KDE 4.10 Beta rilasciato, scopriamone le novità

Novembre 21, 2012 Marco Giannini

KDE rilascia la prima Beta di Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform 4.10 o per gli amici KDE 4.10 Beta.

Questo nuovo ramo di KDE porta con se nel DE del drago nuove funzionalità come gli sfondi animati, utilizzo di QtQuick in ogni dove (o quasi), miglioramenti in Okular, miglioramenti sostanziali nell’indicizzazione dei file tramite Nepomuk, un nuovo print manager e altre migliorie nel parco software e nel sistema dovute all’arrivo di QtQuick.

Ma vediamo le caratteristiche principali di KDE 4.10:

Qt Quick in Plasma Workspaces — Qt Quick is
continuing to make its way into the Plasma Workspaces. Plasma Quick,
KDE’s extensions on top of QtQuick allow deeper integration with the
system and more powerful apps and Plasma components. Plasma Containments
can now be written in QtQuick. Various Plasma widgets have been
rewritten in QtQuick, notably the system tray, pager, notifications,
lock & logout, weather and weather station, comic strip and
calculator plasmoids. Many performance, quality and usability
improvements make Plasma Desktop and Netbook workspaces easier to use.
New Screen Locker — A new screen locking mechanism based on QtQuick brings more flexibility and security to Plasma Desktop.
Animated Wallpapers — Thanks to a new QtQuick-based wallpaper engine, animated wallpapers are now much easier to create.
Improved Zooming in Okular — A technique called
tiled rendering allows Okular to zoom in much further while reducing
memory consumption. Okular Active, the touch-friendly version of the
powerful document reader is now a KDE Application.
Faster indexing — Improvements in the Nepomuk
semantic engine allow faster indexing of files. The new Tags kioslave
allows users to browse their files by tags in any KDE-powered
application.
Color Correction — Gwenview, KDE’s smart image
viewer, and Plasma’s Window Manager now support color correction and can
be adjusted to the color profile of different monitors, allowing for
more natural representation of photos and graphics.
Notifications — Plasma’s notifications are now
rendered using QtQuick. Notifications themselves, especially concerning
power management, have been cleaned up.
New Print Manager — Setup of printers and monitoring jobs was improved thanks to a new implementation of the Print Manager.
Kate, KDE’s Advanced Text Editor received multiple improvements regarding user feedback. It is now extensible using Python plugins.
KTouch — KDE’s touch-typing learning utility has been rewritten and features a cleaner, more elegant user interface.
libkdegames improvements — Many parts of libkdegames have been rewritten, porting instructions for 3rd party developers are available.
KSudoku now allows puzzles to be printed.
KJumpingCube has seen a large number of improvements making the game more enjoyable.

I primi fortunelli che possono avere KDE 4.10 Beta fin da subito sono come sempre gli utenti #ArchLinux che possono provarlo aggiungendo il repository [kde-unstable] ed aggiornando il sistema con un bel -Syu
Per gli utenti ArchLinux il topic ufficiale è:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1196794#p1196794