KDE Software Compilation - Kate, KDE Software Compilation 4, K Desktop Environment 3, Kontact, KDE Plasma Workspaces, Kwin (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Kate, KDE Software Compilation 4, K Desktop Environment 3, Kontact, KDE Plasma Workspaces, KWin, K Desktop Environment 2, K Desktop Environment 1, Kig, Dolphin, Kdegames, Okular, JuK, KDE Education Project, Kdemultimedia, KDE Display Manager, Ark, KolourPaint, KWrite, KRDC, KCalc, KDE System Guard, System Settings, Kinfocenter, Kiten, Lokalize, KWallet, Klipper, Kdebindings, Kdeadmin, Kdeutils, Kdegraphics, KDE Accessibility Project, Kdesdk, Kdenetwork. Excerpt: KDE Software Compilation 4 (KDE SC 4) is the current series of releases of KDE Software Compilation. The first major version (4.0) of this series was released on 11 January 2008, and the latest major version (4.7) was released on 27 July 2011. Major releases (4.x) are scheduled for every six months, while minor bugfix releases (4.x.y) are released monthly. The new series includes updates to several of the KDE Platform's core components, notably a port to Qt 4. It contains a new multimedia API, called Phonon, a device integration framework called Solid and a new style guide and default icon set called Oxygen. It also includes a new, unified desktop and panel user interface called Plasma, which supports desktop widgets, replacing K Desktop Environment 3's separate components. One of the overall goals of KDE Platform 4 is to make it easy for KDE applications to be portable to different operating systems. This was made possible by the port to Qt 4, which facilitated support for non-X11-based platforms, including Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Versions 4.0 to 4.3 of the KDE Software Compilation were known simply as KDE 4 - the name change was a component of the KDE project's re-branding to reflect KDE's increased scope. This is a short overview of major changes in KDE Software Compilation 4. The port to the Qt 4 series was expected to enable KDE 4 to use less me...