Tilkynning um KDE 4.0-alpha1

11. maí 2007

KDE verkefnið út fyrstu Alpha útgáfuna af nýja leiðandi frjálsa skjáborðinu, með útgáfunafnið "Knud"

KDE 4.0-alpha1 inniheldur stórar endurbætur á grafík, betri meðhöndlun af margmiðlunarvélbúnað ásamt nokkrum nýjum og endurbættum forritum.

11. maí 2007. The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the first alpha release of the KDE Desktop Environment, version 4.0. The release is a basis for the integration of powerful new technologies that will be included in KDE 4.

Highlights of KDE 4.0 Alpha1 are:

• A new visual appearance through Oxygen
• New frameworks to build applications with, providing vastly improved hardware and multimedia integration (through Solid and Phonon, spelling and grammar checking, to name just a few)
• New applications that focus on a smooth user experience, such as Dolphin, the file manager, and Okular, the document viewer

KDE 4.0 Alpha1 marks the end of the addition of large features to the KDE base libraries and shifts the focus onto integrating those new technologies into applications and the basic desktop. The next few months will be spent on bringing the desktop into shape after two years of frenzied development leaving very little untouched.

The final release of KDE 4.0 is expected in late October 2007. The work on the framework makes application development easier and more satisfying. This will result in a crop of new features and applications over the next few years, underlining the position KDE holds as the leading Free Desktop and bringing Free Software to new users world-wide. A detailed release schedule can be found at techbase.kde.org, the new technical resource accompanying the platform, that provides extensive and high-quality documentation about KDE.

For more information, including downloading and installation instructions, please refer to the visual guide that also gives some ideas of the current state of KDE 4 development.

Styðja við KDE

KDE er frjáls hugbúnaðar, verkefnið vex og dafnast einungis vegna hjálpar margra sjálfboðaliða sem gefa sinn tíma og getu. KDE hefur alltaf þörf fyrir fleiri sjálfboðaliða, hvort sem það er við kóðun, villuleiðréttingar eða tilkynningar, skrifun af skjölum, þýðingar, kynningar, peningagjafir, o.s.frv. Öll framlög eru vel þegin. Lestu styðja við KDE síðuna fyrir nánari upplýsingar.

Við vonumst til að heyra frá þér.

About KDE

KDE is an award-winning, independent project of hundreds of developers, translators, artists and other professionals worldwide collaborating over the Internet to create and freely distribute a sophisticated, customizable and stable desktop and office environment employing a flexible, component-based, network-transparent architecture and offering an outstanding development platform.

The KDE 3 branch continues to provide a stable, mature desktop including a state-of-the-art browser (Konqueror), a personal information management suite (Kontact), a full office suite (KOffice), a large set of networking application and utilities, and an efficient, intuitive development environment featuring the excellent IDE KDevelop.

KDE is working proof that the Open Source "Bazaar-style" software development model can yield first-rate technologies on par with and superior to even the most complex commercial software.

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