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| KDE 4.1 Alpha 1 in the News |
 Posted by Troy Unrau on Thursday 01/May/2008, @09:50
from the its-still-just-in-alpha-believe-it-or-not dept.
Ryan Paul over at Ars Technica is at it again, this time with an early review of KDE 4.1 Alpha 1. He writes, "This alpha release marks the start of the 4.1 feature freeze, so virtually all of the remaining developer effort between now and the official 4.1 release in July will focus on bug-fixing, polish, and stability." Features that are listed as planned for 4.1 can still be implemented for 4.1. Next, our friends at Polish Linux are at it once again, bringing us a visual review of KDE 4.1 of revision 802150, which roughly corresponds to Alpha 1. Buried in the article, I found this interesting bit of news, "Kwin features a new visual effect known to most of you from Compiz: the Wobbly Windows."
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KDE Commit-Digest for 20th April 2008
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KDE 4.1 Alpha 1 Is Out
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There has got to be a better way....
by Joe on Thursday 01/May/2008, @10:43
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There has got to be a better, more efficient way to draw shadows around windows than to put a shadow behind the whole window. Compiz, doesn't do this and thus when you wobble windows, you don't see the shadow layer lagging behind the top layer. Now in compiz, the window decorator is a separate process, does this make a differenece?
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great
by cool on Thursday 01/May/2008, @10:57
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KDE alpha1 looks amazing. When will kubuntu get packages? Most KDE centric distributions have them already :/
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w00t!
by Jakob Petsovits on Thursday 01/May/2008, @11:13
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Tabs in Dolphin! Omg, that's terrific news. Best of all, I didn't expect that feature at all. I always thought Dolphin was a nice file manager but that I can't migrate from Konqueror because I can't miss its tabs. And now this!
On the other hand, I could really have expected tabs in Dolphin when I saw that Peter Penz worked on close buttons for the tab widget. So much for my deductive skills x-)
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interesting
by anon on Thursday 01/May/2008, @14:49
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Good article, but when you look at the screen shots you can see how far ahead opensuse is with tweaking and polishing 4.1. Just look at the screenshots for 11 beta 1. I guess to be expected considering the large KDE team they have. But thanks for the article.
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Where is the desktop
by Emanuell_BR on Friday 02/May/2008, @06:36
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Where is the desktop? the ability to create folders, files. Where are the useful options of the right click of a mouse? Widgets should only be one more option on the menu of these options click Direct. KDE 4 ta should do this, I think you forgot essences. Do what is useful and enjoyable. This form kde 4 vai follow the same path of Windows Vista...
I hope that these technologies are doorways in the future!
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Kubuntu
by Andre on Saturday 03/May/2008, @07:59
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I am using the latest Kubuntu and I am experiencing still very old and odd quality problems:
- icon set switch gets you uber-big icons in the menu that clutter it (why doesn't the software check it and convert it??)
- Systemsettings with a non-visible ok button of the keyboard/mouse module, you need to use the scroll bars, who designed that shit?
- with dolphin in the trash the default option is not to empty it. It is impossible to delete files in the trash bin window
- translation: incomplete and with invalid line-breaks in the system settings selection dialogue, looks like shit.
- Kubuntu installs the ugly Orage calendar tool that pops up on every start-up
- some keys of my laptop keyboard don't work anymore and I have no idea how to switch the keyboard, probably a GRUB problem.
- folder system has an entry for printing and another one for printing. One is Gnome.
- at least 5 errors during system upgrade
with these oddities in the kubuntu standard installation I don't really want to test Kde 4...
- Kde 3.5.9 file selection dialogue **still** jumps over entries when you scroll via keyboard. The bug is there still since at least Kde 3.0.
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