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    = Plasma Workspace =
    == Basic Functionality and Work-flow ==
    * Storage devices can now automatically be mounted
    * Widgets can be published on the network and be accessed remotely
    * Desktop configuration is now scriptable using JavaScript
    * Browsing through recent notifications
    * Work-flow and layout improvements in the device manager widget
    * System tray items can now be automatically shown or hidden
    * New Plasma Netbook shell (Technology Preview)
    * Applets can now be associated to an application (e.g. picture frame with gwenview, etc.) Makes it possible to open the associated application using an icon on the hover bar
    * Mouse action plugins allow flexible interaction configuration
    * New widget explorer improves the work-flow of adding widgets to the desktop
    * Plasma widgets can now be added to the system tray
    * Wallpapers can now be set using drag&drop
    ** Support for dropping remote content to use as wallpapers or create a desktop widget
    * KNetworkmanager: new Network Management frontend
    ** Additionally, a richer Plasma widget as technology preview
     
    == User Interface ==
    * Kinetic scrolling
    * Taskbar entries, window buttons and other elements of the Plasma interface now have sublte animations
    * Animation of popups uses OpenGL for animations
    * Improved KMix on-screen display
    * Improved layout for the battery widget's popup
    * Taskbar previews are now clickable
    * Desktop theme configuration has been moved to System Settings -> Style
    * Plasma's default Air theme has been further polished and improved
     
    == 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 ==
    ===Widgets===
    * 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
    * Battery: Improved layout, better support for bigger fonts
    * Device notifier
    ** Visual revamp to make it look and feel more Plasma
    ** Supports non-removable volumes
    ** Can show/hide devices from the interface
    ** Popup autohides after 10s of inactivity
    * Picture Frame: now supports loading and displaying of remote images
    * Microblog: can view replies and direct messages
    * Quicklaunch: ascending and descending sort for applications in quicklaunch applet.
    * SystemTray
    ** Now can embed other Plasma widgets
    ** Supports the finalized version of the StatusNotifier specification
    ** Old notifications remains accessible for a while, separated by application name, browseable with a tabbar widget
    * Tasks
    ** Clicking on a window preview now activates that window
    ** Mouse over on a window preview highlights the window if the highlight windows KWin effect is activated
    ** Control+click on a window group launches the KWin present windows effect if activated
    ** New taskbar animations
    * Weather widget now supports wetter.com
     
    === KRunner ===
    * NEW audioplayercontrol: control any MPRIS enabled audio application (amarok is the default)
    * NEW plasma-desktop: "desktop console [script file]" triggers the interactive scripting window
    * NEW solid: devices and hotplug support using Solid
    * NEW mediawiki: generic mediawiki searching with .desktop files for wikipedia, techbase, wikitravel and userbase by default
    * NEW windows: switch between and control windows and desktops
    * Service runner: a query on a freedesktop application category, like "network" will show all applications of that category
    * Bookmarks runner:
    ** The query "bookmarks" (or its translation) lists all the bookmarks
    ** Also supports Firefox' bookmarks
    * Contacts runner: the query "contacts" shows all contacts
     
    ===Other===
    * NEW Pastebin dataengine
    * DataEngines can now also be written in JavaScript
    * Image wallpaper combobox has been replaced with a nicer view.
    * Image wallpaper offers 'Next Wallpaper Image' contextual action in slide-show mode.
     
    = KDE Development Platform =
    * KAuth: Authorization framework, harnesses PolicyKit, currently used in Font installer and System Activity
    * Multitouch resize, rotate and move on platforms that support multitouch
    * New high-level animation API in Plasma, based on Qt Kinetic
    * Nepomuk Semantic Desktop:
    ** New Virtuoso storage backend, significantly faster and 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
    * Printing: 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
    * New calendar systems: Indian Civil (Saka), Pure Julian, Pure Gregorian
     
    = KDE Applications =
    == Basic ==
    * Dolphin:
    ** Integrated searching
    ** Version control integration
     
    == PIM / Groupware ==
    * New: KAddressbook rewritten using 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 for e.g. signatures
     
    == Accessibility ==
    * KDE's text-to-speach subsystem now uses Speech Dispatcher for synthesis
     
    == Educational & Games ==
    * New Edu app: Cantor
    * New Edu app: Rocs
    * New game: Granatier (bomberman game)
    * New game: Palapeli (puzzle game)
    * KStars: new Observation plan manager
    * KAlgebra
    ** Support for lists
    ** Better MathML presentation support, lambda expressions, jump detections
    ** New 2d parametric function plotting
     
    == Network ==
    * Kopete: Create avatars from a webcam
    * KRDC Remote Desktop Client:
    ** 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
    ** New assistant to create metalinks
     
    == Utilities ==
    * Okteta Hex Editor:
    ** NEW Analyzing/Editing with user-defineable data structure templates
    ** NEW Editing of values in the decoding table now possible
    ** NEW Split views
    ** NEW Storing of bookmarks

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