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This release includes bug fixes as usual. Some new features: bash completion, iconify on focus lost option and Italian translation thanks to Alessio Cassibba. There is also a small change to the behavior when activating the tray icon. If the window is not visible it will become active and if it is active it will iconify. You can get it at the launchpad page.

Somehow I forget to mention the 4.1 release last week… I don’t think I’m going to be getting into the habit of making a release each week but there is still more I have planned. Mostly refactoring, and not to much in the way of new features.

Tags: c++, KDocker, qt, release.

Recently I’ve become the maintainer of the KDocker project. KDocker is a Qt application what allows you dock any application into the system tray. It currently supports any X Windows system. What I’ve done for the 4.0 release is, move the project to launchpad (Girish, the creator of the project is locked out of the Source Forge page) and port/re-write the entire app to use Qt 4.

The port/re-write to Qt 4 is complete and I’ve released it. The version has jumped from 1.3 to 4.0 to better illustrate the the severity of this change. Also, it takes it to a similar version scheme to Qt and KDE.

There are a few things to note about this release and KDocker in general. For this release session management and auto starting have been removed. This is mainly because modern desktop environments support both of these very well. Also, I believe that environments that do not support this are better of using a dedicated application instead of having the functionality rolled into a docker. Another point to note is KDocker 4.0 as well as the older version are pure Qt and Xlib applications. They do not depend on KDE.

The new project location is at https://launchpad.net/kdocker and you can download the 4.0 release at https://launchpad.net/kdocker/+download.

Tags: c++, KDocker, qt.