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  KDE 4.0 Beta 1 Released, Codename "Cnuth"
KDE Official News Posted by Sebastian Kügler on Thursday 02/Aug/2007, @03:45
from the flying-pig dept.
The KDE Community is happy to announce the first Beta release for KDE 4.0 is available now. This release marks the beginning of the integration process which will bring the powerful new technologies included in the now frozen KDE 4 libraries to the applications. Simultaneously KOffice have released the second Alpha of KOffice version 2. Highlights are improved text rendering and layout and the new Flake library. Read on for more details.

Almost two months after the foundations of KDE 4 have been laid with the first Alpha, KDE enters the stage of a full freeze of the library interface. From now on, the applications will focus on integrating the new technology refined during the last months, and the library developers will try to fix all bugs found during this process. No new applications will enter the official KDE modules and usability and accessibility work is an ongoing process. In the following weeks, KDE developers will be able to add features to their applications until the next Beta is released and the application features will be frozen as well.

The info page has the download links, including packages for Kubuntu, Mandriva and openSUSE.



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Sounds like 'snut'
by Allan Sandfeld on Thursday 02/Aug/2007, @04:08
In danish 'Snut' and means sweetie..

Damn polar bears
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Gentoo ebuilds
by Arne Babenhauserheide on Thursday 02/Aug/2007, @05:15
For all other Gentoo'ers out here, there are SVN ebuilds avaible with which you can get the most recent version, and if you pull them now, you'll get the beta (Please bear with the overhear. If there's at least one visitor who didn't know, the last sub-sentence was useful :) )

http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/kde/wiki

Best wishes,
Arne, now waiting anxiously for the KDE4 beta to finish compiling.
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I'll stick with daily snv builds
by Kurt on Thursday 02/Aug/2007, @05:25
My installation of this version is not much better than most of my daily builds. I'll keep on using SVN for a while. :)

It's nice that KDE4 is getting usable though. I removed KDE 3.x a while ago and I can live with the current KDE4 quality. Kwin and Konsole (the most important apps) are working fine and I can use non-KDE apps where things get fucked-up.
Furthermore, Juk (running on Phonon-xine) and Kopete have gone into a pretty good shape the last couple of weeks. The only thing I'm really missing is a working system tray. This seems broken for Kicker and not implemented for Plasma.
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Odd press release
by Elad Lahav on Thursday 02/Aug/2007, @05:52
Is marble really the most important architectural feature in this Beta? Where are Plasma, Phonon, NEPOMUK and the other components that are supposed to be the foundation of the new desktop?
People who have been tracking KDE4's development may be up to speed on these issues. But if I were someone who was supposed to be informed by this press release, I would have thought this Beta to be in very poor shape.
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Snut
by M4d Swede on Thursday 02/Aug/2007, @06:33
In swedish "Snut" is slang for "cop" or "police officer"

( This is just so the interests club can take a note )
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Oh My God
by nae on Thursday 02/Aug/2007, @08:14
It's the worst realease, even worst than alpha1...
Let me say I tried 3 different setups: gentoo overlay, kde4live and then,
believing I choosed some wrong options, again kde4live with different settings
at boot.
Gentoo ovelay emerged but doesn't even start.ugh.
After downloading kde4live I rechecked if I had downloaded the right
version dated 1 aug:
Nothing is stable, I got a crash of the mixer before starting, even konsole is unusable, amarok showed a nice screen but just hitting a button crashed it,
I tried to change some setting in systemsettings and no joy, can't even change
decorations or style.
The menu is ridiculous: one submenu for the calc alone, and most submenu have
less than 4 items inside, in the worst windows style. Kde 3 is much better!

That's a nightmare to me, I hope you're joking, this is not a beta, and
you're not wasting all that time on koffice (without fixing the only part of koffice which is really needed, the file format filter), I won't believe that,
tell me it's just a nightmare.
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Sounds like "Knut"
by Martin Bober on Thursday 02/Aug/2007, @10:09
Sounds like "Knut", the little polar bear of the Berlin Zoo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_(polar_bear)
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Codename
by Keegan on Thursday 02/Aug/2007, @10:23
Am I the only one to nerdy to realise the code name is a reference to Donald Knuth?
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its only a beta
by Jesus R. Acosta on Thursday 02/Aug/2007, @10:35
Patientia est virtus
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Sounds like "Knuth"
by Tryke on Thursday 02/Aug/2007, @10:38
I guess we ran out of 'K's and had none to spare?

Donald Knuth is the guy that wrote "The Art of Computer Programming".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth
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kcontrol, systemsetting, raptor, lancelot !!!!
by djouallah mimoune on Thursday 02/Aug/2007, @10:57
of course i can get the answer just after less then a month, the time for the next beta, but as i am impatient, i wanted it now ;-)
who will be shipped in kdebase, kcontrol or systemsetting !!! and i thought that raptor is the official application launcher, so what's about lancelot and kickoff and one more thing; did you know the name of ( to be coded) replacement of kicker !!!

thanks
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Improved font rendering?
by renoX on Thursday 02/Aug/2007, @11:00
While the press release talks about improved font rendering, the corresponding screenshot didn't impress much: the "blackness" of characterier is irregular: the 'y' in Kylie looks darker than the other character.. :-(

I hope that's because the screenshot was here to demonstrate the 'flakes' and that the font rendering was correctly set..
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Don't forget : SVN + Cmake
by chhchhchh on Thursday 02/Aug/2007, @11:42
KDE did a complete Switch from CVS to SVN ---- and from autotools to Cmake from kde 3 to kde 4

this was major work !!!
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oh no :(
by Anonymous on Thursday 02/Aug/2007, @12:22
According to the screenshot they moved Konsole tabs to the top like GNOME. What next, switching Yes, Ok, Cancel buttons? :(
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Nice work
by vincent on Thursday 02/Aug/2007, @13:26
My only words are

thanks, thanks and thanks
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This isn't perfect right this second...
by T. J. Brumfield on Thursday 02/Aug/2007, @20:46
...because this software isn't perfect right this second, and because it isn't everything I expected, then my life isn't worth living. Even though this is free software, and I haven't contributed anything, I am entitled to demand that the KDE team cater solely to my desires.

How dare they not create the perfect (in my opinion) OS over-night?

In fact, the KDE fairy should have created packages and installed them on my computer for me. I can't believe they expect me to get packages from my distro, or compile from source!

I'm going to go complain on Myspace at how betrayed and disappointed I am. I'm not sure I'll ever recover from this set back.
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Kubuntu packages
by Vide on Friday 03/Aug/2007, @00:40
Errr, I think the link is premature, cause
1) the story isn't officialy out on Kubuntu blog
2) the packages in backports are simply not there...

I think we should wait some more days before we can update to beta1
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Koffice on win, mac
by Acke on Friday 03/Aug/2007, @03:24
"Due to Qt4, KOffice will have a native look and feel on all platforms"

Yes, great!
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quote
by bert on Friday 03/Aug/2007, @04:49
"After recently having started over with coding of the Oxygen style, things are progressing rather well. The old code of the style was ditched mainly due to negative feedback from code tested and reviewed at Akademy. Thomas Lübking, the original developer then (quite understandably in my opinion) got up and left. Unfortunately, many of the Akademy reviewers were reluctant to actually help in the effort of improving the code, and so the style was essentially dead in the water."

Oxygen - first the vision, then the excitement, then someone actually implements something and when the beta stage of KDE4 is reached someone admits a core component was "essentially dead in the water".

Maturity by curiosity does not work. Release early, release often. Make evolutionary changes.

A wonder if the same applies to the new plasma kicker. Finally someone will admit that there is no revolutionary concept and reveal a suse++ version.

Ah, didn't I read it: "..., and the Kickoff menu start to be ported to KDE 4."

Ay-he.
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Some have said it above but I like to repeat
by Richard Van Den Boom on Friday 03/Aug/2007, @05:33
Can we cut the doom & gloom crap now?
I understood that this beta was released because kdelibs API are mostly frozen and because apps dev need to see where things are going. This is not for end users to have fun with it as far as I understand and has never been advertised as such.
KDE is getting a nearly full overhaul and this is obviously quite a bit of work, the less the devs need is people whining and complaining.
Wait for final release before complaining : this is not libquicktime or mplayer where a beta can be enough to get the job done, and that is not really surprising.
As for undelivered promises, even if they do occur, there's no one to blame : having great visions for a new version of a desktop is normal and the contrary would be weird to say the least. But it may happen that the vision is a bit too big for the decided time frame, so you have to fall back to Plan B for the time being. This does not mean that the whole vision is flawed, just that it will need a bit more time to mature. So what?
I'm really absolutely amazed by many comments in this news : watch your manners, please.
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UK accessibility exhibition
by Gerry on Friday 03/Aug/2007, @06:22
http://www.techshare-expo.com/

Organised by RNIB, (charity for blind), and Abilitynet. Opportunity for KDE4? Just a thought.
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