14 DAY TRIAL // The KDE Project just announced the immediate availability for download of the second RC of KDE Software Compilation 4.10 branch.
Unlike the previous RC which was more like a Christmas present, this new version has been planned and awaited by a lot of people.
Moreover, the developers have also announced that a new RC, besides this one, will be released in the first week of February 2013.
Highlights of KDE 4.10 RC2:
• QtQuick is now available in Plasma Workspaces. Plasma Quick, KDE's extensions on top of QtQuick, allows deeper integration with the system and more powerful apps and Plasma components; • A new screen locking mechanism, based on QtQuick and which brings more flexibility and security to Plasma Desktop, has been implemented; • A new QtQuick-based wallpaper engine has been added so that animated wallpapers are now much easier to create; • A technique called tiled rendering allows Okular to zoom in further while reducing memory consumption; • An improvement in the Nepomuk semantic engine now allows a faster indexing of files; • The new Tags kioslave allows users to browse their files by tags in any KDE-powered application; • Gwenview now supports color correction and it can be adjusted to the color profile for different monitors; • Plasma's notifications are now rendered using QtQuick; • The setup of printers and monitoring jobs has been improved; • Kate, KDE's Advanced Text Editor received multiple improvements based on user feedback and now it can use Python plug-ins; • KDE's touch-typing learning utility has been rewritten and now features a better interface; • KSudoku now allows printing puzzles.
Check out the official announcement for a complete list of changes and improvements.
Download the KDE 4.10 RC2 sources right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is a development version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.