Release Notes For R14.1.0

Overview

The Trinity Desktop Environment is a complete software desktop environment designed for Unix-like operating systems, intended for computer users preferring a traditional desktop model, and is free/libre software.

R14.1.0 marks the end of the previous R14.0.x series and the start of the new R14.1.x one.

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Changes highlight

This section highlights some of the most important fixes introduced by this release.
Several items in this list refer to a multitude of commits, so direct link to them has not been provided to avoid cluttering the overall page.
Please refer to the detailed commit change log for further information.

New applications

• tdebluez: provides modern Bluetooth functionality (TDE/tdebluez)
• kplayer: multimedia player with mplayer backend (TDE/kplayer)
• tdehwdevicetray: provides an easy access to storage devices and their operations
• ksplash: added new Moodin-based theme "Architecture" (bug 2553)
• icewm-based Helix theme (TDE/artwork#2)
• icewm-based Brise theme (TDE/artwork#6) (bug 2833)

New functionalities

• Added support for Python 3 throughout TDE
• Added support for LUKS disks. Common LUKS operations can now be handled via GUI, tdeio_media_mounthelper and DCOP calls
• Added support for PKI (X.509, PKCS, cryptographic card devices) as part of tdehw library and libtdeldap
• New notification interface for storage device plug/unplugged events (through tdehwdevicetray)
• Expanded DCOP interface for mediamanager with several new fuctions available, which allow finer control over storage device operations
• Added support for hybrid suspend (aka suspend to RAM + suspend to disk)
• Ark: added support for lzip/tar-lzma files
• tdelibs: added passive notification panel (commit 9cca7662)
• Added MIT license to the set of distributed licenses and new application to show TDE license information (TDE/tdelibs#197, TDE/tdebase#318)
• New "session panel" in Kate to ease managing multiple sessions and switching among them. Note: the format for save session files has changed, but existing session will transparently be imported and updated to the newer format
• konqueror: added "double-click moves to parent folder" feature (commit 3aa5fc08)
• konqueror: new sorting/grouping actions for listviews
• konqueror: added support for locale based file sorting
• New TCC configuration module for Trash and additional options to control the trash size policy
• KSSLCertificate: added CRL handling support
• tdemultimedia/tdeutils: added initial basic support for PulseAudio
• tdefilereplace: several new options and functions added (sorting results, max depth, save/restore search results and search strings)
• krusader: added support for xz archives
• kweather: added support for XDG icon names, revamped configuration dialog, add support for system icon theme
• ksnapshot: added option to view/edit the image in KolourPaint or in another application (TDE/tdegraphics#50)

Enhancements

• Major rework of storage media handling code, providing improved support for LUKS disks, udisks2 and udevil and a consistent interface across TDE.
• Enhanced taskbar setting GUI (TDE/tdebase#266)
• kate: added option to suppress 'Find in files' error dialog (bug 1911)
• Added 'Delete Line' menu entry in Kate, KWrite and TDevelop (bug 1907)
• Major enhancement of performances under specific heavy load tasks (for example Konqueror scanning huge folder structures) (TDE/tdebase#309)
• kxkb: improved configuration dialog which simplifies setting keyboard shortcuts for layout switching (TDE/tdebase#304)
• dbus-1-tqt: vast improvements to dbusxml2qt3 tool and to the contents and usage of the generated code (dbus-1-tqt PRs)
• dbus-1-tqt: added generation of api documentation based on doxygen (TDE/dbus-1-tqt#10)
• kdcop: added double click functionality to expand/collapse non leaf items (bug 2503)
• tqt3: new TQStringVariantMap type and iterators (commit d795939c)
• tqt3: added "operator[]" to TQPtrList (commit 6b220f98)
• Extended KEditListBox's API with new signals (commit 88413aaa - commit fa49e53a)
• konsole: added support for mouse wheel events in the alternate screen, i.e. in applications such as vim, less, ... (bug 2597)
• ksnapshot: remember window position before/after a snapshot is taken (TDE/tdegraphics#55)
• ksmserver: added 'startupCompleted()' DCOP method to check when session restoration/creation has finished (commit b45b9ed9)
• dolphin: fixed navigation through jar, txz and lzma archives (TDE/dolphin#4)
• knights: added additional theme pack (bug 2663)
• tdenetwork: use standalone libvncserver for krfb and libvncclient for krdc

Bug fixes

• filelight: fixed SEGV caused by dereferencing null pointer (TDE/filelight#3)
• gtk-tqt-engine: fixed crash when SESSION_MANAGER environment variable is not set (commit 959798f45)
• yakuake: fixed support for dcop calls with multiple terminals (bug 2537)
• Fixed incorrect handling of certificate dates in viewer module (commit a837e132)
• tdefile: autocalculate folder size in KPropertiesDialog only for real local items (TDE/tdelibs#190)
• tdeprint: relaxed page orientation and size selection when an initial setting is already provided (TDE/tdelibs#194)
• Fixed mangling of '@' in KURL's pretty printing (TDE/tdepim#71)
• kalarm: fixed problem with date/time selection for recurrent events (bug 304)
• kalarm: fixed long startup delay when autostarted at login (bug 1610)
• konqueror: fixed SEGV when the KPropertiesDialog is opened on the root (TDE/tdebase#310)
• kmail: added menu options to toggle "Show Message Structure" (TDE/tdepim#25)
• kpdf: fixed issue with certain fonts not being correctly displayed (TDE/tdegraphics#57)