Download KDE 3.5.7

The developers behind the K Desktop Environment have just released version 3.5.7 of the popular desktop environment of the same name for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris, among others. KDE ships with a standard desktop including fifteen packages of applications such as a Personal Information Manager, multimedia, administration and network management programs, games, and so on. A full list of all changes in the 3.5 family, with the changes in version 3.5.7 highlighted in orange, is on this page to find. Below is an excerpt from the announcement:

KDE 3.5.7 Release Announcement

the KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.5.7, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. KDE now supports 65 languagesmaking it available to more people than most non-free software and can be easily extended to support others by communities who wish to contribute to the open source project.

This release has a renewed focus on KDE PIM applications. KAddressBook, KOrganizer and KAlarm received attention with bug fixes, while KMail additionally witnessed new features and improvements with both interface work and IMAP handling: it can manage IMAP quota and copy and move all folders.

Several other applications saw feature improvements:

• KPDF shows tooltips for links when hovering on them, displays correctly more complex PDF files like this Firefox advertisement and reacts to the commands for opening the Table of Contents pane.
• Umbrello now can generate and export C# Code and has added Java 5 generics support.
• KDevelop got a major version upgrade to version 3.4.1. New features include much improved Code Completion and Navigation, a more reliable debugger interface, Qt4 support and better Ruby and KDE4 development support.

In addition to the new features there were many bug fixes across the board, especially in the Edutainment and games packages and Kopete. Besides bug fixes Kopete also got a major performance improvement on chat rendering.

As KDE users have come to expect, this new release includes continued work on KHTML and KJS, KDE’s HTML and Javascript engines. A new and interesting usability feature in KHTML makes the mouse pointer indicate if a link wants to open a new browser window or not.[break]