KOffice 1.4-rc1 Changelog

The following summarizes the major changes to the KOffice Suite since the release of KOffice 1.4beta1 release.

KOffice Libraries

• Support for OASIS OpenDocument templates
• Template dialog now has a default template preselected for first time use
• Template dialog uses now a tristate checkbox to let the user choose which template to use for the next application startup (#77542)
• Make sure every template name has a unique file name
• Really delete "removed" templates (#76297)
• Show error message when trying to load a template that doesn't exist
• Fixed "closing with embedded doc asks save/discard twice" (#105879)
• Fixed "embedded kword document leads to main document being marked as modified right after loading"
• Hide "Save As KOffice 1.1" from applications that didn't exist in 1.1.
• Don't insert the OASIS OpenDocument mimetypes twice in the filedialog's filter combo (when saving).
• OASIS OpenDocument format support: support for metadata (document and author information)
• Load remote svg pictures which begin with "<?xml" (and not only "<?XML").
• Compilation fixes for gcc4

KOffice Workspace (koshell)

Changes:

• Always hide the button group in order to make the sidebar thinner
• Added a close-button (like in Konqueror)

Bugfixes:

• Fixed some selection bugs in the sidebar
• Fix the width problem with the sidebar

KoText library features (shared between KWord and KPresenter)

Bugfixes:

• Autocorrection fixes:
  • redundant-space-removal shouldn't remove tabs
  • capitalize-first-letter-correction didn't work at beginning of line (#105064)
  • fixed "autoformat URL in autocorrection causing text editing problem" (#105871)
  • URL detection: URLs beginning with "ftp." are now valid links
  • load all week days, from 1 to 7 (not 0 to 6)
  • capitalize name of days after a punctuation too
• Fixed "completion doesn't show any tooltip for autocompletion" (#105065)
• Do not always save a document in OASIS format with striked-out and underlined text (#92654)
• Fixed missing color for highlighted match during search-n-replace (#103787)
• Fixed wrong layouting of "char-aligned" tabs when opening a document
• Fixed background spellchecking bug which made it stop after a mispelled word
• Hungarian hyphenation dictionary updated

KWord

Changes:

• Added "Apply" button to the frame and "resize column" dialogs
• Added "Reset" to the "resize column" dialog
• Resize column dialog: the maximum width for a cell is the width of the table's parent frame if the table is floating

Bugfixes:

• OASIS OpenDocument format support: tables, chained text frames, default tab width, embedded objects, DTP documents, page-anchored frames
• Added better error message when loading pre-OASIS-1.0 documents, like those produced by OOo 1.9.79.2.3 (as shipped by SuSE 9.3) (#105083)
• Broken non-inline tables feature disabled; simply put the table into a text frame to achieve the same.
• Fixed bug in configuration dialog, tab stop width was set to a random value
• Fixed crash when editing a cell on loading (#104982)
• Disable the formula toolbar from start if no formula frame is activated
• "Cordially" duplicated in the expression list (#104853)
• Fixed crash during spell-checking
• Fixed crash when un-chaining text frames
• Fixed wrong unit calculation for "runaround" setting (#106005)
• Fixed setting a background color from the frame dialog (#106029)
• Avoid two frames with the same z-order after loading
• Fix for "can't scroll to bottom of KWord document after saving".
• Many fixes for footnotes (#72506, #57298, #62360, #84678, #85148)
• Show the content of the footnote/endnote in the status barwhen the mouse cursor is placed over a footnote/endnote reference (part of feature #48794)
• Ensure that text runs around frames upon loading, was broken for DTP documents (#106187)
• Many improvements to the documentation

KPresenter

Bugfixes:

• "Arrange Objects" now works as expected
• "Raise/lower object" now works as expected, including undo/redo
• Insert the picture with the corrent size and not dependend on the current zoom level
• Fixed saving/loading of encoding in webpresentation settings
• Fixed crashes during spell-checking
• Fixed "embedded object always on top after reload" (#105171)
• Fixed "scaling image to original size broken" (#99698)
• Added dialog to go to the master slide if the user tries to select an object of the master slide and is currently not editing the master slide.

KSpread

Bugfixes:

• Rename "different from" to "outside range" since that's what it does (#105317)
• Fixed strange text wrapping behaviour (#77842)
• Fixed vertical text alignment problem (#77843)
• Fixed "ugly postscript rendering of cell borders" (#87367)
• Fixed "empty document generates 2 printed pages" (#68190)
• Fixed "printing with kspread gives big black areas" (#70073)
• Fixed "charts are really small when printed from KSpread" (#101074)
• Fixed painting of obscured cells in RTL sheets
• Fixed printing of embedded kspread documents (#68977)
• Fixed drawing problem when text overflow the right border (#61452)
• Fixed wrong delimiters used in function description (#105695)
• Fixed diagonal lines appearing on printout of RTL sheets in cells which have left or right borders.
• Fixed crash on exit when having an embedded chart (#101915)
• Paint the embedded document after it has been inserted

KChart

Changes:

• Make the Data Format config page accessible from the Edit menu and the context menu

Bugfixes:

• CSV import finished (#99995)
• Fixed "lines in a line chart are all black" (#105356)
• Only use logaritmic scales for the line chart, doesn't work for other kinds of chart (#101490)
• Fix the drawing of the legend title
• Improved documentation

Kivio

Bugfixes:

• Fixed bounding rect for polyline connectors, and printing of selected stencils (#104646)
• Disable Edit text for objects not having textboxes (#104647)
• Fixed grid alignment (#82157)
• Change font attributes back to defaults when pressing CTRL (#98932)
• Fixed crash when canceling the startup dialog

Kexi

Bugfixes:

• Form Designer:
  • all known property and enum names are translated; names are simplified
  • more properties turned to advanced set and thus made invisible in Kexi
  • kexiproperty object is created only once for on propbuffer creation for every QWidget's property. This fixes problems like 'toggleButton' property being added twice to propeditor
  • looking for i18n'd property description or enum value description: on failure, we're also asking parent widget factory for this, if one exists
  • fixed many crashes appearing when a widget name was changed
  • setting duplicated or invalid widget name is now impossible
  • row deleting and inserting implemented
  • "+ button" code shared with table view
  • fixed problems with data in subforms: data provider only sets data for own items, not inside subforms (data-awarness is disabled in subforms for now)
• KexiDB:
  • magic data is now defined for application/x-sqliteX, not for application/x-kexiproject-sqliteX (X == 2 or 3)
  • file-based drivers can now define a list of supported mimetypes, not just one mime type (added all known mimetypes thee, including Knoda's mimes, for compatibility)
  • we're handling application/x-sqlite2 and application/x-sqlite3

Krita

Bugfixes:

• Fixed incompatibilities between versions of ImageMagick
• Load and save EXIF annotations for .jpg files.
• Load and save ICC profiles to file formats that support icc (.png, .jpg, .tiff)
• Krita documents can now contain only one image; simplified user interface accordingly
• Re-arranged and fixed composite operations for RGB and GRAY
• New, more efficient floodfill algorithm
• Fix contiguous area select
• Allow subtracting from existing selections
• Fix undo and selections
• Fix merging of layers when all layers are visible
• Krita now correctly recognizes most graphics file formats
• Fix rotating, shearing and mirroring
• Translate resources (palettes, gradients, brushes)
• Make paintbox docker shadable.
• Improve hsv color selector behaviour (#105073)
• Fix conversion between color spaces
• Add transform tool for moving and rotating layers
• Fix convolution and filter painting tool
• Add custom convolution filter
• Add fill options for all shape tools
• Fix gamma correction adjustment filter
• If there is a selection present, crop will start with the selection extent
• Add polygonal, elliptical and freehand selection tools
• Use better icons for the select tools
• Add feather selection tool
• Fix selecting a new mask color for selections
• Many fixes for crashes.

KFormula

Bugfixes:

• Improved TeX output
• Remember the state of the syntaxHighlighting action at exit
• Disable the matrix actions when the cursor isn't in a matrix element
• Fixed crash when exporting to PNG
• Updated documentation

Karbon

• Fixed crash in gradient widget (#92976)
• Fixed crash if the pattern doesn't have an image (#77476)
• Fixed "add pattern"
• Don't crash when creating a new layer if any layer contains group objects (#93903)
• Update the list according to the z order of the layer (#68060)

Filters

KSpread:

• Many improvements to the Excel importer