KDE 4.2.3 released

May 07, 2009, 17:01 (0 Talkback[s])

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"It ships with desktop workspace & many cross-platform applications such as administration programs, network tools, educational applications, utilities, multimedia software, games, artwork, development tools & more. KDE's tools & applications are available in more than 50 languages.

"khtml Improvements:

* Enable clear buttons for line edits. See SVN commits 945667, 945667 and 948589.

"Optimizations:

"* Significantly improve performance of getElementsByClassName. See SVN commit 961205.

"Bugfixes:

"* Rework replaced elements painting, improving outline painting, and making sure all phases handle visibility properly. Fixes bug 155599. See SVN commits 948350 and 961373.
* Make sure that iframes created with javascript: URLs enter HTML mode when desired. Entering XHTML mode improperly broke tinyMCE badly. Fixes bugs 188445 and 141523. See SVN commit 948882.
* Fix crashes with / search. Fixes bug 189201. See SVN commit 961362.
* Rework form widgets padding for increased compatibility, fixing several bugs in the process. See SVN commit 961357.
* Fix min/max width computations' handling of newlines in LF preserving modes (white-space: pre, pre-wrap, pre-line), fixing missing wrapping in many situations. Fixes bugs 154143 and 130181. See SVN commit 948757."

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