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| = Plasma Workspace =
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| == Basic Functionality and Work-flow ==
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| * Storage devices can now automatically be mounted
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| * Widgets can be published on the network and be accessed remotely
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| * Desktop configuration is now scriptable using JavaScript
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| * Browsing through recent notifications
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| * Work-flow and layout improvements in the device manager widget
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| * System tray items can now be automatically shown or hidden
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| * New Plasma Netbook shell (Technology Preview)
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| * 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
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| * Mouse action plugins allow flexible interaction configuration
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| * New widget explorer improves the work-flow of adding widgets to the desktop
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| * Plasma widgets can now be added to the system tray
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| * Wallpapers can now be set using drag&drop
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| ** Support for dropping remote content to use as wallpapers or create a desktop widget
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| * KNetworkmanager: new Network Management frontend
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| ** Additionally, a richer Plasma widget as technology preview
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| == User Interface ==
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| * Kinetic scrolling
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| * Taskbar entries, window buttons and other elements of the Plasma interface now have sublte animations
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| * Animation of popups uses OpenGL for animations
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| * Improved KMix on-screen display
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| * Improved layout for the battery widget's popup
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| * Taskbar previews are now clickable
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| * Desktop theme configuration has been moved to System Settings -> Style
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| * Plasma's default Air theme has been further polished and improved
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| == Window & Compositing Manager ==
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| * New: Window maximizing and tiling by snapping to the screen-edges ("Aero Snap")
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| * Native window tabs: Arbitrary windows can be grouped in tabs
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| * Window Management Plugin for KRunner
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| * Subtle animations in the window decoration, and other options to customize the window behavior
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| * Alt+Tab window switching improvements
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| * Improvements in present windows, flip switch, logout effect
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| == Other widgets and addons ==
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| ===Widgets===
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| * NEW Blackboard: a simple paint canvas, it's possible to paint with the mouse or with multitouch events on platforms that supports them
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| * NEW KDE Observatory: keep track of the development of your favorite KDE projects
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| * NEW KIMPanel: KDE Input Method Panel for multibyte input
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| * NEW Knowledge Base: query the knowledgebase of opendesktop.org
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| * NEW On-screen keyboard
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| * NEW OpenDesktop.org Activities: activity infomration from opendesktop.org
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| * NEW Qalculate math expression evaluator, based on libqalculate
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| * NEW Spellcheck: a quick spell checking area
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| * NEW Webslice: a plasmoid displaying a part of a web page
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| * NEW Window list
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| * Battery: Improved layout, better support for bigger fonts
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| * Device notifier
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| ** Visual revamp to make it look and feel more Plasma
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| ** Supports non-removable volumes
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| ** Can show/hide devices from the interface
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| ** Popup autohides after 10s of inactivity
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| * Picture Frame: now supports loading and displaying of remote images
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| * Microblog: can view replies and direct messages
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| * Quicklaunch: ascending and descending sort for applications in quicklaunch applet.
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| * SystemTray
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| ** Now can embed other Plasma widgets
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| ** Supports the finalized version of the StatusNotifier specification
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| ** Old notifications remains accessible for a while, separated by application name, browseable with a tabbar widget
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| * Tasks
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| ** Clicking on a window preview now activates that window
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| ** Mouse over on a window preview highlights the window if the highlight windows KWin effect is activated
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| ** Control+click on a window group launches the KWin present windows effect if activated
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| ** New taskbar animations
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| * Weather widget now supports wetter.com
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| === KRunner ===
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| * NEW audioplayercontrol: control any MPRIS enabled audio application (amarok is the default)
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| * NEW plasma-desktop: "desktop console [script file]" triggers the interactive scripting window
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| * NEW solid: devices and hotplug support using Solid
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| * NEW mediawiki: generic mediawiki searching with .desktop files for wikipedia, techbase, wikitravel and userbase by default
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| * NEW windows: switch between and control windows and desktops
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| * Service runner: a query on a freedesktop application category, like "network" will show all applications of that category
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| * Bookmarks runner:
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| ** The query "bookmarks" (or its translation) lists all the bookmarks
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| ** Also supports Firefox' bookmarks
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| * Contacts runner: the query "contacts" shows all contacts
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| ===Other===
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| * NEW Pastebin dataengine
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| * DataEngines can now also be written in JavaScript
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| * Image wallpaper combobox has been replaced with a nicer view.
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| * Image wallpaper offers 'Next Wallpaper Image' contextual action in slide-show mode.
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| = KDE Development Platform =
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| * KAuth: Authorization framework, harnesses PolicyKit, currently used in Font installer and System Activity
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| * Multitouch resize, rotate and move on platforms that support multitouch
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| * New high-level animation API in Plasma, based on Qt Kinetic
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| * Nepomuk Semantic Desktop:
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| ** New Virtuoso storage backend, significantly faster and more scalable
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| ** Nepomuk: KIO slave for querying Nepomuk resources
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| ** Nepomuk is now able to search on non-mounted media
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| * libksane (scanner library): basic scanner support for Windows
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| * Improved exiv2 support in libkexiv2
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| * Printing: Add Odd/Even page selection and server-side page selection when using CUPS
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| * KDE integration of QtWebKit (cookies, proxies, etc. but not KPart)
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| * Thumbnail previews for Comicbook format
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| * New calendar systems: Indian Civil (Saka), Pure Julian, Pure Gregorian
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| = KDE Applications =
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| == Basic ==
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| * Dolphin:
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| ** Integrated searching
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| ** Version control integration
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| == PIM / Groupware ==
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| * New: KAddressbook rewritten using Akonadi
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| * KMail:
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| ** Archiving of emails
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| ** Improved recipient picker
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| ** searching by tag
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| ** Clickable HTML statusbar
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| ** Collapsible recipient fields
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| ** Error messages are now passive, less disturbant to workflow
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| ** Templating improvements for e.g. signatures
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| == Accessibility ==
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| * KDE's text-to-speach subsystem now uses Speech Dispatcher for synthesis
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| == Educational & Games ==
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| * New Edu app: Cantor
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| * New Edu app: Rocs
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| * New game: Granatier (bomberman game)
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| * New game: Palapeli (puzzle game)
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| * KStars: new Observation plan manager
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| * KAlgebra
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| ** Support for lists
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| ** Better MathML presentation support, lambda expressions, jump detections
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| ** New 2d parametric function plotting
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| == Network ==
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| * Kopete: Create avatars from a webcam
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| * KRDC:
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| ** Telepathy Tubes support,
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| ** full screen switching
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| * KGet:
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| ** better support for verification of downloaded files
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| ** Broken downloads can be repaired
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| ** Support for adding mirrors, moving and renaming files while downloading
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| ** New assistant to create metalinks
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| == Utilities ==
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| * Okteta Hex Editor:
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| ** NEW Analyzing/Editing with user-defineable data structure templates
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| ** NEW Editing of values in the decoding table now possible
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| ** NEW Split views
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| ** NEW Storing of bookmarks
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