[release-notes] bringing KDE up to speed

[Pete Travis]

commit 303313abeaa7fb2c75763fc40e98540c85f059fa
Author: Pete Travis <immanetize at fedoraproject.org>
Date:   Sat Oct 19 18:27:43 2013 -0600

    bringing KDE up to speed

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   </section>
 
-  <section>
+  <section id="desktop-kde">
     <title>KDE</title>
     <para />
+    <section id="desktop-kde-plasma">
+      <title>
+	KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.11
+      </title>
+      <para>
+	<productname>KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.11</productname> is a long term release of the popular, full featured desktop environment. Major changes have been made to user experience, personal information management, and performance aspects of the platform.
+      </para>
+      <para>
+	<itemizedlist>
+	  <title>User experience changes</title>
+	  <listitem>
+	    <para>
+	      Taskbar has been ported to <application>QtQuick</application> , providing more consistent and fluent behavior.
+	    </para>
+	  </listitem>
+	  <listitem>
+	    <para>
+	      Battery widget now supports keyboard brightness, and displays status for multiple batteries in peripherals, such as in mice and keyboards.
+	    </para>
+	  </listitem>
+	  <listitem>
+	    <para>
+	      Notification popups now have a configure button, allowing customization of the type of notification displayed.
+	    </para>
+	  </listitem>
+	  <listitem>
+	    <para>
+	      <application>Kmix</application>, the KDE sound mixer, performs better and more stably, in addition to adding media player controls to the widget.
+	    </para>
+	  </listitem>
+	  <listitem>
+	    <para>
+	      Improved performance of Kwin, the KDE window manager.
+	    </para>
+	  </listitem>
+	  <listitem>
+	    <para>
+	      Text editor <application>Kate</application> has new plugins for Python2, Python3, Javascript, JQuery, and XML.
+	    </para>
+	  </listitem>
+	  <listitem>
+	    <para>
+	      Improved user interface design in <application>Kwallet</application>.
+	    </para>
+	  </listitem>
+	  <listitem>
+	    <para>
+	      <application>Kolourpaint</application>, a simple painting application, now supports the <function>WebP</function> image format.
+	    </para>
+	  </listitem>
+	  <listitem>
+	    <para>
+	      PDF viewer <application>Okular</application> adds review tools and undo/redo support for annotations and forms.
+	    </para>
+	  </listitem>
+	  <listitem>
+	    <para>
+	      The <application>JuK</application> audio player and tagger adds support for playback and metadata editing of Ogg Opus format files. 
+	    </para>
+	  </listitem>
+	</itemizedlist>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+	<itemizedlist>
+	  <title>Personal Identity Management changes</title>
+	  <listitem>
+	    <para>
+	      Improved <productname>Kontact Suite</productname>, including better archiving, scheduled mail sending, simple message filtering interface, better notifications, and scam detection in <application>Kmail</application>. 
+	    </para>
+	  </listitem>
+	</itemizedlist>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+	<itemizedlist>
+	  <title>Performance Improvements</title>
+	  <listitem>
+	    <para>
+	      Numerous optimizations to Dolphin reduce memory usage by up to 30%.
+	    </para>
+	  </listitem>
+	  <listitem>
+	    <para>
+	      Better indexing and various improvements to <application>Nemopuk</application> make searches up to 6x faster, adds indexing for ODF, docx and other document formats, and improves backup and restoration functionality.
+	    </para>
+	  </listitem>
+	</itemizedlist>
+	<note>
+	  <title>Nemopuk and upgrading</title>
+	  <para>Users upgrading to new versions of <application>Nemopuk</application> should expect their database to be automatically reindexed and upgraded. The conversion will consume more system resources than normal but will only occur on the first login after upgrading. 
+	  </para>
+	</note>
+      </para>
+    </section>
+    <section id="desktop-kde-sddm">
+      <title>SDDM as Display Manager</title>
+      <para>
+	The <productname>KDE Desktop Environment</productname> will use <application>SDDM</application> instead of <application>KDM</application> as the designated display and login manager. <application>SDDM</application> is the successor to <application>KDM</application>, and adds support for <function>QtQuick</function> themes.
+      </para>
+      <para>
+	Some features may initially be missing from <application>SDDM</application>, such as VNC or multiseat support However, the <application>SDDM</application> development community is very active and regular additions to functionality are expected.
+      </para>
+      <para>
+	<application>KDM</application>, the previous display manager, is still available from the Fedora repositories. Install it with the command <command>yum install kdm</command> and enable with the command <command>systemctl enable --force kdm.service</command>
+      </para>
+    </section>
+    <section id="desktop-kde-plasmanm">
+      <title>Plasma-nm Network applet</title>
+      <para>
+	<productname>KDE</productname> in Fedora 20 includes <application>Plasma-nm</application>, a new applet for network management. It supports user-friendly creation and editing of all connection types from <application>NetworkManager</application>, including bridges, bonds, and VPNs, with a modern and intuitive interface. 
+      </para>
+    </section>
   </section>
   
   <section>