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    = KDE Development Platform =
    * Nepomuk is now able to search on non-mounted media
    * Nepomuk: New Virtuoso backend, much faster, more scalable
    * Nepomuk: KIO slave for querying Nepomuk resources
    * libksane (scanner library): basic scanner support for Windows
    * improved exiv2 support in libkexiv2
    * Add Odd/Even page selection and server-side page selection when using CUPS
        Move KDE integration of QtWebKit into kdelibs (but not KPart!)
     
    * Thumbnail previews for Comicbook format
    * KAuth: Authorization framework, harnesses PolicyKit, used in
    ** Font installer
    ** System Activity
     
     
     
     
    == Plasma Workspace and basic widgets ==
    * Storage devices can now automatically be mounted
    * Networkmanager frontend (knetworkmanager)
    ** Experimental network-manager plasma widget
     
    * Bookmark runner now also supports Firefox' bookmarks
    * Improved layout for the battery widget's popup
    * OpenGL accelerated popup animation
    * Support for Plasma widgets in the system tray
    * System tray items can now be automatically shown or hidden
    * Workflow and layout improvements in the device manager widget
    * Improved KMix OSD
    * Add new calendar systems: Indian Civil (Saka), Pure Julian, Pure Gregorian.
     
    == Other widgets and addons ==
     
     
    == Window & Compositing Manager ==
    * New: Window maximizing and tiling by snapping to the screen-edges ("Aero Snap")
    * Native window tabs: Arbitrary windows can be grouped in tabs
    * Window Management Plugin for KRunner
    * Subtle animations in the window decoration, and other options to customize the window behavior
    * Alt+Tab window switching improvements
    * Improvements in present windows, flip switch, logout effect
     
     
    = KDE Applications =
    * KStars: Observation plan manager
    * KAlgebra
    ** support for lists
    ** better MathML presentation support, lambda expressions, jump detections
    ** new 2d parametric function plotting
    * New Edu app: Cantor
    * New Edu app: Rocs
    * New game: Granatier
    * New game: Palapeli
     
    == Network ==
     
    * Kopete: Create avatars from a webcam
    * KRDC:
    ** Telepathy Tubes support,
    ** full screen switching
    * KGet:
    ** better support for verification of downloaded files
    ** Broken downloads can be repaired
    ** Support for adding mirrors, moving and renaming files while downloading
    ** Assistant to create metalinks
     
    = PIM / Groupware =
    * New: KAddressbook rewrite for Akonadi
    * KMail:
    ** Archiving of emails
    ** Improved recipient picker
    ** searching by tag
    ** Clickable HTML statusbar
    ** Collapsible recipient fields
    ** Error messages are now passive, less disturbant to workflow
    ** Templating improvements
     
    == Utils ==
    * Okteta Hex Editor:
    ** Improved selecting mechanism
    ** Base64 encoding
    ** Split views
    ** Storing of bookmarks

    Latest revision as of 10:57, 16 March 2016

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