14 DAY TRIAL // The KDE Project team announced today the availability of KDE 3.5.5, the 5th maintenance update to KDE 3.5 series. KDE 3.5.5 features translations in 65 languages, improvements in the instant messaging application and in the HTML rendering engine (KHTML). For a more detailed list of improvements since the KDE 3.5.4, which was released on 2nd August 2006, please refer to the full KDE 3.5.5 Changelog.
KDE 3.5.5 ships with a basic desktop and fifteen other packages (PIM, administration, network, edutainment, utilities, multimedia, games, artwork, web development and more). KDE's award-winning tools and applications are available in 65 languages.
Significant enhancements of this release include:
￭ Version 0.12.3 of Kopete replaces 0.11.3 in KDE 3.5.5, it includes support for Adium themes, performance improvements and better support for the Yahoo! and Jabber protocols. ￭ Support for sudo in kdesu. ￭ Support for input shape from XShape1.1 in KWin (KDE window manager). ￭ Lots of speed improvements and fixes in Konqueror's HTML engine, KHTML. ￭ CUPS 1.2 support in KDEPrint. ￭ Big improvements in the number of translated interface elements in Chinese Traditional, Farsi, Khmer, Low Saxon and Slovak translations.
About KDE:
KDE is a powerful Free Software graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix workstations. It combines ease of use, contemporary functionality, and outstanding graphical design with the technological superiority of the Unix operating system. KDE is a network transparent contemporary desktop environment for UNIX workstations. KDE seeks to fill the need for an easy to use desktop for Unix workstations, similar to the desktop environments found under the MacOS or Microsoft Windows.
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