[kde] 4.8 RC2

Sebastian Kügler

Today KDE released the second release candidate for its renewed Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. With API, dependency and feature freezes in place, the KDE team's focus is now on fixing bugs and further polishing new and old functionality. Please give this release another good round of testing to help us release a rock-solid 4.8 later this month.

Highlights of 4.8 include, but are not limited to:

* Qt Quick in Plasma Workspaces — Qt Quick is making its way into the Plasma Workspaces, the new Plasma Components provide a standardized API implementation of widgets with native Plasma Look and Feel. The device notifier widget has been ported to using these components and is now written in pure QML. KWin's window switcher is now also QML-based, paving the way for newly designed window switchers.

* Dolphin's file view has been rewritten for better performance, scalability and more attractive visual appearance.

* KSecretService optionally enables a shared password storage, therefore making your saved passwords available to many other applicatios, leading to a more secure system and better integration of non-KDE apps into the Plasma Workspaces and KDE apps into non-Plasma workspaces.

* Many performance improvements and bugfixes improve the overall user experience, making the KDE Applications and Workspaces more productive and fun to use than ever before.

Bugs can be reported using KDE's Bugzilla, http://bugs.kde.org

The full announcement can be found at: http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.8-rc2.php