17. KDE 4 is completely port/rewrite to QT 4 series to use less memory than KDE 3
18. KDE 4 uses new multimedia API (Phonon), device integration framework(Solid), new style guide and default icon set (Oxygen) and a unified desktop and panel (Plasma)
19. First release doesn't include Amarok (music player), K3B (CD Burning), Digikam (Photo Manager), KOffice, and Krita (Graphic Editor)
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21. We will use simply " KDE " and retire the expansion "K Desktop Environment"
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23. As an umbrella brand for the technology created by the KDE community
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25. The KDE technologies used for building applications will be referred to as the "KDE Platform"
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27. The product we currently have released as "KDE 4.3" is essentially a compilation of our software (Workspaces, Applications and Platform), and thus the next release will be named "KDE Software Compilation 4.4"