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What's Coming In KDE 4.4

Posted by timothy on from the starting-to-look-compelling dept.

buzzboy writes "If you're wondering what the folks over at KDE have been cooking up for the next major release, KDE 4.4, well, quite a bit as it turns out. In a lengthy interview, KDE core developer and spokesperson for the project Sebastian Kugler details the myriad changes that are coming with the 4.4 release — the fifth major release since KDE 4.0 debuted to much criticism nearly two years ago. The project has closed about 18,000 bugs over the past six months and the pace of development is snowballing. The 'heavy-lifting' in libraries and frameworks for 4.0 is now starting to pay off. Perhaps the biggest change is in the development of a semantic desktop. According to Kugler, 'If you tag an image in your image viewer, the tag becomes visible in your desktop search. That's how it should be, right?' There is also a picture gallery of KDE 4.4 (svn) screenshots so you can see what it will look like."

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  1. Manually semantic != semantic by geschild · · Score: 4, Informative

    I saw a preview of the semantic desktop at the Open World Forum in Paris and I think it has the same down-fall as other initiatives: you need to tag most of it yourself.

    Other people may be better at this than I am, but I can't even be bothered to tag my e-mails, let alone each and every file. Granted, this system does some 'auto-tagging' but to call it a semantic desktop because of that is a bit rich. YMMV and I like to be persuaded to look again.

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  2. KDE for Windows by KDEnut · · Score: 4, Informative

    I also love the windows port they're doing: http://windows.kde.org/ Works great for those who're stuck on windows boxes at work.

  3. Re:Labelling. by Enderandrew · · Score: 4, Informative

    Compiz effects in kwin were ALWAYS optional, and were not turned on by default unless your hardware supported it. They could always be turned off with a single keystroke (Ctrl-F12? Can't remember) as well as within System Settings. That has been there since the very first beta releases I tested.

    I've never seen an input lag, even running on an 8 year old crappy laptop. I do turn off Strigi/Nepomuk to cut down on HDD access. I'm curious what distro you were running.

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  4. Re:Best quality, Best reputation , Best services,l by Eevee · · Score: 4, Informative

    Apart from modding offtopic, is there anything else we can do?

    Yes, read at a higher threshold.

    And no I won't read at a higher threshold because of moronic moderators who bury other people's opinions with troll and flamebait mods.

    So what you're saying is you want to look in the muck for pearls, but are offended by the muck? Tough. If this post can be deleted, then those pearls you're looking for will be deleted in just the same way.