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    = Plasma Workspace =
    == basic functionality ==
    * New Plasma netbook shell
    * Storage devices can now automatically be mounted
    Widgets can be published on the network and be accessed remotely
    * Networkmanager frontend (knetworkmanager)
    ** Experimental network-manager plasma widget
    * Applets can now be associated to an application (e.g. picture frame -> gwenview, etc.)
    * Desktop theme configuration has been moved to System Settings -> Style
    * Workspace actions moved to System Settings -> Desktop
    * Initial desktop configuration is now scriptable
    * Taskbar animations
    * New widgets explorer
    * Mouse action plugins
     
    * 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
     
    * Taskbar previews are not clickable
    * Setting the wallpaper using drag&drop
    * Support for dropping remote content
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    == 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
     
    == Other widgets and addons ==
    * Bookmark runner now also supports Firefox' bookmarks
    * NEW Blackboard: a simple paint canvas, it's possible to paint with the mouse or with multitouch events on platforms that supports them
    * NEW KDE Observatory: keep track of the development of your favorite KDE projects
    * NEW KIMPanel: KDE Input Method Panel for multibyte input
    * NEW Knowledge Base: query the knowledgebase of opendesktop.org
    * NEW On-screen keyboard
    * NEW OpenDesktop.org Activities: activity infomration from opendesktop.org
    * NEW Qalculate math expression evaluator, based on libqalculate
    * NEW Spellcheck: a quick spell checking area
    * NEW Webslice: a plasmoid displaying a part of a web page
    * NEW Window list
     
     
    = KDE Development Platform =
    * KAuth: Authorization framework, harnesses PolicyKit, used in
    ** Font installer
    ** System Activity
    * Multitouch resize, rotate and move on platforms that support multi-touch
    * New high-level animation API, based on Qt Kinetic
    * Nepomuk:
    ** New Virtuoso backend, much faster, more scalable
    ** Nepomuk: KIO slave for querying Nepomuk resources
    ** Nepomuk is now able to search on non-mounted media
    * 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
    * KDE integration of QtWebKit (cookies, proxies, etc. but not KPart)
    * Thumbnail previews for Comicbook format
    * Add new calendar systems: Indian Civil (Saka), Pure Julian, Pure Gregorian.
     
     
    = KDE Applications =
    == Basic ==
    * Dolphin: integrated searching
     
    == 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
     
    == Educational & Games ==
    * 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
     
    == Utilities ==
    * Okteta Hex Editor:
    ** Improved selecting mechanism
    ** Base64 encoding
    ** Split views
    ** Storing of bookmarks
     
    == non-SC Applications ==
     
    * Digikam (stable KDE4 release in December)
    * Amarok
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