KDE 4.0.3 Released

April 2, 2008 (The INTERNET). The KDE Community today announced the immediate
availability of KDE 4.0.3, the third bugfix and maintenance release for the
latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop. KDE 4.0.3
is the third monthly update to KDE 4.0. It ships with a basic desktop and
many other packages; like administration programs, network tools, educational
applications, utilities, multimedia software, games, artwork, web development
tools and more. KDE's award-winning tools and applications are available in
49 languages.

Enhancements

KDE 4.0.3 comes with an impressive amount of bugfixes and improvements. Most
of them are recorded in the changelog. KDE continues to release updates for
the 4.0 desktop on a monthly basis. KDE 4.1, which will bring large
improvements to the KDE desktop and application will be released in July this
year.

KDE 4.0.3 improvements revolve around lots of bugfixes and translation
updates. Corrections have been made in such a way that results in only a
minimal risk of regressions. For KDE, it is also a way to deliver bugfixes
quickly to the users. An excerpt from the changelog reveals that nearly all
modules in KDE have seen lots of improvements. Again, the KHTML team has done
an awesome job in improving the user experience with the Konqueror web
browser.
* Scrolling optimisations in KHTML, KDE's HTML rendering engine
* Improved handling of dialog windows in KWin, KDE's window manager
* Various rendering improvements in Okular, KDE's document viewer

Extragear

 Since KDE 4.0.0, Extragear applications are also part of regular KDE
releases. Extragear applications are KDE applications that are mature, but
not part of one of the other KDE packages. The extragear package that is
shipped with KDE 4.0.3 ship the following programs:

* KColoredit - An editor for color palette files that supports KDE and Gimp  
  color palette formats
* KFax - A desktop fax viewer
* KGrab - A more advanced screenshot taking tool
* KGraphviewer - A GraphViz dot graph viewer for KDE
* KIconedit - A drawing program for icon graphics
* KMldonkey - A graphical client for the EDonkey network
* KPovmodeler - A 3D modeler
* Libksane - An image-scanning library
* RSIbreak - A program that saves you from getting RSI by enforcing breaks

New in this release of the Extragear application is the Gopher KIO slave, a
plugin that adds support for the Gopher protocol to all KDE applications.

For the full announcement, please read
http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.0.3.php
A more detailed changelog can be found at
http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog4_0_2to4_0_3.php



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