While the world is still recovering from the work on KDE 4.0.0, we are ready to announce the release of KDE 4.0.1, the first bug fix update of the KDE 4.0 desktop. KDE 4.0.1 contains numerous bugfixes such as stability improvements, performance improvements and, as in every point release, updated translations for most components. Lots of work has been put into shared components making the life of most applications easier. Particularly striking is also the high number of bugfixes in KHTML. Have a look at the change log for a more detailed, if maybe not 100% complete list of improvements. KDE 4.0.1 is already translated into 48 languages with more coming soon.
The KDE 4.0 branch receives regular updates, including bugfixes in trunk/ which are backported to the KDE 4.0 branch and more will appear in our monthly bugfix updates. For those following the development more closely, a shift towards the development tree that is to become KDE 4.1 this summer can be noticed. KDE 4.1 will be based on Qt 4.4 with all its performance and functionality improvements. KDE 4.0.2, with even more of the above goodness, will be released in early March. While KDE 4.0 is still rather young, we hope to be able to address even more issues people encounter while getting used to KDE 4, so make sure to keep your KDE up to date.
For those among us that prefer the more stable and proven KDE 3.5 branch, KDE 3.5.9 will be available later this month (planned for February, 19th) with an updated KDE-PIM from the enterprise branch and of course lots of other improvements.
Comments
Why not make the information & places panes appear by default?? Its not like they are not useful and there is no need of hiding useful functionality.
There is a feature that has been available for ages in windows and is extremely handy. Why isnt there a search in the context menu of dolphin. What I mean is, you right click a folder in dolphin and there is a search entry in the context menu to allow for a blind search from that folder. Blind searches are very important and even when akonadi (strigi??) arrives, such a feature is very important, just integrate with it and relegate the blind search.
It would be really nice if there would be a system: protocol to show the available devices and such much like the my computer in windoze or that in gnome. This would be really handy especially for new users. Also, when the devices/volumes are displayed, why isnt there a graph widget like that in gnome showing you the percentage of the volume/drive in use!
Like http://en.opensuse.org/Image:103sysinfo.png?
exactly!!
I don't really like the openSUSE sysinfo display, The icons of the drives are to small and a lot of space lost on useless system info i don't need at that point. don't get me wrong Sysinfo is nice but i want a "computer" icon (inside kickoff) that displays an window with only the drivers with some info like the name/type/total space and free space in a nice manner. this "computer" place should also be the last place when going "up"
(example:--> /home/my_name/documents --> go 1 up --> /home/my_name/ --> go 1 up --> /home/ --> go 1 up again --> / --> go 1 up --> ://computer.
i know printing is a bit off, but is there a way of making the print dialog also configure things like both-sides printing and print tray selection, stapling, enveloping, etc?
Is independent application volume control in the offing, maybe in 4.1? This is very nifty and would make kde4 compete well against vista/osx. Pulseaudio as a backend dos a really good job but the devs seem to prefer gnome for the client apps.
pity, but I will have to wait till 4.0.2 till actually trying it out.
Windows resizing is very slow, KWin special effects with the onboard GeForce 6150 are slow (latest proprietary NVIDIA drivers + dual core CPU), some of them are just plain buggy and unfinished, too few usable applications, too few settings.
Besides I (AND AN HORDE OF KDE USERS) WANT SMOOTH SCROLLING in EVERY scrollable control be it a list or a Konqueror Internet page. MS did that in 1997 with release of Windows 98, in Linux TEN YEARS LATER we still do NOT have it. It's VERY PITY.
I hope KDE 4.1 will be much better.
Anyway KDE4 rocks as nothing else on the Earth. Thank you developers for your hard work!
I'm peacefully awaiting for KDE 3.5.9.
I finally got around to installing 4.0.1... I was hesitant because I've seen a lot of criticism. I was expecting an unusable trainwreck, but I've found it to be quite nice. To be sure, it's rough around the edges and many of the concerns expressed here are valid. It's not a final product, but it has exceeded my expectations for a .0 OSS project.
I don't know if I will be using it fulltime as my desktop right now, I'll have to tool around a bit to see... but I can already see the positive direction KDE is headed, and I want to thank the KDE team for their work.
I can't wait to see where this all ends up. =)
I have a question about the desktop icons.
I don't really like the way Desktop icons are projected. They are widgets without any right mouse actions. And no way to delete the file.
When I use the desktop normaly I put everything that I'm using or downloading on the desktop and delete it later or move it to the right location. In KDE 4 I can't do that, when i delete a deskop icon (widget) I only delete the widget not the file. so that ****, now I have to open /home/my_name:)/Desktop to edit/delete my desktop items.
I would like to see my old desktop icon behavior back... With or without widgets I don't care. Do anyone know if this desktop icon behavior will be altered?
beside of the icon behavior The KDE 4 desktop will be a beatiful desktop but at the moment it is not yet my desktop of choice, that is for now KDE 3.5.9 :D
My english is not that good... :( sorry.
I totally agree with you, dum
I agree; I have Ubuntu 8.04 with Gnome and KDE 4.
When I delete files in Gnome, they still show up on the Desktop of KDE, and I have to manually delete them one-by-one (can't just highlight them all and delete... lame)
I agree too. I do not like the way plasma works. I would prefer kde to work as it used to.
I have always used kde and I realy want to have the same old way of dealing with files and desktop icons the same.
mborn