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247 lines
12 KiB
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Significant changes in libplasma 3.1 / KDE 4.3
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libplasma
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* Features
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* NEW: RunnerSyntax, class for describing query syntax
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* AbstractRunners can now register their syntax for online documentation purposes
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* Animator: no longer crashes when an animation is started/stopped on a widget already being animated during animation
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* RunnerContext
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* Introduced the isValid() method so runners can abort matches early
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* Plasma::Dialogs now animate show/hide if composited window management is available
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* Security
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* Categories of applets can be excluded from the appletbrowser
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* co-operative security
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* Shortcuts
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* Defaults changed
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* NEW: Config dialog
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* Theme
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* Themes can now define options in the [Settings] group of the metadata.desktop file:
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* UseNativeWidgetStyle=true and Plasma will default to native (QStyle) painting for all widgets
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* FallbackTheme=<name> to define which fallback theme to define which theme to use as the first fallback for missing elements
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* Backgrounds can now have variable backgrounds
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* Ability to list all known themes
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* Extenders
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* NEW: ExtenderGroup, class for grouping ExtenderItems.
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* hasItem function in Extender to provide an easy way for applets to avoid duplication of ExtenderItems.
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* Improved drag-and-drop
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* Svg
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* Ability to set Theme object to use
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* Ability to turn off disk caching is not needed/desired
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* Wallpaper:
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* Cache for completed wallpaper renderings
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* Threaded rendering of image files to specified size, scaling method and coloring
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* Improved settings save/restore/management, including a configNeedsSaving signal
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* DataEngine access modelled after the same facility in Applet
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* Widgets
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* NEW: SpinBox
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* NEW: VideoWidget
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* NEW: ScrollWidget. A widget that puts scrollbars when it contains a widget bigger than him.
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* NEW: TextBrowser
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* TabBar styling and interaction improvements (animations, click-n-flick, ..)
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* WebView can scroll its contents by simply dragging a point in the page with the mouse
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Other Libraries
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* NEW: KNotificationItem library added to kdelibs/experimental/ which provides access to the new system tray protocol (complete with legacy fallback support)
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* NEW: ScreenPreviewWidget to libkworkspace that works with Plasma::Wallpaper or pixmaps that provides a nicely themed and appropriately sized "monitor" to show screen previews in
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* NEW: RememberTheMilk library added to kdeplasma-addons/libs
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* NEW: Conversion librarya dd to kdeplasma-addons/libs
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* Add fuel efficiency
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* Add time
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* Add power
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* Add currency
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* Add energy
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* Add pressure
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* More SI Units
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* Add beaufort scale to velocity
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* Add delisle, newton, rankine, reaumur & romer to temperature
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* libplasmaclock
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* Text to speech service (KTTSD) to read aloud the time
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* Holidays shown in pop-up calendar
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* libtaskmanager: significant stability fixes, particularly crashes in closeGroup or add(Task) caused by changes in the grouping strategy
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Developer Documentation
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* Simple JavaScript API documentation
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* System tray design
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Desktop Theme
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* Features
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* FrameSvg
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* NEW: overlays for a filigrane effect, can be either random positioned, fixed, scaled or tiled
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* configuration-icons
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* NEW: collapse/restore icons for use in ExtenderGroup
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* Desktop and panel toolboxes are now svg themed
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* Themes must now set the X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name entry in the metadata.desktop correctly, namely to the name of the directory containing the theme (e.g. default or Clean-Blend). While this was always the case, it was never relied on by libplasma. As of 4.3 there is now code that does rely on this being properly set.
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Plasma Desktop Shell
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* Features
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* Renamed binary from plasma to plasma-desktop; config files also changed as a result
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* Desktop Toolbox: it's smaller and shows the activity name if any is set
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* ZUI: the global actions such as add activity and lock desktop are on a global toolbox when the desktop is zoomed out.
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* Configuration gui to activate a different activity for each desktop and to decouple the dashboard contents with desktop contents
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* Panels
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* access to spacers to control how widgets arrange themselves
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* 'Windows go below' mode
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Other Shells
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* plasmoidviewer
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* supports loading uninstalled packages by passing the path to the package
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* can define the wallpaper to load
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* can use a theme different from the one used in the workspace
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* improved containment usage, so loaded plasmoids behave more like they do in plasma-desktop
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* --theme switch to allow viewing plasmoids with different stylings
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Tools
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* NEW: plasmawallpaperviewer: view and configure wallpapers in a window, perfect for testing new wallpaper plugin features
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* plasmaengineexplorer provides a --list command line switch
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Plugins/Addons
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* Features
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* Plasmoids and Containments
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* NEW: Bubble Monitor: track system status via a lava lamp style visualization
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* NEW: Magnifique: View and magnify sections of the Plasma canvas
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* NEW: Media player: Play video and audio files by dragging them on the desktop
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* NEW: openDesktop Plasmoid: Basic interaction with openDesktop contacts
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* NEW: RememberTheMilk: interface for the online time management service of the same name
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* NEW: System Load Viewer: simple yet effective retro-style system load and memory usage display
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* NEW: Unit converter
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* NEW: Weather: 5 day forecasts and more in a visually stunning outfit
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* Bouncing Ball:
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* Theme support, including a new soccer ball
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* Comics
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* Added optional Nepomuk support when manually saving a comic strip.
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* Added per comic setting to store the current position.
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* File Watcher
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* Added support for filtering (both regular expressions and exact matches are supported).
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* Microblogging (was KDE Twitter)
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* Added support for other Twitter API based services like identi.ca (that is based on laconi.ca)
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* Pager
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* User can choose to do nothing, toggle the desktop or the dashboard when he click on the current desktop.
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* Notes
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* Highlight current line
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* Change font size with Control + Scrollwheel
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* Folder View
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* Added keyboard navigation to iconview. User can navigate using direction keys and launch using Enter/Return.
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* Pastebin
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* New look and feel
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* Pasting through context menu
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* Using knotification to tell the user that the data has been saved online
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* History of pastebin URLs
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* System tray
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* New D-Bus based system tray protocol
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* Ability to show/hide icons based on category
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* Jobs show file/dir progress and ETA
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* Jobs are grouped together: one group for running jobs and one for completed jobs.
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* Completed jobs have a different appearance and allow the user to open the destination file/directory.
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* Notifications now show custom images like kopete's contact images.
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* Multiple trays in the same Plasma application supported.
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* Can configure whether or not notifications/jobs should autohide shortly after appearing.
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* Taskbar
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* New popup menu for grouped tasks with animation and tooltips for each item
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* Tooltips of grouped tasks can show tooltips of multiple windows
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* Hovering of tasks (grouped or not) will request the window manager (at its discretion) to highlight those windows
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* Web browser
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* Real page zoom instead of just font scaling
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* Can scroll the page by dragging the contents themselves
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* LCD Weather Station
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* New config dialog
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* Use geolocation dataengine for initial city if available.
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* Use Condition Icon for current weather and fallback to pressure if not available.
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* Show pressure tendency arrows. BUG:184457
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* System monitor
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* Handle new/removed network interfaces in network monitor
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* NEW: Memory monitor. BUG:182704
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* temperature plotter uses now same range as analog meter
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* Temperature widget now defaults to plotter in panel
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* Show tooltips when in panel. BUG:180102
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* Advanced config page added
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* Plotter labels added
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* Timer
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* A timer can have a title
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* Count down is restored after a plasma shutdown/restart
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* User can hide seconds.
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* Lancelot
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* theming: Scrollbars follow Plasma style
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* actions for system buttons are configurable
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* highlighted path in application browser
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* clear documents history
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* places are loaded from Dolphin
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* applications in menu are sorted
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* Quicklaunch
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* Icons can be re-ordered with drag-and-drop, show tooltips and icon size is configurable,
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retained even with resizing
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* DataEngines
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* NEW: Akonadi engine: emails, contacts and microblogs from Akonadi
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* NEW: Calendar: holiday and event information
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* NEW: Geolocation: publishes location information based on GPS input or IP address; sports plugins
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* NEW: Keystate: keyboard modifier and mouse button state information
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* NEW: Metadata: access to Nepomuk data on files
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* NEW: OCS engine: interface for scripted applets to Open Collaboration Services
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* NEW: PotD: Grabs the "picture of the day" from various online sources
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* NEW: RememberTheMilk: support for the online time management service
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* Time engine can also report sun positioning, sunrise, sunset and moon phase information
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* Wallpapers
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* NEW: Virus: artificial life simulation, watch it colonize and eat your wallpaper!
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* NEW: Weather: selects wallpapers based on weather station information
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* NEW: Mandelbrot: draws fractals on the desktop; click and drag or zoom in/out to explore the Mandelbrot set
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* NEW: Marble: interactive desktop globe as your desktop background; powered by KDE's Marble
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* Runners
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* Converter
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* If not exact unit found offer possible matches.
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* ScriptEngines
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* Simple JavaScript API
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* Support for Url objects
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* Added new Plasma::Widget entries
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* Completed LinearLayout API
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* file() method to get paths from the Plasmoid's package
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* Bugfixes
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* Plasmoids and Containments
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* Show Desktop
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* Fix keyboard shortcuts BUG:180661
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* News
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* Better alternate background color for generated css. BUG: 185527
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* correctly use feed urls with parameters BUG:178936
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* LCD Weather Station
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* Replace "N/A" with "-" (Looks better in lcd letters). BUG:186610
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* Make credit clickable. BUG:183984
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* Fix wind speed and unit on some data sources.
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* System monitor
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* Allow smaller minimum size. BUG:186501
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* Limit initial temperature count to 5. BUG:178314
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* Lock buttons when desktop is locked. BUG:178469
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* Fix config. BUG:181378
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* don't crash when removing an applet by it's own context menu BUG:178860
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* Display an IconWidget when there are no available sources. BUG: 178192
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* activate layout to calculate fixed size ratio correctly on applet start. BUG: 176268
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* Walpapers
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* Slideshow mode of Image plugin takes ~97% less time to build the wallpaper list and allocates a fraction of the memory in the process. BUG: 190632
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KRunner
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* Features
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* Display all known syntax in the results area when Help button pressed
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* Vertical display of results with new selection style and animation
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* Configure parameters on matches by clicking on the configuration wrench, for matches that support options
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* Bugfixes
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* Race conditions affecting proper selection of default item fixed (often known as the "I pressed <Enter> and nothing happened!" bug)
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Platforms
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