As of now Kile, a LaTeX environment for KDE, version 1.8 is available for
download from:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kile/kile-1.8.tar.bz2?download

ChangeLog:
* QuickPreview: quickly compile and view part of your document.
* Encoding: You can set the default encoding for your files now. Especially
useful for those who are struggling with utf8 in combination with TeX.
* Wizards: Improved tabbing wizards and a new Postscript tools, Math and
float wizard.
* Help: You can add your own help files to the help system.
* Numerous bugfixes.

The following languages are included:
da, en_GB, es, et, fi, fr, it, nl, pt, pt_BR, sr, sr@Latn, sv and ta.