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libplasma 3.0 / KDE 4.2
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libplasma
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* Build
* libplasma has moved to kdelibs from kdebase-workspace and as such there is no longer a need to use FindPlasma.cmake. FindKDE4 now provides all the necessary plasma CMake bits needed, and using libplasma does not create a kdebase-workspace dependency for your application anymore.
* Features
* Symbol Versioning: limit loading of plugins to those that match the libplasma version
* NEW: ToolTipManager for Plasma style tooltips
* NEW: Wallpaper plugins for Containments
* NEW: Context for coordinating and publishing Context information, such as the current Activity or phsyical location
* Applet
* sizeHintChanged() signal. A containment (such as a panel) can adjust its size based on changed sizehints of an applet
* ContextConstraint events and access to the current Context object
* Shortcut editor in Applet configuration dialog allows setting of global shortcuts per-widget
* NEW: Plasma::Extender and Plasma::ExtenderItem, allowing visual, relocatable extensions to Applet
* NEW: PopupApplet, which switches between an icon with a popup in a Horizontal/Vertical containment (such as a panel) and the widget directly on the canvas in a Planer containment (such as a desktop), the icon can be replaced with custom graphics or widgets by the implementation
* Containment
* Support dropping of arbitrary data if the mimetypes are supported by an applet
* Activity naming and Context support
* Toolbox can be positioned in any corner or edge
* Toolbox actions are displayed as an always open toolbar when zoomed out for improved usability
* Corona
* addOffscreenWidget/removeOffscreenWidget: manage canvas items that should not appear in a primary view (e.g. Extenders)
* "screen" information querying added to Corona to allow different approaches for viewports; e.g. using KWindowSystem and QDesktopWidget for the Plasma shell, but window coordinates for plasmodviewer or other non-desktop apps.
* Package system
* PackageStructure supports arbitrary URIs (in addition to auto-discovery for package) structure description files.
* Package removal
* Package browsing interface can be provided by the PackageStructure plugin, allowing for 3rd party widget collectionsto offer online browsing and fetching customizations
* FrameSvg
* setting the margins via in-SVG hints
* paintPanel API additions to make it more like QPainter and Plasma::Svg
* Runners
* TryExec key in .desktop file now supported, allowing runners that rely on an external application to be conditional loaded at runtime
* Service
* Allow enabling/disabling of operations at runtime
* Associate widgets with operations
* Theme
* Support compressed SVGs (*.svgz)
* Supports a pixmap cache and a SVG element rects cache for faster startup
* Widgets
* NEW: Plasma::Slider based on QSlider
* NEW: Plasma::TabBar based on QTabBar, usable as both a standalone tabbar or as a tabwidget
* NEW: Plasma::Frame used to visually group widgets
* NEW: Plasma::TreeView used to put tree views or simple list in the canvas
* NEW: Plasma::BusyWidget used to indicate the loading of something
* NEW: Plasma::ToolButton based on QToolButton
* Plasma::PushButton is svg-themed
* Significant Fixes
* WebContent painting update synchronization (fixes, among other things, scrolling)
* Prevent crash when Containment that AppletBrowser is associated with is deleted
* Applet handles work with all icon sizes (user system settings)
* Fix View so that when a new activity is added, don't move more than necessary;
fixes dragging lock
* Dramatically fewer full paints by properly watching the exposed rect area, which for full screen Containments or large/complex Applets is quite significant in terms of performance
* Fix on-exit crashes related to focus handling issues in QGraphicsView
* Prevention of premature calls to Applet::constraintsEvent
* Applets now resize in "real time" without the pixelation
* Numerous crash fixes pushed upstream to QGraphicsView as well (focus resetting, scene queries on deletion..)
Developer Documentation
-----------------------
* Design documentation
* NEW: dataengine
* NEW: tooltips
* NEW: wallpaper
* NEW: widgets
* NEW: javascript
* Tutorials
* NEW: Extenders http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma/UsingExtenders
Desktop Theme
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* NEW: widgets/button for theming pushbuttons
* NEW: widgets/frame for theming Plasma::Frame used also in other widgets
* NEW: widgets/scrollbars to theme Plasma::ScrollBar and views scrollbars in libplasma
* NEW: widgets/configuration-icons: little icons used for configuration purposes across Plasma
* NEW: widgets/extender-background, widgets/extender-dragger: SVGs for new Extender widget
* NEW: widgets/tooltip: tooltip SVGa
* NEW: widgets/calendar
* NEW: widgets/containment-controls: icons and buttons for sizing panels and other containment tasks
* NEW: widgets/monitor: monitor for use in displaying mockups of on-screen content
* NEW: widget/glowbar: a glow for use by offscreen panels to indicate their location
* NEW: dialogs/kickoff: theming for the kickoff launcher menu
* color roles for buttons text and background added
* Plasma::Slider follows theme
* Applet handle all svg-themed
* The default Oxygen desktop theme radically improved across the board
Plasma Desktop Shell
--------------------
* Features
* Desktop
* New Containment configuration for all desktop containments: wallpapers, activity type, theme
* Panel
* Resizes itself when an applet changes its sizehint according to its maximum and minimum sizes
* Autohide and windows-cover-panel options
* Easier drag and drop to panel by showing an empty area between the two applets nearest to the mouse cursor
* Significant Fixes
* Reposition toolbox when zooming out/in to avoid panel overlap
* Draw the missing part of the toolbox when repositioned because of a panel
* MS Windows compile fixes
Other Shells
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* plasmoidviewer new command line options:
* --list lists known applets
* --formfactor (-f)
* --containment (-c)
* --wallpaper (-w)
* --pixmapcache (-p)
Tools
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* Plasma Engine Explorer
* Remove/update sources via context menu
* NEW: Plasma::Service interaction UI, using DataEngine::serviceForSource
* plasmapkg
* now supports listing, updating and removing packages
* NEW: Destkop Theme Details
* Customize and create new desktop themes with kcmshell4 destkopthemedetails
Plugins/Addons
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* Features
* Plasmoids and Containments
* NEW: Incoming messages: listens to various F/OSS email and IM apps for messages arriving
* NEW: Leave A Note: let people leave you notes on your computer, particularly handy for Plasma widets on the screensaver
* NEW: Previewer: drop files to preview them right on your desktop or panels
* NEW: System monitor
* NEW: Web browser: a WebKit browser in a desktop widget!
* NEW: Activity bar: quick switcher for Plasma activities
* NEW: Conway's game of life
* NEW: RSSNow! fancy online news ticker
* NEW: News, simple online news ticker
* NEW: Pastebin, drop text/data to upload it to a pastebin server
* NEW: Text snippets generator
* NEW: Timer
* NEW: Bouncing ball, throw it and watch it bounce around!
* NEW: Calendar
* NEW: Character selector
* NEW: Eyes
* NEW: LCD Weather Station plasmoid
* NEW: Quicklaunch plasmoid
* Task bar
* Grouping: manually or by application
* Sorting: manually or by program name
* Limit windows shown by desktop, screen or minimized status
* Multiple rows of windows
* Theming improved to look more consistent with other buttons and generally be more sexy
* System tray
* Supports hiding of icons
* Supports non-Freedesktop.org icons (e.g. full plasmoids or future creations) through a protocol abstraction
* Listens for and displays popup notifications and application jobs (e.g. file transfers)
* Now Playing media player controls: play, pause, stop, switch tracks and more from Plasma
* Notes
* Custom colors
* Export notes to file
* Text formatting, such as alignment, bold, italic, etc
* Clocks
* Custom colors for digital clock
* Standardized multi-timezone support in libplasmaclock
* Folder view
* Filtering improvements: mimetype and exclusion based.
* Sorting options, options for locking the icons in place and/or forcing grid alignment.
* Uses a top-to-bottom icon arrangement when used as a containment.
* Remembers icon positions.
* No longer blocks the GUI when loading large folders.
* Shows a busy animation while loading folders / laying out icons.
* Works in panels looking like a popup menu
* Default desktop containment
* Wheel mouse == switch desktop
* Creation of widgets on desktop containments puts them in empty areas, avoiding overlap
* Comics
* Respects web proxy and other relevant KDE settings
* Improved mouse interaction (middle mouse zooms, context menu, etc)
* Comicproviders can be written in any language supported by Kross
* Comicproviders can be downloaded via "Get Hot New Stuff"
* New comicproviders can be added on kde-files.org
* Lancelot
* Full keyboard support
* New lists with scrollbars
* Themes that match Plasma themes from kdeplasma-addons module
* Twitter
* When it is in the panel it is a popup, showing the avatar of the last person who sent a message and the numer of unread tweets as icon
* Trashcan
* Lets you configure system wide trash behaviour like size limits
* DataEngines
* NEW: Web site icons (favicons) engine
* NEW: Desktop notifications engines
* NEW: System monitor engine based on ksysguard (cpu, memory, heat, sensors, etc)
* NEW: Network engine
* NEW: Application jobs (aka kuiserver) engine; shows any published KJobs such as file operations
* NEW: Executables: run commands and get their output from stdout and stderr
* NEW: RSS
* NowPlaying
* Plasma::Service for controlling media players
* supports MPRIS
* Powermanagement
* Added a new source for managing PowerDevil profiles
* Runners
* NEW: Kate sessions runner
* NEW: Recent documents runner
* NEW: Spellcheck runner
* NEW: Konqueror history runner
* NEW: Konqueror sessions runner
* NEW: Konsole sessions runner
* NEW: Nepomuk search runner
* NEW: Power management controller (via PowerDevil)
* NEW: Places (as seen in dolphin, file dialog, kickoff, etc) runner
* Converter runner now does speed, masses and nautical distances; conversion code moved to a shared lib
* ScriptEngines
* NEW: Google Gadgets
* NEW: Python Plasmoids
* NEW: Ruby Plasmoids
* MacOS Dashboard widgets: improved JS API compliance
* JavaScript:
* DataEngines
* Services
* layouts
* configuration data
* much more featureful plasmoid object replaces applet object
* Wallpapers
* NEW: Image, Slideshow and Color plugins, based on previous code
* Directories recursed for images in Image and Slideshow plugin
* Slideshow images are randomized
* Significant Fixes
* Various clocks ported to AppletClock for calendar and timezone consistency
* Pager crash fixes
* MS Windows compile fixes
* Taskbar shows thumbnails of windows on hover (4.1 regression)
* TwitterEngine respects web proxies and provides a proper Plasma::Service
* Kickoff
* proper menu size restoration
* Hide Shutdown and Restart options when those actions are not possible.
* Make Sleep and Hibernate entries appear and work
* use Plasma::Theme to improve visual harmony with the rest of Plasma
KRunner
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* Features
* Plasma Screensaver: Plasma widget overlay for screensavers
* D-Bus autoactivation, so even if it has perma-crashed, selecting Run Command from Plasma will resurect it
* Alternate user interface: QuickSand
* Significant Fixes
* Screensaver activation fixed to compensate for system clock changes
* Several crashes related to access of non thread safe code
Platforms
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Compile and runtime fixes for Microsoft Windows and Maemo
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