Bugfix release 0.5.0a (for KDE4)

Wednesday, 23 January 2008 Tfry

A simple but important bug in RKWard 0.5.0 was discovered a bit too late (in most plugins no objects were selectable at all). This is corrected in version 0.5.0a, which is available for download, now. Please use this version instead of RKWard 0.5.0. Other than the correction there are virtually no changes since 0.5.0.

RKWard 0.5.0 for KDE4 is released

January 21 2008 - User:Tfry

The first version of RKWard for KDE4 is available for download, now. The list of actual enhancements (see below) is relatively small, but internally a lot of code has been rewritten. The move to KDE4 / Qt4 provides a new foundation for RKWard, and offers a number of promising opportunities for further development, which we hope to put to good use, soon. The list of current changes over 0.4.9 (as far we kept track of them):

Bugfixes and internals:

  • make sure that R only handles SIGSEV, when the R thread is active. Should give better backtraces and less hangs
  • port to KDE 4

UI enhancements and new features:

  • object viewer was redesigned to use space better, and only fetch the print-representation when needed
  • add support for a focus-follows-mouse activation behavior of the MDI windows (Settings->General)
  • ability to mark arbitrary "blocks" in script editor and run them with a shortcut
  • more icons added
  • data.frame editor can be set to read-only mode
  • code completion in script editor shows icons for the different object types
  • settings dialog is now shown in "page tree" mode

Please note that this release has seen considerable code changes. This should fix a lot of small bugs not listed above, but also, of course, we expect there are a number of new bugs that we did not discover during testing. If you find some, or would like to share your opinions on RKWard, please contact us on the mailing list.

NOTES: Versions of RKWard 0.5.0 or higher are designed for KDE 4, and cannot be used with KDE 3. For KDE 3 use the 0.4.x versions. The build system was changed to CMake. Read INSTALL (also provided in the source .tar.gz) for details on how to build RKWard. Due to clashes with kate default shortcuts, the shortcuts for Run->Run Line, Run Selection, and Run All were changed to Shift+F7, Shift+F8, Shift+F9, respectively.

The tabs in the main workplace view no longer have a close button that is shown when hovering the mouse over the respective icon. Rather, there is a single button to close the current tab, shown at the right of the tab bar