This month the KDE Community announced the immediate availability of KDE 4.. This significant release marks both the end of the long and intensive development cycle leading up to KDE 4. and the beginning of the KDE 4 era. We will see major improvements in almost all areas. The Phonon multimedia framework provides platform independent multimedia support to all KDE applications. The KDE 4 desktop has gained some major new capabilities like the Plasma desktop an increased KDE Window manager a