Release Notes For R14.1.4

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Overview

The Trinity Desktop Environment is a complete software desktop environment designed for Unix-like operating systems, intended for computer users preferring a traditional desktop model, and is free/libre software.

R14.1.4 is the forth maintenance release of the R14.1.x series.

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Highlights

This section lists some of the most important changes introduced by this release.
Several items in this list refer to a multitude of commits, so direct link to them has not been provided to avoid cluttering the overall page.
Please refer to the detailed commit change log for further information.

New applications

  • tdealternatives: a TDE control module to manage alternatives for DEB/RPM-based distributions (TDE/tdealternatives)
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  • tdeartwork: 22 new 'Modern Times' and 'Progessive' vector wallpapers (TDE/tdeartwork#51)
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New functionalities and enhancements

  • tqt3: add support for Unicode surrogate characters and planes above zero. Requires using a font that support such characters (TDE/tqt3#162, TDE/tde#222)
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  • kxkb: new options `Stretch flag`, `Dim flag` and `Show indicator bevel`. Improvements to layout switching logic and syncing with X in response to external changes. Improvement to option GUI code. Remember options and layout when keyboards are added/removed (TDE/tdebase#550)
  • codeine: add analyzer view when playing audio-only streams (TDE/codeine#30)
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  • codeine: add context menu to statusbar to toggle Analyzer visibility when watching videos (TDE/codeine#32)
  • libical: makes url links clickable in event descriptions (TDE/tdepim#141)
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  • add support for ISO8601 reduced precision format (i.e. hour-only) in KRFCDate (TDE/tdelibs#347)
  • knowit: add `dockOnStart` option to control window status on startup (TDE/knowit#18)
  • tdebase: don't stat files twice when sending them to trash (TDE/tdebase#542)
  • kteatime: new option to reset the timer when clicking on the notification message. Improved configuration dialog layout (TDE/tdetoys#47, TDE/tdetoys#48)

Bug fixes

  • codeine: fix visualization of audio analyzer on the status bar (TDE/codeine#26)
  • kmail: avoid confusion between TLS and STARTTLS when configuring accounts (TDE/tdepim#153)

Distro support

CMake conversions

Drop autotools support

Removed modules

Info for developers/packagers

  • General renames, code improvements, obsolete code removal (TDE/tde#205)

Additional info

Getting TDE

Installation instructions and binary packages are (or will be soon) available for:

Live CDs with TDE R14.1.4 preinstalled are or will be available soon on the LiveCDs page.

We sincerely thanks all the people who have donated to TDE in recent and far past.
Please consider helping to keep us online with a donation on our donations page. Every little helps :-)

Previous release notes

Release notes for previous versions of TDE are avaiable at these links.

Previous release (R14.1.3)
Older R14.1.x release notes.
R14.1.2
R14.1.1
R14.1.0
Older R14.0.x release notes.
R14.0.13
R14.0.12
R14.0.11
R14.0.10
R14.0.9
R14.0.8
R14.0.7
R14.0.6
R14.0.5
R14.0.4
R14.0.3
R14.0.2
R14.0.1
R14.0.0

FreeBSD Support

TDE continues to offer support for FreeBSD by providing updated "TDE port maps" data for each invidivual port and the "tde-ports-map" script used to synchronize the contents with the standard /usr/ports location. "tde-meta" port has been added to simplify building and installation of ports using the new framework: this meta port does not contain any code but depends on all ports of the TDE umbrella.

Credits and acknowledgements

We thanks all the people that are (or have been) involved in making TDE the great desktop environment that it is.

Infrastructure

We would like to thank IntegriCloud for kindly providing a powerful physical server based on a secure POWER9 architecture that serves as the TDE primary host and as a very powerful builder for ppc64el packages.

We would like to thank vpsFree for kindly providing free hosting for some of the TDE services, most notably our self-hosted TDE Gitea Workspace and TDE Weblate Translation Workspace.

We would like to thank all the mirrors for kindly providing free hosting for the TDE packages and archive.

Translators

We would like to thank all the people who have used the TDE Weblate Translation Workspace to improve translations for many languages. We are looking forward for further contributions in future.

  • Chinese (Simplified)
    • Toad114514 (2854)
  • Czech
    • Martin Orszulik (10)
    • Slávek Banko (80)
  • Dutch
    • Heimen Stoffels (12917)
  • Georgian
    • Temuri Doghonadze (20249)
  • German
    • Lian Lianna Begett (337)
  • Greek
    • blu.256 (644)
  • Italian
    • Michele Calgaro (1503)
    • stefano (382)
  • Polish
    • Jan Stolarek (66)
    • Lili (94)
    • Marek W (1271)
  • Portuguese
    • Hugo Carvalho (7)
  • Russian
    • Andrei Stepanov (321)
    • blu.256 (3)
    • Denis Kozadaev (30)
  • Spanish
    • Alejo Fernández (11)
    • Matias Fonzo (164)
    • Juan M Ayala (194)
  • Spanish (Argentina)
    • Alejo Fernández (13874)
  • Swedish
    • Florian Reisborg Brånemyr (4)
  • Ukrainian
    • Roman Savochenko (64)

Contribute to TDE development

The TDE development team is small but friendly. If you wish to participate in the TDE development process, please visit the Get involved page for additional information.

There are many things you can contribute to, from documentation review to bug fixes as well as brand new software features or applications.

Feedback from our users is also an integral part of a large scale, user-experience oriented project such as TDE. Whether you want to report a bug, suggest an improvement or simply let us know your opinion about TDE, please feel free to contact us. Three good places to start communication are the official TGW site (user guide here), the project's mailing lists and the bug tracker.

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