KDE 2.0 to 2.0.1 Changelog

This page tries to present as much as possible of the problem corrections that occurred in KDE between the 2.0 and 2.0.1 releases. The primary goals of the 2.0.1 release being more complete documentation and translations, the amount of code change is quite minimal - only the most critical bugs have been fixed, the rest of the development is currently being done in the branch that will lead to the 2.1 release.

General

One new language is available : Japanese
The Chinese big5 encoding should be better supported now
The bug report dialog has better error reporting

aRts

Made sampling rate configurable in kcontrol, so that owners of Yamaha soundcards can have sound
Moved .mcopclass files from $(libdir) to $(libdir)/mcop
Fix for PAS16 cards

KControl

Various crashes fixed
Associating a program with a type of file sets it as the most preferred one

KDesktop

Fixed crash some users were having when running a process as a different user (minicli)
Fixed man:somepage (minicli)
Fixed crash on Ctrl+Z, and problems with any other shortcut for a disabled action in KDE

KDM

Don't create a "/.kde" directory
Fixes for background settings (kdmdesktop)

KHexEdit

Internationalisation fixes (non-latin1 encodings)

Kicker

Fix for drag-and-drop with autohide
Recent document menu: fix for special characters in filenames
Applications menu: fix for duplicated entries being even more duplicated

KMail

Fix a compatibility problem with some POP3 servers.
Fix the problem that removing all addresses from an address header field didn't work.

KNode

Bugfix for networking on solaris
Bugfix for continuous reconnection on
news servers with authentication
Sane default window sizes
Correct default for the smtp-server port
Bugfix for a problem with some smtp servers
Fixes for non-iso-8859-x users
Bugfix for the display of plain text attachments

KOffice

Fix for duplicate keys in the configure keys dialog

Konqueror

Improved enabling/disabling of menu items, and location bar not being filled on startup
Fixes for wrong directory-view-mode being used in some cases
Fixed crash when opening some FTP links in the directory tree
KIO: Fix for non-disappearing progress window in some cases
KHTML: various charset fixes (for viewing and for posting forms)
KHTML: various crash fixes
KHTML: support for deprecated ISINDEX
KHTML: support for HTML4 <BUTTON>
Javascript: fixes for crashes in memory management
Javascript: fail safe protection against infinite loops
Javascript: support for (non-standard) options.selectedIndex

Konsole

Fix for openBSD

KPPP

Compuserve 7 bit fix
Fix for lost characters with some modems (usb)
Merged in Alpha fix from latest KDE 1.1.x version
Supress bogus exit codes from older versions of pppd

KSpell

Many fixes and improvements, especially for non-latin1 users

kio_man

Fixed for non-latin1 users

Screensavers

Three of them where not saving their configuration correctly

kdvi/kview

Fixed crash on bad config files

SysV-Init Editor (KSysV)

Fixed drag-and-drop problem: entries deleted via dnd onto the trashcan didn't set the "changed" flag, so the modified configuration couldn't be saved.

XML-RPC to DCOP Daemon (kxmlrpcd)

Fixed potential Denial of Service (DoS) attack.