KDE Release Polishing
New KDE versions are released every six months nowadays. Roughly three months are spent on developing new features, the other three are devoted to release preparations. "What's needed to get things ready for the release?" the curious might ask. "Why does it take that long?" the impatient. I'll tell you from my perspective as a Marble developer.
User Interface Enhancements
While the user interface -- the "GUI" -- is most prominent to the user, it is only a small part of an application. When developing new features, certain sins happen commonly: Default sizes of widgets are inadequate, labels have confusing names or include too technical names, icons are missing or misleading. These issues can not always be avoided in the first place since the user interface changes a lot while features are developed. After feature freeze, however, no major changes happen to the user interface anymore and it's a good time to correct those little mistakes. What does that mean in practice? Have a look at the Beta 1 => Beta 2 changelog for Marble on Maemo to see some examples.
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