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Subject:    [kde-announce]  KDE Puts You In Control with New Workspaces,
From:       Sebastian =?utf-8?q?K=C3=BCgler?= <sebas () kde ! org>
Date:       2011-01-26 14:07:52
Message-ID: 201101261507.52987.sebas () kde ! org
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							KDE Puts You In Control 
			with New Workspaces, Applications and Platform


KDE is delighted to announce its latest set of releases, providing major 
updates to the KDE Plasma workspaces, KDE Applications and KDE Platform. These 
releases, versioned 4.6, provide many new features in each of KDE's three 
product lines. Some highlights include:


Plasma Workspaces Put You in Control

The KDE Plasma Workspaces gain from a new Activities system, making it easier 
to associate applications with particular activities such as work or home 
tasks. Revised power management exposes new features but has a simpler 
configuration interface. KWin, the Plasma workspace window manager, receives a 
new scripting and the workspaces receive visual enhancements. Plasma Netbook, 
optimized for mobile computing devices receives speed enhancements and becomes 
easier to use via a touchscreen interface. For more details read the KDE 
Plasma Workspaces 4.6 announcement.

http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.6/plasma.php


KDE's Dolphin Adds Faceted Browsing

Many of the KDE Application teams have also released new versions. Particular 
highlights include improved routing capabilities in KDE's virtual globe, 
Marble, and advanced filtering and searching using file metadata in the KDE 
file manager, Dolphin: Faceted Browsing. The KDE Games collection receives 
many enhancements and the image viewer Gwenview and screenshot program 
KSnapshot gain the ability to instantly share images to a number of popular 
social networking sites. For more details read the KDE Applications 4.6 
announcement.

http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.6/applications.php


Mobile Target Makes KDE Platform Lose Weight

The KDE Platform, on which the Plasma Workspaces and KDE Applications are 
built also gains new capabilities available to all KDE applications. The 
introduction of a "mobile build target" allows for easier deployment of 
applications on mobile devices. The Plasma framework gains support for writing 
desktop widgets in QML, the declarative Qt language, and provides new 
Javascript interfaces for interacting with data. Nepomuk, the technology 
behind metadata and semantic search in KDE applications, now provides a 
graphical interface to back up and restore data. UPower, UDev and UDisks can 
be used instead of the deprecated HAL. Bluetooth support is improved. The 
Oxygen widget and style set is improved and a new Oxygen theme for GTK 
applications allows them to seamlessly merge into the Plasma workspaces and 
look just like KDE applications. For more details read the KDE Platform 4.6 
announcement. 

http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.6/platform.php


Enjoy :-)
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sebas

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