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KDE 4.5 Released

Posted by Soulskill on from the newer-and-shinier dept.

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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  1. Re:W00t by ultrabot · · Score: 0, Troll

    Or your distributor can plug in the best backend on your OS (yeah, they really might be different on Solaris, BSD, Linux, Windows and Mac) so that you can get sound from your speakers.

    It should be a compile time option or something - at least there should be no GUI to change the backend. Exposing the backend selection in gui makes it a "reasonable" thing for a user to do, which should not be the case at all.

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  2. That's all nice by overshoot · · Score: 1, Troll
    but it would be even better if the robustness were more of a priority.

    KDE is doing a Miguel de Icaza lately and imitating Microsoft's "total integration," including their own version of the Registry: akonadi. Which may be nice, but it's also terribly fragile for something that's supposed to hold all of your data. See, for instance, bug 244250.

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  3. Re:W00t by MrHanky · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hell, for the past 5 years I haven't even needed to install drivers and its still produced beautiful sound.

    Great, so Linux is so far behind the other OSes that the other OSes are only at least six years behind Linux. I've never once installed audio drivers in Linux, and have used it since 1999.

  4. Re:KDE is great by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 0, Troll

    It was better than System 7.0.0... that was a crime against humanity. (Dragging a font from the System Folder/Fonts folder into the trash can *permanently destroyed your OS install*. I'm not exaggerating.)

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