Note: the N900 unit will leave Hannover on thursday, because then our partner from Nokia will go home.

The KOffice stand at CeBIT 2010

As was noted in the announcement for 2.1.0, KOffice 2.1.1 is probably still not usable for production work.

Many Linux distributions package KOffice 2.1.1. A Windows version is expected within a month. If you wish to build KOffice from the source, you can download them at downloads.kde.org. You can find instructions on how to build them on the KOffice wiki..

• fix double undo on choosing a resource
• don’t create multiple undo commands when pasting pages or inserting a document
• On add/remove shape make sure we do collision detection
• Fix issue with multiple zoom controls appearing
• Fix the ADD composite op in pigment
• save layers of shapes that are part of a container. Use layer of child shapes to find out the layer of a group shape. This is done as the group does not allow to save its layer in odf. This fixes loading and saving of grouped shapes. Before the fix the group was always added to the default layer. Now the group is added to the layer it is was in when saving.
• Fix moving of grouped shapes by keyboard. If a grouped shape was moved by keyboard and selected again the size of the group was no longer the size of its members.
• Fixes copy and paste of images to not getting saved multiple times.
• Fix memory leaks

KSpread

• Fix crash on saving
• Fix bug 216761: crash on closing a view with a document with a table shape in it.
• Fix “empty sheets” bug that shows no views and no sheets on fast computers. We need to be sure the sheets are setup together with the view.
• Fix crash in krita because Selection is deleted twice if the canvas widget changes (in the KSpread table shape)
• Fix crash on exit by don’t trying to save changes on exit in endReferenceSelection.
• Fix dangling pointer crash if the FormulaDialog survived the cellEditor by making sure the FormulaDialog is destroyed too if the cellEditor got destroyed.
• Fix crash on inserting a new cell/row/column.
• Fix parts of a style are sometimes lost just because a cell got selected.
• Fix crash on saving if the currentCellStyle was not located in the mainStyles.
• Fix bug 219907: KSpread ignores table:end-cell-address, for embedded shapes

KWord

• on appending page, reuse the style of the last page.
• Don’t auto-remove the only page on shape-delete.

KPlato

• Fixes scheduling when converting between different timezones make datetime cross midnight.
• Add context menu, to correspond with other similar views.
• Fix: Task startup and shutdown costs are not calculated to account.
• Plotting: use klocale and fix calculation of major tickmarks.
• Try to calculate ACWP even if data is insufficient.
• Reset model when new project is set.
• Return correct index data when some of the plots are disabled.
• Always output a date on x-axis.
• fix many icons
• Currency settings: add undo/redo commands and changed signal.
• Respect resource allocation of less than 100%.
• Add copy to clipboard of scheduling log data.
• Treat all working resources alike, fix bugs in material resource scheduling
• Save/load group type.
• Keep resourcemodel updated when currency changes.
• Use correct locale when reading money in task and resource dialogs.

Text shape

• Fix painting of underline
• Save a blank space in the Author field for the tracked change.
• Make RTL detection work for InheritDirection
• Show list extra scripts counters in RTL docs: Show in the UI the list counter options for non-latin scripts like Bengali and Tamil etc. if the document is detected to be RTL.
• Bug 213802: Don’t inherit page breaks when inserting a normal linefeed.
• Make input methods (CJK text entry) work much better. We now show the unconfirmed text and set the correct position for the current cursor so the floating window shows up on the right spot.
• Fix crash when pasting an element with tracked changes.
• Saves the user name as the author of a tracked change

KChart

• Bug 134195: Make data direction load from the correct place. That place is the plot-area style, not the plot-area element.
• Fix bug 204121: crash during destruction of chart shape
• Fix bug 219761: Crash with embedded chart in a text document
• Set axis title shape as ‘clipped’, so that its position is relative to the chart container.

Calligraphy Tool

• Fix a crash

Krita

• Bug 211504: fix saving of groups in openraster.
• Fix broken random generator algorithm
• Fix loading and saving in various formats on Windows (jpeg, bmp, tiff, pdf etc)
• Bug 1047339: fix crash on adding a transparency mask to a shape layer
• Bug 191719: fix saving of resolution to jpeg and png files
• Bug 208501: fix channel order when applying a shiva filter or generator
• Bug 209532: fix painting with RGB 32 Float color space
• Fix: reapply generators with vector
• Fix: reapplying a filter or generator with a color
• Bug 212714: fix crash when changing exposure setting when the OpenGL canvas is in use.
• Bug 221482: fix crash when pressing the “calculate camera response” with no images
• Fix: crash when adding images to a bracketing
• Fix: crash when calculating the camera answer
• Don’t crash if there is no image when computing camera response
• Disable camera/add layer when there is no image.
• Don’t try to compute a curve when there is not enough information

The advantages of the clean and well-structured codebase have started to show. Despite a relatively limited developer group, there are a large number of improvements over 2.0. During the development of 2.1, it was also announced that KOffice is going to be used in the Nokia n900 smartphones based on Maemo Linux.

The State of KOffice 2.1

This release is a marked improvement of almost all parts of KOffice compared to 2.0. Version 2.0 was labeled a “platform release”, which was meant as a first preview of the framework and new UI paradigm. In version 2.1, most applications and components have improved significantly but should still only be used by early adopters and probably not as the primary worktool.

The exceptions are the graphics applications: Krita, the picture editor / paint application, and Karbon, the vector editor application. Nuno Pinheiro, the designer of the Oxygen KDE theme and icon set says: “I have tested Karbon and it is definitely usable for real work even if lacks a few advanced SVG features“. What Krita is capable of can be seen at the Gallery in the Krita forums.

Karbon 2.1 editing the oxygen Webcam icon

Targeted Audience

Our goal for this release is to show the public the current state of KOffice and create a platform for further improvements. This release is mainly aimed at developers, testers and early adopters. It is not aimed at end users, and we do not recommend Linux distributions to package it as the default office suite yet.

It is noteworthy that KOffice 2.1 still does not have all the features that KOffice 1.6 had, even if it in some ways greatly exceeds KOffice 1.6. These features will return in the upcoming version  2.2, in most cases better implemented and more efficient. Also, not all applications which were part of KOffice 1.6 made it into KOffice 2.1. The missing applications will return in 2.2 or possibly 2.3.

Applications and Components

The following applications and plugins are part of KOffice 2.1:

General

All parts of KOffice, including the underlying libraries have received many bugfixes and improvements. Special attention has been paid to support for the OpenDocument Format, ODF. One example of that is handling of lists. To ensure the quality of the ODF implementation, the KOffice team has participated in ODF interoperability tests called the ODF Plugfest. For a more detailed list, refer to the announcements and changelogs for the alpha and beta versions of KOffice 2.1.

KWord – Word processor

KWord has a new implementation of tables. The tables are more advanced than the ones in version 1.6: They can be larger than one page and support nested tables in tables and they support a number of formatting properties. The drawback is that the table contents can be edited, but the tables themselves will only become editable in the next version.

Another large new feature in KWord is change tracking. Changes in the document can be tracked and are displayed color coded. Insertions, deletions and formatting changes have different colors. Still lacking is a dialog to select individual changes and make them permanent.

KSpread – Spreadsheet calculator

There are no big new features in KSpread, but a fair number of bugfixes.

KPresenter – Presentation manager

KPresenter has a few new features and many bug fixes. Some of the new features are an infinite canvas and slide numbers.

KPlato – Project management software

KPlato has been improved a lot, and has support for many different manipulations of resources, currencies and work types.  It also has support for offline work using a small utility called KPlatoWork. KPlato was featured in the release announcement for KOffice 2.1 RC1.

Karbon – Vector graphics editor

Karbon 2.1 has a new framework for svg filter effect plugins.  There are also a few filters implemented: offset, blur and merge.  These can be combined to create a drop shadow effect.

Also new in 2.1 is an import filter for PDF files.

Krita – Raster graphics editor

Krita has new brushes: among them a spray brush, a deform brush and a 3D visualization of brushes. It also has a new infinite canvas feature and a dyna tool that can simulate a pressure sensitive input device by using the speed of the mouse.

Plugins

The Chart plugin (or so called shape) has received a number of bugfixes but no new features.

The Formula shape is now back in KOffice 2.1 after being absent in 2.0.  It is not very advanced at the moment.

The Picture shape has seen many optimizations.

Import and Export

Import and export of foreign file formats have been given an overhaul, and especially the import filters for Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt) and Word (.doc) have been much improved. This is a result of the work done for the Nokia n900 Office viewers.

The desktop database creator Kexi was scheduled for inclusion in 2.1, but has not been finished. Right now we hope to be able to release it in version 2.2. Kivio, the flowchart editor, is currently without maintainer and it is not certain when or if it will be released.

Highlights of KOffice 2

KOffice 2 is a much more flexible application suite than KOffice 1 ever was. The integration between the components is much stronger, with the revolutionary Flake Shapes as the central concept. A Flake Shape can be as simple as a square or a circle or as complex as a chart or a music score.

With Flake, any KOffice application can handle any shape. For instance, KWord can embed bitmap graphics, Krita can embed vector graphics and Karbon can embed charts. This flexibility does not only give KOffice unprecedented integration, but also allows new applications to be created very easily. Such applications can e.g. target special user groups like kids or certain professions.

Karbon - Tiger

Unified Look and Feel

All the applications of KOffice has a new GUI layout better suited to todays wider screens. The GUI consists of a workspace and a sidebar where tools can dock. Any tool can be ripped off to create its own window and later be redocked for full flexibility. The tool layout is of course saved and reused the next time that KOffice is started.

Platform Independence

KOffice is available on Linux (with any desktop), Windows and Macintosh. Solaris will follow shortly and we expect builds for other Unix versions to become available soon after the final release. It is possible that the release of binaries for Windows and Macintosh will occur after some time if other packages that KOffice depend on need more time.

Since KOffice builds on Qt and the KDE libraries, all applications integrate well with the respective platforms and will take on the native look and feel.

Krita 2 runs on Mac OS X

Native Support for OpenDocument

The OASIS OpenDocument Format (ODF) is the ISO standard for office document interchange. ODF has been selected as the national standard for many countries around the world, and continues to grow stronger every month.

KOffice uses the OpenDocument Format as its native format. This will guarantee interoperability with many other Office packages such as OpenOffice.org and MS Office. The KOffice team has representatives on the OASIS technical committee for ODF and has been a strong participant in the process of shaping ODF since its inception.

Bug Reports and User Feedback

The developers are very interested in user feedback and bug reports. Please report bugs that you find at bugs.kde.org. In particular, the KOffice Team is interested in bugs in the following areas:

• OpenDocument support
• Crashes
• Errors on non-Unix platforms since most developers run Linux and may overlook these.

Trademarks Notices. KDE, K Desktop Environment and KOffice are trademarks of KDE e.V. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Qt is a trademark of Nokia. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. All other trademarks and copyrights referred to in this announcement are the property of their respective owners.

Press Contacts

The application that has received the most bugfixes is once again Krita. Also KWord has seen numerous improvements in many places, and the Microsoft Word filter has once again been improved. The same goes for KPresenter and its Powerpoint import filter and KSpread.

One of the applications that we have not talked much about so far is KPlato. KPlato is short for the K Planning Tool, and is an application for project management. It was released as technology preview in 2.0, but in 2.1 we believe it to be usable for smaller projects and for early adopters. We expect that KPlato will bring KOffice to new categories of users who need our unique cross platform project management application.

KPlato quick introduction and tutorial

KPlato has features including graphical and list based task dependency editor, task status view, and a schedules view. It can also calculate and display performance indexes, etc for earned value management. It has support for scripting via the common KOffice scripting interface and a number of scripts are provided with the application. It comes with a tutorial to introduce new users to the concepts.

KPlato has support for external workflow by issuing work packages that can be issued to project members. These people can use a separate utility called KPlatoWork to report back to the main project. Last but not least, KPlato can export to the iCalendar format so that it integrates with many applications, including Kontact, the KDE personal information manager.

KPlato dependencies view

Please try out KPlato and tell us what you think at the KOffice forums. There is still time to fix the last few bugs, and all feature requests will be used as input for the next versions.

This is the last release before the final release of KOffice 2.1. We ask all our users who want to help with the process to try it out and report remaining bugs. As usual we are especially interested in bugs that cause data loss or incompatibilities with other office suites such as OpenOffice.org. This time we expect there to be few, so we are increasingly interested in finding them before the real release.

Many Linux distributions will have packages of KOffice 2.1RC1. If you wish to build KOffice from the source, you can download it from download.kde.org. You can find instructions on how to build them on the KOffice wiki.

Update about Kexi:
Although Kexi is continuously developed, we don’t manage to deliver the final version of the application on time. It is scheduled for KOffice 2.2. Users are encouraged to stay with 1.1.x series if possible.

• Build fixes on Windows and a daily build on Windows
• Fix z-index behaviour of flake shapes
• Many memory leaks are fixed
• Fix the CSV import dialog
• Fix a glitch in the startup widget where a New/Open/Save toolbar is visible for a short time

Shape Handling

• Fix bug 208225: Connector is too close to shape when glue points are at same height
• Fix loading and saving of layers in karbon and kpresenter.
• Fix bugs 210068 and 210072: updating connection on changes of the connection shape or connected shapes
• Fix copy, paste, grouping and ungrouping of shapes
• Fix bug 208692: set the key to avoid having duplicate keys for the images as it is never set

OpenDocument Compatibility

• Fix bug 203581: Make loading an embedded object work in opendocument documents
• Fix bug 185150: Fix loading of text:numbered-paragraph tags.

Text handling

• Fix bug 208016: Don’t apply changed style to current paragraph
• Fix bug 208020: changing a style updates the text again
• Fix deleting selected text a the start of the doc
• Fix bug 205124: Make updating the character style also work on empty paragraphs
• Fix bug 201090: Saving font-weight should stay in the boundaries of the XSL definition
• Don’t allow the user to delete the default style
• Turn off spell checking by default
• Use a better font for the demo text
• Seriously speedup style lookups: this improves loading time for certain documents from 50s to 2s
• Only call recalculate() once in StylesModel::setStyleManager(). This shaves off 1.7 seconds (on my desktop) when loading a document with 180 paragraph styles
• Properly keep the length of an empty line intact
• Speedup: don’t copy text for each parag unless required
• Fix bug 208561: Don’t change offsets for drawing cursor anymore

Change tracking

• Change tracker: fix the saving of the tracked changes so that the resulting odf properly validates.
• Fix bug 209326: tracking delete and backspace now works as expected

Applications

KSpread

• don’t crash when there are less tokens on the formula parsing stack than expected (this can for example happen with area formulas which are not yet supported, or simply with malformed documents).
• Fix range information for formulas
• Fix yearfrac for actual/actual
• Fix bug 187151: Do not needlessly iterate over billions of empty cells when re-enabling recalculation
• Fix bug 199409: Do not needlessly iterate over billions of empty cells when right-clicking on a full-sheet selection
• Fix bugs 192893, 186204: Do not crash if the default style is not called “Default”
• disable ODDLYIELD and ODDLPRICE, they are broken
• fix PRICEMAT
• fix YEARFRAC unittests, we conform to the spec now, not to OOo’s implementation
• fit IPMT unittest

Karbon

• Improve text positioning in pdf export
• Improve text transformation in pdf export
• Remove status bar item when destroying view
• Fix bug 209922: do not derive from KXMLGUIBuilder anymore
• Apply style of group after its size is set so e.g. effect filters can use the groups size properly

KPresenter

• Fix bug 209931: Default author of presentation was Thorsten
• Dozens of large improvements to the powerpoint (.ppt) import filter
• Fix: After leaving the presentation mode the canvas did not show correct when the zoom was not set to “Fit Page”
• Fix bug 208594: Insert variables / page number doesn’t export well as pdf (only one number)
• Fix bug 210647: Zoom widget displayed twice

KPlato

• Improve calculation of actual cost
• Fix bug in scheduling with resource conflicts.
• Fix saving of work packages that is loaded into kplato
• Use new Oxygen icons
• Add example KPlato project
• Fix saving and loading of project-specific currency settings
• Update schedule manager combo box in view selector properly

KWord

• Stop crashing on opening an encrypted MSWord document
• Fixes pages not being auto-created and the first paragraph being displayed wrong in KWord
• Fix bug 209700: Unbreak loading of AbiWord (.abw) documents
• Fix bugs 189986 and 152467 in the RTF import filter
• Make sure fontnames are also applied to first-level styles. Should improve many simpler .doc documents.
• .doc import filter: make sure textcolor is always written to text properties

Krita

• fix bug 211300: crash where the colorspace is deleted but still in the cache
• Speed up spray brush engine by about 50%
• Speed up filling irregular shapes
• Fix bug 209291: do not grow the dynadraw brush engine footprint quite so fast
• Fix bugs 208828 and 208239: dockers no longer crash when changing views. Note: the histogram docker is disabled, but you can still access the histogram through the layer menu
• Fix bug 209537: a single click with stylus and rectangle selection tool freeze krita
• Fix bug 209896: fix crash on intial double click in polygonal and outline selection
• Fix bug 209898: fix saving of custom brushes. Note that because of other issues, the custom brush feature has been disabled for 2.1. See bug 209982
• Fix saving pixel layers as image
• Disable the GraphicsMagick import/export plugin if the GraphicsMagick version is 2.5 or higher
• Fix bug 210095: show 3d brush model on windows
• Fix bug 186950: reset of the filterop settings widget
• Fix bug 205645: duplication of shape layers. Duplicated shape layers no longer share their shapes
• Fix movement when drawing freehand. Also prevent some infinite loops
• Fix many memory leaks
• Fix optimization of group layers: the projection of a group layer is only recomputed starting with the top-most untouched filter layer
• Fix undo for layer scaling
• Fix loading of yCbCr colorspaces
• Fix conversion between float sRGB and scRGB
• Fix: Show tool icon for other tools when 3D brush outline is selected
• Update the tool icons with Enkithan’s new designs
• Fix bug 210531: saving a 16bit float or 32bit image in png causes a crash
• Fix bug 210033: Crash on selecting shape after saving layer as image
• Fix bug 208141: Rotating a photo of 2000px: better bounds checking
• Fix bug 210668: Introduced in 2.1 betas, flatten image make unmodified pixels transparent
• Fix bug 210917: File invalid after saveing layer to existing file
• Fix bug 210094: strokes are shaky with stylus in OpenGL mode
• Disable the opengl/glsl based filters experiment
• Fix bug 211100: crash when the high-quality rendering option is checked
• Fix bug 202661: the move layer tool disables the undo stack and creates unwanted new layers
• Fix bug 211072: fix crash on moving layer between to other layers: check for node parent and fallback to rootlayer
• Fix bug 211212: crash when selecting filterop
• Fix positioning op the paintop popup
• fix bug 20839 (krita crashed when selecting template with stylus after closing document)

Kexi

Although Kexi is continuously developed, we don’t manage to deliver the final version of the application on time. It is scheduled for KOffice 2.2. Users are encouraged to stay with 1.1.x series if possible.

“The filters will be contributed to the KOffice community very soon, as soon as we can get all the legal clearance done.” says Suresh Chande, the product manager for the Maemo Office suite within Nokia.

The KOffice developer community is positive to this news.

“This is a very encouraging move.” says Inge Wallin, marketing coordinator for KOffice. “The top priority for KOffice will always be the OpenDocument Format, but this will immediately make KOffice viable for new user groups and will also aid migration to ODF based applications for users who currently have documents saved in the MS 2007 formats.”

KOffice is currently in feature freeze before the upcoming release of version 2.1. The MS 2007 filters will be available to end users from version 2.2 which is planned to be released in Q2 2010.

It is therefore with great pleasure that we look back and see that this extra month has been used very well. The KOffice team has worked overtime and can show a longer list of fixed bugs than ever. See the full changelog for the impressive details.

One of the reasons for this fast progress is that the community has received help from two new players: Nokia, who will use KOffice in its next generation of smartphones, and KO GmbH who work exclusively with KOffice and OpenDocument.

The two applications that have received the most bugfixes are KWord and Krita. KWord has seen numerous improvements in many places, and the Microsoft Word filter has once again been improved. However, the .doc filter depends on a version of the wv2 library which should have been released at this time, but so far has not. We expect this new version of wv2 to be released any day, but even for now the .doc filters for KWord can be used by downloading the current source for wv2 and installing.

Krita and Karbon are two of the most mature of the KOffice applications right now. We would especially want to urge users to try out these two applications and give feedback to the community. This can be in the form of bug reports, or using the new Krita forum on forum.kde.org. As an example of work done using Krita, we want to highlight the following picture by Elián Hanisch (m4v on IRC):

"Gentlebot" by Elián Hanisch

Please note, though, that most of the work that has gone into Krita at this time has been corrections of errors. Krita still suffers from bad performance in some places, especially for large images.

Since this release includes so many bugfixes, we encourage users that want to help with the process to try it out and report remaining bugs. As usual we are especially interested in bugs that cause data loss or incompatibilities with other office suites such as OpenOffice.org. This time we expect there to be few, so we are increasingly interested in finding them before the release candidate.

Many Linux distributions will have packages of KOffice 2.1beta3. If you wish to build KOffice from the source, you can download it from download.kde.org. You can find instructions on how to build them on the KOffice wiki.

• Make it possible to load shapes that are directly embedded in a document
• Don’t offer encryption if the right QCA plugins aren’t available
• Improve scrolling
• Correct the applying of the paragraph style.
• Many fixes to make KOffice compile with msvc
• Fix the ruler text drawing
• Fix: zooming tool doesn’t zoom out (patch by Hans Bakker)
• Fix: painting of the ruler tabs
• Fix: Don’t alter document when its not changed
• Fix: hiding/showing status bar widgets when switching between multiple views
• Fix: Make variables work
• Fix bugs 127934, 117567, 208003 and 189287: Fixes app-wide language changes to be honoured by the speller.

Applications

KWord

• Load documents with sections into the main section so we see something
• Support roman (lower and uppercase) and alphabetic (lower and uppercase) footnote numbering when importing .doc
• Fix crashes when opening certain RTF files
• Make ASCII import dialog appear on top of KWord
• Fix bullets and simple font information to text lines in powerpoint
• Fix right-to-left paragraph layout when loading .doc files
• Make the page style aware of directionality allowing the loading of documents that have directionality in the master style with only a table is also eligible to have a text-frame.)
• Fix clearing frames to remove the proper pages. (This fixes the bug that removing a lot of text will leave a lot of empty pages in some cases)
• Fix: when loading .doc, don’t paint white backgrounds where none should be
• Improve loading of tables in .doc documents, among other fixes: fix loading documents with table in headers
• Make detecting the current page number work again
• Don’t crash when loading an encrypted .doc document
• Fix unbalanced add/remove which caused shadow framesets to be created
• Fix auto-sorting order of frames going wrong in a simple usecase where we stack frames without making them full-width
• Make reordering frames by moving them around work properly
• Fix: crash on invalid odt document
• Fix: very very slow cleanup when loading document

KSpread

• Fix: Moving content from a selected range of cells does not move the selected range
• Fix: Allow the deletion of a selected shape.
• Fix: Copy behaviour should be like in openoffice
• Fix: Improve row headers display

KPresenter

• Make it possible to load remote files
• Fixes bullets and simple font information to text lines in powerpoint
• Many fixes for the ppt importer, for instance when loading office art
• Show the paragraph dialog in the menus
• Fix: Fix the loading of an image in a place holder.
• Fix: Fix printing to pdf
• Fix: Crash launching simple presentation with text only

KPlato

• Fix crash when removing scheduled resource.
• Show busy cursor for command that can take a lot of time.
• Don’t crash when embedded as KPart
• Work package: Get resources from the currently selected schedule manager (if scheduled).
• resource assignment Gantt view is now almost usable
• Fix entry of duration/estimate

Karbon

• Fix issues in pdf import (set page number as name for page groups, use font name if font family is empty)
• Fix issues in svg import, among others a speedup
• Use KoXML for svg and filter parsing
• set/change layer z-index when adding/raising/lowering layers
• Fix: Using “Subtract paths” often just deletes the entire object
• Fix: group order breaks in karbon

Krita

In general, stability improved a lot.

• Improve loading of 3d brush visualisation models: smudge finger is shown correctly
• Add a stylus 3d brush visualisation model
• Krita fits correctly in the 1024×768 minimum resolution
• Fix refreshing of brush previews
• Fix showing image after applying “shadow” layer effect
• Improved brush outline cursor
• Fix: insert shape layer at the top of the layer stack
• Fix: cancelling long running operations is possible again
• Make the xyzaf32.ctlp profile work with 16bit as well
• Fix many memory leaks
• Fix: also accept image4 shiva generators
• Reorder the layer and mask menus
• Fix the erase composite operation
• Make indirect painting work on masks
• Fix: color filter using only the last curve
• Fix: show progress update when painting a gradient or filling an area
• Optimize the spray brush engine
• Reorganize and optimize the projection recomposition
• Show progress when separating an image
• Fix the layer properties dialog to show the colorspace
• Fix showing only a subset of channels if there is only one layer
• Fix undo of image and layer type conversion
• Fix: prevent autobrush widget from getting bigger if brush is too big
• Don’t crash when quitting krita while a filter is running (208341)
• Fix: select a contiguous area tool creates an empty selection if fuzziness set to zero
• Fix: show brush outline cursor with all tools
• Fix: recomposition of layered images is improved and threaded again
• Fix: the selected Predefined Brush is not active until another setting is changed
• Fix: grayscale template is not fully loaded
• Fix: krita crashes when opening and closing several views/images
• Fix: crash when opening .ora file from the recent documents list
• Fix: Bug 206526: Display of image is broken when the Preferences window is used
• Fix: Display of images open with the startup dialog.
• Fix: layers disappearing when dropped on a cloned layer
• Fix: crash when adding a transparency mask to a layer.
• Fix: Do not crash when quitting while filter is running
• Fix: the brush has a double size of what it should when the size sensor is disabled.
• Fix: Serialization of the settings of the rate paintop, and use a decent default value.
• Fix: Don’t allow to create image when there is no profile for a color space.

Shapes

Chart shape

• Fix crash
• Fix: Add column or row on an empty table in a chart crashes the app

Text shape

• Fix various crashes
• properly save page breaks
• Erase caret when switching between text and header
• Fix display errors in style docker
• Make clicking within a table to place the cursor work correctly
• Fix tabs being placed incorrectly on machines with different x and y dpi’s
• Fix: pressing backspace at start of doc deletes next char
• Make empty shapes not show random text
• Fix text sometimes disappearing on adding a shape to the set
• Fix fixed-linespacing with different fontsizes
• Fix: crash when re-editing a textShape

Tools

• Some fixes for the paragraph tool

Connection tool

• Fix the non glue point on the connectionTool.
• Fix: Crash on ending connector

KOffice2 is still a fresh set of office tools. We released the 2.0, called platform release, just 3 months ago and work continues to make the suite more stable and to add the minimum set of features people should be able to expect.

All KOffice community members are continuing to do an awesome job with many bugs being closed and lots of love going into all the applications. This means that the 2.1 release will already be much closer to being ready for the big crowds.
We got a little help now too. Nokia has packaged KOffice for Maemo 5 environment with a new UI for Maemo 5!, This means that KOffice can run in the new Maemo device(N900) . Just to clarify, this is not a commercial product of Maemo but is a contribution by Nokia to Open Source. The developed application will be made available for download in a typical release-early release-often. Bugs will likely exist in this version.

This is exciting news as KOffice will be available to a huge audience and Nokia has been helping to fix bugs and make MS-Office document support more robust.

Nokia has created a document viewer for the Maemo 5 platform (Fremantle) based on KOffice and uses the KWord and KPresenter applications to load and display word processor and presentation documents. The application uses a custom user interface specifically designed to fit in with the Maemo 5 style.

Part of the projects goals is to help KOffice mature its loading and rendering of MSOffice documents.

It is important to point out that all contributions to KOffice have been made directly inside the KOffice subversion repository. The KOffice document viewer for Maemo 5 will be shown for the first time at Maemo Summit in Amsterdam between October the 9th and 11th. This release is a bit unfortunately timed as the official KOffice2.1 release will likely be one or two weeks later making the Fremantle office use the release candidate at first.

I think its very exciting to have the hard work of all the KOffice community members be rewarded by having the document reader be based on our hard work. I’m very thankful to be working on the project and I’m looking forward to continued cooperation between Nokia and the KOffice community.