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wow
by ac on Tuesday 29/Apr/2008, @15:41
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Just what we needed -- major surgery and additional breakage.
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Well done!
by Tom on Tuesday 29/Apr/2008, @15:56
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Plasma will just get stronger ;) Really happy about KDE4 so far. Thanks!
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Can't wait!
by Kit on Tuesday 29/Apr/2008, @18:44
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I'm really looking forward to 4.1. I tried 4.0.0/1 and found it mostly stable but lacked many of the features I've been spoiled by in KDE 3.5 (in the future maybe you shouldn't make such a good desktop environment? ;) so I haven't switched full time (though I _love_ using Okular and the 4 version of KSudoku taught me how to play and love it as well). 4.1 is supposed to have many of the missing features from 3.5 (mouse scroll wheel switching desktops was one of those little things that annoyed me but I've seen added since) so I plan on trying to move again later.
I hope KDevelop 4 is released around then as well (either its Dev's are quiet or I'm just not very observant... possibly both), since I'm hoping to convert my current project, a QtWebKit based browser, to being a full fledged KDE4 application (QTabWidget -> KTabWidget and QIcon -> KIcon I imagine will greatly help, the former for the scroll wheel switching and hover-close button, the latter for the ability to simply use the system's default icons instead of hard coding specific ones in or other ugly hacks). The tutorial's I've read on Techbase have been more so about working on applications that already are set up to use cmake and didn't really seem to cover how you'd convert from qmake (although I should admit I haven't looked very hard, trying to break things until they work is always my favorite way of learning things :P)
After reading Aaron's blog I also believe the changes to Plasma are definitely for the best; but like KDE4 itself, there's going to be growing pains before you can have the amazing final product (remember the old adages like 'Rome wasn't built in a day' ;)
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Windows ports?
by T. J. Brumfield on Tuesday 29/Apr/2008, @19:35
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What is the status of the Windows ports?
Are people working on them, or are devs needed? If so, can we put the call out?
I dual-boot at home, and use Windows predominately at work (though I'm getting a new laptop at work and intend to make that a dual-boot beast as well). I'd love to use KDE apps on both.
I would love to see a better installer that includes a start menu group.
I'm also wondering if plasma moves into kdelibs (or a large chunk of it) if we'd possibly see more desktop components (containments, perhaps a taskbar replacement, plasmoids, etc) on Windows then.
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Interesting
by anon on Tuesday 29/Apr/2008, @23:21
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On the openSUSE news site, one of their people have stated that they wont delay 11 for KDE 4.1 because there is a chance that 4.1 will be delayed, and that it wont include some of the popular applications. I guess this comment from them is false?
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mac edition
by mac asylum on Tuesday 29/Apr/2008, @23:41
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from the announce:
"KDE 4.1 will also be available on Windows, Mac OS X and OpenSolaris. The ports are not yet completely finished yet, but good for a first preview nevertheless"
just yesterday I installed the mac version from mac.kde.org which is from january actually and not even good for a first preview.
I think the mac/win editions shouldn't be promoted in such a way because I can distinguish between a preview and a released version but I'm not sure if the average mac/win user can
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Akonadi and full MySQL-server in workstation?
by Tuju on Wednesday 30/Apr/2008, @00:36
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As discussed here:
http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/PIM/Akonadi
akonadi will run its own mysql-server instance in every workstation host,
which sounds quite overkill if you ask me.
Is this really going to remain so?
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KDE 4.1 Alpha 1 LiveCD
by Abu.Assar on Wednesday 30/Apr/2008, @01:06
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... is available here : http://home.kde.org/~binner/kde-four-live/
based on openSuse.
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Spread the good news
by Gluon on Wednesday 30/Apr/2008, @01:42
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On digg:
http://digg.com/linux_unix/KDE_4_1_Alpha1_released
http://digg.com/linux_unix/PolishLinux_KDE_4_1_Preview_Rev_802150
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Something_to_Really_Bake_Your_Noodle_A_KDE4_Plasma_Review
On reddit:
http://reddit.com/info/6hkpk/comments/
http://reddit.com/info/6hkx7/comments/
http://reddit.com/info/6h7pt/comments/
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Thanks folks.
by Martin Fitzpatrick on Wednesday 30/Apr/2008, @02:39
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The alpha is pretty sweet and has me looking forward to seeing the finished 4.1. I've been using KDE4 as my main desktop since 4.0.3. I went on a bug-hunt for the first few weeks, but everything I reported was already fixed already. Now it's settled in, a few quirks and annoyances but it's not like I'd have to use 4.x if I didn't want to, is it?
Keep up the good work and thanks for all you've done so far! Much appreciated.
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I miss Kaffeine
by NJ Hewitt on Wednesday 30/Apr/2008, @03:41
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Dragon's okay at what it does, but KDE 4.0 didn't have a DVB tuner app, and it looks like 4.1 won't either.
I fully realise this falls under the category of pet feature requests, perhaps only with niche appeal, but Kaffeine was the killer app for me in 2003 that brought me to Linux full-time. Well, that and hideous DVB software on Windows.
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Missing in Feature Plan for me
by Iuri Fiedoruk on Wednesday 30/Apr/2008, @04:36
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- port quanta+ to KDE4 (there are two items about quanta, but it does not seems like a kde4 will be made soon)
- bluetooth support in phonon
Also, hoping for some items to be made before 41 final as gstreamer support.
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Further comments on multiprocessing
by JRT on Wednesday 30/Apr/2008, @09:33
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I find that there is a project to port LINDA:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_(coordination_language)
to C++:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/cpplinda/
for Linux.
LINDA does explicitly what a compiler designed to run code on a multiprocessor system would do implicitly. It is not the same as multiple threads because it will automatically scale for any number of processors.
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I don't get it
by Uwe Thiem on Wednesday 30/Apr/2008, @12:11
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It's an alpha 1 release, right? People complain that it isn't working right out of the box. People complain not every bug report has been seen to it, yet. People complain about rough edges.
What the fuck!
Have your parents never taught you manners? Did it never occur to you that a preview is - a preview?
What is your reason to be around here? Certainly not to provide criticism that leads to enhancing KDE. Stroking your own personality? Maybe.
You know, drag yourself out of OSS and go hunt deer. Or count your toes. Or watch TV, especially soapies. Don't go to a music concert - you won't understand that either.
Uwe
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Thanks
by Raul on Wednesday 30/Apr/2008, @20:33
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I just admire KDE developers for the courage in challenging what everyone takes for granted:
The application launcher problem: Kickoff, Lancelot and maybe later Raptor,
The Desktop paradigm: Plasma,
The way of interacting with your computer: Nepomuk and the social desktop.
It's Amazing to me that after seeing all this advances, people that have no clue of what is going on in the development just come here to trash about the release. What's more surprising is that this people (that for their comments is clear that haven't even read Planet KDE blogs or done anything to know what's going with KDE) thinks that they know better what's best for KDE and what the developers should do for the next release...
I just hope that developers understand that most of this people have no idea of what they are talking about and that they keep their motivation high so that they can continue with all this exciting new ideas.
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And as always... PolishLinux does it again.
by Alejandro Nova on Wednesday 30/Apr/2008, @22:01
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http://polishlinux.org/kde/kde-4-rev-802150-work-in-progress/
A nice preview of KDE 4.1 alpha 1. Check it out.
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Just good wishes !!
by From Pakistan on Thursday 01/May/2008, @01:43
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KDE Devs,please don't be discouraged by the comments that come from moronic not-knowing-what-they-say corners.
Thrust on with all your energy. Our good wishes are always with you !!
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Somewhat OT: KDE4 Live CDs
by Luca Beltrame on Thursday 01/May/2008, @02:49
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As far as I understand, the KDE Four LIve is updated whenever a milestone of KDE release cycle is reached. I'd like to know if there are similar alternatives with a slightly more frequent update (like the now discontinued daily image). My home PC is way too underpowered to do constant compilations from SVN, and I'd like to see recent snapshots so I can start including KDE4.1-aware items in the Plasma FAQ.
Thanks a lot.
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Such is life
by Evan "JabberWokky" E. on Thursday 01/May/2008, @07:28
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Thank you for doing open development (both to the devs and the people publishing the news). Quite a few of us understand what it is and are excited about the future, not dismayed into ignorant attacks.
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All right
by P. on Friday 02/May/2008, @23:13
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Cool! :)
Congratulations to all, especially to the developers!
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Applause
by Stefan Majewsky on Saturday 03/May/2008, @12:03
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Nearly all comments have to do with Plasma and Akonadi, but KDE 4 is much more. On behalf of all developers, artists, translators and other people working on KDE 4.1 I say thank you to some developers I have noticed in the last weeks:
Thank you, Vladimir Kuznetsov, for the physics simulator Step.
Thank you, Ian Wadham, for the rubic's cube game Kubrick. (By the way, Ian has just celebrated its 70th birthday.)
Thank you, Ralf Habacker, Christian Ehrlicher, and many others for your effort to bring KDE goodness to Windows users. (This also applies to all other platform people, for example Adrian de Groot for Solaris.)
Thank you, Pino Toscano, for a great document viewer.
Thank you, KOffice people. (Just too many to list them all.)
Thank you, Albert Astals Cid, for managing our translations (and inserting messages scripts virtually everywhere).
Thank you, KDE developers, for the <personalopinion>best computing experience on earth</personalopinion>
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