KDE 4.0-alpha1 Released: "Knut"

Contributed by: sde

The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the first alpha release of the KDE Desktop Environment, version 4.0.

This release is a basis for the integration of powerful new technologies that will be included in KDE 4. Read on for more details.

Highlights of KDE 4.0 Alpha 1 are:

New frameworks to build applications with, providing
vastly improved
hardware and multimedia integration (through href="http://solid.kde.org">Solid and href="http://phonon.kde.org">Phonon), spelling and grammar
checking, to name just a few

New applications that focus on a smooth user
experience, such as Dolphin, the file manager, and Okular, the document
viewer