Revision 1.38, Wed Mar 23 21:30:12 2005 UTC (19 years, 1 month ago) by markd
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.37: +2 -2 lines

Update to KDE 3.4

Highlights at a glance

* Text-to-speech system with support built into Konqueror, Kate, KPDF
  and the standalone application KSayIt
* Support for text to speech synthesis is integrated with the desktop
* Completely redesigned, more flexible trash system
* Kicker with improved look and feel
* KPDF now enables you to select, copy & paste text and images from
  PDFs, along with many other improvements
* Kontact supports now various groupware servers, including eGroupware,
  GroupWise, Kolab, OpenGroupware.org and SLOX
* Kopete supports Novell Groupwise and Lotus Sametime and gets
  integrated into Kontact
* DBUS/HAL support allows to keep dynamic device icons in media:/ and
  on the desktop in sync with the state of all devices
* KHTML has improved standard support and now close to full support for
  CSS 2.1 and the CSS 3 Selectors module
* Better synchronization between 2 PCs
* A new high contrast style and a complete monochrome icon set
* An icon effect to paint all icons in two chosen colors, converting
  third party application icons into high contrast monochrome icons
* Akregator allows you to read news from your favourite RSS-enabled
  websites in one application
* Juk has now an album cover management via Google Image Search
* KMail now stores passwords securely with KWallet
* SVG files can now be used as wallpapers
* KHTML plug-ins are now configurable, so the user can selectively
  disable ones that are not used. This does not include Netscape-style
  plug-ins. Netscape plug-in in CPU usage can be manually lowered, and
  plug-ins are more stable.
* more than 6,500 bugs have been fixed
* more than 1,700 wishes have been fullfilled
* more than 80,000 contributions with several million lines of code and
  documentation added or changed