From kde-promo Tue Mar 15 14:03:51 2005 From: Achim Woessner Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:03:51 +0000 To: kde-promo Subject: Re: [kde-promo] Re: Press Announcement for KDE 3.4 Message-Id: <200503151504.00916.boldii () gmx ! de> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-promo&m=111089541509580 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--===============0750897395==" --===============0750897395== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1195512.HIjSQUScbc"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --nextPart1195512.HIjSQUScbc Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Boundary-01=_ItuNCuH4ZMLlymR" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline --Boundary-01=_ItuNCuH4ZMLlymR Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday, 15. March 2005 10:53, Tom Chance wrote: > Thanks for the other comments. Achim, do you want to take tackat's = =20 > comments and my press release, then put them together for the finished=20 >announcement and press releases? Hi everybody, I included your changes and suggestions to the attached php file, I would=20 have commited it to CVS but I have no CVS account ;). What we still need is a quote and a good phrase for the DBUS/HAL thing, I=20 will try to make one up but if you know a good one I would appreciate that= =20 very much. Cheers,=20 Achim Woessner --Boundary-01=_ItuNCuH4ZMLlymR Content-Type: application/x-php; name="announce-3.4.php" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="announce-3.4.php"
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DATELINE MARCH 16, 2004

The KDE Project ships a new major release of their flagship Open Source desktop environment.

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March 16, 2005 (The Internet) - After more than 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 the many new features that have been incorporated, the improvements in accessibility are the most remarkable.

One of the milestones in this new release will be advanced KDE Text-to-speech framework. It integrates into KPDF, Kate, Konqueror, and KSayIt, and it allows to read out notifications from all KDE applications. Especially partially-sighted people and speech-impaired users will benefit, but it should also prove a fun desktop experience overall.

For people with low vision, several high contrast themes including a complete monochrome icon set have been added. Other accessibility applications have been improved. KMouseTool which can click the mouse for people with, for example, carpal tunnel syndrome or tendinitis; KMouth to allow the computer to speak for the speech impaired; and KMagnifier to magnify sections of screen for partially-sighted users. Standard accessibility features including "Sticky Keys", "Slow Keys" and "Bounce Keys" are also available and are now more easily accessed via keyboard gestures. 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. The KDE project will continue its close cooperation with the accessibility community to reach even more people in the future.

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With KDE being based on an international community there are more than 49 translations available and even more to be expected for future service packs of KDE 3.4. This is why KDE serves best the needs of today's world wide Linux community.

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

Highlights At A Glance

For a more detailed list of improvements since the KDE 3.3 release, please refer to the KDE 3.4 Change Log.

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/info. 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, a tool that automatically downloads, configures and builds KDE 3.4 for you.

Many more KDE applications are freely available from KDE-Apps.org and different look and feel improvents can be downloaded from KDE-Look.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. 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 for further information.
We look forward to hearing from you soon!

About KDE

KDE is an independent project of hundreds of developers, translators, artists and other professionals worldwide collaborating over the Internet to create and freely distribute a sophisticated, customizable and stable desktop and office environment employing a flexible, component-based, network-transparent architecture and offering an outstanding development platform. KDE provides a stable, mature desktop, a full, component-based office suite (KOffice), a large set of networking and administration tools and utilities, and an efficient, intuitive development environment featuring the excellent IDE KDevelop. KDE is working proof that the Open Source "Bazaar-style" software development model can yield first-rate technologies on par with and superior to even the most complex commercial software.

Trademark Notices. KDE and K Desktop Environment are trademarks of KDE e.V. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks and copyrights referred to in this announcement are the property of their respective owners.

Press Contacts

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 Asia
Sirtaj S. Kang
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Phone: +91-981807-8372
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Europe
Matthias Kalle Dalheimer
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Sweden
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Fax: +46-563-540028
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George Staikos
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Canada
Phone: (416)-925-4030
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Oceania
Hamish Rodda
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Australia
Phone: (+61)402 346684
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 South America
Helio Chissini de Castro
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Curitiba, PR 80050-240
Brazil
Phone: +55(41)262-0782 / +55(41)360-2670
info-southamerica kde.org
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