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Version 2.0 of K3b, the KDE-based CD and DVD ripping and burning app, has been released. Changes:

• Port to KDE Platform 4
• Always allow manual writing speed selection
• Use proper toolbars instead of the toolboxes -> nicer laying out with different styles
• Merged CD and DVD copy dialogs
• Merged CD and DVD image burning dialogs
• Merged CD-RW erasing and DVD formatting dialogs

Amarok 2.3.0 "Clear Light" released | Amarok

Version 2.3.0 of Amarok, the music player and collection manager for KDE, has been released. Main changes:

From KDE Dot News:

There is a survey being done to test icons for the KDE 4 port of K3b, the CD/DVD burning app which currently uses the KDE 3 libraries. The survey consists of asking you which icons best suit the stated purpose. You can take the survey here.

From KDE Apps:

Version 2.9.5 of Yakuake, a drop-down terminal (based on Konsole) similar to the console in the Quake games, has been released. Changes include:

• Added a new framework, referred to as the visual event overlay, to display notifications (and potentially other information) on top of the terminals. It's used for a number of new features found in this release, as described in their separate entries.
• Added an option to visually indicate the newly-focussed terminal when moving focus in a session with multiple terminals (i.e. via splits), or the currently focussed terminal when switching to a session with multiple terminals.
• Added a feature to disable keyboard input for all or individual terminals in a session
• Added a feature to lock a session to prevent it from being closed accidentally
• Added various new D-Bus interfaces
• Bug fixes, including 2 crashes
• Fixed linking with the new gold linker in binutils

For full changelog, screenshots and downloads, see the KDE Apps page. Requires KDE 4.