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KDE 3.4 released

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A new version of the very good and popular desktop environment is now available for most Linux distributions. The distribution Kubuntu has made a live-cd with KDE 3.4 available for those two want to try it out before installing anything on their computer.

KDE 3.4 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

The Linux distribution Ubuntu has a Live CD available for Windows users who want to try the latest Linux desktop without touching their existing systems.

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KDE 3.4 released