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| KDE 4.0.3 Released With Extragear Applications |
 Posted by Sebastian Kuegler on Wednesday 02/Apr/2008, @09:34
from the bugsquashing dept.
The third bugfix release of the KDE 4.0 series is available. KDE 4.0 is mainly targeted at users who live on the bleeding edge. As a dot-oh release it might have its rough edges. The KDE Community releases a service update for this series once a month to make those bleeding edge users' lives easier. The changelog for KDE 4.0.3 is, although not complete, quite impressive. Especially KHTML and with it the Konqueror webbrowser have seen great improvements in both, stability and performance.
Since KDE 4.0, some Extragear applications form part of the release. Extragear applications can choose to follow their own release cycle, which is what for example Amarok and K3b do. There is also the option to have extragear applications released with KDE. Applications such as RSIBreak (a program to save your health), KGrab (an advanced screenshot-taking tool), KPovModeler (a 3D modelling application). Tom Albers, responsible for the release of the Extragear package says, "The new item in this release is kio_gopher. It's really great that this protocol is still not dead and we now have support for it in KDE4. New technology meets ancient protocol ;-)".
The KDE Team also uses this release to highlight some gems of the KDE package. This time, a closer look is being taken at the KDE Educational software. The KDE Edu project has also recently done some work on their website, which is surely worth a visit. We hope you enjoy this release and notice our commitment to making progress in stability and usability of the KDE 4.0 series while development of KDE 4.1 is going on at more than full speed.
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Let's spread the great news
by Tsiolkovsky on Wednesday 02/Apr/2008, @10:08
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Reddit: http://reddit.com/info/6ebus/comments/
Digg: http://digg.com/linux_unix/KDE_4_0_3_Released_Brings_Lots_of_Improvements
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only bug fixes for plasma ?
by mimoune djouallah on Wednesday 02/Apr/2008, @10:14
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Now it makes sense why opensuse will release their "special" kde 4.0.x branch,
by the way, the last kde 4.0.67 for windows rocks, happy to read pdf by okular. Thanks pino ;-)
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Impressive Changelog
by Uwe Thiem on Wednesday 02/Apr/2008, @10:35
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Very impressive changelog. Seeing forward to using 4.0.3 in a couple of days!
BTW, anybody in the know whether the annoying https problem ("SSL negotiation failed") is fixed?
Uwe
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Gopher
by question on Wednesday 02/Apr/2008, @11:36
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Does anyone use Gopher or is kio_gopher more like some kind of nerdfun? ;-)
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Nice
by Iuri Fiedoruk on Wednesday 02/Apr/2008, @12:05
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I was actually expecting more bugfixes (bugs missing is what NOT happening), but I'm really happy the blank desktop and double click where fixed. This together with the quick-launch plasmoid from kde-look makes KDE4 usable to me (but still far from kde3.x).
Now if I could get a stable port of k3b, amarok and kmplayer...
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Webkit?
by Jeremy on Wednesday 02/Apr/2008, @14:26
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I thought KDE was going to switch to Webkit for Konq? Or was that only for plasmoids?
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still no proxy support
by Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy on Wednesday 02/Apr/2008, @15:10
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nothing to see here, moving along
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Using KDE4.0.3 Now...
by Martin Fitzpatrick on Wednesday 02/Apr/2008, @16:16
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Just upgraded using the Kubuntu packages and I must say I'm quite impressed. There are rough edges here and there (obviously) like some bizarre funkiness when logging out and then back in (all KDE3 apps create windows instead of tray icons, and Kwallet, IMAP, etc. processes are "not found") but to be honest it's completely useable.
So... question is... is it worth filing bug reports for 4.0.3? Or is this stuff getting fixed elsewhere (i.e. should I be running from the latest branch to help with bugfixing?)
Anyway, ta very much like. Good job folks.
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New Compositioning effects yet?
by Max on Wednesday 02/Apr/2008, @19:27
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I'm still downloading, but very impatient...
Were any new compiz effects added since 4.0.2?
(yes, yes, I know. They're not essential, but I do enjoy looking forward to new eye candy with each release. It makes computing more fun :D )
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Plasma Updates
by Iuri Fiedoruk on Thursday 03/Apr/2008, @05:02
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but the idea of Plasma wasn't having a (stable) API where developers could work into, and that would make possible to release independent updates of plasma desktop and plasmoids, as those whould be only script not needing compilation?
I remember Aaron talking about something like that (or I am terrible mistake and sorry) and was curious if Plasma (not the lib part). It would be much batter for users indeed, but nowdays I only see C++ plasmoids.
Is there a plan to make plasmoids stop using C++ (and stoping crashing my whole desktop) and plasma API stop receiving changes so that KDE 4.1 plasmoids work on KDE 4.2 and vice-versa?
THAT would be the true nirvana for plasma and users. A nice goal to plasma project, in my opinion, making plasmoids more than simple widgets in the desktop and panel.
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Konqueror not using Webkit?
by KDE User on Thursday 03/Apr/2008, @22:13
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I thought that Konq was moving to webkit and they were dropping the KHTML support, and am I incorrect? Or did plans change?
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Spell checker not works (however good job!)
by totya on Friday 04/Apr/2008, @14:25
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I use KDE 4.0.3 on my desktop machine. I'm pleased with this version. I'm impressed with the speed of the KDE4 development processes.
One missing thing for me is spell checking. It's simply not works. Just try it in kate for example.
Ok, there are other things too, however I know this is the beginning of the KDE4 journey.
I hope I can switch to KDE4.1 on my notebook when will be finished. Meanwhile I will stick with KDE3.5.9. Keep up the good work!
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scrolling tabs
by hacker on Saturday 05/Apr/2008, @01:42
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4.0.3 certainly has less bugs. Kudos to all.
One thing still annoys me tho. This is the ability to change to a new tab on just scrolling on it (or the LACK of it). This is really convenient and i can only compare it to just using the scroll wheel to scroll down a web page without having to hunt down the scroll bars. Ironically, gnome has this for AGES. The strange thing tho is that some KDE apps HAVE this feature. For example, konsole can change between its tabs. Also, Amarok 2 (in the edit track details box), does this beautifully. Is this a plasma thing or what? Could the code for this tab changing on scrolling be extracted from amarok2 (thanks guys), and taken to something like kdelibs so that all KDE apps can enjoy this. Again, good work.
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