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* libplasma has moved to kdelibs from kdebase-workspace and as such there is no longer a need to use FindPlasma.cmake. FindKDE4 now provides all the necessary plasma CMake bits needed, and using libplasma does not create a kdebase-workspace dependency for your application anymore.

* Features

* Symbol Versioning: limit loading of plugins to those that match the libplasma version

* NEW: ToolTipManager for Plasma style tooltips

* NEW: Wallpaper plugins for Containments

* NEW: Context for coordinating and publishing Context information, such as the current Activity or phsyical location

* Applet

* sizeHintChanged() signal. A containment (such as a panel) can adjust its size based on changed sizehints of an applet

* ContextConstraint events and access to the current Context object

* Shortcut editor in Applet configuration dialog allows setting of global shortcuts per-widget

* NEW: Plasma::Extender and Plasma::ExtenderItem, allowing visual, relocatable extensions to Applet

* NEW: PopupApplet, which switches between an icon with a popup in a Horizontal/Vertical containment (such as a panel) and the widget directly on the canvas in a Planer containment (such as a desktop), the icon can be replaced with custom graphics or widgets by the implementation

* Containment

* Support dropping of arbitrary data if the mimetypes are supported by an applet

* Activity naming and Context support

* Toolbox can be positioned in any corner or edge

* Toolbox actions are displayed as an always open toolbar when zoomed out for improved usability

* Corona

* addOffscreenWidget/removeOffscreenWidget: manage canvas items that should not appear in a primary view (e.g. Extenders)

* "screen" information querying added to Corona to allow different approaches for viewports; e.g. using KWindowSystem and QDesktopWidget for the Plasma shell, but window coordinates for plasmodviewer or other non-desktop apps.

* Package system

* PackageStructure supports arbitrary URIs (in addition to auto-discovery for package) structure description files.

* Package removal

* Package browsing interface can be provided by the PackageStructure plugin, allowing for 3rd party widget collectionsto offer online browsing and fetching customizations

* FrameSvg

* setting the margins via in-SVG hints

* paintPanel API additions to make it more like QPainter and Plasma::Svg

* Runners

* TryExec key in .desktop file now supported, allowing runners that rely on an external application to be conditional loaded at runtime

* Service

* Allow enabling/disabling of operations at runtime

* Associate widgets with operations

* Theme

* Support compressed SVGs (*.svgz)

* Supports a pixmap cache and a SVG element rects cache for faster startup

* Widgets

* NEW: Plasma::Slider based on QSlider

* NEW: Plasma::TabBar based on QTabBar, usable as both a standalone tabbar or as a tabwidget

* NEW: Plasma::Frame used to visually group widgets

* NEW: Plasma::TreeView used to put tree views or simple list in the canvas

* NEW: Plasma::BusyWidget used to indicate the loading of something

* NEW: Plasma::ToolButton based on QToolButton

* Plasma::PushButton is svg-themed

* Significant Fixes

* WebContent painting update synchronization (fixes, among other things, scrolling)

* Prevent crash when Containment that AppletBrowser is associated with is deleted

* Applet handles work with all icon sizes (user system settings)

* Fix View so that when a new activity is added, don't move more than necessary;

fixes dragging lock

* Dramatically fewer full paints by properly watching the exposed rect area, which for full screen Containments or large/complex Applets is quite significant in terms of performance

* Fix on-exit crashes related to focus handling issues in QGraphicsView

* Prevention of premature calls to Applet::constraintsEvent

* Applets now resize in "real time" without the pixelation

* Numerous crash fixes pushed upstream to QGraphicsView as well (focus resetting, scene queries on deletion..)

Developer Documentation

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* Design documentation

* NEW: dataengine

* NEW: tooltips

* NEW: wallpaper

* NEW: widgets

* NEW: javascript

* Tutorials

* NEW: Extenders http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma/UsingExtenders

Desktop Theme

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* NEW: widgets/button for theming pushbuttons

* NEW: widgets/frame for theming Plasma::Frame used also in other widgets

* NEW: widgets/scrollbars to theme Plasma::ScrollBar and views scrollbars in libplasma

* NEW: widgets/configuration-icons: little icons used for configuration purposes across Plasma

* NEW: widgets/extender-background, widgets/extender-dragger: SVGs for new Extender widget

* NEW: widgets/tooltip: tooltip SVGa

* NEW: widgets/calendar

* NEW: widgets/containment-controls: icons and buttons for sizing panels and other containment tasks

* NEW: widgets/monitor: monitor for use in displaying mockups of on-screen content

* NEW: widget/glowbar: a glow for use by offscreen panels to indicate their location

* NEW: dialogs/kickoff: theming for the kickoff launcher menu

* color roles for buttons text and background added

* Plasma::Slider follows theme

* Applet handle all svg-themed

* The default Oxygen desktop theme radically improved across the board

Plasma Desktop Shell

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* Features

* Desktop

* New Containment configuration for all desktop containments: wallpapers, activity type, theme

* Panel

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* Resizes itself when an applet changes its sizehint according to its maximum and minimum sizes

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* Autohide and windows-cover-panel options

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* Easier drag and drop to panel by showing an empty area between the two applets nearest to the mouse cursor

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* Significant Fixes

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* Reposition toolbox when zooming out/in to avoid panel overlap

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* Draw the missing part of the toolbox when repositioned because of a panel

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* MS Windows compile fixes

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Other Shells

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* plasmoidviewer new command line options:

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* --list lists known applets

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* --formfactor (-f)

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* --containment (-c)

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* --wallpaper (-w)

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* --pixmapcache (-p)

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Tools

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* Plasma Engine Explorer

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* Remove/update sources via context menu

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* NEW: Plasma::Service interaction UI, using DataEngine::serviceForSource

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* plasmapkg

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* now supports listing, updating and removing packages

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* NEW: Destkop Theme Details

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* Customize and create new desktop themes with kcmshell4 destkopthemedetails

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Plugins/Addons

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* Features

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* Plasmoids and Containments

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* NEW: Incoming messages: listens to various F/OSS email and IM apps for messages arriving

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* NEW: Leave A Note: let people leave you notes on your computer, particularly handy for Plasma widets on the screensaver

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* NEW: Previewer: drop files to preview them right on your desktop or panels

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* NEW: System monitor

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* NEW: Web browser: a WebKit browser in a desktop widget!

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* NEW: Activity bar: quick switcher for Plasma activities

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* NEW: Conway's game of life

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* NEW: RSSNow! fancy online news ticker

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* NEW: News, simple online news ticker

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* NEW: Pastebin, drop text/data to upload it to a pastebin server

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* NEW: Text snippets generator

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* NEW: Timer

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* NEW: Bouncing ball, throw it and watch it bounce around!

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* NEW: Calendar

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* NEW: Character selector

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* NEW: Eyes

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* NEW: LCD Weather Station plasmoid

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* NEW: Quicklaunch plasmoid

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* Task bar

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* Grouping: manually or by application

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* Sorting: manually or by program name

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* Limit windows shown by desktop, screen or minimized status

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* Multiple rows of windows

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* Theming improved to look more consistent with other buttons and generally be more sexy

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* System tray

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* Supports hiding of icons

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* Supports non-Freedesktop.org icons (e.g. full plasmoids or future creations) through a protocol abstraction

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* Listens for and displays popup notifications and application jobs (e.g. file transfers)

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* Now Playing media player controls: play, pause, stop, switch tracks and more from Plasma

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* Notes

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* Custom colors

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* Export notes to file

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* Text formatting, such as alignment, bold, italic, etc

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* Clocks

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* Custom colors for digital clock

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* Standardized multi-timezone support in libplasmaclock

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* Folder view

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* Filtering improvements: mimetype and exclusion based.

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* Sorting options, options for locking the icons in place and/or forcing grid alignment.

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* Uses a top-to-bottom icon arrangement when used as a containment.

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* Remembers icon positions.

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* No longer blocks the GUI when loading large folders.

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* Shows a busy animation while loading folders / laying out icons.

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* Works in panels looking like a popup menu

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* Default desktop containment

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* Wheel mouse == switch desktop

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* Creation of widgets on desktop containments puts them in empty areas, avoiding overlap

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* Comics

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* Respects web proxy and other relevant KDE settings

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* Improved mouse interaction (middle mouse zooms, context menu, etc)

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* Comicproviders can be written in any language supported by Kross

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* Comicproviders can be downloaded via "Get Hot New Stuff"

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* New comicproviders can be added on kde-files.org

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* Lancelot

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* Full keyboard support

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* New lists with scrollbars

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* Themes that match Plasma themes from kdeplasma-addons module

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* Twitter

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* When it is in the panel it is a popup, showing the avatar of the last person who sent a message and the numer of unread tweets as icon

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* Trashcan

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* Lets you configure system wide trash behaviour like size limits

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* DataEngines

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* NEW: Web site icons (favicons) engine

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* NEW: Desktop notifications engines

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* NEW: System monitor engine based on ksysguard (cpu, memory, heat, sensors, etc)

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* NEW: Network engine

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* NEW: Application jobs (aka kuiserver) engine; shows any published KJobs such as file operations

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* NEW: Executables: run commands and get their output from stdout and stderr

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* NEW: RSS

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* NowPlaying

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* Plasma::Service for controlling media players

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* supports MPRIS

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* Powermanagement

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* Added a new source for managing PowerDevil profiles

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* Runners

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* NEW: Kate sessions runner

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* NEW: Recent documents runner

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* NEW: Spellcheck runner

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* NEW: Konqueror history runner

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* NEW: Konqueror sessions runner

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* NEW: Konsole sessions runner

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* NEW: Nepomuk search runner

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* NEW: Power management controller (via PowerDevil)

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* NEW: Places (as seen in dolphin, file dialog, kickoff, etc) runner

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* Converter runner now does speed, masses and nautical distances; conversion code moved to a shared lib

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* ScriptEngines

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* NEW: Google Gadgets

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* NEW: Python Plasmoids

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* NEW: Ruby Plasmoids

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* MacOS Dashboard widgets: improved JS API compliance

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* JavaScript:

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* DataEngines

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* Services

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* layouts

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* configuration data

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* much more featureful plasmoid object replaces applet object

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* Wallpapers

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* NEW: Image, Slideshow and Color plugins, based on previous code

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* Directories recursed for images in Image and Slideshow plugin

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* Slideshow images are randomized

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* Significant Fixes

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* Various clocks ported to AppletClock for calendar and timezone consistency

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* Pager crash fixes

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* MS Windows compile fixes

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* Taskbar shows thumbnails of windows on hover (4.1 regression)

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* TwitterEngine respects web proxies and provides a proper Plasma::Service

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* Kickoff

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* proper menu size restoration

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* Hide Shutdown and Restart options when those actions are not possible.

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* Make Sleep and Hibernate entries appear and work

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* use Plasma::Theme to improve visual harmony with the rest of Plasma

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KRunner

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* Features

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* Plasma Screensaver: Plasma widget overlay for screensavers

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* D-Bus autoactivation, so even if it has perma-crashed, selecting Run Command from Plasma will resurect it

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* Alternate user interface: QuickSand

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* Significant Fixes

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* Screensaver activation fixed to compensate for system clock changes

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* Several crashes related to access of non thread safe code

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Platforms

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Compile and runtime fixes for Microsoft Windows and Maemo

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