SparkyLinux KDE Changelog
What's new in SparkyLinux KDE 4.4
Aug 21, 2016- full system upgrade as of August 15, 2016
- Linux kernel 4.6.4 (4.7.1-sparky is available in Sparky repos, see howto)
- firefox 45.3.0.ESR (firefox 48 is available in Sparky repos)
- calamares is available (but not default yet) in our repos
- new default theme called ‘Numix-SX’
- added new desktops to MinimalISO and APTus: Lumina, Trinity and PekWM
- ‘tint2’ panel replaced by ‘fbpanel’ in the MinimalGUI iso images
- added ‘rootactions-servicemenu’ to the Dolphin file manager in the KDE edition
- added short key which runs a terminal emulator in the MinimalGUI edition (Super+t)
- added an option which lets you install a PDF viewer, to the ‘sparky-office’ tool
- Midori web browser replaced by NetSurf in the MinimalGUI edition
- the ‘sparky-firstrun’ which lets you fully upgrade the system and install missing language packages has been fixed
- the ‘sparkylinux-installer’ a part of ‘sparky-backup-core’ tool refreshes package list itself and installs the latest desktop settings in the MinimalGUI and MinimalCLI editions
- added Vivaldi and NetSurf web browsers to Sparky repos
- improved Wiki pages
New in SparkyLinux KDE 4.2 (Dec 21, 2015)
- full system upgrade from Debian testing repository as of December 15, 2015
- Linux kernel 4.2.0 (4.2.6)
- Enlightenment 0.20.0 (0.20.1 is available in our repos)
- KDE Plasma 5.4.3
- LXDE 0.99.0-2
- LXQt 0.10.0-2
- MATE 1.10.2
- Openbox 3.6.1-2
- Xfce 4.12.2
- Iceweasel 38.2.1esr
- Icedove 38.4
- LibreOffice 5.0.4 rc1
- Wine 1.8 rc3
- removed KDE/KWin based packages, the system uses Openbox window manager only and applications based on Qt and GTK libs (LXQt edition)
- a small issue which did not let loading the default Sparky wallpaper has been fixed (KDE 64 bit edition)
- the live-installer supports auto login via SDDM in the target system (KDE edition)
- due to removing a dependency from Debian testing repository for ‘mintstick’ tool, it has been replaced by Sparky USB Live Creator, which is a GUI front-end to ‘dd’, and another (new) tool Sparky USB Formatter
- ‘boot-repair’ tool has been removed from iso images, but it is still available in the Sparky repository and on the iso images of the Sparky Rescue Edition
- ‘xfce4-mixer plugin’ has been replaced by ‘pulseaudio-plugin’ (Xfce edition)
- general cleaning and removing obsolete packages
- localizationing Sparky tools
- TOR Messenger – a multi messenger (IM), which uses the TOR network as default, is available in Sparky repository now
- removed all old Sparky wallpapers from the live iso images, and the default wallpapers has been slightly modified, depends of a Sparky edition
- added small application called “Sparky First Run”
- added ‘menulibre’ package (Xfce edition)
- added new tool ‘obmenu-generator’, which can generate a static or dynamic pipe menu and ‘xfdashboard’ tool (Openbox edition)
New in SparkyLinux KDE 4.0 (Jun 26, 2015)
- full system upgrade from Debian testing repository as of 22/06/2015
- Linux kernel 4.0.5
- added support for the system installation on 32 bit machines with UEFI motherboard
- Razor-Qt Edition has been dropped
- added two new editions: KDE and LXQt
- system rebranding, see HowTo: http://sparkylinux.org/sparky-rebranding/
- new flat theme “Sparky4″ and a set of icons “Ultra-Flat-Icons”
- added Pipelight repository and the public key
- Gnome-Alsamixer has been replaced by Pulse Audio Mixer (LXDE & LXQt editions)
- Mplayer2, Gnome-player and Gecko-player have been removed
- VLC is the default video player now
- added vlc-mozilla-plugin for Iceweasel
- Sparky APTus features a few new options:
- Liquorix kernel installation
- i686-pae kernel installation for 32 bit systems
- office suite installation (via ‘sparky-office’ package):
- AbiWord & Gnumeric
- Calligra
- LibreOffice
- MS Office OnLine (Menu shortcuts)
- OpenOffice
- WPS Office