Verwijderd wist als een speer de submit te vinden om ons te attenderen op de final release van KDE 3.3. De desktop environment voor Unix-achtige systemen is vanaf deze Nederlandse mirrorserver in verschillende smaken te downloaden. Hieronder zijn de belangrijkste aanpassingen van de 3.3-release opgesomd. Voor een volledig changelog kan je terecht in dit document:
New applicationsIntegration of desktop components
- Kolourpaint, an easy-to-use replacement for KPaint
- KWordQuiz, KLatin and KTurtle expand the list of education packages for schools and families
- Kimagemapeditor and klinkstatus make life easier for web designers
- KSpell2, a new spellchecking library that fixes all of KSpell's shortcomings
- KThemeManager, a new control center module to globally handle KDE visual themes
- The Python bindings PyQT and PyKDE are now maintained with KDE in our CVS
Many small desktop enhancements
- Kontact is now integrated with Kolab, KDE's groupware solution, and Kpilot
- Konqueror features better support for Instant Messenging contacts, with the capability to send files to IM contacts, and support for IM protocols (e.g. irc://)
- KMail can display the online presence of IM contacts
- Kopete can display a "now listening to" message from amaroK
- Juk has support for burning audio CDs with K3B
- Tab improvements in Konqueror, including scrollwheel switching
- An RSS feed viewer sidebar in Konqueror
- A searchbar for Konqueror, compatible with all keyword: searches
- HTML composing, anti-spam/anti-virus wizards, automatic handling of mailing lists, improved support for cryptography and a handy quick search bar all make their way into KMail
- Kopete gains support for file transfers with Jabber
- Quanta Plus has a VPL (Visual Page Layout) mode to make editing even easier
- aRts gains jack support, and aKode, a new multithreaded audio decoding/encoding library to replace mpeglib
- KWin has new buttons to support its full features, including "always on top"
- Over 7,000 bugs have been closed, and over 2,000 wishes have been fulfilled
- Over 60,000 lines of code, documentation and other contributions have been committed to CVS