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Subject: www/sites/www/announcements/4.6
From: Sebastian Kügler <sebas () kde ! org>
Date: 2011-01-24 16:08:20
Message-ID: 20110124160820.BD14BAC8B9 () svn ! kde ! org
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[Workspaces 4.6 announcement]<b><u>Plasma Workspaces Put You in Control</u>
-1. Introduction</b>KDE is happy to announce the immediate availability of Plasma \
Desktop and Plasma Netbook 4.6. The Plasma Workspaces have seen both polish in \
existing functionality as well as the introduction of significant new innovations \
extending Plasma's capabilities further towards a more semantic, task-driven \
workflow. +</b>KDE is happy to announce the immediate availability of Plasma Desktop \
and Plasma Netbook 4.6. The Plasma Workspaces have seen both polish in existing \
functionality as well as the introduction of significant new innovations extending \
Plasma's capabilities further towards a more semantic, task-driven workflow. <ul>
<li>The <b>Activities </b>system has been redesigned making it easier to take \
advantage of them. By right clicking to the window title, you can now make \
applications and files part of an activity. Changing to this activity, the Plasma \
workspace will show you what you need when you need it. The process for adding, \
renaming and removing Activities has also been improved.</li> </ul><i>46-w01.png - \
It is easy to associate applications with activities</i>
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?>
<p>
-KDE, an international Free Software community, is happy to announce the immediate \
availability of the Plasma Desktop and Netbook workspaces in version 4.5. The Plasma \
Workspaces see both refinement and innovation towards semantic, task-driven \
workflows. In addition to thousands of bugs that have been fixed in order to make the \
user experience more complete, more usable and more attractive, some interesting \
changes are included in this release:
-</p>
+</b>KDE is happy to announce the immediate availability of Plasma Desktop and Plasma \
Netbook 4.6. The Plasma Workspaces have seen both polish in existing functionality as \
well as the introduction of significant new innovations extending Plasma's \
capabilities further towards a more semantic, task-driven workflow. <ul>
- <li>The <b>notification area</b> in the panel has been cleaned up visually. \
Monochromatic icons give visual clarity, and more consistent user interactions \
improve usability. Download tracking and indicators for other long-running \
operations, which are centralized in the notification area, are now handled by a \
visual progress indication in the widget itself. Likewise, the display, \
categorization and queueing of application notifications has been reworked. \
Notifications from shared Plasma widgets on remote systems may now be displayed as \
well as local events.
- </li>
-
-<?php
- showScreenshot("plasma-notification.png", "Plasma Desktop's notifications have \
received polish in handling, display and appearance");
-?>
-<br />
-
- <li><b>KWin</b>, the window manager component of the Plasma Workspace, can now \
lay-out windows on the screen without overlapping using tiling algorithms. Following \
a defined set of rules, KWin takes care of placing windows for the user. It is now \
also possible to <b>easily move windows around by dragging an empty area</b> inside \
the window. This new feature improves window handling ergonomics by allowing empty \
space to be used as drag handles. This feature will only work with Qt-based \
applications, as it requires some integration with the underlying toolkit to work \
properly. Adding and removing virtual desktops can now be done directly from the \
pager and desktop grid effect. Alongside these changes, many systems will enjoy \
improved window effects performance.
- </li>
-
-<?php
- showScreenshot("plasma-desktopgrid.png", "You can now add and remove virtual \
desktops conveniently from the Desktop Grid");
-?>
-
- <li>Plasma Workspace <b>Activities</b>: the Zooming User Interface (ZUI) of the \
previous Plasma Desktop releases has been replaced by an "Activity Manager", similar \
to the Add Widgets dialog introduced with the 4.4 release. The new Activity Manager \
provides adding, removing, saving and restoring of Activities, and allows to switch \
between them. The visual concept of an Activity has been extended as well. Activities \
are now easier to manage and can aid users in their daily computing needs, providing \
them with a clearer separation between different tasks. The new Activity Manager is \
the first visible piece of <em>context-awareness</em> brought into Plasma through the \
use of <em>Semantic Desktop</em> features provided by Nepomuk.
- </li>
-
-<?php
- showScreenshot("plasma-netbook-pageone.png", "Plasma Netbook's Page One is \
designed to keep tabs on the social web, it can hold any Plasma \
widget");
-?>
-
-
- <li><b>Plasma Netbook</b>, the KDE Workspace for small notebooks and netbooks, \
has received substantial improvements with this release. Many of the changes are not \
immediately visible, but do provide a more pleasant netbook experience with higher \
performance and better touchscreen capabilities.
- </li>
-
- <li>The new "oxygen-settings" tool allows power users to configure the default \
Oxygen style to their liking. Finally, the theme engine Aurorae has seen many \
improvements and the blur effect has been reintroduced but may be disabled depending \
on the capabilities of your graphics driver.</li>
-
- <li>In a move to support Free Software around the world, all KDE applications \
now can work with the Thai, Taiwanese and Japanese calendars, and more digit sets are \
supported. Local holidays are now displayed in detail in the calendar \
popup.</li>
-</ul>
-<?php
- showScreenshot("plasma-calendar.png", "Clicking on the clock reveals the \
calendar, which displays holidays in your region");
-?>
-
-<p align="justify">
-A variety of other improvements span changes to KRunner's display of results, \
configurable panel icon sizes, easy panel configuration using JavaScript templates \
and shadows, better drag and drop in the Quick Launch widget, which now allows \
favorite applications to be arranged in multiple columns and rows, improvements in \
Dolphin, Konsole, and much more. It has also been made possible to start Plasma \
applets as separate applications through the <em>plasma-windowed</em> application. \
The Removable Device Notifier now shows errors more clearly. + <li>The \
<b>Activities </b>system has been redesigned making it easier to take advantage of \
them. By right clicking to the window title, you can now make applications and files \
part of an activity. Changing to this activity, the Plasma workspace will show you \
what you need when you need it. The process for adding, renaming and removing \
Activities has also been improved.</li> +</ul><i>46-w01.png - It is easy to associate \
applications with activities</i> +<ul>
+ <li><b>Power management</b> has been revamped, with shorter and \
highly modular code (1/10th its previous size) which is easier to \
maintain and allows plugins to trigger power management features. \
Power settings are easier to understand and manage with the new \
configuration user interface. A new ‘Policy Agent' allows screen \
inhibition features, such as notifications or the screen turning off \
while you're watching a movie</li></ul><i>46-w02.png - The new simplified power \
management interface</i> +<ul>
+ <li><b>KWin </b>should be faster than ever and work better with more graphics \
drivers, due to significant optimizations to cache window settings and \
only refresh needed areas of the screen. This brings: +<ul>
+ <li>significant performance improvements </li>
+ <li>better detection of graphic driver capabilities.</li>
+ <li>optimizations described <a \
href="http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2010/10/optimization-in-kwin-4-6/">http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2010/10/optimization-in-kwin-4-6/</a></li>
+ <li>Present Windows effect – close windows during the effect.</li></ul
+></li></ul
+><i>This would make a nice screenshot, but my system hangs every time i try and use \
present windows</i> +<ul>
+ <li>Program start-up notification more efficient</li>
+ <li>Rewamped notifications system, is now possible to have the \
notification popup in any point of th screen by just dragging it, the \
notification history and jobs popup looks cleaner, jobs have an optional \
download speed plot in the detailed view.</li></ul +><i>46-w04.png - You \
can now drag notifications to a convenient place on the desktop</i> +<ul>
+ <li><b>Shelf applet</b> - when in a panel: gained automatic sizing of the popup, \
shows the number of unread mails and online contacts <a \
href="http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t120/wdawn/sjelf-1.png">http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t120/wdawn/sjelf-1.png</a> </li>
+ <li>The <b>digital clock</b> in the panel was revamped, and now features a \
shadowed text which improves readability with some of backgrounds and themes.</li> + \
<li>The <b>Tasks Plasma widget</b> now has support for basic launchers: Just drag a \
program icon onto the task bar and it'll become a quick launch entry.</li> + \
<li><b>Plasma Netbook</b> has been further optimized under the hood for a \
faster "Search and Launch" experience and more touch-friendly behaviour on the \
"Page One" newspaper activity.</li></ul +><i>46-w05.png - The improved \
Newspaper activity in Plasma Netbook is now more touchscreen friendly [note, i don't \
like this screenshot - aren't there supposed to be columns?]</i><i>46-w07.png - The \
Plasma Netbook Search and Launch is faster</i>A variety of other improvements \
apparent in the Plasma Workspaces include changes to the Oxygen icon theme and better \
integration of applications not built on the KDE Platform thanks to a completely \
rewritten Oxygen GTK theme.<i>46-w06.png - The new Oxygen GTK theme helps to \
integrate non-KDE applications in a Plasma workspace</i> </p>
-
-<h4>Workspace Setup Restructured</h4>
-<p align="justify">
-The configuration for the workspace has been restructured and is now offered through \
a category in System Settings. The new Workspace section provides control over the \
Look and Feel of your Plasma workspace. Here you can set the theming to your liking, \
enable or disable the Semantic Desktop & Desktop Search features, and enable \
many settings that make your workspace work the way you want it to, be it hot \
corners, visual helpers used for managing windows, the new window tiling feature, and \
many more.
-</p>
-<?php
- showScreenshot("plasma-systemsettings.png", "The Workspace section in System \
Settings gives you full control over the look and feel of your \
workspace.");
-?>
-
-<p align="justify">
-Workspace effects enhance the user experience in many ways. These include the usage \
of OpenGL-rendered window previews in the taskbar, and a desktop grid effect which \
enables you to zoom in and out of virtual desktops. If your hardware or graphics \
driver does not support these graphical effects properly, Plasma falls back \
gracefully to traditional 2D rendering. We recommend using the latest version of the \
graphics driver and underlying XOrg stack for the best performance. In 4.5, it is now \
possible for administrators and distributors to gain finer control over graphics \
hardware and drivers used through the use of <a \
href="http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2010/07/blacklisting-drivers-for-some-kwin-effects/">per-effect \
blacklists</a>. This makes it easier to enable and disable certain features based on \
their availability and stability on certain systems. It also makes it easier to \
provide a smoother experience out of the box to many users.
-
-</p>
-<h3>More Screenshots...</h3>
-<p align="justify">
-
-<?php
- showScreenshot("plasma-desktopsettings.png", "The Desktop Settings user \
interface has seen some nice usability enhancements");
-
- showScreenshot("plasma-jobs.png", "Running jobs are visualized by Plasma, ...");
-
- showScreenshot("plasma-filecopyjobs.png", "... multiple jobs are grouped and \
notifications are remembered for a while.");
-
-?>
-
-</p>
-
-<h3>Plans and Work in Progress</h3>
-<p align="justify">
-The Plasma team is working on further performance improvements in window management. \
Also on the agenda is extending the concepts of <b>Activities</b>, the intentional \
and automatic grouping of related windows and supporting desktop furniture, making \
the workspace and applications more context-aware, including the use of geolocation. \
Effects such as blurring transparent window backgrounds are being employed to \
increase ergonomics while looking good, by making text and user interface elements \
more readable.<br/>
-New Plasma Workspaces for <b>Media Center</b> use-cases and mobile phones are also \
on their way. During the recent Akademy conference, the first phone call was made \
using the new <b>Plasma Mobile</b> shell.
-</p>
-
<h4>Installing Plasma</h4>
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