Today, the availability of KDE 4.8 Beta1 was announced , which will have some new features in some Applications , Workspaces and in the Development Platform.
The KDE team's focus is now on fixing bugs and further refining the desktop's functionality. The highlights of this release are:
- Qt Quick in Plasma Workspaces qt-quick is making its way into Plasma workspaces, the new components of Plasma offer a new API standardized for implementation in widgets with Look & Feel native of Plasma.
- The device notifier has been ported to use these components and is written in QML pure.
- Kwin the window switcher is now based on QML, paving the way for new window switching designs.
- Dolphin It has been rewritten for better performance, scalability, and a more attractive visual appearance.
- Lots of performance improvements and bug fixes to improve the overall user experience, so apps from KDE and workspaces will be more productive and more fun to use than ever.
The KDE Software Collection , including all its libraries and applications, is available free of charge under open-source licenses. KDE software can be obtained in source code and various binary formats from http://download.kde.org or with any of the major GNU/Linux distributions and UNIX systems.