KDE 4.5 Released

An anonymous reader writes "KDE 4.5.0 has been released to the world. See the release announcement for details. Highlights include a Webkit browser rendering option for Konqueror, a new caching mechanism for a faster experience and a re-worked notification system. Another new feature is Perl bindings, in addition to Python, Ruby and JavaScript support. The Phonon multimedia library now integrates with PulseAudio. See this interview with KDE developer and spokesperson Sebastian Kugler on how KDE can continue to be innovative in the KDE4 age. Packages should be available for most Linux distributions in the coming days. More than 16000 bug fixes were committed since 4.4."

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Re:W00t

[ultrabot]

To be fair, I did have to do this once. Kubuntu shipped with one that was broken by default, at least on my system.

Me too, that's why I'm complaining. On Gnome & Ubuntu, you don't need to think of backends - it's pulseaudio or bust.