
  • Font installer: Consistency improvements, removed install-from list, saves changes upon pressing the apply button. Allows fonts to be disabled, Thumbnail generator.
• KDesktop:
  • Ability to merge custom menu with the desktop menu.
  • Added configuration option GridXSpacing in kdeglobals to control the LineUp horizontal spacing.
  • Added configuration option to activate Workspace-Switching using the Mouse wheel
  • Look up desktop files when executing commands from the minicli.
• KHelpCenter:
  • Integrated table of contents of application manuals into documentation tree view.
  • Improved integration for documentation of KControl modules, Kicker applets, KInfoCenter modules and Konqueror plugins.
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  • Cleaned up interface for plugging in third-party documentation.
• Kicker:
  • Added possibility to replace the K-Menu with a custom menu
  • New hiding mode: into background. Kicker bar unhiding can be triggered by moving the mouse into a corner of the desktop.
  • Reorganized hiding options in the control module.
  • Support for several clock applets running at the same time, each configurable to different time zones.
  • Added a Menuextension for Konsole with full bookmark support.
  • Added support for mouse-over animation, like in Konqueror and KDesktop.
  • Display number of containing tasks in a taskbar group
• Klipper: Optionally allow synchronizing of the X11 Clipboard and the current mouse selection.
• Konqueror:
  • Tabbed Browsing support by Doug Hanley
  • Folder icons now reflect their contents
  • Added possibility to enable / disable all previews at once
  • Digital camera previews obey their orientation now.
  • Added multiple selection support to the bookmark editor.
  • Show 256x256 pixel previews of images in the iconview extended tooltips
  • A Konqueror sidebar plugin for KFileMetaInfo
  • A detailed list view for KFileMetaInfo
  • Integrated searching for metadata and multimedia files in the "Find" dialog
  • KFileMetaInfo plugins:
    • GIF: Is able to set GIF comments, and to display GIF metadata
    • desktop: Shows information about desktop entry files
    • vCard: Displays name and email address
• Konsole:
  • Added "cutToBeginningOfLine" option.
  • Made timeout for "Monitor for Silence" configurable.
  • kfile-bookmarks menu integration ("Add Bookmark" on non-GNU/Linux only with "\[\e]31;\w\a\]" prompt).
  • Start new shell at given bookmark (supports ssh://user@host and telnet://host like bookmarks).
  • konsolepart uses BrowserExtension::openURLRequest() (only with "\[\e]31;\w\a\]" prompt).
  • Session management saves initial or current (non-Linux only if set with "\[\e]31;\w\a\]" prompt) directory.
  • Extended drag and drop popupmenu with "cp", "ln" and "mv" entries.
  • Session views are temporarily detachable from main window.
  • Improved "Find in History...": Regular expressions support, "Find Next", "Find Previous".
  • Shortcuts are now configurable via graphical interface.
  • Added shortcuts for session switch menu, switching to first 12 sessions and font size variation.
  • Made Ctrl-S/Ctrl-Q flow control (Ctrl-S freezes shell) an option with default off.
  • Parameters for keyboard and schema selection.
  • "Clear Terminal" and "Reset and Clear Terminal" commands.
  • Optionally prevent programs from changing the window size.
  • Support for Unix98 tty devices.
  • "Copy" menu entries and don't write to clipboard automatically.
  • Addition of "random" background colours, and the "BlackOnLightColour" schema, Alexander Kellett <lypanov@kde.org
  • Allow to save current sessions as profile and start them with --profile parameter.
  • Added "--noclose" parameter to not close Konsole when command exits.
• KPager: bugfixes.
• KWin:
  • Added a GUI for the "Desktops navigation wraps around" feature that was added in 3.0.
  • Made minor key accelerators fixes.
  • Keyboard navigation of the operations menu corrected.
  • Fixed order of cascading for windows present on a desktop
  • Fixed the problem with kicker systray applets vanishing after a kicker crash
  • Desktop name popups on desktop switch, Alexander Kellett <lypanov@kde.org>
  • Added titlebar buttons layout configurability to the KStep decoration style, Keunwoo Lee <klee@cs.washington.edu>

kdebindings

• bindings updated.

kdeedu

• NEW IN KDE: Kiten, a Japanese Reference Tool.
• NEW IN KDE: FlashKard, a vocabulary tool. Is able to read KVTML files which were written by KVocTrain.
• NEW IN KDE: started a libkdeedu, which allows interopability and code sharing between KDE Educational applications.

kdegames

• Move Atlantik from kdenonbeta to kdegames, Rob Kaper <kaper@kde.org>
• Move Atlantik Designer from kdenonbeta to kdeaddons, Jason Katz-Brown <jason@katzbrown.com>
• Move Megami from kdenonbeta to kdegames, Neil Stevens <neil@qualityassistant.com>
• Move Kolf (web page) from kdenonbeta to kdegames, Jason Katz-Brown <jason@katzbrown.com>
• Add Klickety to kdegames (which uses heavily KSirtet libraries), Nicolas Hadacek <hadacek@kde.org>
• Solver/adviser and game logs (replay/save/load) for KMines, Nicolas Hadacek <hadacek@kde.org>
• Export, statistics and histogram for highscores (KMines, KSirtet, KFouleggs and Klickety), Nicolas Hadacek <hadacek@kde.org>
• Added different difficulty levels to KLines, Waldo Bastian <bastian@kde.org>

kdegraphics

• KView:
  • Added KImageViewer interface
  • Added possibility for plugins
  • Added Slideshow plugin
  • Enhanced Mousewheel support
  • Automatic resizing to fit images with varying size
• kviewshell: added statusbar
• kviewshell: usability improvements
• KuickShow: Digital camera jpeg images obey orientaion information
• KuickShow: General UI improvements, now features a menubar
• KuickShow: Ability to browse image collections on remote servers
• KuickShow: Digital camera jpeg images obey orientaion information
• KPovModeler: Implement support for the missing PovRAY 3.1 primitives, zehender at kde org.
• KFax: Rewrite all the UI code to be KDE standards compliant, cleanups. (Nadeem Hasan <nhasan@kde.org>)
• libkscan: support for halftoning scan mode where available
• kooka: thumbnail view of scanned images added
• kooka: ported to KDockWidgets to provide a customizable GUI
• kooka: inline image renaming and drag and drop
• NEW IN KDE:KPovModeler, a modeling and composition program for creating POV-Ray (tm) scenes

kdemultimedia

• Started a video framework
• More consistent internationalisation in many applications.
• NEW IN KDE: KAudioCreator, a CD ripper and audio encoder frontend.
• NEW IN KDE: KRec, an audio recorder using aRts.
• KMediaPlayer interface added to kdelibs to reuse Kaboodle.
• Noatun: Added option to clear the playlist when running with a file as command line option.
• Added video thumbnail creator using xine-arts.
• KMix: Added mute control support.

kdenetwork

• KMail
  • The 'Delete' Action now irrevocably deletes messages. Use 'Move to Trash' to put messages into the trashcan. (Martin Koller)
  • Optional columns for the number of unread messages and the total number of messages in the folder list (Carsten Burghardt)
  • Custom folder icons (Zack Rusin)
  • Improved OpenPGP support (Ingo Klöcker):
    • Allow multiple encryption keys per email address, e.g. for distribution lists
    • Allow rereading of keys in the key selection dialog, e.g. after the user has imported a key.
    • Allow rechecking of keys in the key selection dialog, e.g. after the user has signed a key.
  • PGP/MIME (encryption/signing of attachments, RFC 3156) for GnuPG users and S/MIME support via plugins (collective effort of Ägypten <gpa-dev@gnupg.org> and KMail <kmail@kde.org> developers)
  • Redesign of the identity configuration dialog (Marc Mutz)
  • Default identity can now be renamed (Marc Mutz)
  • Identity-dependant default Bcc (Ingo Klöcker)
  • Optional MIME tree viewer, allowing direct access to all body parts (attachments) (Karl-Heinz Zimmer)
  • Custom date format (Zack Rusin)
  • Improved IMAP support (Carsten Burghardt)
  • Reorganized menu bar looks more like other KDE applications (Martin Koller, Marc Mutz)
  • Support for decoding uuencoded attachments (Marc Mutz)
  • Custom hostname to send to the SMTP server (Aaron Seigo)
  • Improved 'Reply to Mailing-List' (Marc Mutz)
  • Separate the 'New Message' action and the 'Post to Mailing-List' action. This means with 'New Message' the To: field of the new message will no longer be filled automatically with the mailing list's posting address if the currently selected folder is associated with a mailing list. (Ingo Klöcker)
  • Improved support for RTL languages esp. Hebrew (Diego Iastrubni, Meni Livne)
  • Allow the user to enable HTML rendering temporarily for HTML only messages (Ingo Klöcker)
  • Optionally show the encryption/signature status of messages in the message list (Kalle Dalheimer)
  • Optional popup after dragging a message onto a folder (Zack Rusin)
  • Five fixed layouts for the main window (Karl-Heinz Zimmer)
  • Send separately encrypted messages to Bcc recipients because else all recipients could deduce the Bcc recipients from the keys that were used for encryption (Steffen Hansen)
  • Configurable default domain for sending (Ingo Klöcker)
  • Don't check spelling of quoted text, urls or email addresses (Dave Corrie)
  • New 'Add to Addressbook' action which doesn't open the addressbook when you add an email address to it. Use 'Open in Addressbook' if you want to add more information to a new address. (Cornelius Schumacher)
  • IMAP accounts are now top level elements in the folder list (Carsten Burghardt)
  • Configurable timeout for when the selected message will be marked as read (Tobias Koenig)
  • Tips of the Day (Marc Mutz)
  • Show progress dialog on exit so that the user sees that KMail is still doing something although all windows have already been closed (Waldo Bastian, Carsten Pfeiffer)
  • Use KNotify to play an arbitrary sound on new mail arrival (Till Krech)
  • Configurable alternative background color for the message list (Waldo Bastian)
  • Display folder path in window caption (Carsten Burghardt)
• KNode
  • Added "Find in Article..." command.
  • Added "Mark Last as Unread..." command.
  • Bug- and Stability fixes.
• Korn now supports APOP accounts.
• NEW IN KDE: Desktop Sharing (KRfb). KRfb is a VNC-compatible server to share KDE desktops.
• NEW IN KDE: Remote Desktop Connection (KRdb). VNC compatible client for sharing KDE desktops.

kdepim

• libkabc
  • Plugin interface for resources and formats.
  • Control module for configuring multiple resources.
  • Optional directory resource which stores each entry as own file.
  • LDAP resource.
  • Optional binary storage format for better performance with large addressbooks.
  • Completed support for vCard entities: sound, geo, key and some more.
  • vCard 2.1 import.
  • LDAP aware mail address input field.
• KAddressbook
  • New card and icon views.
  • Multiple configurable views.
  • "kab-style" details view for selected entry.
  • Customizable view filters.
  • Customizable categories for addressbook entries.
  • Support for transparently accessing multiple addressbooks.
  • Redesigned entry editor widget.
  • Printing option supporting two different styles.
  • Optional embedded entry and ditribution list editor.
  • "Jump bar" for quick alphabetical access of entries.
  • Fetch addresses from LDAP servers, including support for multiple servers.
  • Importing of vCard 2.1 files.
  • Improved CSV import (including template for import from Outlook 2000).
  • vCard export.
• KAlarm
  • Added option to execute commands in alarms.
  • Implemented daily, weekly, monthly and annual recurrences.
  • Optionally play audio notification when an alarm triggers.
• KPilot
  • Added time conduit
  • VCal conduits (TODO and Calendar) have been improved to function properly.
  • AvantGo conduit added.
  • Addressbook conduit has been ported to use libkabc.
• KOrganizer
  • General
    • User definable templates for events and TODOs.
    • Alarms for TODOs.
    • Added support for automatic HTML export on save of a calendar file.
    • Time table print view.
    • New "location" attribute for events.
    • Experimental "Get Hot New Stuff" button for downloading and uploading calendar files of common interest.
  • Views
    • Added new "Next 3 days" view.
    • Added selection of time span for a new event in day and week views.
    • Direct manipulation of priority, completion status and categories of TODOs by context menus added.
    • Deletion of individual instances of recurring events.
    • Rewritten month view.
    • Coloring of events in month view based on categories.
    • Coloring of due and overdue todos.
    • Improved "What's Next" view.
    • Configurable cell height in week and day views
  • Group scheduling
    • iMIP group scheduling functions for TODOs.
    • Publishing of Free/Busy information by iMIP conformant email.
    • Improved automatisation of group scheduling.
  • Interopability and integration
    • Support for "webcal" URLs in Konqueror (known from Apple iCal).
    • Support for iCalendar based drag&drop.
    • KOrganizer now shares the dialogs for categories with KAddressBook.
    • Improved iCalendar conformance.
    • Improved right-to-left languages support.
    • Bug fixes for non-latin1 encodings.
  • Plugins
    • New plugin for importing Birthdays of contacts in the KDE address book.
    • New plugin for accessing calendar data stored on an Exchange 2000 server.
• Fixed printing support in KNotes

kdesdk

• KBugBuster
  • Adapted KBugBuster to the new Bugzilla based KDE bug tracking system.
  • Implemented Bookmarking support for Bug reports.
  • Changing view settings no longer requires a reload.
  • Added toolbar
• KBabel
  • Automatic update of Project-Id-Version
  • Possibility to specify localized translator name
  • Validation & highlighting of XML
  • Save special (the settings can be changed for the particular save)
  • KDE specifics added to rough translation (e.g. only add a new translator in TRANSLATORS)
  • Load/Save markings in Catalog Manager
  • Navigation bar in Catalog Manager
  • Mail PO-file
  • Tag structure tool
  • Rough translation in catalog manager
  • Automatic update of PO header comment
  • Show source code
  • Spellchecking in multiple files
• Cervisia: made hardcoded colors configurable.

kdetoys

• Minor improvements and bugfixes.

kdeutils

• Partially ACPI support in KLaptop.

Quanta Plus

• NEW IN KDE: Quanta Plus - A web development environment (homepage)
• extended network transparency
  • remote projects
  • remote files in projects
  • remote toolbars
• automatic update of Files and Templates tree views
• more DTD's installed by default:
  • HTML 4.01 Frameset
  • HTML 4.01 Strict
  • WML-1-2
• possibility to send DTD definition files in e-mail added
• possibility to convert the document to a new DTD added
• "project views" support added
• more project default settings added
• various speedups (smoother editing or large files even with autocompletion turned on), some redesigned dialogs and lots of bugfixes
• NEW IN KDE: Kommander: dialog builder/executor tool

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