KDE Software Compilation 4.11 released

KDE Software Compilation 4.11 released

Gearing up for long term maintenance, Plasma Workspaces delivers further improvements to basic functionality with a smoother taskbar, smarter battery widget and improved sound mixer. The introduction of KScreen brings intelligent multi-monitor handling to the Workspaces, and large scale performance improvements combined with small usability tweaks make for an overall nicer experience.

This release marks massive improvements in the KDE PIM stack, giving much better performance and many new features. Kate improves the productivity of Python and Javascript developers with new plugins, Dolphin became faster and the educational applications bring various new features.

This release of KDE Platform 4.11 continues to focus on stability. New features are being implemented for our future KDE Frameworks 5.0 release, but for the stable release we managed to squeeze in optimizations for our Nepomuk framework.

In the 4.11 release of Plasma Workspaces, the taskbar – one of the most used Plasma widgets – has been ported to QtQuick. The new taskbar, while retaining the look and functionality of its old counterpart, shows more consistent and fluent behavior. The port also resolved a number of long standing bugs. The battery widget (which previously could adjust the brightness of the screen) now also supports keyboard brightness, and can deal with multiple batteries in peripheral devices, such as your wireless mouse and keyboard. It shows the battery charge for each device and warns when one is running low. The Kickoff menu now shows recently installed applications for a few days. Last but not least, notification popups now sport a configure button where one can easily change the settings for that particular type of notification.

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