From kde-announce Wed Nov 21 18:03:17 2012 From: Sebastian =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=FCgler?= Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:03:17 +0000 To: kde-announce Subject: [kde-announce] KDE Ships First Beta of Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform 4.10 Message-Id: <3413465.WOIkc73S3y () miro> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-announce&m=135352119322236 KDE Ships First Beta of Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform 4.10 November 21, 2012. Today KDE released the first beta for its renewed Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. With API, dependency and feature freezes in place, the KDE team's focus is now on fixing bugs and further polishing new and old functionality. Highlights of 4.10 include, but are not limited to: * Qt Quick in Plasma Workspaces -- Qt Quick is continuing to make its way into the Plasma Workspaces. Plasma Quick, KDE's extensions on top of QtQuick allow deeper integration with the system and more powerful apps and Plasma components. Plasma Containments can now be written in QtQuick. Various Plasma widgets have been rewritten in QtQuick, notably the system tray, pager, notifications, lock & logout, weather and weather station, comic strip and calculator plasmoids. * New Screen Locker -- A new screen locking mechanism based on QtQuick brings more flexibility and security to Plasma Desktop. * Animated Wallpapers -- Thanks to a new QtQuick-based wallpaper engine, animated wallpapers are now much easier to create. * Improved Zooming in Okular -- A technique called tiled rendering, which internally splits up the document in parts and only renders visible parts allows Okular to zoom in much more while reducing memory consumption. Okular Active, the touch-friendly version of the powerful document reader is now part of KDE SC. * Faster indexing -- A new indexer allows the Nepomuk semantic engine faster indexing of files. The new Tags kioslave allows users to browse their files by tags in any KDE-powered application. * Color Correction -- Gwenview, KDE's smart image viewer and Plasma's window manager now support color correction and can be adjusted to the color profile of different monitors, allowing for more natural representation of photos and graphics. * Notifications -- Plasma's notifications are now rendered using QtQuick, notifications themselves, especially concerning power management have been cleaned up. * New Print Manager -- Setup of printers and monitoring jobs was improved thanks to a new implementation of the Print Manager. * Kate, KDE's Advanced Text Editor received multiple improvements regarding user feedback. It is now extensible using Python plugins. * KTouch -- KDE's touch-typing learning utility has been rewritten and features a cleaner, more elegant user interface. * libkdegames improvements -- Many parts of libkdegames have been rewritten, porting instructions for 3rd party developers are available. * KSudoku now allows printing puzzles. * KJumpingCube has seen a large number of improvements making the game more enjoyable. More improvements can be found in the 4.10 Feature Plan. As with any large number of changes, we need to give 4.10 a good testing in order to maintain and improve the quality and our user's user experience when they get the update. Actual users are critical to maintaining high KDE quality, because developers simply cannot test every possible configuration. We're counting on you to help find bugs early so they can be squashed before the final release. Please consider joining 4.10 thoroughly and report any bugs you find to bugs.kde.org. See also: http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.10-beta1.php Cheers, -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9 _______________________________________________ kde-announce mailing list kde-announce@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-announce