Download KOffice 1.6.1

By Ameen Akbar On Dec 1, 2006

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KOffice is an open source office suite for the KDE desktop environment on Linux and Unix systems. It consists of a number of different applications such as a word processor (KWord), a spreadsheet program (KSpread), a presentation program (KPresenter), a project management program (KPlato), a drawing program (Krita) and a database program (Kexi). The developers have released KOffice 1.6.1 with the following changes:

The following summarizes the major changes to the KOffice suite since the release of KOffice 1.6 (latest stable version). This is mainly a bug fix release, but some new feature were added to krita and kexi.

Security Fixes:

There is a security issue in the import filter for MS Powerpoint, that is fixed with this release. Every KOffice user should upgrade to 1.6.1 for this reason alone.

New Features:

Support for declaring parameter queries in Design and SQL view; user is asked for entering value of a parameter in a dialog window before the query is executed.
Support for Data-aware combo boxes in the Data Table View and Form View, ie lookup columns (screenshots). Table Designer provides a tool for defining the lookup columns, ie data source for combo boxes (details).

Crita

Color levels filter

KOffice Libraries:

Fix compilation with kdelibs-3.3
Added a slot and a signal to make it possible to set the background/foreground mode and be notified when the mode has changed.
When a file has an unknown mimetype, don’t error out, offer the user the filter chooser dialog instead (bug 135366)

KSpread:

Kspread crashed when indirect() function used (bug 136326)
Crash due to changing values on a cell (bug 135628)
Fix bad newline character representation (bug 136181)
Fix undo/redo apparently is not recalculating formulas (bug 128383)
Fix wrong handling of unary operator before a function (bug 135131)
OpenDocument
- KSpread does not support fixed sheet references yet, so eat the appropriate dollars on import.
- Fix loading of conditional formattings. Load them all.

KPresenter:

Border to the text box when open with OO always save the stroke property (bug 136595)
Fix time duration of the presentation option is not saved (bug 136364)
Fix total number of pages variable doesn’t work (bug 136363)
Fix compilation on Solaris (bug 135830)
Use xdg-utils (xdg-screensaver) when available, to enable/disable dpms+screensaver. As a benefit, kpresenter can now disable the gnome-screensaver or xscreensaver too, when not running in kde.
Fix security problem in opening ppt file (CVE-2006-6120)

Kivio:

Fix compilation with kdelibs-3.3

Kexi:

Switch contents of custom property tabs after switching the current tab/window (needed for Table Designer’s tab)
Added a warning message box with “Errors encountered during loading plugins” message, controlled by dontShowWarningsRelatedToPluginsLoading configuration setting
Groups and items for none existing plugins are not visible now
Accessibility: property editor can be focused using an accelerator key; Alt+2 now focuses main area and Alt+3 focuses Property Editor

Query Designer

Properly initialize newly appended rows
Fix setting up sorting in the design view
Fix setting up string constants as criteria
Show more error messages on opening query in design view (eg for unsupported column expressions)
Fix saving relationships: removed too strict checking for datatypes when creating relationships (signedness)
Refresh design view after a sequence of switches: text view -> data view -> design view
Column sorting is also supported for columns with cleared “visible” flag
SQL view’s section header now provides an accelerator
Fix retrieving parameters of type Text

Database Support Library (KexiDB)

Parser: improved types evaluation for expressions
kexi__objectdata.o_data field type changed from BLOB to LongText (backward compatible) to improve human-readability

forms

Fix crash when an autofield’s subwidget is painted but the parent is about to be deleted
Fix handling of Ctrl+Delete shortcut for “Delete current row” action
Fix crash when “Esc” key is pressed to “cancel row changes” and a combobox widget is focused
Fix displaying Date/Time values
Fix problem with setting “invalid” flag for fields with invalid data source
Database-aware combo box form widget works, improved data displaying, mouse and keyboard handling (bug 136688)
Display proper record when a new row was saved and user moved to previous record
Fix validating Big Integer numbers
Displaying dates (eg with dd.mm.yyyy format, bug 136688)
Fix displaying contents “Data Source” property for multiple selections; unnecessary updates removed (GUI is updated only after adding the last widget to the selection)
Fix display properties
Remove crash on close and problems with displaying properties
Do not update the property editor for every form (only one is active anyway)

Table Designer

Byte data type is always set to unsigned now
“Double precision” datatype is now the default for the floating point type group instead of Float (so we get better precision by default)
“combo” icon is displayed near the field name that have lookup column defined
“Lookup column” property tab added to the property pane

Data TableView

Fix updating contents of the combobox’s internal text editor after pressing F2 or Enter key
Fix possible crash on application’s close
Fix copying/pasting values from the combo box (visible text is now copied/pasted)
Fix copying time and date/time values to clipboard
Fix past time, date and date/time values from clipboard
Visible values of types other than text or numbers are properly displayed (including images)
Fix displaying visible values (usually a text) for lookup columns when there’s a default value defined in the referenced table
Better displaying tooltips for columns with lookup data
Sorting columns with lookup data works
Display proper record when a new row was saved and user moved to previous record (thanks to Sander Koning)
Fix validating Big Integer numbers
Fix drawing selection highlighting for the horizontal header immediately after scrolling the table
Multivalidator accepts everything by default (this avoids blocking data entry eg for text fields that have no specific validator assigned)

Examples

Simple_Database.kexi example updated: combo boxes are now used; example data looks better

Crita:

Fix errors with the selection bounds (bug 136685)
Fix the layout of a preferences panel and of the blur filter
Re-instate Michael Thaler’s superior scaling code for 8 bit cmyk, rgb and cmyk (because it’s 8-bit channel dependent)
Remove superfluous “histogram” from labels (bug 136978)
Fix cimg filter spelling
Fix the size of the swappiness slider
In YCbCrs colorspaces: disable profiles, as the only ycbcr profile we have seems to cause a lot more of trouble than it solves, and fix various problem of memory initialization as well (bug 136673)
Fill tool does not fill entire selection if select-all has been used (bug 135470)
Implement convolution for 16 bit lab
fix krita keeps producing windows when using Text tool with a tablet stylus (bug 136151)
Fix colorspace independence advertisement in blur, color to alpha, minmax and unsharp mask
Repaint problem in adding semi-transparent text (bug 130607)
Fix brush Shapes toolbar starts with wrong item (bug 130485)
Fix crop tool so clicking outside the image area works (bug 130481)
Emboss with variable depth now doesn’t destroy alpha data anymore
Optimization in the convolution painter
Fix the blurring with alphaness in a faster way but a little bit more hacky
Fix crash with color to alpha and watercolor (bug 136671)
Don’t crash when trying to access a non existent filter (bug 136461)
Fix copy and paste within a group layer causes a crash (bug 133124)
Fix crash when using color range on translated layer (bug 135148)
Fix the fill tool going mad when using with the tablet (bug 133148)
Import/export eps files using graphics magick
Add the forgra CMYK profile (public domain)
Fix of saving indexed pngs (bug 136122)
Optimization in the raindrop filter
Fix doesn’t allow to use the float predictor for int images (bug 135649)
Allow reading and writing of float tiff
Disable bicubic and lanczos as they don’t work (bug 135656)
Optimization on gradient filling
Associate krita with jpeg, png,… for kdelibs 3.5.5
Optimize painting

Carbon:

Fix reading and saving of circles from/to odg (bug 136497)
Check if there are objects selected before attempting to change their fill or stroke
Keep foreground/background mode and colors between color docker and stroke/fill preview in sync
Do not call selectionChanged on all views when a command is executed, only do it within the active view (bug 134900)
Apply the page format and orientation to the printer before printing (bug 135750)
Fix crash after copying image (bug 135746)

KChart:

Actually set and read the data area (first step towards a fix for bug 134194)
Fix misinterpretation of the checkbox “first row as label” (bug 128758)
Work around a bug in the KChartWizardLabelsLegendPage: The wizard does not have a checkbox [x] relative for the font sizes, so we now assume that font sizes are relative in all cases (bug 124601)
Fix font issues in the axis labels
ODF: Save axis titles. Text only, but styles will follow

KFormula:

Be more permissive with table loading, since text nodes may appear
Increase checking while loading MathML / OpenDocument files
Fix loading of old KFO documents embedded in all KWord format

Version number	1.6.1
Operating systems	Linux, BSD, Solaris
Website	KOffice Project
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License type	GPL