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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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