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Subject: Re: [kde-promo] Press Announcement for KDE 3.4
From: Torsten Rahn <torsten.rahn () credativ ! de>
Date: 2005-02-04 11:50:21
Message-ID: 200502041250.21628.torsten.rahn () credativ ! de
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Am Freitag, 4. Februar 2005 12:05 schrieb Tom Chance:
> Hi Achim, everyone else,
Having some Shockwave-Animations demonstrating the latest features using
vnc2sfw might be a nice thing to link to.
Any volunteers :-) ?
Greetings,
Torsten Rahn
> The PR is shaping up nicely. Might I suggest a change to the highlighted
> features list? Something that Aaron did with the 3.2 PR, and I did with the
> 3.3 PR, was to divide it up a bit into sections. It makes it more readable,
> interesting and useful for people who just want to know, for example, what
> new applications there are. So, taking this from Joshua Keel's draft:
>
> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-promo&m=110733698518466&w=2
>
> Highlights At A Glance
>
> New applications
> * KDE Text-to-Speech System brings the desktop to the visually impaired
> * Akregator allows you to read news from your favourite RSS-enabled
> websites in one application
>
> Networking improvements
> * Kontact now supports Exchange 2000, OpenGroupware, Kolab 1 and 2,
> SLOX, Groupwise and eGroupware
> * 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
> * KMail now supports KWallet for secure password management
> * Better synchronization between two PCs
> **FIXME** can we not have some more detail on this?
>
> Many small desktop enhancements
> * KPDF now supports PDF 1.5, password protected PDFs and the extraction
> of pictures and text from PDF files
> * Support for album covers in JuK
> * Completely redesigned and more flexible trash system
> * Password dialog gives feedback on the relative strength of new
> passwords.
> * Kicker has an improved look and feel
> * KHTML plugins are configurable, and the CPU usage of Netscape-style
> plugins can be controlled
> * Important additions to KMouth ** FIXME ** what features?
> * Drag and drop of files and contacts ** FIXME ** not sure what you're
> trying to say here
> * $bugsfixed have been fixed
> * $ffwishes wishes have been implemented
>
> Regards,
> Tom
>
> On Tuesday 01 Feb 2005 19:21, Achim Woessner wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > so we already have end of January and so it is time for me to present the
> > press announcement in a more or less ready state. It isn't php yet, I
> > will do that as soon as possible and for sure before the release of 3.4
> > ;) The "Highlights At A Glance" will be sorted of course, but I wanted
> > you to have a look on what I have done so far.
> > 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.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Achim Woessner
> >
> > PS: I am sorry if it isn't that good now but I had some troubles managing
> > my time during the last month.
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Announcing KDE 3.4
> >
> > KDE Project ships a new major release with lots of improvements for
> > disabled people.
> >
> > March $day, 2005 (The Internet) - After more then a half 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 many other
> > improvents the accessibility can convince with important new features.
> >
> > The accessibility package has now some really important new features
> > for partially sighted people. The KDE Text-to-Speech system is new in KDE
> > 3.4 and allows applications, like KSayIt, an application that reads out
> > longer texts, speech output. Not only does this mean better support for
> > visually-impaired and speech-impaired users, but the new features should
> > also prove for a fun desktop experience overall.
> >
> > As the team of people working on KDE is international there are currently
> > 79 translations of KDE 3.4 available. No other desktop can compete with
> > that many translations, and so KDE 3.4 serves best the needs of today's
> > world wide Linux community.
> >
> >
> >
> > Highlights At A Glance
> >
> > KDE Text-to-Speech System (ktts)
> > important additions to KMouth
> > KPDF now supports PDF 1.5
> > KPDF hat xpdf 3.0 rendering engine
> > KPDF Support for password protected PDFs
> > KPDF Extraction of Pictures and text out of PDF Files
> > Completely redesigned, more flexible trash system.
> > Support for Exchange 2000, OpenGroupware, Kolab 1 and 2, SLOX, Groupwise
> > und eGroupware
> > better synchronization between 2 PCs
> > Kopete supports Novell Groupwise and Lotus Sametime
> > Kopete gets integrated into Kontact
> > NetMeeting-Plug-In allows to start a chat out of any application.
> > drag and drop of files and contacts
> > The RSS Reader Akregator is new in KDE Pim
> > Support for album covers in JuK
> > KMail now supports KWallet
> > Password dialog gives feedback on the relative strength of new passwords.
> > Kicker with 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.
> > more than $bugsfixed have been fixed
> > more than $ffwishes wishes have been fullfilled
> >
> >
> > Getting KDE 3.4
> >
> > As KDE is free software it is available at no cost. You can get it trough
> > various methods. Most likely you want to download
> > the ready for use packages for your distribution. Just have a look on
> > download.kde.org. The source code is also available there. KDE 3.4 will
> > also be featured in future releases of many Linux and UNIX operating
> > systems and can be purchased on CD-ROM.
> > If you want to build the packages from source you could check out
> > Konstruct (http://developer.kde.org/build/konstruct/index.html), a tool
> > that helps you with downloading, configuring, building and installing KDE
> > 3.4.
> >
> > You can download other free KDE programs from KDE-Apps
> > (http://www.kde-apps.org)
> >
> >
> > Supporting KDE
> >
> > KDE is an open source project that lives from the help of volunteers. You
> > can do more than you maybe think you can. All contribution is
> > appreciated, no matter if you contribute time, money or anything else.
> > Read through the Supporting KDE page (http://www.kde.org/support/) for
> > further information. We look forward to hearing from you soon!
>
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