Submitted by admin on Wed, 2008-07-30 00:18
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Version 4.1 of KDE, the open-source desktop for Unix based on Qt 4, has been released. Important new features include:
- the KDE PIM module (a straight port of the KDE 3 version, not the new Akonadi-based version)
- Improvements to the Plasma desktop
- New Dragon Player, a video player
- Lokalize, a translation tool
- KSCD, a desktop CD player
- Dolphin now supports tabs
- Konqueror now supports re-opening closed windows; smoother scrolling also
- Stable Python and Ruby bindings
- Akonadi PIM storage system
Announcement, with detailed changelog and screenshots, here; source downloads, with links to binaries, at the info page. Binaries currently available for Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Fedora and Magic Linux. Note that there is a problem with performance on nVidia when using the proprietary driver.