A backup tool with GUI

• Uses tar Unix tool
• Some more functionality has to be added

• complete rewrite
• documentation now available

• better support for NIS configurations

• new icons
• more non-KDE applications supported

• New non-GUI audio playback program to playback audio files using the regular KDE sound system.

This new tool assures complete independence of the usual KDE applications from the need to be run SUID. This achievement, due to Christian Esken and a few colaborators, has a major importance, allowing to close much of the potential security problems characteristic to SUID programs.

• plain password, PAM and shadow security models supported

• new info modules: devices, DMA-chanels, Interrupts ...
• keyboard shortcuts configuration
• international keyboard configuration
• KPanel configuration
• much of KWM's options now supported
• KFM's configuration, now detached from the browser, is split in "File Manager" and "Browser" configuration
• much improved display configuration with support for random backgrounds, background image cache configuration and more
• new support for style configuration - it is an incipient form of the much enhanced style/themes support to be brought later (KDE-2.0)

• Find - a find in the page function, with case sensitiveness
• RosettaMan - support for the excellent man page translator

• many bug fixes

• Find - a find in the page function, with case sensitiveness
• per-URL settings saving - configurable
• more charsets support
• charset support in frames
• history (Up/Down buttons) for frames - frames browsing kept into account
• detached configuration GUI - use `kcmkfm` or the K Control Panel
• short view
• "Tree View" syncronizes with browsing
• icon title colors - now configurable through the "Configure" dialog
• fusion of global & local mimetypes directories - (same for applications)
• Key navigation - enter the first letters of the filename
• Copy/Paste for text - HTML pages and edit fields
• Support for cookies
• Reduced memory usage
• Improved rendering
• Support for PNG
• Better handling of frames
• Lots of small fixes

International Keyboard selector/configurator (author Alexander Budnik, many collaborators)

• select keyboard at runtime
• saves keyboard settings - per-application, or per window class, or globally
• docked in the panel
• highly configurable

• many improvements in the user interface metaphor

Unix terminal emulator for X. Aimed to replace kvt

• highly configurable - through menus or a configuration applet
• pixmapped background

• added Disk Navigator to KPanel for filesystem navigation from the KPanel menu
• hide animation - configurable speed
• left and right hide/show handles
• autohide for panel and taskbar
• 'Edit Menus' menu entry
• right-mouse-button contextual menu aside launch buttons
• panel at display's right side possible now
• faster menu loading by load-on-demand
• creation and loading of menus on demand, i.e. faster startup with less disk access
• more drag- and drop functionality
• more configuration options
• generic KPanel improvements
• added the KDiskNavigator tab to the KPanel configuration module

• MacOS-like menubar support

• Screensavers have been reworked. There is no need to run them SUID root anymore, enhancing security greatly. A new authentication helper application is used instead. (kcheckpass)
• new screensavers: science, bsod ...

Replaces KStartOnDesk application. Serves as KDE-compatible application launcher, allowing to indicate launching options specific to the KDE desktop. Options

• -sticky
• -on-desktop # where # is the desired desktop

The author of this terminal emulator considers it almost obsolete and encourages the use of konsole instead.

• howevermany security and sesion management fixes have been done

• configurable key and mouse bindings
• smart (de-)iconify animation together with the taskbar
• autoadjust of maximized windows
• support for a common menubar similar to MacOS
• more visual configuration options for theme designers
• more tweaking to deal with low end graphic cards and incapable X-servers.
• kstart utility to launch legacy applications with certain window properties applied

• new command options most notable being support for the Window Maker windowmanager.

Another KWM-compatible desktop pager.

• desktop mini-view reading kbgndwm settings
• move windows across desktops
• on-pager window resize
• global desktop for defining sticky windows

KView was completely rewritten and now has a better interface, including new features like good configurability, a full-screen mode and support for TIFF, PNG and XVPICs image formats.

This is the start for a common addressbook library which will be used soon by all KDE applications who need such a library. Initial use of this library is available in KOrganizer.

• much improved keyboard navigation in the filedialog

This is the first version of KDE shipped with the KDE Image IO library, which adds KDE-wide support for additional image formats. New formats with this release are: PNG, TIFF and XVPICs.

• ChannelView to see the notes played by each instrument and change the instrument used in each channel
• Volume slider
• Tempo is modifiable to play songs faster or slower
• Better support for really corrupted midi files
• Fixed an important bug related to songs losing the rhythm and playing at a changing tempo which many users reported
• Beginnings of SoftOSS support

• fixes regarding session management and more

Many bug fixes. A few highly requested features have been also added (like displaying "Sender" field in incoming folders). The main accent was on increasing the stability.

• mtr support added. mtr is a tool that can make a traceroute to a host and make a ping for each hop found.

• throughput graph
• debugging aid
• enhanced security - separated GUI frontend and SUID backend
• Quickhelp feature
• new and updated rule files
• many usability improvements and bugfixes

The mandatory bugfixes were applied.

KSirc improved a lot and has consolidated its position as one of the best IRC clients available for Unix GUI.

It also served as a trial field for a series of KDE inventions and inovations (a memory alloc checker for C++, a dynamic shortcut configurator for menus etc.)

Now in kdenetwork, ktalkd is an enhanced talk daemon - a program to handle incoming talk requests, announce them and allow you to respond to it using a talk client. It features :

• Answering machine
• Sound playing with the announcement
• Multiple displays annoucement
• Support for otalk and ntalk
• Forwarding capability

Nice character selector with X-Window copy/paste support

A GUI configurator for BIND. Compatible with KControl

A GUI configurator for DHCPd. Compatible with KControl

The next generation panel configuration. Already used in post-1.1 KDE development versions.

Nice crontab GUI. Ever struggled with crontab syntax? It's finished now.

An easy-to-use Newsreader, now with lots of fixed bugs 8-)

• offline read/write
• more than one news-server, tree view
• full threading

3D chessboard.

A better X interface for gnuplot.

The next generation KMail. Still in alpha phase.

A network monitor with support for Samba. Allows a nice integration in a windows network.

A much better korn. Very usable. Still, the author wants to work it more before releasing it.

The much praised KDE package manager. Supports very well RPM and DEB formats. In post-1.1 releases, it's already included in the kdeadmin package.

• KPanel2 is a major clean up of KPanel source code. Among the added features there is full drag'n'drop support (user can drag icons from the K-menu to the panel, move and delete menu entries, move/copy files using KDiskNavigator, etc.) and contextual menus on menu entries.

Want installing KDE themes with a click of a button? You have it. The author wants to add saving support. Also, support for the new theme-ing features in Qt-2.0 will be added soon.

News ticker. Supports, among others, Freshmeat and Slashdot.

The new KDE Task Manager.

• Complete re-write of the code.
• Qt 1.4x and KDE 1.x compatible.
• Several bugs fixed. A lot more user friendly.
• Easier to port to other flavours of UNIX.

New and improved media library. Hopefully, will contain support for network shared multimedia.

The KDE's mailing library. To be used in the future by all the KDE applications which will need e-mail support. Now it's only used by kmail2.

New (better) version of the maudio tool.

HTML editor for KDE.

• nice GUI interface;
• menus, toolbar and dialogs for tag editing - like HomeSite and asWedit;
• multiple windows support;
• full HTML 4.0 support;
• preview for <IMG> tag;
• color selectors for bgcolor and other color attributes;
• color syntax highlighting;
• preview with external browser (Netscape);
• ability to filter editor content through any external program that support stdin/stdout interface;
• customisable toolbars.

Automatic applications generator with a GUI. The immediate result is a compilable application, complete with configure and makefile scripts. The user only has to add some amount of specific code

Another KDE application generator, working only in console mode. Preferred by some for its ease of use.

Documentation tools

The officially approved color palettes to be used by graphic artists and authors when writing KDE-related things. Respecting these palettes assures a small color hog of KDE over X-Window.

Documentation tools. An adapted sgml tools version. Generates KDE-specific formatted documentation from SGML code.

A live example (and template) of a KDE application.

Translation tool. Allows automation of GUI translation tasks.

Valuable scripts like cvs2pack and cxxmetrics.

A highly performant canvas widget. Considered by testers much more efficient than Tk canvas or other similar offers on the free software scene.

A moon phase watcher. Just sits on the panel and stares at you :-). Especially valuable for those with a near-to-nature soul.

The time, the day and the night all over our small planet. For an international project, like KDE, this is a nice tool to have :-)

Computer mice are long lasting runners. This is a pedometer for your beloved mouse.

Replaces the old KZip program. The change was needed because of a name conflict with a system tool on FreeBSD

• Added configurable keybindings.
• i18n and Solaris support.
• Some bugfixes.

A notable fix for statistic calculations was made.

Update to KDE-1.1, bug fixes, maintainance (it was already very stable in KDE-1.0).

An easy to use cut & paste history, accessible via KPanel or a configurable shortcut

Nice, color-syntax capable, advanced editor

• programming languages support: C/C++, HTML, Python and many others
• unlimited undo
• many more

• many bugs fixes and improvements were added.
• there is an effort in course, to align KLyX to LyX-1.0

• a large amount of functionality was added
• rock solid and stable. Many bugs squashed :-)
• support for PalmPilot conduits.