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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Press Announcement for KDE 3.4
From:       "Barry O'Donovan" <barry.odonovan () kdemail ! net>
Date:       2005-02-01 21:34:37
Message-ID: 200502012134.43461.barry.odonovan () kdemail ! net
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On Tuesday 01 February 2005 19:21, Achim Woessner wrote:
> OK, so I hope you like it, critic is very welcome and I will do my
> best to improve the announcement. I hope you enjoy reading it.

I have made a few edits so that it reads a little better (as well as 
incorrect capitalisation and punctuation). I also put a few FIXME's 
where I was unsure of what to do/what was meant. See what you think:

Announcing KDE 3.4

The KDE Project ships a new major release of their leading open source 
desktop with new features and bug fixes including many accessability 
improvements for disabled people.

March $day, 2005 (The Internet) - After more then half a year of
development the KDE Project is happy to be able to announce a new
major release of the award-winning K Desktop Environment. Among the many
new features that have been incorporated, one worthy of particular 
mention are the accessibility improvements. 

The KDE Text-to-Speech system is new in KDE 3.4 and allows new 
applications such as KSayIt to convert text to audible speech. Other 
accessibility applications include: KMouseTool which can click the 
mouse for people with, for example, carpal tunnel syndrome or 
tendinitis; KMagnifier to magnify sections of the screen for the 
visually impaired; and KMouth to allow the computer to speak for those 
who cannot. Standard accessibility features including "Sticky Keys", 
"Slow Keys" and "Bounce Keys" are also available. All of these features 
combine to open the world of computing to a much wider audience and to 
a section of the population that is often overlooked.

As the team of people working on KDE is international, KDE 3.4 is 
available in no less than 79 languages; more than any other desktop 
environment. 

KDE 3.4 is available for free under Open Source licenses and boasts 
eighteen packages of optional applications including development, 
games, PIM, network, utilities, administration, edutainment, 
multimedia, graphics and more.

Highlights At A Glance

* KDE Text-to-Speech System (KTTS)
* Important additions to KMouth ** FIXME ** what features?
* KPDF now supports PDF 1.5, password protected PDFs and the extraction 
  of pictures and text from PDF files
* Completely redesigned and more flexible trash system
* Support for Exchange 2000, OpenGroupware, Kolab 1 and 2, SLOX,
  Groupwise and eGroupware
* Better synchronization between two PCs
* Kopete now supports Novell Groupwise and Lotus Sametime and 
  integrates with Kontact
* NetMeeting-Plug-In allows one to start a chat from any application
  ** FIXME ** even I being a KDE user/contributor am unsure what this             
              means
* Drag and drop of files and contacts  ** FIXME ** not sure what you're
                                                 trying to say here
* Akregator, the RSS reader, has been integrated into KDE PIM
* Support for album covers in JuK
* KMail now supports KWallet
* Password dialog gives feedback on the relative strength of new
  passwords. 
* Kicker has an improved look and feel
* KHTML plug-ins are now configurable, so the user can selectively
  disable ones that are not used. This does not include Netscape-style
  plug-ins. Netscape plug-in in CPU usage can be manually lowered, and
  plug-ins are more stable.
* $bugsfixed have been fixed
* $ffwishes wishes have been implemented

Getting KDE 3.4

Full information on how to download and install KDE 3.4 is available on 
our official website at http://www.kde.org/download/. Being free and 
open source software, it is available for download at no cost. If you 
use a major Linux distribution then precompiled packages may be 
available from your distributions website or from 
http://download.kde.org/. The source code can also be downloaded from 
here. If you prefer to build KDE from source you should consider using 
Konstruct (http://developer.kde.org/build/konstruct/), a tool that 
automatically downloads, configures and builds KDE 3.4.

Many more KDE applications are freely available from KDE-Apps.org 
(http://www.kde-apps.org/).

Supporting KDE

KDE is an open source project that exists and grows only because of the 
help of many volunteers that donate their time and effort freely. KDE 
is always looking for new volunteers and contributions, whether its 
help with coding, bug fixing or reporting, writing documentation, 
translations, promotion, money, etc. All contributions are gratefully 
appreciated and eagerly accepted. Please read through the "Supporting 
KDE" page (http://www.kde.org/support/) for further information. We 
look forward to hearing from you soon!

-- 
Regards,
Barry O'Donovan
http://www.barryodonovan.com/
http://www.ihl.ucd.ie/	

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