presented April summary update of applications (21.04) developed by the KDE project. Starting from this release, the consolidation set of KDE applications will now be published under the name KDE Gear, instead of KDE Apps and KDE Applications. In total, as part of April update published Releases 225 programs, libraries and plugins. Information about the availability of Live assemblies with new application releases can be obtained on this page .
Most notable innovations:
- The possibilities of the personal information manager kontact.kde.org/”> kontact , covering applications such as postal client, scheduler, certificate manager and address book:
- Calendar Planner can now send invitations to scheduled meetings and send warnings in case of changes in the event.
- in the mailbox is provided with saving information about the sender of incoming letters, even if the user clearly did not add them to the address book. The accumulated data is used in the formation of recommendations while filling out the address in a new letter.
- In the mail client Kmail added support for the autocrypt that simplifies the encryption of correspondence due to the simple automatic setting and sharing key without using the keys servers (the key is automatically transmitted In the first sent message).
- provided tools for monitoring data downloaded from external sites when opening letters, such as embedded pictures that can be used to track opening of letters.
- Modernization of design, aimed at simplifying work with a calendar and address book.
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