The KDE Project ships a new major release of their leading Open Source desktop environment.

After more than a half year of development the KDE Project is happy to be able to announce a new major release of the award-winning K Desktop Environment. Among the many new features that have been incorporated, the improvements in accessibility are most remarkable.

One of the milestones in this new release will be the advanced KDE Text-to-speech framework. It integrates into KDE's PDF-viewer, editor, webbrowser and into the new speaker-tool KSayIt. It also allows to read out notifications from all KDE applications. Especially partially-sighted people and speech-impaired users will benefit, but it should also prove a fun desktop experience overall.

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Here are screenshots of this release.

Time for me to update.

Yeah I had RC1 running, it's sweet!

looks nice. I like the new flatter theme. Also the appfinder is a nice addition if it wasnt there before. I always find that to be a big problem. Wheres the executable after the install. especially from source.

G.i.P

Flatter theme is called Plastik, it's been there for awhile and shipped with Fedora core in KDE 3.3.X It's a very nice theme indeed.

That is real nice looking. I might have some questions later. I hope they let you post.

Is this a good version for an amd xp+ prcoessor?

It'll run on any platform. It's just the K Desktop Environment. You install it to any version of Linux that you want .

Awesome!! Looking good!