Screaming Penguin

* Text-to-speech system with support built into Konqueror, Kate, KPDF and the standalone application KSayIt * Support for text to speech synthesis is integrated with the desktop * Completely redesigned, more flexible trash system * Kicker with improved look and feel * KPDF now enables you to select, copy & paste text and images from PDFs, along with many other improvements * Kontact supports now various groupware servers, including eGroupware, GroupWise, Kolab, OpenGroupware.org and SLOX * Kopete supports Novell Groupwise and Lotus Sametime and gets integrated into Kontact * DBUS/HAL support allows to keep dynamic device icons in media:/ and on the desktop in sync with the state of all devices * KHTML has improved standard support and now close to full support for CSS 2.1 and the CSS 3 Selectors module * Better synchronization between 2 PCs * A new high contrast style and a complete monochrome icon set * An icon effect to paint all icons in two chosen colors, converting third party application icons into high contrast monochrome icons * Akregator allows you to read news from your favourite RSS-enabled websites in one application * Juk has now an album cover management via Google Image Search * KMail now stores passwords securely with KWallet * SVG files can now be used as wallpapers * KHTML plug-ins are now configurable, so the user can selectively disable ones that are not used. This does not include Netscape-style plug-ins. Netscape plug-in in CPU usage can be manually lowered, and plug-ins are more stable. * more than 6,500 bugs have been fixed * more than 1,700 wishes have been fullfilled * more than 80,000 contributions with several million lines of code and documentation added or changed

Mirrors So far, I will say, nothing to write home about. I really don't use too much of the KDE apps suite. I am thinking about taking up Juk, but I am not sure. Right now I run iTunes under Wine -- I still think iTunes is hands down the best MP3 player out there. It will take some though.