About KDE 4.2
KDE 4.1.4 itself and the KDE 4.2 release candidate are available for download.
The release of KDE 4.1.4 has been released in which the accumulated errors have been fixed. Especially a lot of bugs fixed in KMail, including the elimination of about a dozen causes of crashes and several problems leading to the loss of letters.
KDE 4.1.4 - the latest release of the KDE 4.1 series, KDE 4.2.0 release will be released on January 27, and KDE 4.3 will be released for the summer. Binary packages with KDE 4.1.4 are currently available only for the Linux Kubuntu distribution. In the near future, packages will be compiled for openSUSE , Debian (unstable), Fedora and Mandriva, and a special LiveCD will be prepared for a visual assessment.
At the same time, a release candidate for KDE 4.2 has been released .
')
Among the innovations we can note the appearance of vim-like navigation in the Okular document viewer via the H, J, K, L keys, Okular also improved the means of printing documents, added the ability to print to PDF, DVI and DjVu files, KAlarm implemented color differentiation of active and inactive entries in the list.
Still:
1. The quality of the shell of the Plasma desktop and the KWin window manager has been significantly improved.
2. Items in the task list can now be grouped and displayed in several columns. The system tray supports temporary hiding of icons.
3. A mechanism for notification and tracking of work has been added to Plasma.
4. Plasmoid “Folder View” can be placed as a background, which makes it possible to place icons directly in any place on the desktop, while maintaining its position in the future.
5. By default, with the support of the video card driver, the visual effects of the composite manager are automatically activated. Added new effects to switch screens, such as the Magic Lamp, Minimize, Cube and Sphere;
6. New Plasma applets, including Eyes (clone XEyes), displaying messages during screen lock, quick viewing of file contents, switching desktop activity, monitoring news feeds, clipboard for binary data, calendar, timer, selection of special characters, quick launch of programs, monitoring system load, etc. An applet for previewing the contents of windows and “tooltips” was returned to the panel and to the task switching area.
7. The dialog for executing KRunner commands is supplemented with additional plugins for processing data entered in the line, including spell checking, converting various values ​​(meters to inches, etc.), viewing the history of opening sites in konqueror, power management via PowerDevil, KDE Places recent open documents, the ability to quickly open a session in the editor Kate, Konqueror and Konsole.
8. On the Plasma workspace, you can now place Google Gadgets. Plasma applets can be written in JavaScript, Ruby and Python;
9. The background image display system now supports plugins, which allows developers to create their own background display systems in KDE 4.2. For example, in KDE 4.2, in addition to placing static images, plug-ins are available that generate fractal images and implement scrolling slides;
10. Expanded the scope of visual themes (can be used for Task Bar, Application Launcher, System Tray and other Plasma components). To simplify the configuration of themes, an additional window has been created in the configurator;
11. Multi-screen support has been extended through the use of the Kephal library, many bugs related to working on multiple monitors have been fixed;
12. In the control bar of the Dolphin file manager, support has been added for previewing the contents of files and a slider for changing the scale of file parameters (for example, you can quickly see the full path to the file);
The speed of loading pages in KHTML has been increased, through preliminary rezolving of names in DNS, without waiting for the link to open. Improved navigation elements on web pages;
A powerful tool for viewing message headers and viewing attachments has been added to KMail;
In text editors KWrite and Kate, an editing mode appeared in the Vi style;
PowerDevil - new power management infrastructure;
13. Improved interface of Ark archiver, added ability to work with archives that are restricted by password, added ability to call Ark functions through the context menu of the file manager;
14. The capabilities of the new system for setting up printing have been expanded; the components “printer-applet” and “system-config-printer” are now supplied with the kdeadmin and kdeutils modules;
In the implementation of the client for remote work, KRDC, improved support for Active Directory via LDAP;
15. A new screen has been added to Kontact to view summary information; the opportunity has appeared to drag the vacant and occupied positions with the mouse;
16. Tutorial applications such as KAlgebra, KStars, KTurtle and Parley have been greatly improved.
The release of KDE 4.1.4 has been released in which the accumulated errors have been fixed. Especially a lot of bugs fixed in KMail, including the elimination of about a dozen causes of crashes and several problems leading to the loss of letters.
KDE 4.1.4 - the latest release of the KDE 4.1 series, KDE 4.2.0 release will be released on January 27, and KDE 4.3 will be released for the summer. Binary packages with KDE 4.1.4 are currently available only for the Linux Kubuntu distribution. In the near future, packages will be compiled for openSUSE , Debian (unstable), Fedora and Mandriva, and a special LiveCD will be prepared for a visual assessment.
At the same time, a release candidate for KDE 4.2 has been released .
')
Among the innovations we can note the appearance of vim-like navigation in the Okular document viewer via the H, J, K, L keys, Okular also improved the means of printing documents, added the ability to print to PDF, DVI and DjVu files, KAlarm implemented color differentiation of active and inactive entries in the list.
Still:
1. The quality of the shell of the Plasma desktop and the KWin window manager has been significantly improved.
2. Items in the task list can now be grouped and displayed in several columns. The system tray supports temporary hiding of icons.
3. A mechanism for notification and tracking of work has been added to Plasma.
4. Plasmoid “Folder View” can be placed as a background, which makes it possible to place icons directly in any place on the desktop, while maintaining its position in the future.
5. By default, with the support of the video card driver, the visual effects of the composite manager are automatically activated. Added new effects to switch screens, such as the Magic Lamp, Minimize, Cube and Sphere;
6. New Plasma applets, including Eyes (clone XEyes), displaying messages during screen lock, quick viewing of file contents, switching desktop activity, monitoring news feeds, clipboard for binary data, calendar, timer, selection of special characters, quick launch of programs, monitoring system load, etc. An applet for previewing the contents of windows and “tooltips” was returned to the panel and to the task switching area.
7. The dialog for executing KRunner commands is supplemented with additional plugins for processing data entered in the line, including spell checking, converting various values ​​(meters to inches, etc.), viewing the history of opening sites in konqueror, power management via PowerDevil, KDE Places recent open documents, the ability to quickly open a session in the editor Kate, Konqueror and Konsole.
8. On the Plasma workspace, you can now place Google Gadgets. Plasma applets can be written in JavaScript, Ruby and Python;
9. The background image display system now supports plugins, which allows developers to create their own background display systems in KDE 4.2. For example, in KDE 4.2, in addition to placing static images, plug-ins are available that generate fractal images and implement scrolling slides;
10. Expanded the scope of visual themes (can be used for Task Bar, Application Launcher, System Tray and other Plasma components). To simplify the configuration of themes, an additional window has been created in the configurator;
11. Multi-screen support has been extended through the use of the Kephal library, many bugs related to working on multiple monitors have been fixed;
12. In the control bar of the Dolphin file manager, support has been added for previewing the contents of files and a slider for changing the scale of file parameters (for example, you can quickly see the full path to the file);
The speed of loading pages in KHTML has been increased, through preliminary rezolving of names in DNS, without waiting for the link to open. Improved navigation elements on web pages;
A powerful tool for viewing message headers and viewing attachments has been added to KMail;
In text editors KWrite and Kate, an editing mode appeared in the Vi style;
PowerDevil - new power management infrastructure;
13. Improved interface of Ark archiver, added ability to work with archives that are restricted by password, added ability to call Ark functions through the context menu of the file manager;
14. The capabilities of the new system for setting up printing have been expanded; the components “printer-applet” and “system-config-printer” are now supplied with the kdeadmin and kdeutils modules;
In the implementation of the client for remote work, KRDC, improved support for Active Directory via LDAP;
15. A new screen has been added to Kontact to view summary information; the opportunity has appeared to drag the vacant and occupied positions with the mouse;
16. Tutorial applications such as KAlgebra, KStars, KTurtle and Parley have been greatly improved.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/49162/
All Articles