menu entry to add existing engines to the menu and create new providers with ease. Not to be outdone on any front by the fox, Konqueror's new search bar provides a flexible and powerful way of searching any web site by using the existing web shortcut technology. Hot on the tails of Firefox, Konqueror now also has the much-requested adblock feature, allowing you to filter out advertisements on web pages. Thanks to some fixes that were integrated back into Konqueror from Safari improvements, and the hard work of the KHTML programmers, Konqueror can now boast a high level of CSS compliance. Apple's Safari browser was the first, which makes use of Konqueror's advanced rendering engine KHTML. Konqueror has now become the second browser to pass the arduous 'Acid2' css compliance test. New applets can be easily downloaded using the KHotNewStuff functionality. Using SuperKaramba you can quickly add functionality such as weather and news updates, system monitors and alternatives to the existing functions of Kicker. SuperKaramba, a tool that allows you to easily create interactive eye-candy on the desktop, is now included in KDE. An animated tooltip has been added to give visual feedback of the location of a newly added applet when adding through the add applet dialog. The new Kicker tooltips that appeared for KDE 3.4 have been extended to be used throughout Kicker, providing a consistent and visually unique desktop. In response to a great deal of user feedback, the pager and taskbar have three default styles: elegant, classic and transparent, which have been tweaked to make them more usable. The pager now shows you the application icons of each window to help distinguish between them, and allows you to drag and drop windows from one desktop to another. Since being taken over by an energetic new developer team, Kicker has seen a wealth of small but useful improvements. A full list can be found in the developer changelog, but for humans here is a visual guide to some of the best improvements. KDE 3.5 brings improvements in aesthetics, usability and performance as well as adding new functionality and features. KDE 3.5: A Visual Guide to New Features.
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