Submitted by admin on Thu, 2008-11-27 04:41
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K Desktop Environment - KDE 4.2 Beta 1 Release Announcement
A first beta of KDE 4.2 has been released. Major new features in this release include:
- New desktop effects including "magic lamp", the cube and sphere desktop switchers, with improved motion
- Improvements to taskbar and system tray, and other central desktop elements
- Support for Google gadgets and for Plasma applets written in Python and Ruby, and improved JavaScript and Mac dashboard applets
- Theme improvements in the taskbar and other Plasma components
- Improvement to multi-screen through new Kephal library
- Improved file previews and zooming in Dolphin file manager
- Files load faster in Konqueror
- New message header list in KMail
- Vi mode in Kate and KWrite
- New power management infrastructure "PowerDevil"
- Print configuration system restores features missing in earlier KDE 4 releases
- KRDC improves Microsoft Active Directory support
- KDE on Windows now supports FISH and SFTP (secure file transfer)
Downloads and compile instructions available here, with links to binaries (currently for OpenSUSE only).