R14.1.2 Release Notes This document tracks some of the most important changes introduced in release R14.1.2, the second 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 tde-style-polyester: a widget style and TWin decoration aimed to be a good balance between eye candy and simplicity (TDE/tde-style-polyester) twin-style-fahrenheit: a nice TWin style decoration from the KDE 3.2 days (TDE/twin-style-fahrenheit) New functionalities and enhancements ksnapshot: added delay functionality to 'Region' mode (TDE/tdegraphics#71) ksnapshot: add `setPixmap` DCOP call to allow setting the pixmap remotely (TDE/tdegraphics#77) tdebase: added six new color schemes (TDE/tdebase#403) tdebase: added GUI option to choose between standard and Ubuntu-style shutdown dialog (TDE/tdebase#468) twin: access window tiling via DCOP (TDE/tdebase#436) tdeioslave/sftp: overhaul of authentication methods (TDE/tdebase#443, TDE/tdebase#447) konsole: added ability to reset tab color to default (TDE/tdelibs#217, TDE/tdebase#379, TDE/tdelibs#133) kmix: new system tray icons reflecting current volume level (TDE/tdemultimedia#31) tde-ia-ora: five new styles based on GTK engine (TDE/tde-style-ia-ora#10) kstreamripper: various improvements to logic and GUI (TDE/tde#151) tqt3: added support for HistoryBack and HistoryForward buttons (TDE/tqt3#98) kxkb: added notification for keyboard layout switch (TDE/tdebase#438) kxkb: utilize translations provided by xkeyboard-config if available (TDE/tdebase#449) kmail: added ability to open the HTML body of an email in an external browser (TDE/tdepim#94, TDE/tdepim#103, TDE/tdepim#114) tdelibs: improved kdirlister functionality for remote folders (TDE/tdelibs#259) gwenview: added option to allow avoiding loading of metadata (TDE/gwenview#22) zeroconf ioslave: added support for SFTP servers (TDE/tdenetwork#75) tqtinterface: added missing `inputmethod` files (TDE/tqtinterface#21, TDE/tqtinterface#24) added support for python 3.12 (TDE/tde#150) added support for libpoppler 24.02 (TDE/tdegraphics#85, TDE/tdegraphics#86) added support for taglib 2 (TDE/tde#162) quanta: added support for libxml2-2.12.0 (TDE/tdewebdev#42, TDE/tdewebdev#43) Bug fixes tqt3: several memory leak fixes and other small changes (TDE/tqt3#130) kicker's quicklauncher: empty urls are ignored (TDE/tdebase#418) noatun: fixed crash when empty items were found in the playlist (TDE/tdemultimedia#53, TDE/tdemultimedia#54) kaffeine (with xine backend): fixed file filters in 'Open dialog' from second opening onwards (TDE/tdemultimedia#58, TDE/kaffeine#27) twin: fixed resizing issues with various Virtual Terminal based applications (xfce and mate terminals, gvim) (TDE/tde#57, TDE/tdebase#384, TDE/tdebase#411, TDE/tdebase#431, TDE/tdebase#434, TDE/tdebase#437) twin: fixed functionality of `showWindowMenuAt` DCOP call (TDE/tdebase#433) twin: fixed startup crash when `Active borders` are set to `Switch desktop` (TDE/tdebase#455, TDE/tdebase#464) kdiff3: fixed pasting UTF8 text from clipboard (TDE/kdiff3#14) tdm (debian-like distros): prevent unwanted restarting of service during upgrade (TDE/tdebase#409, TDE/tde-packaging#263) kmplayer: solved crash on opening of settings dialog when building without xine (TDE/kmplayer#14) kmilo: fixed regression affecting brightness value shown on OSD feedback (TDE/tdeutils#68, TDE/tdeutils#69) fixed tqdesigner and tdevelop crashes caused by invalid pointers (TDE/tqt3#97, TDE/tqt3#99, TDE/tdevelop#35, TDE/tdevelop#40, TDE/tdevelop#41) tde-guidance: fixed functionality of mountconfig module (TDE/tde-guidance#11) kmix: fixed problem causing kmix (and possible other programs) to be unable to run after installation (TDE/tdemultimedia#29) tdelibs: fixed detection of removable devices with recent linux kernels (TDE/tde#148, TDE/tdelibs#248) krfb: fixed crash on VNC client disconnection (TDE/libtdevnc#2, TDE/libtdevnc#10, bug 2972) kxkb: fixed bug which was causing the loss of `setxkbmap` options already set (TDE/tdebase#391, TDE/tdebase#451) korganizer: do not add unnecessary quotes around Organizer and Attendees (TDE/tdepim#108, TDE/tdepim#109) gwenview: fixed opening correct file over ftp protocol (TDE/gwenview#20) Distro support Dropped Debian Stretch and Ubuntu Xenial (TDE/tde-packaging#257) Added support for Ubuntu Noble (TDE/tde-packaging#264) Added Fedora 40 (TDE/tde#169) CMake conversions gwenview (TDE/gwenview#30) smb4k (TDE/smb4k#13) soundkonverter (TDE/soundkonverter#13) tde-guidance (TDE/tde-guidance#13) Drop code/applications Dropped autotools support for various modules (TDE/k9copy#20, TDE/libksquirrel#11) tde-guidance: removed grubconfig and wineconfig modules (TDE/tde-guidance#12) Info for developers/packagers Partial work on merging tqtinterface into tqt3. Changes do not affect any API (TDE/tde#145) debian-like distros: changed debhelper compatibility level to 10 (TDE/tde-packaging#255) minimum cmake version raised from 3.1 to 3.5 uncrustify-trinity has been updated to upstream version 0.78.1 (TDE/extra-dependencies#12, TDE/extra-dependencies#13) libr: removed libglade related code, updated library version to 0.7.0 and .so binary version to 1.0.0 (TDE/libr#11) libr for debian like distros: libr0 package has been upgraded to libr1 (TDE/tde-packaging#262) libr: made dependency upon gtk optional (TDE/libr#12) DEB: automatically add ldconfig trigger if the package contains plugins (TDE/tde-packaging#266) tdebase: dependency on libssh is now associated to sftp building option (TDE/tdebase#441) kdbusnotification: allow to specify the path of `dbus-binding-tool` using a cmake define (TDE/kdbusnotification#7) scripts: removed `astyle` files (TDE/scripts#7) `auto_ptr` has been replaced by modern and supported alternatives (TDE/tde#157) tqt3: fixed building with `_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3` (TDE/tqt3#70, TDE/tqt3#100) tqt3: allow to build with `-no-thread` option (TDE/tqt3#120) tqt3: enable thread support by default (TDE/tqt3#122) tde-cmake: set cmake minimum version in a centralized place (TDE/tde#164) added support for 64bit `time_t` on deb-based 32-bit distros (TDE/tde-packaging#281) fix building with c++17 standard (TDE/tde#168) Additional info Full release notes (with screenshots) on TDE wiki This release notes on TGW TGW issue and PR list Detailed commit change log