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KDE Ships First Beta of Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform 4.10

Highlights of 4.10 include, but are not limited to:

  • Qt Quick in Plasma Workspaces — Qt Quick is continuing to make its way into the Plasma Workspaces. Plasma Quick, KDE’s extensions on top of QtQuick allow deeper integration with the system and more powerful apps and Plasma components. Plasma Containments can now be written in QtQuick. Various Plasma widgets have been rewritten in QtQuick, notably the system tray, pager, notifications, lock & logout, weather and weather station, comic strip and calculator plasmoids. Many performance, quality and usability improvements make Plasma Desktop and Netbook workspaces easier to use.

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