Yakuake is a Quake-style drop-down terminal emulator based
on KDE
Konsole technology residing in the Utilities section of the
KDE
Extragear module.
Website: http://extrage
ar.kde.org/apps/yakuake/
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=29153
Release info:
Yakuake 2.8-beta1 is the first pre-release leading up to the
next major
version of Yakuake. It adds a large number of new features,
among them
a config dialog, skin management UI, a fullscreen mode and
the ability
to split sessions into multiple terminals, and more. Due to
the beta
nature of this version, it may contain bugs (however, it
also fixes
many known bugs from previous versions). Also, translation
coverage in
beta releases is limited and will be expanded for the final
version.
Changes in 2.8-beta1:
* Added a proper config dialog. Scale and position settings
are
previewed in real-time as the controls are moved.
* Added a Skins page to the config dialog, allowing to list,
choose,
install and remove (given the necessary write permissions)
skins. The
skin format has been slightly augmented to allow skins to
ship a pre-
view icon for the list. Skins can be switched at runtime
without a
restart.
* The Plastik skin by Daniel 'suslik' D. has been added to
the base
package.
* Added support for splitting a session into multiple
terminals.
Horizontal and vertical splits can be added and removed at
will, as
well as resized and collapsed. To add a split at the
active
terminal's position, use the keyboard shortcuts or the
session tab
context menu. To open a session preconfigred with a
certain split
layout click and hold the New Session button on the tab
bar, then
choose from the list, or set up keyboard shortcuts for the
preconfi-
gured session types in the shortcut dialog.
* The main menu has been redesigned to conform more to
established KDE
practices in layout and naming. Several items have been
added
corresponding to new Yakuake features.
* Added a fullscreen mode.
* Improved support for Xinerama multi-head setups.
* Added a first-run dialog to allow changing the open/close
shortcut
before it is needed. Note: First-time users of this
Yakuake version
will be greeted by this dialog as well.
* Added an About dialog.
* The startup notification popup can now be disabled in the
config
dialog.
* Activating the open/close shortcut will now bring the
Yakuake window
to the foreground and focus it if it was already open but
unfocussed,
at popular request.
* Opening dialogs from Yakuake will no longer cause the
window to
retract.
* Tabs can now be moved. Added corresponding keyboard
shortcuts.
* Tabs now have context menus containing several relevant
actions, such
as moving and closing them.
* Double-clicking the tab-bar will now open a new session,
consistent
with Konsole and other KDE applications.
* Renaming a tab using the in-line edit feature now requires
a
double-click on the tab, consistent with established KDE
behavior.
* The in-line tab renaming control can now be cancelled with
ESC.
* Fixed the interaction model of the tab bar and the buttons
to allow
cancelling activations by releasing the mouse button
outside of them.
* Added various new keyboard shortcuts corresponding to new
Yakuake
features and improved consistency with Konsole in existing
shortcuts
(e.g. added the alternate new session shortcut from
Konsole).
* Added keyboard shortcuts to switch to session 1 through
12.
* Added keyboard shortcuts to adjust the width and height of
the window.
* Added an action and shortcut to paste the X11 selection
buffer.
* Added an action to quit Yakuake.
* Made the quit warning with multiple open sessions behave
consistently
with Konsole.
* Greatly expanded DCOP interface. Added various new calls
corresponding
to new Yakuake features. Made it easier to get information
about the
application's state out of it, e.g. the title text of a
session or
sub-terminal. Fixed bugs that caused related calls to
reply with
incorrect information.
* Added What's This help and tooltips to interface
elements.
* Optimized the title bar to avoid unnecessary repaints.
* Fixed crashes when using the slotRunCommandInSession DCOP
call due to
lack of bounds-checking. Fixed a similar problem with
slotRenameSession.
* Bugs that caused the background updating of translucent
parts of the
Yakuake window to stop have been fixed.
* Adding a translucent session while the window is closed
should no
longer result in a corrupted terminal background when
opening the
Yakuake window.
* Yakuake will now fall back to the default skin on startup
if the skin
stored in the settings cannot be found, rather than
crash.
* Fixed a crash when loading non-translucent button images
from skins.
* Bugs that caused the quick access options in the menu to
come out of
sync with the actual settings have been fixed.
* Fixed " - " postfix showing after the session
title text when using
skins without their own postfix.
* Fixed a crash when a terminal in a tab other than the
currently
selected tab exits.
* Ported preferences handling to KDE's KConfigXT framework.
Aside from
cleaner code, this improves over the old preferences
handling by
avoiding unnecessary disk activity (and thus spurious hard
drive
spin-ups on laptop computers and other battery-bound
devices).
* Disabled startup notifications (i.e. KDE's bouncing
cursor) for
Yakuake.
* Updated the installation colation of the .desktop menu
file to
conform to modern XDG standards.
--
Regards,
Eike Hein, hein kde.org
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