KDE SC 4.4: Fresh breeze for KDE
While stability and fine tuning the Plasma desktop shell were the focus in KDE 4.3, the current version has afforded developers the opportunity to add new features. They have integrated a total of 1,433 user requests into KDE SC 4.4. However, this was not done at the expense of bug fixing: The KDE team lists 7,293 fixed bugs.
KDE's social networking and network collaboration features received the biggest boost. Another focus was the further improvement of the Plasma Netbook shell. This alternative desktop is designed to improve the ergonomics of KDE for netbook users. The changes are complemented by added structural modifications.
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KDE 4.4 uses version 4.6 of the Qt library, which supports the Symbian platform as well as multi-touch functionality and offers improved performance. New among the KDE libraries is libattica, which allows developers to integrate web service access into applications. The Nepomuk information framework has been given a more stable back end and the Dolphin file manager, by default, now uses the Nepomuk Semantic Search framework for desktop searches.
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