libplasma 3.0 / KDE 4.2
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libplasma
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* Build
    * libplasma has moved to kdelibs from kdebase-workspace and as such there is no longer a need to use FindPlasma.cmake. FindKDE4 now provides all the necessary plasma CMake bits needed, and using libplasma does not create a kdebase-workspace dependency for your application anymore.

* Features
    * Symbol Versioning: limit loading of plugins to those that match the libplasma version
    * NEW: ToolTipManager for Plasma style tooltips
    * NEW: Wallpaper plugins for Containments
    * NEW: Context for coordinating and publishing Context information, such as the current Activity or phsyical location
    * Applet
        * sizeHintChanged() signal. A containment (such as a panel) can adjust its size based on changed sizehints of an applet
        * ContextConstraint events and access to the current Context object
        * Shortcut editor in Applet configuration dialog allows setting of global shortcuts per-widget
        * NEW: Plasma::Extender and Plasma::ExtenderItem, allowing visual, relocatable extensions to Applet
        * NEW: PopupApplet, which switches between an icon with a popup in a Horizontal/Vertical containment (such as a panel) and the widget directly on the canvas in a Planer containment (such as a desktop), the icon can be replaced with custom graphics or widgets by the implementation
    * Containment
        * Support dropping of arbitrary data if the mimetypes are supported by an applet
        * Activity naming and Context support
        * Toolbox can be positioned in any corner or edge
        * Toolbox actions are displayed as an always open toolbar when zoomed out for improved usability
    * Corona
        * addOffscreenWidget/removeOffscreenWidget: manage canvas items that should not appear in a primary view (e.g. Extenders)
        * "screen" information querying added to Corona to allow different approaches for viewports; e.g. using KWindowSystem and QDesktopWidget for the Plasma shell, but window coordinates for plasmodviewer or other non-desktop apps.
    * Package system
        * PackageStructure supports arbitrary URIs (in addition to auto-discovery for package) structure description files.
        * Package removal
        * Package browsing interface can be provided by the PackageStructure plugin, allowing for 3rd party widget collectionsto offer online browsing and fetching customizations
    * FrameSvg
        * setting the margins via in-SVG hints
        * paintPanel API additions to make it more like QPainter and Plasma::Svg
    * Runners
        * TryExec key in .desktop file now supported, allowing runners that rely on an external application to be conditional loaded at runtime
    * Service
        * Allow enabling/disabling of operations at runtime
        * Associate widgets with operations
    * Theme
        * Support compressed SVGs (*.svgz)
        * Supports a pixmap cache and a SVG element rects cache for faster startup
    * Widgets
        * NEW: Plasma::Slider based on QSlider
        * NEW: Plasma::TabBar based on QTabBar, usable as both a standalone tabbar or as a tabwidget
        * NEW: Plasma::Frame used to visually group widgets
        * NEW: Plasma::TreeView used to put tree views or simple list in the canvas
        * NEW: Plasma::BusyWidget used to indicate the loading of something
        * NEW: Plasma::ToolButton based on QToolButton
        * Plasma::PushButton is svg-themed

* Significant Fixes
    * WebContent painting update synchronization (fixes, among other things, scrolling)
    * Prevent crash when Containment that AppletBrowser is associated with is deleted
    * Applet handles work with all icon sizes (user system settings)
    * Fix View so that when a new activity is added, don't move more than necessary;
      fixes dragging lock
    * Dramatically fewer full paints by properly watching the exposed rect area, which for full screen Containments or large/complex Applets is quite significant in terms of performance
    * Fix on-exit crashes related to focus handling issues in QGraphicsView
    * Prevention of premature calls to Applet::constraintsEvent
    * Applets now resize in "real time" without the pixelation
    * Numerous crash fixes pushed upstream to QGraphicsView as well (focus resetting, scene queries on deletion..)

Developer Documentation
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* Design documentation
    * NEW: dataengine
    * NEW: tooltips
    * NEW: wallpaper
    * NEW: widgets
    * NEW: javascript

* Tutorials
    * NEW: Extenders http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma/UsingExtenders

Desktop Theme
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* NEW: widgets/button for theming pushbuttons
* NEW: widgets/frame for theming Plasma::Frame used also in other widgets
* NEW: widgets/scrollbars to theme Plasma::ScrollBar and views scrollbars in libplasma
* NEW: widgets/configuration-icons: little icons used for configuration purposes across Plasma
* NEW: widgets/extender-background, widgets/extender-dragger: SVGs for new Extender widget
* NEW: widgets/tooltip: tooltip SVGa
* NEW: widgets/calendar
* NEW: widgets/containment-controls: icons and buttons for sizing panels and other containment tasks
* NEW: widgets/monitor: monitor for use in displaying mockups of on-screen content
* NEW: widget/glowbar: a glow for use by offscreen panels to indicate their location
* NEW: dialogs/kickoff: theming for the kickoff launcher menu
* color roles for buttons text and background added
* Plasma::Slider follows theme
* Applet handle all svg-themed
* The default Oxygen desktop theme radically improved across the board

Plasma Desktop Shell
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* Features
    * Desktop
        * New Containment configuration for all desktop containments: wallpapers, activity type, theme
    * Panel
        * Resizes itself when an applet changes its sizehint according to its maximum and minimum sizes
        * Autohide and windows-cover-panel options
        * Easier drag and drop to panel by showing an empty area between the two applets nearest to the mouse cursor

* Significant Fixes
    * Reposition toolbox when zooming out/in to avoid panel overlap
    * Draw the missing part of the toolbox when repositioned because of a panel
    * MS Windows compile fixes

Other Shells
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* plasmoidviewer new command line options:
    * --list lists known applets
    * --formfactor (-f)
    * --containment (-c)
    * --wallpaper (-w)
    * --pixmapcache (-p)

Tools
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* Plasma Engine Explorer
    * Remove/update sources via context menu
    * NEW: Plasma::Service interaction UI, using DataEngine::serviceForSource
* plasmapkg
    * now supports listing, updating and removing packages
* NEW: Destkop Theme Details
    * Customize and create new desktop themes with kcmshell4 destkopthemedetails

Plugins/Addons
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* Features
    * Plasmoids and Containments
        * NEW: Incoming messages: listens to various F/OSS email and IM apps for messages arriving
        * NEW: Leave A Note: let people leave you notes on your computer, particularly handy for Plasma widets on the screensaver
        * NEW: Previewer: drop files to preview them right on your desktop or panels
        * NEW: System monitor
        * NEW: Web browser: a WebKit browser in a desktop widget!
        * NEW: Activity bar: quick switcher for Plasma activities
        * NEW: Conway's game of life
        * NEW: RSSNow! fancy online news ticker
        * NEW: News, simple online news ticker
        * NEW: Pastebin, drop text/data to upload it to a pastebin server
        * NEW: Text snippets generator
        * NEW: Timer
        * NEW: Bouncing ball, throw it and watch it bounce around!
        * NEW: Calendar
        * NEW: Character selector
        * NEW: Eyes
        * NEW: LCD Weather Station plasmoid
        * NEW: Quicklaunch plasmoid
        * Task bar
            * Grouping: manually or by application
            * Sorting: manually or by program name
            * Limit windows shown by desktop, screen or minimized status
            * Multiple rows of windows
            * Theming improved to look more consistent with other buttons and generally be more sexy
        * System tray
            * Supports hiding of icons
            * Supports non-Freedesktop.org icons (e.g. full plasmoids or future creations) through a protocol abstraction
            * Listens for and displays popup notifications and application jobs (e.g. file transfers)
        * Now Playing media player controls: play, pause, stop, switch tracks and more from Plasma
        * Notes
            * Custom colors
            * Export notes to file
            * Text formatting, such as alignment, bold, italic, etc
        * Clocks
            * Custom colors for digital clock
            * Standardized multi-timezone support in libplasmaclock
        * Folder view
            * Filtering improvements: mimetype and exclusion based.
            * Sorting options, options for locking the icons in place and/or forcing grid alignment.
            * Uses a top-to-bottom icon arrangement when used as a containment.
            * Remembers icon positions.
            * No longer blocks the GUI when loading large folders.
            * Shows a busy animation while loading folders / laying out icons.
            * Works in panels looking like a popup menu
        * Default desktop containment
            * Wheel mouse == switch desktop
            * Creation of widgets on desktop containments puts them in empty areas, avoiding overlap
        * Comics
            * Respects web proxy and other relevant KDE settings
            * Improved mouse interaction (middle mouse zooms, context menu, etc)
            * Comicproviders can be written in any language supported by Kross
            * Comicproviders can be downloaded via "Get Hot New Stuff"
            * New comicproviders can be added on kde-files.org
        * Lancelot
            * Full keyboard support
            * New lists with scrollbars
            * Themes that match Plasma themes from kdeplasma-addons module
        * Twitter
            * When it is in the panel it is a popup, showing the avatar of the last person who sent a message and the numer of unread tweets as icon
        * Trashcan
            * Lets you configure system wide trash behaviour like size limits

    * DataEngines
        * NEW: Web site icons (favicons) engine
        * NEW: Desktop notifications engines
        * NEW: System monitor engine based on ksysguard (cpu, memory, heat, sensors, etc)
        * NEW: Network engine
        * NEW: Application jobs (aka kuiserver) engine; shows any published KJobs such as file operations
        * NEW: Executables: run commands and get their output from stdout and stderr
        * NEW: RSS
        * NowPlaying
            * Plasma::Service for controlling media players
            * supports MPRIS
        * Powermanagement
            * Added a new source for managing PowerDevil profiles

    * Runners
        * NEW: Kate sessions runner
        * NEW: Recent documents runner
        * NEW: Spellcheck runner
        * NEW: Konqueror history runner
        * NEW: Konqueror sessions runner
        * NEW: Konsole sessions runner
        * NEW: Nepomuk search runner
        * NEW: Power management controller (via PowerDevil)
        * NEW: Places (as seen in dolphin, file dialog, kickoff, etc) runner
        * Converter runner now does speed, masses and nautical distances; conversion code moved to a shared lib

    * ScriptEngines
        * NEW: Google Gadgets
        * NEW: Python Plasmoids
        * NEW: Ruby Plasmoids
        * MacOS Dashboard widgets: improved JS API compliance
        * JavaScript:
            * DataEngines
            * Services
            * layouts
            * configuration data
            * much more featureful plasmoid object replaces applet object

    * Wallpapers
        * NEW: Image, Slideshow and Color plugins, based on previous code
        * Directories recursed for images in Image and Slideshow plugin
        * Slideshow images are randomized

* Significant Fixes
    * Various clocks ported to AppletClock for calendar and timezone consistency
    * Pager crash fixes
    * MS Windows compile fixes
    * Taskbar shows thumbnails of windows on hover (4.1 regression)
    * TwitterEngine respects web proxies and provides a proper Plasma::Service
    * Kickoff
        * proper menu size restoration
        * Hide Shutdown and Restart options when those actions are not possible.
        * Make Sleep and Hibernate entries appear and work
        * use Plasma::Theme to improve visual harmony with the rest of Plasma

KRunner
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* Features
    * Plasma Screensaver: Plasma widget overlay for screensavers
    * D-Bus autoactivation, so even if it has perma-crashed, selecting Run Command from Plasma will resurect it
    * Alternate user interface: QuickSand

* Significant Fixes
    * Screensaver activation fixed to compensate for system clock changes
    * Several crashes related to access of non thread safe code

Platforms
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Compile and runtime fixes for Microsoft Windows and Maemo

