KDE 4.2.3 Changelog

Changes in KDE 4.2.3

kdelibs [ all SVN changes ]

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Bugfixes:

Fix crash when renaming a directory that is only in the cache and not held by any dirlister. Fixes bug 188807. See SVN commit 957310.
Fixes copying files from folderview to a filemanager running as root. Fixes bug 184403. See SVN commits 957388, 958312 and 958315.
Don't migrate the DCOP startup-type to DBUS when editing a kde3 .desktop file, this leads to a klauncher error when launching the app. See SVN commit 959681.

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  <em>Bugfixes:</em>
  <ul>
    <li class="bugfix ">Fix a memory leak in the vi mode. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=951666&amp;view=rev">951666</a>. </li>
    <li class="bugfix ">Fix assert when using Ctrl+Del. Fixes bug <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190305">190305</a>.  See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=957714&amp;view=rev">957714</a>. </li>
    <li class="bugfix ">Fix settings menu order. Fixes bug <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179836">179836</a>.  See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=958334&amp;view=rev">958334</a>. </li>
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  <em>Improvements:</em>
  <ul>
      <li class="improvement">Enable clear buttons for line edits. See SVN commits <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=945667&amp;view=rev">945667</a>, <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=945667&amp;view=rev">945667</a> and <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=948589&amp;view=rev">948589</a>. </li>
  </ul>
  <em>Optimizations:</em><ul>
    <li class="optimize">Significantly improve performance of getElementsByClassName. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=961205&amp;view=rev">961205</a>. </li>
  </ul>
  <em>Bugfixes:</em>
  <ul>
    <li class="bugfix ">Rework replaced elements painting, improving outline painting, and making
    sure all phases handle visibility properly. Fixes bug <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155599">155599</a>.  See SVN commits <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=948350&amp;view=rev">948350</a> and <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=961373&amp;view=rev">961373</a>. </li>
    <li class="bugfix ">Make sure that iframes created with javascript: URLs enter HTML mode when desired.
    Entering XHTML mode improperly broke tinyMCE badly. Fixes bugs <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188445">188445</a> and <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141523">141523</a>.  See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=948882&amp;view=rev">948882</a>. </li>
    <li class="bugfix ">Fix crashes with / search. Fixes bug <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189201">189201</a>.  See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=961362&amp;view=rev">961362</a>. </li>
    <li class="bugfix ">Rework form widgets padding for increased compatibility, fixing several bugs in the process. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=961357&amp;view=rev">961357</a>. </li>
    <li class="bugfix ">Fix min/max width computations' handling of newlines in
    LF preserving modes (white-space: pre, pre-wrap, pre-line), fixing missing wrapping in many situations. Fixes bugs <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154143">154143</a> and <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130181">130181</a>.  See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=948757&amp;view=rev">948757</a>. </li>
    <li class="bugfix ">Remove restrictions on where innerHTML operates to match Mozilla,
        as this extended interpretation is now commonly used, e.g. on google.com frontpage's autocompletion. Fixes bugs <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168479">168479</a> and <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137408">137408</a>.  See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=959136&amp;view=rev">959136</a>. </li>
    <li class="bugfix ">Expand out combobox popups to widths of content. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=959239&amp;view=rev">959239</a>. </li>
    <li class="bugfix ">KMultiPart: fix various bugs affecting server-push (e.g. webcams). Fixes bug <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123614">123614</a>.  See SVN commits <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=951041&amp;view=rev">951041</a> and <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=951134&amp;view=rev">951134</a>. </li>
    <li class="bugfix ">Fix an infinite loop in bidiNext on some websites. Fixes bugs <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188830">188830</a> and <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189161">189161</a>.  See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=951343&amp;view=rev">951343</a>. </li>
    <li class="bugfix ">Fix a crash in some cases of a removed continuation. Fixes bugs <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189121">189121</a> and <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=187938">187938</a>.  See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=951351&amp;view=rev">951351</a>. </li>
    <li class="bugfix ">Fix @charset handling. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=961360&amp;view=rev">961360</a>. </li>
    <li class="bugfix ">Fix an uninitialized memory read in @charset CSS DOM construction. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=961358&amp;view=rev">961358</a>. </li>
    <li class="bugfix ">Fix a CSS parser crash. Fixes bug <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167318">167318</a>.  See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=948352&amp;view=rev">948352</a>. </li>
    <li class="bugfix ">Fix framesets nested in iframe not being displayed. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=948444&amp;view=rev">948444</a>. </li>
    <li class="bugfix ">Don't crash when attempting attribute value normalization during removeAttribute. Fixes bug <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188061">188061</a>.  See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=955821&amp;view=rev">955821</a>. </li>
    <li class="bugfix ">Fix wheel events in subframes not being forwarded to widgets when the root

view has a scroll offset. See SVN commit 948351.

Don't transfer focus on a cancelled mousedown. Fixes bugs 190255 and 190142. See SVN commit 958236.

Fix a linebreaking bug. Fixes bug 49441. See SVN commit 948353.

Make sure popup delay of web tooltips is constant. See SVN commit 948348.

Recalculate dirty table grid if needed before using it in adjacent cell accessors. See SVN commit 948254.

Make sure to add doctypes from the XML parser to the DOM. See SVN commit 958920.

Fix missing mapping of 'Insert' key code. See SVN commit 141523.

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  <em>Bugfixes:</em>
  <ul>
    <li class="bugfix ">Don't loop if we get no auth request (that we understand) together with a 401/407 status code. Fixes bug <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=187753">187753</a>.  See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=950465&amp;view=rev">950465</a>. </li>
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  <em>Improvements:</em>
  <ul>
      <li class="improvement">Implement Array.prototype.reduce/reduceRight (part of ECMAScript3.1/5 draft). See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=959326&amp;view=rev">959326</a>. </li>
  </ul>
  <em>Optimizations:</em><ul>
    <li class="optimize">Cache and coalesce StringImps for sufficiently short string literals.
       Cuts heap usage by about 48% on one memory-intensive demo; and is about a 1.11x speed up on string-unpack-code test from SunSpider. See SVN commits <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=959712&amp;view=rev">959712</a> and <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=959713&amp;view=rev">959713</a>. </li>
  </ul>
  <em>Bugfixes:</em>
  <ul>
    <li class="bugfix ">Don't walk object literals for declarations; they can't possibly

be there, and we may run out of stack space doing this. Fixes bug 190609. See SVN commit 959204.

Fix strict aliasing rules violation in dtoa code that caused crashes with gcc-4.4. Fixes bug 189809. See SVN commit 960767.

<h3 id="kdebase"><a name="kdebase">kdebase</a><span class="allsvnchanges"> [ <a href="4_2_3/kdebase.txt">all SVN changes</a> ]</span></h3> <div class="module" style="padding-left: 20px;"> <h4><a name="krunner">krunner</a></h4> <div class="product" style="padding-left: 20px;"> <em>Improvements:</em> <ul> <li class="improvement">Improved overall responsiveness</li> </ul> <em>Bugfixes:</em> <ul> <li class="bugfix ">Fix a crash due to the context being unexpectedly reset. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=946618&view=rev">946618</a>. </li> <li class="bugfix ">Discard whitespaces surrounding the query. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=948752&view=rev">948752</a>. </li> <li class="bugfix ">Fix combo box drawing issues. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=949359&view=rev">949359</a>. </li> <li class="bugfix ">Fix a crash due to a race condition. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=957813&view=rev">957813</a>. </li> </ul> </div> <h4><a name="kephal">kephal</a></h4> <div class="product" style="padding-left: 20px;"> <em>Bugfixes:</em> <ul> <li class="bugfix ">Fix some memory leaks. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=951675&view=rev">951675</a>. </li> </ul> </div> <h4><a name="ksysguard">ksysguard</a></h4> <div class="product" style="padding-left: 20px;"> <em>Bugfixes:</em> <ul> <li class="bugfix ">Fix some memory leaks. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=951691&view=rev">951691</a>. </li> </ul> </div> <h4><a name="kscreensaver">kscreensaver</a></h4> <div class="product" style="padding-left: 20px;"> <em>Bugfixes:</em> <ul> <li class="bugfix ">Fix issue with 3d screensavers using only a quarter of the screen. Fixes bug <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66492">66492</a>. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=948349&view=rev">948349</a>. </li> </ul> </div> <h4><a name="konqueror">konqueror</a></h4> <div class="product" style="padding-left: 20px;"> <em>Bugfixes:</em> <ul> <li class="bugfix ">Fix wrong default value for global cookie policy; simply opening the config dialog would set it to "Ask". See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=957717&view=rev">957717</a>. </li> </ul> </div> </div> <h3 id="kdeedu"><a name="kdeedu">kdeedu</a><span class="allsvnchanges"> [ <a href="4_2_3/kdeedu.txt">all SVN changes</a> ]</span></h3> <div class="module" style="padding-left: 20px;"> <h4><a href="http://edu.kde.org/kalzium" name="kalzium">Kalzium</a></h4> <div class="product" style="padding-left: 20px;"> <em>Bugfixes:</em> <ul> <li class="bugfix ">Fix loading of saved schemes. Fixes bug <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=175310">175310</a>. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=946587&view=rev">946587</a>. </li> </ul> </div> </div> <h3 id="kdegames"><a name="kdegames">kdegames</a><span class="modulehomepage"> [ <a href="http://games.kde.org/">homepage</a> ] </span><span class="allsvnchanges"> [ <a href="4_2_3/kdegames.txt">all SVN changes</a> ]</span></h3> <div class="module" style="padding-left: 20px;"> <h4><a href="http://games.kde.org/game.php?game=konquest" name="konquest">konquest</a></h4> <div class="product" style="padding-left: 20px;"> <em>Bugfixes:</em> <ul> <li class="bugfix ">Do not allow starting a game with 0 players. Fixes bug <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190413">190413</a>. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=958292&view=rev">958292</a>. </li> </ul> </div> </div> <h3 id="kdegraphics"><a name="kdegraphics">kdegraphics</a><span class="allsvnchanges"> [ <a href="4_2_3/kdegraphics.txt">all SVN changes</a> ]</span></h3> <div class="module" style="padding-left: 20px;"> <h4><a href="http://okular.kde.org" name="okular">Okular</a></h4> <div class="product" style="padding-left: 20px;"> <em>Bugfixes:</em> <ul> <li class="bugfix crash">XPS backend: more stability when concurrently rendering and extracting text. Fixes bug <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190336">190336</a>. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=957821&view=rev">957821</a>. </li> </ul> </div> </div> <h3 id="kdemultimedia"><a name="kdemultimedia">kdemultimedia</a><span class="allsvnchanges"> [ <a href="4_2_3/kdemultimedia.txt">all SVN changes</a> ]</span></h3> <div class="module" style="padding-left: 20px;"> <h4><a href="http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/juk.html" name="juk">JuK</a></h4> <div class="product" style="padding-left: 20px;"> <em>Bugfixes:</em> <ul> <li class="bugfix crash">Fix JuK crash resulting in several bugs. Patch provided by Jiri Palecek. Fixes bug <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179776">179776</a>. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=960744&view=rev">960744</a>. </li> <li class="bugfix ">Disable useless JuK service menu. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=947969&view=rev">947969</a>. </li> </ul> </div> </div> <h3 id="kdepim"><a name="kdepim">kdepim</a><span class="allsvnchanges"> [ <a href="4_2_3/kdepim.txt">all SVN changes</a> ]</span></h3> <div class="module" style="padding-left: 20px;"> <h4><a href="http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm" name="kalarm">KAlarm</a></h4> <div class="product" style="padding-left: 20px;"> <em>Bugfixes:</em> <ul> <li class="bugfix ">Fix deferred recurring alarms being missed when they are deferred to a time earlier than the next due alarm. Fixes bug <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183202">183202</a>. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=946164&view=rev">946164</a>. </li> <li class="bugfix ">Fix crash at startup if a non-recurring cancel-if-late alarm has been missed. Fixes bug <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190952">190952</a>. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=961247&view=rev">961247</a>. </li> <li class="bugfix ">Fix speech mode not working when alarm messages are displayed. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=955833&view=rev">955833</a>. </li> <li class="bugfix ">Fix KAlarm hanging sometimes while trying to play an audio file. Fixes bug <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189682">189682</a>. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=959546&view=rev">959546</a>. </li> <li class="bugfix crash">Fix crash when KAlarm quits. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=935344&view=rev">935344</a>. </li> </ul> </div> <h4><a href="http://kontact.kde.org/kmail/" name="kmail">KMail</a></h4> <div class="product" style="padding-left: 20px;"> <em>Bugfixes:</em> <ul> <li class="bugfix ">Attempt to fix the problem that online IMAP filters would not work at all. Fixes bugs <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171061">171061</a>, <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174430">174430</a>, <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182208">182208</a> and <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=186264">186264</a>. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=960606&view=rev">960606</a>. </li> <li class="bugfix ">Don't let the KOrganizer reminder daemon restart KMail when KMail quit. Fixes bug <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189824">189824</a>. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=960718&view=rev">960718</a>. </li> <li class="bugfix ">Fix drag and drop of text in the composer. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=945300&view=rev">945300</a>. </li> <li class="bugfix ">In the composer, automatically remove empty recipient lines. Fixes bug <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177543">177543</a>. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=945861&view=rev">945861</a>. </li> <li class="bugfix ">Fix a randomly occuring crash in the storage layer. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=945593&view=rev">945593</a>. </li> <li class="bugfix ">Small improvements in the sieve script editor. See SVN commits <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=946965&view=rev">946965</a>, <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=946977&view=rev">946977</a>, <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=947259&view=rev">947259</a> and <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=947403&view=rev">947403</a>. </li> <li class="bugfix ">In the folder selector, also allow jumping to read-only folders. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=948764&view=rev">948764</a>. </li> <li class="bugfix ">Show the correct size of messages of an IMAP server, instead of the cached size. Fixes bugs <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180945">180945</a> and <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154454">154454</a>. See SVN commits <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=949286&view=rev">949286</a> and <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=949282&view=rev">949282</a>. </li> <li class="bugfix ">Fix a crash when activating groupware folders. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=951803&view=rev">951803</a>. </li> <li class="bugfix ">Remember the docked state when doing session management. Fixes bug <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75673">75673</a>. See SVN commits <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=953503&view=rev">953503</a> and <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=953504&view=rev">953504</a>. </li> <li class="bugfix ">Attempt to fix the bug that templates would randomly become blank. Fixes bug <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=184307">184307</a>. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=953507&view=rev">953507</a>. </li> <li class="bugfix ">Fix a bug that would make it impossible to resize the config dialog to smaller sizes. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=953509&view=rev">953509</a>. </li> <li class="bugfix ">Show the unread count of subfolders correctly if the unread column is active. Fixes bug <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188643">188643</a>. See SVN commits <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=957721&view=rev">957721</a> and <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=957723&view=rev">957723</a>. </li> <li class="bugfix ">Make the system tray react on changes to the folder properties like the "act on unread or new mails" setting. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=957742&view=rev">957742</a>. </li> <li class="bugfix ">Don't put "file:///" on top of printouts of mails. Fixes bug <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137352">137352</a>. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=960632&view=rev">960632</a>. </li> </ul> </div> </div> <h3 id="kdeutils"><a name="kdeutils">kdeutils</a><span class="allsvnchanges"> [ <a href="4_2_3/kdeutils.txt">all SVN changes</a> ]</span></h3> <div class="module" style="padding-left: 20px;"> <h4><a href="http://utils.kde.org/projects/kgpg" name="kgpg">KGpg</a></h4> <div class="product" style="padding-left: 20px;"> <em>Bugfixes:</em> <ul> <li class="bugfix ">Fix setting expiration interval on new keys. Fixes bug <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190102">190102</a>. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=956301&view=rev">956301</a>. </li> <li class="bugfix crash">Fix crash when deleting keys. Fixes bug <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189605">189605</a>. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=958856&view=rev">958856</a>. </li> </ul> </div> <h4><a name="ark">ark</a></h4> <div class="product" style="padding-left: 20px;"> <em>Optimizations:</em><ul> <li class="optimize">Make Ark faster opening files. See SVN commit <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/?rev=952772&view=rev">952772</a>. </li> </ul> </div> </div>

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