KDE 4.1 Released

Today i.e; 29^th, July 2008, The KDE com­mu­nity released the KDE 4.1.0. This is sec­ond release in KDE 4 series. It has so may improve­ments over Pre­vi­ous release or KDE 4.0 like inte­gra­tion of the Per­sonal Infor­ma­tion Man­age­ment suite with KMail, KOr­gan­iser, Akre­ga­tor, the RSS feed reader, KNode, the news­group reader and many more com­po­nents inte­grated into the Kon­tact shell. Fur­ther­more, the new desk­top shell Plasma, intro­duced in KDE 4.0

Dirk Muller, one of KDE’s release man­agers gives num­bers: “There have been 20803 com­mits made from KDE 4.0 to KDE 4.1 along with 15432 trans­la­tion check­ins. Almost 35000 com­mits have been done in work branches, some of them also being merged into KDE 4.1, so those were not even counted.” Muller also tells us that KDE’s sysad­min team has cre­ated 166 new accounts for devel­op­ers on KDE’s SVN server.

Updates or Changes:
KDE-​PIM is back with 4.1, con­tains the appli­ca­tions per­sonal infor­ma­tion man­age­ment. KMail, KOr­ga­nizer, Akre­ga­tor — RSS feed reader and oth­ers are now avail­able again in KDE 4 look.
Dragon Player, A new and easy video player.
Okteta is the new well-​integrated and feature-​rich hexed­i­tor
KSys­tem­Log, helps you keep track of what is going on in your sys­tem
New games such as KDi­a­mond (a bejew­eled clone), Kol­li­sion, KBreak­Out and Kubrick are intro­duced.
Lokalize, helps trans­la­tors to make KDE4 avail­able in your lan­guage more­over KDE4 already sup­ports 50-​odd lan­guages
KSCD, your desk­top CD player has been resurrected

Dol­phin, KDE’s file­m­an­ager has a new tree­view in the main view, also new is the sup­port for tabs. A new and inno­v­a­tive single-​click selec­tion allows for a more con­sis­tent user expe­ri­ence, and copy-​to and move-​to con­text actions make those actions eas­ier acces­si­ble. Of course Kon­queror is also avail­able as alter­na­tive to Dol­phin, tak­ing advan­tage of most of the above fea­tures as well.
Kon­queror, KDE’s web­browser now has sup­port for re-​opening already closed win­dows and tabs, it also scrolls smoothly through web­pages.
Gwen­view, KDE’s image viewer has got­ten a new fullscreen view, a thumb­nail bar for easy access to other pho­tos, a smart Undo sys­tem and sup­port for rat­ing images.
KRDC, KDE’s remote desk­top client now detects remote desk­tops on the local net­work auto­mat­i­cally using the Zero­Conf pro­to­col.
Mar­ble, KDE’s desk­top globe now inte­grates with Open­StreetMap so you can find your way every­where using the Free Maps.
KSys­Guard, now sup­ports mon­i­tor­ing process out­put or run­ning appli­ca­tions so there is no need to restart your apps from a ter­mi­nal any­more when you want to know what’s going on.
KWin’s com­posit­ing win­dow man­ager fea­tures have been more sta­bi­lized and extended. New effect such as the Cov­er­switch win­dow switcher and the famous “wob­bly win­dows” have been added.
Plasma’s panel con­fig­u­ra­tion has been extended. The new panel con­troller makes it easy to cus­tomize your panel pro­vid­ing direct visual feed­back. You can also add pan­els and put them on dif­fer­ent edges of your screen(s). The new fold­erview applet allows you to store files on your desk­top (in fact it pro­vides a view of a direc­tory on your sys­tem). You can put zero, one or more fold­erviews onto your desk­top, pro­vid­ing for easy and flex­i­ble access to the files you are work­ing with.

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