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| KDE 4.0 Beta 4 and Development Platform RC Released |
 Posted by Jos Poortvliet on Tuesday 30/Oct/2007, @14:48
from the release-day dept.
The KDE Community is happy to release the
fourth Beta for KDE 4.0. This Beta aimed at further polishing of
the KDE codebase and we would love to start receiving feedback from
testers. At the same time, a Release Candidate for the KDE 4.0 Development Platform is released. This Development Platform contains the bits and pieces needed to run and build applications using KDE 4 technology. The purpose of this Development Platform is to make it easier for third parties to port their applications to KDE 4, without having to wait until the full desktop is polished enough for the final 4.0 release.
As KDE has largely has been in bugfix mode, this last beta aims to
encourage testers to have a look at KDE 4 to help us find and solve
the remaining problems and bugs. Besides the stabilization of the
codebase, some minor features have been added, including but not
limited to much work on Plasma.
Sebastian Kügler notes: "The improvements have been huge, and plasma
is much closer to what it needs to be before the release. I am
confident we will be able to finish it and present a very usable
plasma to the users with KDE 4.0".
KDE 4 is the next generation of the popular KDE Desktop Environment
which seeks to fulfill the need for a powerful yet easy to use desktop
for both personal and enterprise computing. The aim of the KDE project
for the 4.0 release is to put the foundations in place for future
innovations on the Free Desktop. The many newly introduced
technologies incorporated in the KDE libraries will make it easier for
developers to add rich functionality to their applications, combining
and connecting different components in any way they want.
The announcement
page has more information and download links for packages for
several distributions.
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Full Gears Ahead!
by christoph on Wednesday 31/Oct/2007, @03:01
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Thanks to all contributors for this release!
KDE 4.0 is really shaping nicely, and with all the new API additions both in kdelibs4 and Qt4, the future of KDE 4 will shine.
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Damn, still that ugly taskbar!
by Don on Wednesday 31/Oct/2007, @03:12
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I know the panels are a work-in-progress. Does anyone has any info how the work-in-progress panels will ultimatly look like. Are there mockups?
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Kubuntu packages ?
by KubuntuUser on Wednesday 31/Oct/2007, @08:05
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Anyone knows if Kubuntu will provide packages for those willing to play with it ? Will it install side by side ?
Thanks in advance ! Cheers!
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Background Picture
by Bobby on Wednesday 31/Oct/2007, @08:33
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First I would like to say a big thank you to all the developers who are so industrious and creative in this wonderful project.
KDE4 Beta 4 is a very big improvement over the last release. it's much faster and seems to be more stable. I am even getting the desktop effects but there is no desktop background. Beta 3 had a wonderful flower but it's now gone and I don't even know how to add a background picture. Anyone has an idea?
Thanks in advance.
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Is it ready?
by David Johnson on Wednesday 31/Oct/2007, @09:47
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I'm a huge KDE fan, but frankly, calling this a "beta" is a joke. Unless some miracle occurs in the next two months, I'm not expecting a usable KDE4 in January. We may get a damned good development platform, but for a desktop I'll probably be sticking with 3.5.x.
p.s. I expect 4.1 to totally rock, however.
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KDE Four Live also updated
by apokryphos on Wednesday 31/Oct/2007, @14:57
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In addition to the openSUSE packages, an updated "KDE Four Live" Beta 4 was also released right on time for the release: http://home.kde.org/~binner/kde-four-live
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PulseAudio and Phonon?
by Darryl Wheatley on Wednesday 31/Oct/2007, @17:28
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How will KDE 4 work with Pulse Audio? I know it will be included by default in fedora 8. PulseAudio seems very promising - will it become integrated into Phonon?
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Great Release but I am not able to run it
by Swaroop on Wednesday 31/Oct/2007, @20:35
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The release was very fast from beta 3. Great work KDE team.
I am sorry to say I was not yet able to get a glimpse of KDE 4. I installed KDE 4 (beta 4) through opensuse YAST but whenever I start KDE 4 I get the error "startkde: Call to lnusertemp failed (temporary directories full?). Check your installation." Whenever I run any KDE 4 application via KDE 3 then I get another error. This is the error I got for Dolphin "dolphin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libdolphinprivate.so.1: undefined symbol: _ZN9KDirModel10insertRowsEiiRK11QModelIndex". This is what I get for KReversi "kreversi: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libkio.so.5: undefined symbol: _ZN11KConfigBase8rollbackEb" . Any idea whats happening?
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KDE4 beta4 live CD
by cheko on Thursday 01/Nov/2007, @03:36
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The Debian KDE Team now provides a KDE4 Live-CD.
http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde4livecd.html
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GiB? MiB? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Over?
by Boyle M. Owl on Friday 02/Nov/2007, @00:06
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With reference to the screenshot showing the 4 beta...
Is there no end to the SI nonsense labelling disk and file sizes in gibibytes, mibibytes and kibibytes? In 3.5.x, the SI units are thoroughly ignored in favor of GB, MB and KB *AS GOD INTENDED*. If anyone ever gets me to actually say "gibibyte" out loud, I will cut out my own tongue with a rusty MRSA tainted axe.
Go ahead, say those units out loud. Say 'em while looking in a mirror.
"My 500 gibibyte disk has 340 files of mibibyte and kibibyte sizes"
PLEASE STOP THIS MADNESS! JUST SAY NO TO SI!
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BMO
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Slackware packages?
by Eduardo on Saturday 03/Nov/2007, @07:23
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I would really like to test-run this beta. Are there any slackware packages for it?
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Whay so much wasted space?
by NamNamee on Sunday 04/Nov/2007, @03:48
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I have used KDE for a long-long time.
Yes, the new look is OK but why so much wasted space? (see http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce_4.0-beta4/kde4.0-beta4.png)
System-settings looks like a half-ass knock-off from OS X. Why?
Frankly, I am sick of all this OSX/Vista/XP lookalike crap in KDE.
Frell all this "familiar look, easy to switch from * to KDE" nonsense.
I personally think, that all those photorealistic pictures of "a PC from previous century" and application that looks like a .. pfff when did you receive a OSS application in a carboard box? Those are all outdated and ancient ideas and symbols.
Imagine how bad those pictures (a.k.a icons) look on a small scale.
For a example, look at the Okular "icon". Even this huge picture has lost its most important detail. Can you really expect to see those spectacles at smaller scale/size?
If you recognize Okular icon by a blue squigly line (and not the spectacles) , then drop the rest. It has no meaning nor function.
Compare the "System Settings" and "My Computer" images. Are my "settings" set for a different "computer"? Why are those images of a computers different?
"Recently used" - did I use calendar or is this just another example of a really bad "Recently used" icon?
Stylish (having style or artistic quality) does not mean allmost unrecognizable blur of pixels.
KISS - keep it simple stupid! ;)
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KDE 4 is...
by barteqx on Saturday 10/Nov/2007, @16:36
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... totally screwed up.
Did MS pay for it?
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Something to say...
by Solardeity on Thursday 15/Nov/2007, @09:59
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First i want to thank the KDE 4 Developers for creating this wonderful attractive Desktop, it for sure beats the looks compared with OS X and Vista..
I think Some of you people are very impolite and un thankful (never learned manners?? ) , if you don't like KDE 4 just don't use it!! :-) "ITS THAT EASY"
But stop talking all that negative crap about KDE 4 when it ain't even released yet... don't get me wrong, nothing against critic but some People should say what they don't like in a more Human way, not like a dam Idiot...
I think KDE 4 is doing a great job, i like a good looking Desktop and when the applications all harmonize with each other..
KDE 4 is just what i am waiting for.. keep it up!!
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Stable. Make it rock stable please.
by szlam on Friday 16/Nov/2007, @00:49
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And I don't just mean kdelibs.
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