R14.1.0 Release Notes
This document tracks some of the most important changes introduced in release R14.1.0, which marks the switch from the old R14.0.x to the new R14.1.x series and therefore
comes with a bigger list of changes.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.
Additionally, the full release notes on TDE wiki contains screenshots of some of the new features.
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)
Renames and moves
tdefilereplace has been moved from tdewebdev to tdeutils (bug 767)
sip4-tqt: python module renamed to sip_tqt (TDE/sip4-tqt#2)
sip4-tqt: entry step to rename qt* python modules to tqt* (TDE/sip4-tqt#10)
pytqt: repository renamed from python-tqt to pytqt (TDE/pytqt)
pytqt: rename qt* python modules to tqt* (TDE/pytqt#13)
pytqt: renamed QScintilla to TQScintilla (TDE/pytqt#5)
pytqt: renamed python extension module from python_tqt to PyTQt (TDE/pytqt#12)
python-trinity repository renamed to pytde (TDE/pytde)
tde-common-cmake moved from common to dependencies and renamed to tde-cmake (TDE/tde-cmake)
tqt3: several QT_* macros have been renamed into TQT_* equivalents.
tqt3: IconView widget moved to src/widgets folder (commit a41a0349)
tqt3: removed dummy "int" parameter from "TQVariant(bool, int)" (commit cfc76de7)
tqt3: renamed tqt-kde integration to tqt-tde (commit a410cb03)
tdelibs: tdehw lib is now built as a standalone library
tdeaddons: removed mediarealfolder konqueror plugin, which has been integrated into tdebase's media tdeioslave (commit 025f091b)
renamed "Suspend to disk" to "Hibernate" and "Suspend to RAM" to "Suspend"
Removed applications, code repositories or features
Removed support for Python 2 throughout TDE
Removed any pending support for HAL
Removed the following modules: adept, libraries/mlt, libraries/mlt++, kpowersave, knetworkmanager8, tde-construct
Removed support for building using qt3. Now TDE only uses TQt3
tqt3: removed the following Qt2 classes (TQList/TQListIterator, TQStack, TQVector) and replaced them with TQt3 equivalent ones (TQPtrList/TQPtrListIterator, TQPtrStack, TQPtrVector). Also removed some old Qt1-related code.
kpdf: drop suport for t1lib (TDE/tdegraphics#39)
Deprecated applications
These are no longer built by default and will be removed in R14.2.0
tdegraphics: kmrml (commit ff75de8d)
tdepim: kitchensync (commit 43f0ce5)
tqtinterface: this module is not deprecated but it will be merged with tqt3 in R14.2.0 and no longer required (TDE/tqtinterface)
Distro support
Ubuntu: dropped Hirsute (21.04), added Lunar (23.04)
Raspbian: dropped raspbian-stretch
CMake conversions and dropped autotools
Modules converted to cmake:
bibletime (TDE/bibletime#2)
desktop-effects-tde (TDE/desktop-effects-tde#3)
Dropped autotools support for the following modules:
bibletime (TDE/bibletime#3)
gtk3-tqt-engine (TDE/gtk3-tqt-engine#3)
gwenview-i18n (TDE/gwenview-i18n#1)
kbfx (TDE/kbfx#2)
kgtk-qt3 (TDE/kgtk-qt3#6)
kmymoney (TDE/kmymoney#4)
koffice-i18n (TDE/koffice-i18n#2) (TDE/koffice-i18n#3)
konversation (TDE/konversation#3)
kpilot (TDE/kpilot#7)
tderadio (TDE/tderadio#6)
tdesvn (TDE/tdesvn#7)
Updating from R14.0.x
There will be no more releases in the R14.0.x series, therefore you should consider switching to R14.1.x during the next TDE update. This will require updating the URL from which packages are downloaded and should be a relatively straight forward process.
Additional info
Full release notes on TDE wiki
TGW issue list
Detailed commit change log