a bugfix, translation and maintenance update. Release note can be found
at http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.3.1.php
We would like to thank all our contributors and testers. My personal
thanks to miwi and makc for coaching me through my first KDE commit.
for FreeBSD. The official KDE 4.3.0 (Codename: "Caizen") release
notes can be found at:
http://kde.org/announcements/4.3/index.php.
We'd like to say thanks to all helpers and submitters.
Tested by: pointyhat-exp-run (pav/miwi)
See original release announcement for details:
http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.2.3.php
New ports:
devel/kdebindings4:
Meta port of KDE bindings for C#, Java, PHP, Python and Ruby.
Currently only Python bindings are supported.
devel/kdebindings4-python, devel/kdebindings4-python-krosspython,
devel/kdebindings4-python-pykde4:
Python bindings for KDE.
print/kdeutils4-printer-applet:
printer-applet is a system tray utility. It shows current print jobs,
shows printer warnings and errors and shows when printers that have
been plugged in for the first time are being auto-configured by
hal-cups-utils. It replaces kjobviewer in KDE 3.
print/system-config-printer-kde
A port of Gnome system-config-printer to KDE.
multimedia/phonon port has been split into phonon itself, phonon-xine
and phono-gstreamer backends. After updating phonon port you have
to install at least one backend. phonon-xine backend is recommended
for KDE.
for FreeBSD. The official KDE 4.2.0 (Codename: "The Answer") release
notes can be found at:
http://kde.org/announcements/4.2/index.php.
New supported languages include Arabic, Icelandic, Basque,
Hebrew, Romanian, Tajik and several Indian languages (Bengali India,
Gujarati, Kannada, Maithili, Marathi) indicating a rise in popularity in
this part of Asia.
New ports for KDE 4.2.0:
arabic/kde4-l10n Arabic
hebrew/kde4-l10n Hebrew
misc/kde4-l10n-bn_IN Bengali (India)
misc/kde4-l10n-eu Basque
misc/kde4-l10n-gu Gujarati
misc/kde4-l10n-is Icelandic
misc/kde4-l10n-kn Kannada
misc/kde4-l10n-mai Maithili
misc/kde4-l10n-mr Marathi
misc/kde4-l10n-ro Romanian
misc/kde4-l10n-tg Tajik
math/eigen2 Lightweight library for vector and matrix math
graphics/kipi-plugins-kde4 KDE4 kipi graphics plugins
sysutils/policykit-kde PolicyKit manager for KDE
Unfortunately FreeBSD 6.4 support is dropped.
We'd like to say thanks for feedback and help to:
Matt Tosto, Kris Moore, stickibit, David Johnson, Markus Brueffer,
David Naylor, Thomas Schlesinger, Warren Liddell, Thomas Abthorpe,
Diego Depaoli, Mats Andreassen, portmgr for exp-run and repocopies.
for FreeBSD. The official KDE 4.1.1 release notes can be found at
http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog4_1to4_1_1.php.
KDE Community ships sirst translation and service release of the 4.1
dree desktop, containing numerous bugfixes, Performance Improvements
and Translation Updates.
Pretty much all applications have received the developers' attention,
resulting in a long list of bugfixes and improvements. The most significant
changes are:
* Significant performance, interaction and rendering correctness
improvements in KHTML and Konqueror, KDE's web browser
* User interaction, rendering and stability fixes in Plasma,
the KDE4 desktop shell
* PDF backend fixes in the document viewer Okular
* Fixes in Gwenview, the image viewer's thumbnailing, more
robust retrieval and display of images with broken metadata
* Stability and interaction fixes in KMail
New Ports:
- graphics/kcoloredit
* KColorEdit is a palette files editor. It can be used
for editing color palettes and for color choosing and
naming.
- graphics/kgraphviewer
* KGraphViewer is a GraphViz DOT graph viewer for KDE. The
GraphViz programs are free-software layout engines for graphs.
KGraphViewer displays the graphs in a modern, user-friendly GUI
with all the power of a well integrated KDE application.
- graphics/kiconedit
* KIconEdit is designed to help create icons for KDE using the standard
icon palette.
- graphics/skanlite
* Skanlite is a simple image scanning application that does nothing
more than scan and save images. Skanlite can open a save dialog for
every image scanned or save the images immediately in a specified
directory with auto-generated names and format. The user can also
choose to show the scanned image before saving.
for FreeBSD. The official KDE 4.1.0 release notes can be found at
http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.1/.
Some note:
* Prefix
KDE4 will be install into a custom prefixes namely ${LOCALBASE}/kde4.
KDE4 and KDE3 can co-exist
* Sound
For sound to work, it is necessary to have dbus and hal enabled
in your system. Please see the respective documentation on how
to enable these.
For more Informations see the HEADS UP at ports@ and kde-freebsd@
or our wiki page http://wiki.freebsd.org/KDE4/Install.
Have fun!
Important changes:
==================
KDE:
- Audio/arts does not install artswrapper anymore, instead it is provided by
audio/artswrapper. See UPDATING.
- misc/kdeaddons3 is now a metaport with
editors/kate-plugins
editors/vimpart
games/atlantikdesigner
misc/kaddressbook-plugins
misc/kfile-plugins
misc/kicker-applets
misc/knewsticker-scripts
misc/konq-plugins
misc/ksig
misc/renamedlgplugins
multimedia/noatun-plugins
net/kontact-plugins
as slave ports.
- A number of KDE ports now uses OPTIONS do make various WITH_* options more
visible.
- Plist fixes
- devel/kdevelop should be able to detect FreeBSD's autoconf/automake now for
newly created projects.
- kdebase will no longer remove previous KDM configurations. This won't take
effect during the update from 3.2.0 to 3.2.1 (as deinstalling 3.2.0 will still
remove the configuration), but subsequent updates will merge old configs.
QT:
- Previous versions of QT could be compiled with debugging-support enabled by
defining DEBUG. This switch has been renamed to the more unambiguous
WANT_QT_DEBUG (similar to WANT_KDE_DEBUG in the KDE ports).
Important changes:
==================
- Kmail and knode have been moved from kdenetwork to kdepim. This
means you will have to install kdepim if you want to continue using
kmail or knode. This is to ease integration with korganizer, in
the new 'Kontact' application.
- The arabic translations for KDE and KOffice have been moved from
misc to the arabic category.
- There is a new module called kdeaccessibility in the accessibility
category. It contains a few utilities for disabled users like a
magnification lens and a text-to-speech frontend.
- In KDM, you need to select the 'CUSTOM' session profile in order
to have your .xsession executed. This is particularly important if
you're using the aegypten tools
(http://freebsd.kde.org/howtos/aegypten-kmail.php).
- We have started making more parts of the ports optional. In kdepim,
both Kandy and KPilot can be turned off with ports-knobs. This
process will continue in the 3.2 series.
