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KDE 4.2 Is Released

Posted by kdawson on from the nice-and-gui dept.

OhReally writes "It's a great day for Free Software: KDE, the desktop environment for Linux, Windows, Mac, and (Open)Solaris, has just reached version 4.2, exactly a year since the release of 4.0. This is a version suitable for broad usage, with many improvements all across the board, and lots of bugfixes. You can leave a comment or congratulate the developers here."

19 of 488 comments (clear)

  1. Woah by Keanu+Reeves · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's pretty

    1. Re:Woah by RiotingPacifist · · Score: 5, Funny

      I disagree about the version numbering, from day 1 its been obvious
      4.0 was for testing
      4.1 was for developing
      4.2 is the 1st end users release
      4.3 the 1st release that will be truely ready for end users.
      4.4 will be tweaked
      4.5 will be so finished they'll get board and start over with a complete security overhaul because they went so far on the web integration that its going to be easier to start over than to just port kde4 to qt5

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    2. Re:Woah by the_B0fh · · Score: 5, Funny

      Indeed, very impressive.

      Now I can go back to using Gnome knowing it wont hog my CPU as much.

      That's funny. I decided to use KDE over Gnome years ago 'cos Gnome was way too slow.

      That's because Gnome wasn't able to hog your cpu you see...

    3. Re:Woah by elashish14 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I say the same thing when I switch from Gnome to XFCE.
      Then I say the same thing when I switch from XFCE to LXDE.
      Then I say the same thing when I switch get rid of my entire DE and switch to RatPoison.
      Then I just say screw it and switch to the shell, kill all daemons and um, well by that point there's not much left, so oh well.

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    4. Re:Woah by gbjbaanb · · Score: 4, Funny

      How long have you been running 4.2? Have you submitted any bug reports or contributed in testing? No? Then you have no right to bitch about it.

      You must be new here.

      KDE 4.2 is possibly the best thing for Linux since the kernel, but that doesn't mean we still can't bitch about the most minor, picky, features.

      Now, stop bitching and go fix something. :-)

    5. Re:Woah by Dr.+Spork · · Score: 4, Funny

      Thank you for that sincere response. The best way for it to blow over is to keep improving KDE at this rate. You guys are awesome, and I've long since forgiven you for the 4.0. (Actually, what I remember thinking was "How could Fedora put this in a "stable" release?")

      Thank you for your work.

  2. Re:1 question by Daniel+Weis · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually we have to wait for KDE for Workgroups 4.21. Good guess though!

  3. Re:Cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hey, no Windows bashing here, this thread is about KDE!

    Oh wait, you were talking about KDE.

    Sorry, force of habit. Carry on.

  4. Re:Thanks to the KDE 4 Devs! by CarpetShark · · Score: 5, Funny

    KDE 4 has finally gained critical mass

    Yes, in the pyrotechnic sense of the term.

  5. Re:No Critisism of F/OSS? by Enderandrew · · Score: 3, Funny

    By that I believe you meant that KDE is targeted by jealous trolls because Qt is so much better than GTK. ::ducks::

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  6. Re:Cool by gmuslera · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, no one in Slashdot think that Windows is garbage. Is unfair, offensive, and without basis. Why you hate garbage so badly?

  7. Re:Future Roadmap by pseudonomous · · Score: 2, Funny

    Q: Would it be a crime for KDE to steal some of the better innovations from OS X and Windows 7?

    A: Only if they're patented

  8. Re:1 question by aliquis · · Score: 1, Funny

    This will be moderated troll instead of funny but who cares about karma? :D

    Only one way to find out: I am installing the .debs tonight

    You mean "tonight" like two-three years from now?

    I know there are .debs for other dists than Debian, or the testing and unstable versions.

  9. Re:1 question by moniker127 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nope, he uses leopard.


    I guess I should start running.

  10. Son of a bitch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I started compiling KDE 4 days ago and it just finished this morning. Now I have to upgrade already lol.

  11. Re:1 question by mpyne · · Score: 2, Funny

    You would have to make the taskbar fonts way smaller but I just did it and it doesn't look completely atrocious. Except for it being on the top of the screen, wtf man! ;)

  12. Re:1 question by ion.simon.c · · Score: 2, Funny

    Pff. I'm waiting until KDE 4.4! Surely no earlier version could be suitable for my advanced needs!

    What's that, computer?

    Fetching external item into 'kdebase/workspace/kwin/clients/oxygen/lib'
    Updated external to revision 917587.

    Updated to revision 917586.

    -- Found Automoc4: /home/kdedev/kde/build/kdesupport/automoc/automoc4

    -- The following external packages were located on your system.
    -- This installation will have the extra features provided by these packages.
    + MySQL Server
    Congratulations! All external packages have been found.

    Err... Umm...

  13. Re:1 question by rastos1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nope, he uses leopard.

    Nope, he uses The Force, Luke.

  14. Re:1 question by beaviz · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hell, someone might decide that the first three characters of the hash of the tgz might be a good version number. And it might be, too.

    You're brutal, you know that?