KDE-Edu Improvements for KDE 3.5
NEW in KDE-Edu: blinKen

- blinKen is based on an electronic game released in 1978, which challenges players to remember sequences of increasing length.
NEW in KDE-Edu: Kanagram

- Kanagram is a replacement for KMessedWords, and is new in KDE 3.5. Kanagram mixes up the letters of a word (creating an anagram), and you have to guess what the mixed up word is.
NEW in KDE-Edu: KGeography

- KGeography lets you browse maps, learn about capitals and flags of a country subdivision and take tests to see if you know geography.
Kalzium

- new design
- sidebar for calculation of molecule weight and for the timeline
- a glossary explaining the main chemical words and tools
- view properties per gradient
- new data properties
- A lot new artwork to make Kalzium look better
- half-life period of isotopes
- more isotopes added with several new properties
- halflife-periods
- weight
- number of neutrons
- abundance
- alpha-decay
- betadecay (both plus and minus)
- spin
- magnetic moment
- basic information about crystal structures of metals
- electroaffinity
- name origin: Where does a name of an element come from?
- More Radii
- Atomic Radius
- Covalent Radius
- van der Waals Radius
- Ionic Radius (for one charge only)
- More elements do have information about ionization energies, especially the higher energies (3rd to 6th)
- The table has now a small gap over the rare-earth metals
- EqChem added: With EqChem you can solve equations. Example: aCH3CH2OH + bO2 → cH2O + dCO2
KHangMan

- new design: 2 themes (Sea and Desert)
- fix bug in German: first letter was upper case, now the word is lower case as default but all upper case can be chosen in Settings
Kig

- new object actions icon theme, by Danny Allen
- improved the KSeg filter, that is now able to load almost correctly more constructions than before
- slightly improved also the Cabri(tm) filter
- give the possibility to choose, through a popup menu, which object select if under the mouse there are more than one
- new export dialogs, more intuitive and usable
KLettres

- new design: a new theme (Desert) and new icons for Kid and Grown-up modes
- replay sound and new sound new actions
KStars

- new observing list
- A GUI Tool for adding custom catalogs
- Improved Object Details window, including customizable thumbnail image
- Highlight objects on the sky which are in the Observing list.
- Save/Load Observing Lists
- INDI: New CCD Preview tool
KTouch

- statistics are now back and working
- Hungarian and Russian training files and keyboards
- NEW level/session statistics
- NEW charts for visualizing statistics
KTurtle

- recursion implemented, makes it possible to draw fractals, thanks to Markus Koenig
KVocTrain
- code improvement, bugs fixes
- KNewStuff for getting easily new files to work on
Author: Anne-Marie Mahfouf
Last update: 2008-01-11
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