R14.1.1 Release Notes
This document tracks some of the most important changes introduced in release R14.1.1, the first maintenance release of the R14.1.x series.
The full release notes on TDE wiki contains screenshots of some of the new features.
New applications
kommando: a "Neverwinter Nights"-like wheelmenu for TDE (TDE/kommando)
New functionalities and enhancements
twin: added support for aerosnap-style window tiling, improved Active Border functionality and add Active Corners (TDE/tdebase#331, TDE/tdebase#365, TDE/tdebase#371, TDE/tdebase#375)
konqueror: added option to enable/disable using double click to navitage to the parent folder (TDE/tdebase#329, TDE/tdebase#341)
konqueror: extended 'double click to move to parent' functionality to iconview modes (TDE/tdebase#386)
kxkb: re-added TDE shortcuts to switch keyboard layout forward or backward (TDE/tdebase#342, TDE/tdebase#352)
kkbswitch: added global shortcuts for switching to previous/next group (TDE/kkbswitch#6, TDE/kkbswitch#7)
twin: added 'shade' to the left mouse button click menu for active windows in TCC module (TDE/tdebase#337)
Offer all available options to set an image as background from Dolphin's action menu (TDE/dolphin#17, TDE/dolphin#18)
added a few new wallpapers (TDE/tdeartwork#24)
added man pages for several TDE applications (TDE/ksquirrel#3, TDE/kmyfirewall#3)
improved support for SunOS/Illumos/DilOS (TDE/tde#131)
tdebluez: added API documentation (TDE/tdebluez#23)
added link to TDE release notes to khelpcenter home page (TDE/tdebase#332, TDE/tdebase#353)
kmix: improved Preferences dialog (TDE/tdemultimedia#35)
tdebase: updated currency for European countries that have switched to euro (TDE/tde#137, TDE/tdebase#385)
tdepowersave: made brightness percentage control more accurate (TDE/tdepowersave#17)
kmilo: improve brightness OSD feedback by displaying the actual value (TDE/tdeutils#55)
amarok: avoid double logarithmic volume scaling when using libxine >= 1.2.13 (TDE/tdemultimedia#40, TDE/amarok#46)
add logarithmic volume control to kaffeine (TDE/kaffeine#22) and codeine (TDE/codeine#9)
replace three dot ellipsis with equally spaced ellipsis (TDE/tdebase#394)
Bug fixes
fixed high CPU/slow speed issue observed in some RPM distros with R14.1.0 (TDE/tde#128, TDE/tqt3#75, TDE/tdelibs#206)
tdepowersave: fixed high CPU/slow speed issue observed in some hardware when autodimm was enabled (TDE/tde#136, TDE/tdepowersave#14)
arts: fixed crash on TDE startup (TDE/arts#5, TDE/arts#11, bug 3042)
tqt3: fixed support for recursive mutexes (TDE/tqt3#68, TDE/tqt3#72, bug 2462, bug 2526)
chalk: fixed SEGV when loading a PNG previously created from the same application (TDE/koffice#20, TDE/koffice#34)
tdebase: fixed kcheckpass support for shadow passwords without PAM (TDE/tdebase#354)
tdelibs: fixed intentation when displaying API documentation code (TDE/tdelibs#207)
tdetoys: fixed pixelated icons bug in KWeather (TDE/tdetoys#19, TDE/tdetoys#22)
fixed image conversion naming of files with multiple dots in the name (TDE/tdebase#376) in konqueror (TDE/tdeaddons#18, TDE/tdeaddons#20) and dolphin (TDE/dolphin#19, TDE/dolphin#21)
fixed value returned by 'brightnessGet' DCOP call (TDE/tdepowersave#15, TDE/tdeutils#53)
added support for libexiv2 0.28.0 (TDE/libkexiv2#3, TDE/libkexiv2#4, TDE/gwenview#7, TDE/gwenview#8)
aligned string hashing function to upstream `gettext` code to ensure translation strings are correctly found (TDE/tdelibs#228)
k3b: fixed detection and linking of taglib (TDE/k3b#30)
codeine: fixed volume slider functionality (TDE/codeine#8)
Distro support
This is the last version to support Debian Stretch and Ubuntu Xenial. From R14.1.2, package builds for those versions won't be avaiable
Added support for Debian Bookworm and Ubuntu Mantic
Removed support for Ubuntu Impish
CMake conversions
libksquirrel (TDE/libksquirrel#5)
k9copy (TDE/k9copy#13)
Drop code/applications
Dropped old Qt1/Qt2 stuff which does not affect public API (TDE/tde#130)
Dropped Qt4 specific stuff which does not affect public API (TDE/tdevelop#21)
Dropped autotools support for various modules (TDE/libltdl#3, TDE/keximdb#3, TDE/desktop-effects)
Dropped support for building in Symbian OS (TDE/amarok#45, TDE/tdepim#85, TDE/tdelibs#222)
Info for developers/packagers
Added support for creating tarballs from head on a git tag (TDE/scripts#6)
Partial work on merging tqtinterface into tqt3. Changes do not affect any API (TDE/tde#135)
tde-admin-common: added support for auto MOC-ing of classes using TQ_OBJECT (TDE/tde-common)
Additional info
Full release notes on TDE wiki
TGW issue list
Detailed commit change log