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Closes pkg/14728 from Mark Davies <mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz>. Changes from him
with updates from myself.
From www.kde.org... The principal improvements over KDE 2.2.1, release two
months ago, include:
o security-related
- SSL certificate loading
- symlink vulnerability in .wmrc access by KDM introduced in 2.2
- security problem with eFax (used by klprfax)
- potential problem in PAM invocation by KDM
- potential harmful side-effect of failed KDM session starts
o new features
- added support for CodeWeavers' CrossOver plug-in (provides support
for QuickTime, etc.)
- added support for the wheelmouse for scrolling through the
KGhostview PS/PDF viewer component
- ability to search for multiple patterns at a time in the file
search dialog
- debugging multi-threaded applications with KDevelop
o improvements/fixes
- handling of HTTP links that redirect to FTP
- POST using SSL through a proxy and sending headers through proxies
- saving of recently-selected files in the file dialog
- handling of non-ASCII characters over SMB
- toolbar button captions with certain styles
- selecting items with the mouse in Konqueror
- sorting in Konqueror's textview
- saving current settings as a theme in the theme manager
- crashes in KMail with certain mails
- crash on invoking the KDM chooser
- non-Latin languages with KDevelop
performance
- icon loading optimized
- file dialog speedups
- stop spinning SMB client processes
- handling of large files in Kate
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