KDE 4.0 as we know it is the next generation of the popular K Desktop Environment, which seeks to fulfill the need for a powerful yet easy-to-use desktop, for both personal and
enterprise computing.

Below are the main goals of KDE 4.1 which is to be released sometime in July of this year:

• Windows port (Frameworks and Applications)
• Mac port (Frameworks and Applications)
• OpenSolaris port
• Plasma with widgets on canvas, makes things like layouting much easier, and generally integrating widgets into Plasmoids
• Webkit in Plasma
• GStreamer, Quicktime, DirectShow9 Phonon backends
• Apple dashboard widgets support in Plasma
• Decibel VOIP and real-time communication framework
• Done! Dragon Player multimedia player
• Done! Lokalize (formerly Kaider) computer-aided translation system
• More polished Kopete
• KDevelop and KDevplatform modules
• KDE-PIM module, with some Akonadi functionality
• KBlogger for KDE-PIM
• Move Akonadi library into the kdepimlibs module
• GetHotNewStuff2 / DXS
• Plasmagik plasma packages and add-on creator
• Lots of smaller features

Please take a look at the release schedule below for future KDE 4 versions:

• January - KDE 4.0.1
• February - KDE 4.0.2
• March - KDE 4.0.3
• April - KDE 4.0.4
• May - KDE 4.0.5
• June - KDE 4.0.6
• July - KDE 4.1.0
• August - KDE 4.1.1

Please take a closer look at the KDE 4.1 release schedule below:

• March 31st, 2008: Soft Feature Freeze
• April 22nd, 2008: Hard Feature Freeze
• April 22nd, 2008: Tag KDE 4.1 Alpha 1
• April 29th, 2008: Release KDE 4.1 Alpha 1
• May 20th, 2008: Message Freeze.
• May 20th, 2008: Tag KDE 4.1 Beta 1
• May 27th, 2008: Release KDE 4.1 Beta 1
• June 17th, 2008: Tag KDE 4.1 Beta 2
• June 24th, 2008: Release KDE 4.1 Beta 2
• July 8th, 2008: Artwork Freeze
• July 8th, 2008: Tag KDE 4.1 RC 1
• July 15th, 2008: Release KDE 4.1 RC 1
• July 22nd, 2008: Tag KDE 4.1.0
• July 29th, 2008: Release KDE 4.1

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