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by ac on Friday 11/May/2007, @10:41

Thanks for providing a LiveCD, so everyone can easily help out finding bugs in the user interface (see pervious post on the dot). For the impatient, you can get it here:

http://home.kde.org/~binner/kde-four-live/

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Re: LiveCD
by dario on Friday 11/May/2007, @12:27

Judging from the timestamps on the ISOs, they are not of the Alpha release, but of earlier versions. I am sure that any time now the Alpha ISOs will be available though.

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Re: LiveCD
by dario on Friday 11/May/2007, @15:10

And in the meantime the ISO for the Alpha version became indeed available!

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Re: LiveCD
by anonymous on Friday 11/May/2007, @17:52

To try the LiveCD with qemu, you'll need to instruct qemu to use a larger virtual memory (the default is 128, and the LiveCD complains of lacking of memory and reboots the virtual machine).
Such as:

qemu -m 256 -cdrom KDE-Four-Live.i686-0.1.0.iso

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Re: LiveCD
by anonymous on Friday 11/May/2007, @18:02

Oh, and installing kqemu, and inserting the module to the kernel (as root or using sudo), will make the emulation faster:
modprobe kqemu

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Re: LiveCD
by anonymous on Friday 11/May/2007, @19:18

But it's bloody slow on my system.
But had a look at dolphin, and I like what I see, and have one remark:

1-You can show size, type and date information bellow the icon files, but only one of these at a time. Shouldn't these options be checkboxes, to be able to select them at all? Or would that be overkill, and that's what the function of the side informational panel?

Gnome does this:
You can configure Nautilus to show what information below a icon file is shown in each zoom level. For example:

100% - type
150% - type size
200% - type size date

When I was using gnome, I didn't zoom in to see this details, mind you (the detailed information list is more handy for me)... But maybe it was just not well implemented. Perhaps the extra information could fit inside the file icon as it enlarges, but this would clash with text file previews. That information could be shadowed, or using another graphical gimmick, so to diferentiate itself from file previews (they should not look like they are part of the images, movies, pdfs, etc. files being previewd).

So far, the only time I use zoom on file views is to get a better look at the previews. Maybe there's a change to make it more usefull?

P.S.- As I understand it, kde4 will have a "low ground" and a "high ceiling", i.e.,
the initial default (although it will probably be changed by distros) will be oriented for people with just some computer knowledge, but through self-exploration will be able to get more proficient at using kde4, and to configure and extend kde4 to their personal tastes and habits (which in my opinion is what true usability should mean, not one size fits all).

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Re: LiveCD
by anonymous on Friday 11/May/2007, @19:22

sorry for the bad spelling. I wish you could change the dictionary of konqueror's spellchecker without having to reload the webpage.

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Re: LiveCD
by Jos Boortvliet on Saturday 12/May/2007, @01:53

happyness and joy in KDE 4, then, as it'll even automatically detect the language and change the spellchecker :D
BTW afaik you don't have to reload the page, just restart the spellcheck dialog...

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Re: LiveCD
by anonymous on Saturday 12/May/2007, @07:33

Hm, you sure? For example, right now kspellcheck is using PT dictionary, and I'm in the middle of writting a text. Now I will change it, with right-click-> spellcheck->dictionary . After I change, a message pops up saying (you'll have to reload the page for settings to be applied). But anyway, cool that that will happen in kde 4! Will be waiting for it.

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Re: LiveCD
by Vide on Saturday 12/May/2007, @11:48

This will be another great function! As far as I understand, the new spellcheck system will automatically detect the language you are writing, even if you change language in the same textbox/mail/document..right? If this is true, this is simply a killer feature for me, cause I usually write in four different languages almost every day...

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Re: LiveCD
by superstoned on Monday 14/May/2007, @02:34

yes, it's supposed to detect languages in each paragraph independently...

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Re: LiveCD
by Saulo on Tuesday 15/May/2007, @04:52

how can I write it?? nero asks a overdisk writing method and says the ISO needs a 95min (841mb) disc????? is it that true?? is there any other way using k3b or some thing like??

thankx and congrats for first KDE4 binaries!

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Re: LiveCD
by Saulo on Tuesday 15/May/2007, @13:35

Nero cant write it properly, but k3b does!!

thanks!

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