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This page reflects the changelog of KDE Software Compilation 4.4. | |||
= Plasma Workspace = | = Plasma Workspace = | ||
== | == Basic Functionality and Work-flow == | ||
* Storage devices can now automatically be mounted | * Storage devices can now automatically be mounted | ||
Widgets can be published on the network and be accessed remotely | * Widgets can be published on the network and be accessed remotely | ||
* | * Desktop configuration is now scriptable using JavaScript | ||
* Browsing through recent notifications | * 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 | |||
== User Interface == | |||
* Kinetic scrolling | * Kinetic scrolling | ||
* Taskbar animations | * 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 | * Improved layout for the battery widget's popup | ||
* Taskbar previews are now clickable | * 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 | ||
== Window & Compositing Manager == | == Window & Compositing Manager == | ||
* New: Window maximizing and tiling by snapping to the screen-edges (" | * 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 | * Native window tabs: Arbitrary windows can be grouped in tabs | ||
* Window Management Plugin for KRunner | * Window Management Plugin for KRunner | ||
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* NEW Window list | * NEW Window list | ||
* Battery: Improved layout, better support for bigger fonts | * Battery: Improved layout, better support for bigger fonts | ||
* Clock/Calendar: Ability to configure Calendar System to display | |||
* Device notifier | * Device notifier | ||
** Visual revamp to make it look and feel more Plasma | ** Visual revamp to make it look and feel more Plasma | ||
** Supports non-removable volumes | ** Supports non-removable volumes | ||
** Can show/hide devices from the interface | ** Can show/hide devices from the interface | ||
** Popup autohides after 10s of | ** Popup autohides after 10s of inactivity | ||
* Picture Frame: now supports loading and displaying of remote images | * Picture Frame: now supports loading and displaying of remote images | ||
* Microblog: can view replies and direct messages | * Microblog: can view replies and direct messages | ||
* Quicklaunch: ascending and descending sort for applications in quicklaunch applet. | * Quicklaunch: ascending and descending sort for applications in quicklaunch applet. | ||
* SystemTray | * 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 | * 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 | * Weather widget now supports wetter.com | ||
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* Service runner: a query on a freedesktop application category, like "network" will show all applications of that category | * Service runner: a query on a freedesktop application category, like "network" will show all applications of that category | ||
* Bookmarks runner: | * Bookmarks runner: | ||
** | ** The query "bookmarks" (or its translation) lists all the bookmarks | ||
** | ** Also supports Firefox' bookmarks | ||
* Contacts runner: the query "contacts" shows all contacts | * Contacts runner: the query "contacts" shows all contacts | ||
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= KDE Development Platform = | = KDE Development Platform = | ||
* KAuth: Authorization framework, harnesses PolicyKit, used in | * KAuth: Authorization framework, harnesses PolicyKit, currently used in Font installer and System Activity | ||
* Multitouch resize, rotate and move on platforms that support multitouch | |||
* Multitouch resize, rotate and move on platforms that support | |||
* New high-level animation API in Plasma, based on Qt Kinetic | * New high-level animation API in Plasma, based on Qt Kinetic | ||
* Nepomuk: | * Nepomuk Semantic Desktop: | ||
** New Virtuoso backend, significantly faster and more scalable | ** New Virtuoso storage backend, significantly faster and more scalable | ||
** Nepomuk: KIO slave for querying Nepomuk resources | ** Nepomuk: KIO slave for querying Nepomuk resources | ||
** Nepomuk is now able to search on non-mounted media | ** Nepomuk is now able to search on non-mounted media | ||
* libksane (scanner library): basic scanner support for Windows | * libksane (scanner library): basic scanner support for Windows | ||
* Improved exiv2 support in libkexiv2 | * Improved exiv2 support in libkexiv2 | ||
* Add Odd/Even page selection and server-side page selection when using CUPS | * Printing: Add Odd/Even page selection and server-side page selection when using CUPS | ||
* KDE integration of QtWebKit (cookies, proxies, etc. but not KPart) | * KDE integration of QtWebKit (cookies, proxies, etc. but not KPart) | ||
* Thumbnail previews for Comicbook format | * Thumbnail previews for Comicbook format | ||
* New calendar systems: Indian Civil (Saka), | * 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 = | = KDE Applications = | ||
== Basic == | == Basic == | ||
* Dolphin: | * Konqueror: | ||
** New history sidebar module | |||
** More details in restore session dialog | |||
* Dolphin File Manager: | |||
** Integrated searching | ** Integrated searching | ||
** Version control integration | ** 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 | |||
== PIM / Groupware == | == PIM / Groupware == | ||
* | * KAddressbook now uses Akonadi for storing contacts | ||
* KMail: | * KMail: | ||
** Archiving of emails | ** Archiving of emails | ||
** Improved recipient picker | ** Improved recipient picker | ||
** | ** Searching by tag | ||
** Clickable HTML statusbar | ** Clickable HTML statusbar | ||
** Collapsible recipient fields | ** Collapsible recipient fields | ||
** Error messages are now passive, less disturbant to workflow | ** Error messages are now passive, less disturbant to workflow | ||
** Templating improvements for e.g. signatures | ** Templating improvements for e.g. signatures | ||
* Akonadi | |||
** New POP3 resource | |||
** IDLE Support for IMAP resource | |||
== Accessibility == | == Accessibility == | ||
* KDE's text-to- | * KDE's text-to-speech subsystem now uses Speech Dispatcher for synthesis | ||
== Educational & Games == | == Educational & Games == | ||
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* New Edu app: Rocs | * New Edu app: Rocs | ||
* New game: Granatier (bomberman game) | * New game: Granatier (bomberman game) | ||
* New game: Kigo (Go board game) | |||
* New game: Palapeli (puzzle game) | * New game: Palapeli (puzzle game) | ||
* KStars: new | * KStars: new observation plan manager | ||
* KAlgebra | * KAlgebra | ||
** Support for lists | ** Support for lists | ||
** Better MathML presentation support, lambda expressions, jump detections | ** Better MathML presentation support, lambda expressions, jump detections | ||
** New 2d parametric function plotting | ** New 2d parametric function plotting | ||
== Graphics == | |||
* Okular: Support both inverse search and forward search for dvi and pdf | |||
== Network == | == Network == | ||
* Kopete: Create avatars from a webcam | * Kopete: Create avatars from a webcam | ||
* KRDC: | * KRDC Remote Desktop Client: | ||
** Telepathy Tubes support | ** Telepathy Tubes support | ||
** | ** Full screen switching | ||
* KGet: | * KGet Download Manager: | ||
** better support for verification of downloaded files | ** better support for verification of downloaded files | ||
** Broken downloads can be repaired | ** Broken downloads can be repaired | ||
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** NEW Split views | ** NEW Split views | ||
** NEW Storing of bookmarks | ** NEW Storing of bookmarks | ||
Latest revision as of 20:50, 11 January 2010
This page reflects the changelog of KDE Software Compilation 4.4.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
Accessibility
- KDE's text-to-speech subsystem now uses Speech Dispatcher for synthesis
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
Graphics
- Okular: Support both inverse search and forward search for dvi and pdf
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
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