Showed the first beta version of desktop environment KDE 4.2. The issue is stable see daylight at the beginning of next year.

Among the most important news in the first becie are enabled by default composite effects, many of them have been improved, inter alia, through the use of technology dynamics of movement. Introduced a couple of new effects such as the magic lamp, and to minimize the cube. With the new applets Plasmy find applets to leave a message, preview the files, switching activity, calendar, selection and monitoring system. It is now also compatible with Google Gadgets.

In addition to this in an environment where new printing system configuration, added support for Active Directory domains KRDC and protocols SFTP and FISH, a new, integrated tool to control various aspects of mobile devices, and also designed a new graphical interface for KMail.

More information about the new release to the authors. A reminder that it is still a fragile version, which could sometimes cause problems, but certainly worth attention paid to it.

Source: KDE

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