KDE 4.3 preview

Soon the release of the next version - KDE 4.3 I decided to make a small review of this product.

To start a little video:





Main innovations:

- Updated graphic effects







- PolicyKit integration. PolicyKit is a set of development tools for controlling system privileges in Unix-like operating systems.

PolicyKit-KDE includes an authorization manager and an authentication client, they look like this:







- Integration of geolocation services, the location will be determined either by a built-in GPS-receiver, or by IP.

- Updated runner



- Many updates in Plasma



- Improved hardware integration with Solid and Phonn libraries



And smaller:

- Old system settings mode returned



- New system tray



- Absolutely completely changeable appearance, a combination of modern hardware capabilities, Oxygen graphic themes and an updated Plasma shell





Google widgets



- Improved Qt development platform using C ++, Python, Ruby and other programming languages

- Many minor changes in applications and services, many bug fixes

Improved Kopete and Skype integration



Updated Dophin





As a result, I would like to say that this version of KDE looks pretty decent.

And even, according to some, can compete with Windows 7 in confirmation of this little humorous movie from Australia