Highlights 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
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