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From: Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet () kde ! org>
Date: 2009-07-31 11:45:12
Message-ID: 1249040712.891805.18096.nullmailer () svn ! kde ! org
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Series of improvements and additions:
- changed wording, reviewed some texts
- added headers to the categories (still under review)
- added/moved/modified KDE Community Livefeed and social networking part
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@@ -29,32 +29,28 @@
28 July, 2009. The <a href=http://www.kde.org/>KDE Community</a> today announces the \
immediate availability of <i>"Caizen"</i>, (a.k.a KDE 4.3), bringing many \
improvements to the user experience and development platform. KDE 4.3 continues to \
refine the unique features brought in previous releases while bringing new \
innovations. With the 4.2 release aimed at the majority of end users, KDE 4.3 offers \
a more stable and complete product for the home and small office. </p>
<p align=justify>
- The KDE community has fixed over 10.000 bugs and implemented almost 2000 feature \
requests in the last 6 months. Close to 63.000 changes were checked in by a little \
under 700 contributors. Read on for an overview of the improvements in 4.3. + The \
KDE community has fixed over 10.000 bugs and implemented almost 2000 feature requests \
in the last 6 months. Close to 63.000 changes were checked in by a little under 700 \
contributors. Read on for an overview of the changes in the KDE 4.3 Desktop \
Workspace, Application Suites and the KDE 4.3 Development Platform. </p>
-<p align=justify>Read on for an overview of the changes in the KDE 4.3 Desktop \
Workspace, Application suites and platfrom.</p>
-
<div align="center" style="width: auto; margin-top: 20px; margin-botton: 20px;">
<img src="screenshots/desktop_thumb.png" align="center" height="337" /><br />
<em>The KDE 4.3 Desktop</em></div>
<h3>
- Desktop Improves User Experience
-</h3>
-<h3>
Desktop Improves Performance And Usability
</h3>
<br>
<p align=justify>
+ The KDE community offers a powerful and complete desktop experience for Unix \
like operating systems. The KDE Desktop Workspace is built around core technologies \
like the desktop shell Plasma, window manager Kwin, filemanager Dolphin and \
configuration tool SystemSettings. Read on for a short list of improvements to the \
KDE Desktop Workspace. <ul>
<li>
- The Plasma Desktop Shell introduces a <b>new default theme</b>, Air. Air looks \
much lighter and fits better with the default application theme. Plasma also has seen \
large <b>performance improvements</b>. Memory usage has been reduced, and animations \
are more smooth. <b>Activities can now be tied to virtual desktops</b>, allowing \
users to have different widgets on each of their desktops. Furthermore, Plasma has \
improved upon its <b>job and notification management</b>. Running jobs are grouped in \
a single progress bar to prevent the popup of too many dialogs. Animations are used \
to signify that jobs are still running by smoothly sliding dialogs into the \
systemtray and animating the notification icon. Smaller changes include <b>fully \
configurable keyboard shortcuts</b> and more extensive keyboard navigation, the \
ability to create a plasma widget when you drag or copy content on the desktop and \
many <b>new and improved Plasma widgets</b>. The folderview widget now allows the \
user to <b>peek into a folder by hovering it</b> and the <b>new Translatoid \
widget</b> translates words and sentences right on your desktop using Google \
Translate. Furthermore, KRunner made its <b>plugins features easier to discover</b> \
by having a 'help' button showing the syntax of commands in the result area. \
<b>Actions also have a small configuration</b> allowing for example to start \
applications under another user account. + The <a \
href="http://plasma.kde.org">Plasma Desktop Shell</a> introduces a <b>new default \
theme</b>, Air. Air looks much lighter and fits better with the default application \
theme. Plasma also has seen large <b>performance improvements</b>. Memory usage has \
been reduced, and animations are more smooth. <b>Activities can now be tied to \
virtual desktops</b>, allowing users to have different widgets on each of their \
desktops. Furthermore, Plasma has improved upon its <b>job and notification \
management</b>. Running jobs are grouped in a single progress bar to prevent the \
popup of too many dialogs. Animations are used to signify that jobs are still running \
by smoothly sliding dialogs into the systemtray and animating the notification icon. \
Smaller changes in Plasma include <b>fully configurable keyboard shortcuts</b> and \
more extensive keyboard navigation, the ability to create a plasma widget when you \
drag or copy content on the desktop and many <b>new and improved Plasma wid \
gets</b>. The folderview widget now allows the user to <b>peek into a folder by \
hovering it</b> and the <b>new Translatoid widget</b> translates words and sentences \
right on your desktop using Google Translate. Furthermore, KRunner made its \
<b>plugins features easier to discover</b> by having a 'help' button showing the \
syntax of commands in the result area. <b>Actions also have a small configuration</b> \
allowing for example to start applications under another user account. </li>
<li>
The file manager Dolphin shows <b>small previews of files within a folder</b> \
and video thumbnails to help the user identify items. The <b>trash can now be \
configured</b> from the Dolphin Settings menu, and various configurable limitations \
on the trash size help make sure the disk does not fill up with deleted files. The \
menu which is shown on a right mouseclick on a item is configurable and the \
configuration dialog in general has been redesigned to be <b>easier to use</b>. The \
new <b>network:/ location</b> shows other computers and services on the network \
(currently limited to those announced by DNS-SD/zeroconf protocols, more will be \
supported in future versions). </li>
<li>
- Further refinements to the workspace tools make it easier to work with your \
computer. A <b>faster Systemsettings</b> introduces a <b>optional treeview </b>for \
the configuration and several improvements to settingsdialogs. <b>New effects</b> \
like 'Sheet' and "Slide Back" and <b>better performance</b> in <b>KWin </b>make \
window management even more smooth, while integration with the Plasma themes create a \
more consistent look. <b>Klipper</b>, a tool which keeps a history of things copied \
to the clipboard, can now <b>act intelligently on the content</b>. It automatically \
determines a list of applications which can handle a object copied to the clipboard \
and allows the user to start them right away.<br> + Further refinements to the \
workspace tools make it easier to work with your computer. A <b>faster \
Systemsettings</b> introduces a <b>optional treeview </b>for the configuration and \
several improvements to settingsdialogs. <b>New effects</b> like 'Sheet' and "Slide \
Back" and <b>better performance</b> in <b>KWin </b>make window management more \
smooth, while integration with the Plasma themes create a more consistent look. \
<b>Klipper</b>, a tool which keeps a history of things copied to the clipboard, can \
now <b>act intelligently on the content</b>. It automatically determines a list of \
applications which can handle a object copied to the clipboard and allows the user to \
start them right away.<br> </li>
</ul>
</p>
@@ -62,12 +58,13 @@
Applications Leap Forward
</h3>
<p align=justify>
+ Leveraging the KDE Application Development Framework a great number of applications \
have been build by the KDE Community. A selection of those applications are contained \
in the KDE base distribution, divided in to several Application Suites. Among others, \
there are the KDE Network Applications, the KDE Multimedia Applications, the KDE \
Educational Applications and the KDE Utility Applications. Below you can find an \
overview of some improvements in several of these Application Suites. <ul>
<li>
- The KDE utilities have seen many improvements. Among other things, <b>KGpg</b> \
<b>integrates Solid</b> for detecting the availability of a network connection and \
has improved its <b>key import dialog</b>. <b>Ark</b> <b>supports LZMA/XZ</b>, has \
improved support for zip, rar and 7zip and has better drag'n'drop support. KDELirc, a \
frontend for the <b>Linux Infrared Remote Control system</b> (LIRC), has been ported \
to KDE 4 and is included again. <b>Okteta</b>, the KDE hex editor gained a \
<b>checksum tool,</b> a filesystem browser sideview and a bookmarks sidebar. \
Lokalize, the KDE translation tool, introduces support for scripts, new fileformats \
and the<b> translation of ODF documents</b>.<br> + The KDE Application Suite for \
Utilities has seen many improvements. Among other things, <b>KGpg</b>, the privacy \
tool used for encryption and signing files and emails <b>integrates Solid</b> for \
detecting the availability of a network connection and has improved its <b>key import \
dialog</b>. <b>Ark</b>, a file compression and decompression application now \
<b>supports LZMA/XZ</b>, has improved support for zip, rar and 7zip and works better \
with drag'n'drop. KDELirc, a frontend for the <b>Linux Infrared Remote Control \
system</b> (LIRC), has been ported to KDE 4 and is included again. <b>Okteta</b>, the \
KDE hex editor gained a <b>checksum tool,</b> a filesystem browser sideview and a \
bookmarks sidebar. Lokalize, the KDE translation tool, introduces support for \
scripts, new fileformats and the<b> translation of ODF documents</b>.<br> </li>
<li>
- The <b>KDE games</b> now use a similair <b>Egyptian-style theme</b> in many of \
the games. KGoldrunner introduces a new game,<b> "Curse of the Mummy"</b> and \
improves gameplay with more accurate pause, resume and recording and replaying of \
games. KMahjongg introduces 70 new user-submitted levels and an <b>new game</b>, \
KTron, has been introduced. Some games introduced <b>new features</b> like the \
Vaporizer action in Killbots and a better AI in Bovo. Thanks to work on file loading \
and saving the state of scalable images many games<b> start and run faster.</b> + \
The <b>KDE games</b> now use a similair <b>Egyptian-style theme</b> in many of the \
games. KGoldrunner introduces a new game,<b> "Curse of the Mummy"</b> and improves \
gameplay with more accurate pause, resume and recording and replaying of games. \
KMahjongg introduces 70 new user-submitted levels and an <b>new game</b>, KTron, has \
been introduced. Some games introduced <b>new features</b> like the Vaporizer action \
in Killbots and a better AI in Bovo. Thanks to work on file loading and saving the \
state of scalable images many games<b> start and run faster.</b><br> </li>
<li>
The KDE Personal Information Management applications have seen improvements in \
various area's like performance and stability. Instant messenger <b>Kopete \
</b>introduces an improved contact list and KOrganizer can sync with <b>Google \
Calendar</b>. Kmail supports inserting inline images into email and the <b>Alarm \
notifier </b>gained export functionality, drag and drop and has an improved \
configuration.<br> @@ -103,9 +100,61 @@
Akonadi, the Free Desktop PIM storage solution has been deemed ready for more \
widespread usage. Besides the availability of the DataEngine for plasma, application \
developers are encouraged to have a look at <a \
href="http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/PIM/Akonadi">the techbase page</a> if their \
application needs access to or store chat logs, email, blogs, contacts, or any other \
kind of personal data. Akonadi can provide access to any kind of data and is designed \
to handle high volumes, thus allowing for a wide range of usecases.<br> </li>
</ul>
+</p>
+<h4>
+ Spread the Word and See What Happens
+</h4>
+<p align="justify">
+The KDE Community encourages everybody to spread the word on the Social Web as well.
+Submit stories to websites, use channels like delicious, digg, reddit, twitter,
+identi.ca. Upload screenshots to services like Facebook, FlickR,
+ipernity and Picasa and post them to appropriate groups. Create screencast,
+upload them to YouTube, Blip.tv, Vimeo and others. Do not forget to tag uploaded
+material with the <em>tag <strong>kde</strong></em> so it is easier for everybody to \
find the +material, and for the KDE team to compile reports of coverage for the KDE \
4.3 +announcement. <strong>Help us spreading the word, be part of it!</strong></p>
+
+<p align="justify">
+You can follow what is happening around the KDE 4.3 release in the social web live \
on +the brand-new <strong>KDE Community livefeed</strong>. This site aggregates what \
happens on +identi.ca, twitter, youtube, flickr, picasaweb, blogs and many more \
social networking sites +in real-time. The livefeed can be found on <strong><a \
href="http://buzz.kde.org">buzz.kde.org</a></strong>. </p>
+<center>
+<table border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2">
+<tr>
+ <td>
+ <a href="http://digg.com/software/KDE_4_3_released_2"><img \
src="buttons/digg.gif" /></a> + </td>
+ <td>
+ <a href="http://www.reddit.com"><img src="buttons/reddit.gif" /></a>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <a href="http://www.twitter.com"><img src="buttons/twitter.gif" /></a>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <a href="http://www.identi.ca"><img src="buttons/identica.gif" /></a>
+ </td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+ <td>
+ <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/kde43/"><img \
src="buttons/flickr.gif" /></a> + </td>
+ <td>
+ <a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kde43"><img \
src="buttons/youtube.gif" /></a> + </td>
+ <td>
+ <a href="http://www.facebook.com"><img src="buttons/facebook.gif" /></a>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <a href="http://delicious.com/tag/kde43"><img src="buttons/delicious.gif" \
/></a> + </td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+<style="font-size: 5pt"><a \
href="http://microbuttons.wordpress.com">microbuttons</a></style> +</center>
<h4>
Installing KDE 4.3.0
@@ -155,59 +204,6 @@
Page</a>.
</p>
-<h4>
- Spread the Word
-</h4>
-<p align="justify">
-The KDE team encourages everybody to spread the word on the Social Web as well.
-Submit stories to websites, use channels like delicious, digg, reddit, twitter,
-identi.ca. Upload screenshots to services like Facebook, FlickR,
-ipernity and Picasa and post them to appropriate groups. Create screencast,
-upload them to YouTube, Blip.tv, Vimeo and others. Do not forget to tag uploaded
-material with the <em>tag <strong>kde43</strong></em> so it is easier
-for everybody to find the
-material, and for the KDE team to compile reports of coverage for the KDE 4.3
-announcement. Help us spreading the word, be part of it.
-</p>
-<p>
-On web forums, inform people about KDE's new compelling features,
-help others getting started with their new desktop, help us spread information.
-</p>
-
-<center>
-<table border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2">
-<tr>
- <td>
- <a href="http://digg.com/software/KDE_4_3_released_2"><img \
src="buttons/digg.gif" /></a>
- </td>
- <td>
- <a href="http://www.reddit.com"><img src="buttons/reddit.gif" /></a>
- </td>
- <td>
- <a href="http://www.twitter.com"><img src="buttons/twitter.gif" /></a>
- </td>
- <td>
- <a href="http://www.identi.ca"><img src="buttons/identica.gif" /></a>
- </td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
- <td>
- <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/kde43/"><img \
src="buttons/flickr.gif" /></a>
- </td>
- <td>
- <a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kde43"><img \
src="buttons/youtube.gif" /></a>
- </td>
- <td>
- <a href="http://www.facebook.com"><img src="buttons/facebook.gif" /></a>
- </td>
- <td>
- <a href="http://delicious.com/tag/kde43"><img src="buttons/delicious.gif" \
/></a>
- </td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-<style="font-size: 5pt"><a \
href="http://microbuttons.wordpress.com">microbuttons</a></style>
-</center>
-
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