KDE's graphic design team has also created a new Air theme for the release.

"It is much lighter than the [previous default] Oxygen theme, which is still available through the Desktop Settings dialog," according to KDE.

A new "tree view" in KDE's System Settings which is intended to appeal more to people still using KControl in KDE 3.

Dolphin, KDE's file manager, now shows previews of images contained in a directory as an overlay for the directory icon and hovering over it enables a slideshow of the images in the directory.

, there is a geolocation plugin that makes it possible to query location. This is used in the OpenDesktop applet to show people near you.