The Oxygen widget and style set is improved and a new Oxygen theme for GTK applications allows them to seamlessly merge into the Plasma workspaces and look just like KDE applications. UPower, UDev and UDisks can be used instead of the deprecated HAL.

Nepomuk, the technology behind metadata and semantic search in KDE applications, now provides a graphical interface to back up and restore data. The Plasma framework gains support for writing desktop widgets in QML, the declarative Qt language, and provides new Javascript interfaces for interacting with data. The introduction of a 'mobile build target' allows for easier deployment of applications on mobile devices. The KDE Platform, on which the Plasma Workspaces and KDE Applications are built also gains new capabilities available to all KDE applications. Mobile Target Makes KDE Platform Lose Weight

The KDE Games collection receives many enhancements and the image viewer Gwenview and screenshot program KSnapshot gain the ability to instantly share images to a number of popular social networking sites. Particular highlights include improved routing capabilities in KDE’s virtual globe, Marble, and advanced filtering and searching using file metadata in the KDE file manager, Dolphin: Faceted Browsing. Many of the KDE Application teams have also released new versions.

Plasma Netbook, optimized for mobile computing devices receives speed enhancements and becomes easier to use via a touchscreen interface. KWin, the Plasma workspace window manager, receives a new scripting and the workspaces receive visual enhancements. Revised power management exposes new features but has a simpler configuration interface. The KDE Plasma Workspaces gain from a new Activities system, making it easier to associate applications with particular activities such as work or home tasks. These releases, versioned 4.6, provide many new features in each of KDE's three product lines. KDE is delighted to announce its latest set of releases, providing major updates to the KDE Plasma workspaces, KDE Applications and KDE Platform. De belangrijkste verbeteringen in versie 4.6.0 worden in de release notes uit de doeken gedaan. De KDE Software Compilation wordt met een standaarddesktop geleverd, inclusief een groot aantal applicaties, waaronder een personal information manager, programma's voor multimedia en netwerkbeheer, en spelletjes. Deze populaire desktopomgeving, die bestaat uit de onderdelen Development Platform, Plasma Workspaces en Applications, wordt primair voor Linux, FreeBSD en Solaris ontwikkeld, maar er bestaan ook versies voor Windows en Mac OS X, al zijn die iets minder ver in hun ontwikkeling.

Versie 4.6 van de KDE Software Compilation is uitgebracht.

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