KDE is a powerful Free Software graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix workstations.

It combines ease of use, contemporary functionality, and outstanding graphical design with the technological superiority of the Unix operating system.

KDE is a network transparent contemporary desktop environment for UNIX workstations. KDE seeks to fill the need for an easy to use desktop for Unix workstations, similar to the desktop environments found under the MacOS or Microsoft Windows.

We believe that the UNIX operating system is the best operating system available today. In fact UNIX has been the undisputed choice of the information technology professional for many years. When it comes to stability, scalability and openness there is no competition to UNIX. However, the lack of an easy to use contemporary desktop environment for UNIX has prevented UNIX from finding its way onto the desktops of the typical computer user in offices and homes.

UNIX dominates the server market and is the preferred computing platform for computing professional and scientists. Without UNIX the internet would not be. But UNIX did not address the needs of the average computer user.

This fact is particularly unfortunate since a number of implementations of UNIX (Debian GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD etc.) are freely available on the internet. All of which are of exceptional quality and stability.

KDE The Desktop Environment

With KDE there is now an easy to use contemporary desktop environment available for UNIX. Together with a free implementation of UNIX such as GNU/Linux, UNIX/KDE constitutes a completely free and open computing platform available to anyone free of charge including its source code for anyone to modify. While there will always be room for improvement we believe to have delivered a viable alternative to some of the more commonly found and commercial operating systems/desktops combinations available today. It is our hope that the combination UNIX/KDE will finally bring the same open, reliable, stable and monopoly free computing to the average computer user that scientist and computing professionals world-wide have enjoyed for years.

KDE The Application Development Framework

Authoring applications under UNIX/X11 used to be an extremely difficult and tedious process. KDE recognizes the fact that a computing platform is only as good as the amount of first class applications available to the users of that particular platform. In view of these circumstances the KDE Project has developed a first rate compound document application framework, implementing the latest advances in framework technology and thus positioning itself in direct competition to such popular development frameworks as for example Microsoft's MFC/COM/ActiveX technology. KDE's KParts compound document technology enables developers to quickly create first rate applications implementing cutting edge technology.

KDE The Office Application Suite

Leveraging the KDE application development framework a great number of applications have been built for the K Desktop Environment. A selection of those applications is contained in the KDE base distribution. At this moment KDE is developing an office application suite based on KDE's KParts technology consisting of a spread-sheet, a presentation application, an organizer, a news client and more. KPresenter, KDE's presentation application was successfully used at many presentations.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

kdelibs:

kdecore bugfixes:
· Make external browser work even when kfmclient is not installed. Fixes bug 206581. See SVN commit 1020884.
· Fix KConfig so that existing settings are not lost in case the disk is full. Fixes bugs 169132 and 206596. See SVN commit 1023830.
· Fix crash during concurrent access to KLocale's catalogs from multiple threads. Fixes bug 208178. See SVN commit 1029879.
· kfile
Bugfixes:
· Fix possible crash when copying files during previews are shown. Fixes bug 200125. See SVN commit 1022120.

kdebase:

kwin bugfixes:
· Fix crash in CoverSwitch Effect when a window is closed. Fixes bug 184602. See SVN commit 1021316.
· Fix crash in BoxSwitch Effect when a window is closed. Fixes bug 179865. See SVN commit 1021318.
· Fix broken icons for Special Application/Window Settings menu. Fixes bug 207136. See SVN commit 1023072.
· Slideback effect works correctly with multiple modal windows. See SVN commit 1023325.
· Windows get rearranged when a window gets closed in Present Windows effect. Fixes bug 200084. See SVN commit 1024317.
· Fix crash in CoverSwitch Effect during end animation when last window is closed. Fixes bug 207554. See SVN commit 1027306.
· Remove screen flicker when (un)loading effects. Fixes bug 183107. See SVN commit 1027313.

plasma bugfixes:
· Fix crash in tasks applet when the grouping strategy is set to "only when full". Fixes bug 199325. See SVN commit 1027747.
· Make the applicationjobs data engine load translations properly. See SVN commit 1023553.

dolphin bugfixes:
· Don't crash when notified that something changed in the current directory. Fixes bug 193466. See SVN commit 1029209.
· Fix redirection handling so that copying files into sftp://host works. Fixes bug 186947. See SVN commit 1025419.

kio_trash bugfixes:
· Fix wrong trash status (marked as empty even when it's not anymore). Fixes bug 167388. See SVN commit 1023690.
· konqueror
Bugfixes:
· Fix crash when closing tab (or any other view) and the mouse is over a link. Fixes bugs 200181 and 184604. See SVN commit 1021168.
· Fix crash when closing tab with the find bar open. Fixes bug 207173. See SVN commit 1028036.
· Fix redirection handling so that going up from an archive (tar/zip/...) works. Fixes bug 79302. See SVN commit 1026290.

kdeutils:

okteta bugfixes:
· Fix tooltips for bookmarks ignoring the offset produced by the scrolling of the view See SVN commit 1023559.
· kdeedu [ all SVN changes ]
· khangman
Improvements:
· Make tooltip a global setting instead of a per-word one. See SVN commit 1027708.

kdegraphics:

Okular bugfixes:
· Fix saving files over themselves. See SVN commit 1023087.
· kdepim [ all SVN changes ]

KMail bugfixes:
· Fix unexpected deletion of mails when renaming a disconnected IMAP folder, under certain conditions. See SVN commits 1022963 and 1022964.
· Fix a crash when autocompleting a LDAP address. Fixes bug 206024. See SVN commits 1019119 and 1019358.
· Potentially fix several crashes, for example when deleting IMAP messages. Fixes bugs 163071 and 200137. See SVN commit 1024448.
· Fix potential crash when using precommands. Fixes bug 196053. See SVN commit 1020261.
· Fix a crash upon importing certain MBOX files. See SVN commit 1020526.
· Fix a memory leak that could occur with disconnected IMAP after deleting messages. See SVN commit 1021563.
· Make KMail a bit more responsive when using search folders. Fixes bug 205448. See SVN commit 1017920.
· Use the correct localized date format in group headers. Fixes bug 196108. See SVN commit 1019113.
· Don't truncate attachment names with a slash in them when saving. Fixes bug 191455. See SVN commit 1019990.
· Don't remove parts of the filename when saving attachments. Fixes bug 185167. See SVN commit 1020593.
· Don't scroll too much when scrolling with the page up/down key. Fixes bug 160990. See SVN commit 1020455.
· Show a clear button in regular expression input fields. Fixes bug 204532. See SVN commit 1020460.
· Don't waste space with tree decorations when not using threading and grouping. Fixes bug 181794. See SVN commit 1020461.
· Fix the icon column sizes in the POP filter confirmation dialog. Fixes bug 205018. See SVN commit 1020464.
· Try harder to find the executable of annoyance-filter. Fixes bug 140353. See SVN commit 1020465.
· Fix the problem that the forward menu was missing entries. Fixes bug 206377. See SVN commit 1020525.
· Show the attachment icon also for attachment-only mails. Fixes bug 143237. See SVN commit 1020587.
· Fix display of the unread count in the folder view with RTL languages. Fixes bug 207028. See SVN commit 1022456.
· Be more tolerant against invalid encodings in header fields. Fixes bug 206417. See SVN commit 1021325.
· Improved URL discovery in plain text mails. Fixes bug 202445. See SVN commit 1015198.
· Also recognize local folders as groupware folders when configured so. See SVN commit 1021565.
· Ensure that recent addresses don't get double-double-quoted. See SVN commit 1021567.
· Fix reading an incorrect config value for the POP filter confirmation dialog. See SVN commit 1023466.
· Fix display problem after renaming a disconnected IMAP folder. See SVN commit 1027233.
· Don't overwrite custom IMAP folder type annotations. See SVN commit 1027236.
· Fix regression that the shared seen flag setting could not be set for the inbox. See SVN commit 1027237.

KOrganizer bugfixes:
· Don't make all-day events disappear until the next restart after editing them. Fixes bug 204998. See SVN commit 1023576.

Kontact bugfixes:
· Fix oversized progress bar when fetching feeds. See SVN commit 1027230.
· Don't crash on exit when having nested todos. See SVN commit 1026793.

KAlarm improvements:
· Provide 'any time' option when deferring date-only alarms. Fixes bug 208521. See SVN commit 1028929.
Bugfixes:
· Use KDE system settings to determine default working days in the week. See SVN commit 1017649.