KOffice 1.5-beta2 Changelog

• KOffice Libraries
• KWord
• KSpread
• KPresenter
• Kivio
• Kexi
• Krita
• Karbon
• KPlato
• KChart
• Kugar
• Filters

KOffice Libraries

• KoText
  • Fix problem with right-aligned tabs
  • Fix footnote numbering
  • Fix strange red and blue lines appearing for people who use --enable-debug
• Kross
  • Fix deleting of ruby wrapped objects
  • Handle Python unicode strings
• KoProperty
  • Fix editor refreshing after contents loading
  • Fix for read-only mode: support it also globally at property set level
  • Disable editing for read-only widgets
  • Fix for displaying double (floating-point) values for the current locale

KWord

• OASIS OpenDocument
  • Reworked loading of master page layout for the case where a non standard master page is used.
  • Saving bookmarks
  • In general OASIS support improvements.
• Don't change textframes to be the minimum size when user set it to protect size.
• Improve mouse handling
• Fix crash due to missing table cell (122807)
• Enable pasting objects from KSpread
• Saner margins
• Fixes for pasting
• Autoscrolling when resizing the insertion rectangle
• Fixes for selecting text with mouse in textmode
• Fix copy & pasting of embedded documents
• Many crash fixes

KSpread

• Prevent crash when problems with temp files arise
• Don't save background of cell if not set. Huge improvement in speed
• Prevent the embedded object from being scrolled out of view after double-clicking on it
• Fix creation of emtpy charts
• Fixes for printing
• Fix crash bug 122239
• Cells can have longer text than 5000 character
• Fix problem with recalculation not working in saved .ksp files
• OASIS OpenDocument improvements
• Multi-select for objects, object handling is now conform to the KOffice standards
• Fix link to local file
• Bug 122237: empty cells get displayed correctly.
• Brace highlighting in the formula editor
• Several crash fixes
• Selection optimization speed
• Painting improvements
• Many performance fixes
• Bug 121104: Automatic Recalculation sheeting in Sheet Properties dialog is now respected.
• Bug 109797: Protect quote characters in cells by replacing each quote character by two consecutive quote characters. Produce CSV files with the same number of columns in every row.
• Bug 118112: Numbers are correctly copy and pasted
• Bug 121771: COUNTIF(range, "0") function doesn't count blank cells anymore

KPresenter

• Updated icons
• Fix bug 122623: Vertically aligned texts in presentation are displaced first
• Fix for Bug 121414: KPresenter Krashed when I attempted to open a .ppt file from with the program.
• Optimize insertion of many objects
• Fix custom slideshow
• Fix Bug 120702 crash when opening odp-file created in OOImpress2.
• Fix Bug 120893: Crash when quitting an text box in edit mode.
• Save/load animations on the master slide in OASIS format

Kivio

• Fix CellPhone stencil
• Improvements in connector handling

Kexi

• Database Drivers
  • MySQL: non-latin1 text data (UTF8 encoded) was not properly retrieved.
  • MySQL, PostgreSQL: entering special characters like ', \, ", \n did not work.
  • PostgreSQL: fix for displaying unicode error messages
• Main Window
  • Disable actions that require write access to the db if it's opened as readonly
  • Closing dialog is now marked as 'pending job', the same as for opening
  • When there are pending jobs, 'quit' and 'close project' actions are delayed and executed after last pending job finishes. This removed possible crashes when user closed application's main window (or closed project) when there are pending jobs.
  • When query design has been changed and saved, subsequent openings of a form using it will reload its definition. The same for 'page setup' dialogs.
  • Disabled complex and redundant action 'View -> Tool Docks' menu
• Table View
  • Fixed acceping am/pm for entering time values
  • Various fixes for entering date, time and date/time values
  • Time can be entered without seconds
  • Small passive warning box is displayed when entered value is invalid (currently for date, time and date/time types)
  • 'Inserting enabled' flag is always false for read-only objects
  • Disable combobox editor's dropdown button for read-only database connections
  • Row highlighting fixed for combo box popup, now it's used for any table view
• Table Designer
  • Set property editor to read-only mode for read-only database connections
• Query Designer
  • Row editing within the "Columns" area is accepted before saving. If the editing cannot be accepted, saving is aborted.
• Forms
  • Fixed saving images within forms for MySQL, SQLite and PostgreSQL databases.
  • Fixed painting "geometry" rectangle when inserting new widget
  • Update tab stops information before displaying "Tab Stops" dialog
  • Fixed invalid resizing for widget's inline editor
  • 'Edit->Tab Order' action is available also when form design is not focused
  • Text label widgets: "word wrap" property is turned on by default
  • Fixed updating "word wrap" property value for label widgets
  • Fixed random cursor setting for the form surface
  • Fixed problems with inserting widgets in a random position and random rectangles painting problems
• Project Import Wizard
  • Do not ask about overwriting file if server-based destination has been selected
• CSV Import Dialog
  • Fixed crash when importing CSV files smaller than 200 bytes.
  • Fixed CSV importing for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases.
• CSV Export Wizard
  • When data is copied to clipboard, default delimiter is tabulator and options are hidden
• Simple Printing
  • Enlarge default zoom
  • Fixed crash when 'page setup' dialog is opened, closed, and opened again for the same data object
• Command-line Options
  • Fixed support for -print-preview option.

Krita

• Improved transform tool (the results still aren't good quality, but crashes and funny leaps have been removed)
• Fix crash after executing a script
• Improve rendering of adjustment layers
• Initial image size is set to size of clipboard image if present (bug 122815)
• Fix crash in computing adjustment layers
• Load scripts if Krita is loaded from KOShell
• Fix layout of tool option widgets
• Fix ui problem with opacity slider
• Save images with .rgb extension as SGI
• Enable scrollwheel and pan in preview widget
• Fix saving bmp -- use .bmp3 extension to save in the most widely compatible bmp format.
• Fix undo of layer colorspace schange
• Improve rendering performance if zoom < 1.0
• Fix layer name counter staying incremented after cancelling a new layer
• Disable apply filter again menu entry initially
• Reorganize filter menu to not include empty items
• Add support of YCbCr tiff images
• Load deflated tiff images
• Fix birdeye panel
• Fix implementation and improve speed of resize, scale, rotate, shear, mirror
• Fix crash with big images and minimum swappiness
• Fix loading and saving of adjustment layers (please test!)
• Add progress dialog for raw import
• Speedup rendering of lab histograms for histogram docker. Also speeds up conversion to lab colorspace
• Many fixes in embedded part creation, handling, rendering, loading and saving
• Improve performance of histogram docker
• Make wetness, size and hardness when painting wet dependent on pressure
• Add preview for part layers to layerbox
• Fix pressure adjustment checkboxes for opacity, darken and size
• Created pipe brushes should work now
• Fix edges of adjustment layers
• Make moving a group layer move all containing layers
• Fix opening of jpegs and tiffs with unidirectional profiles
• Add CREATE resource compliance
• Sppedup loading of images greatly
• Speedup gradient rendering a lot
• Implement mixcolors for cmyk (fill & select contiguous should work now)
• Fix flatten image
• Improved speed of filters gallery dialog
• Add REPEAD option to convolution painter
• Fix bugs 120988, 121341, 108919,
• Improve convolution painter with 25%
• Fix tablet and popup menu interaction bug
• Fix bumpmap filter
• Fix poly tools: double-click or shift-click to end the poly
• Fix autobrush for circle
• Better tool cursors
• Add palettes and brushes submitted by Natalie.
• Implement grow/shrink/smooth/erode/dilate/border selection function
• Fix rendering on ppc
• Fix RAW import filter
• Fix simple noise reducer for cmyk
• Fix for colorspaces where the default pixel color isn't all 0
• When resizing an image to the size of a layer, move the layer to 0,0
• Enable loading remote images from recent files widget
• Don't crash when out of memory for a wavelet transform
• Add show selection toggle shortcut
• Filters config widgets with sliders should now be much more responsive
• Improved speed of filter preview widget lots
• Fix loading images with different profiles for layers
• UI fixes for layerbox
• Fix merge with layer below
• Display grid in opengl mode
• Don't crash when per-channel adjusting cmyk
• Better colors for cmyk in histogram
• Make it possible to change the current profile without converitng pixel values
• Fix feather selection (crash fix)
• Fix loading profiles fomr color/icc, .color/icc
• Add support for exif in jpeg
• Speedup on creating a selection
• Don't set the image dirty when clicking on the gray borders
• Optimize rendering for images with only one layer
• Allow moving a layer outside its group by pressing up
• Fix separations plugin
• Fix colorchoosers flicker & background color bug

Karbon

• Fixes to gradient widget
• Improved OASIS support
• Fix for printing (bugs 119452, 99927)
• Fix crash with gradients
• Fix bug crash when Karbon is embedded in koshell
• properly update the objects bounding box when moving bezier points
• Fix Bug 120374 -- crash in AI export

KPlato

• Put back project name in printout
• Clip printout of gantt chart
• Nicer icons
• Much improved calculations
• Fix status representation
• Zoom for gantt charts

KChart

• Add start of OASIS OpenDocument support
• Replace charting engine with new version from KDab
• Fix for display flicker
• Fix bug 41612

Kugar

• Kugar is no longer accessible from koshell
• Fix crash when changing pages on reloaded report

Filters

• Many fixes and improvements in the html import filter