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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."
if i wanted to get raped by a mouse i would just go to a pet store, buy one and shove it up my ass
Fuck KDE. Seriously, who wants a desktop with a smelly foot on it?
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.
Save your wrists today - switch to Dvorak
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.
Lacking <sarcasm> tags,
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.
But in doing all that, it does too much. The UNIX philosophy is "do one thing, and do it well". KDE has some great features, like KIO-slaves. But the GUI layer is exactly the wrong place to put such a feature. It's completely useless to any command line application.
Have you considered that the UNIX philosophy is complete bunk?
Would you rather have one image editor that contains everything you need? Or 520 different filters applications, all in different applications, all of which need to pipe data between each other? (Hint: the first one is superior in every way.)
Look, that philosophy, like everything in UNIX, was designed for a world where the *only* data was text. Even more specific, text laid out in columns. It doesn't work for images. It doesn't work for sound. It doesn't work for video. It doesn't work for relational databases. It doesn't even work for fancy text with formatting and embedded media.
It's obsolete-- get over it, and join the rest of us in the 21st century.
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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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This is marked troll, and we may be too far off topic here, but poster's point is valid.
You always get marked troll when you tell it how it is.
I think it's clear from the popularity of Windows and Mac OS that following the "UNIX philosophy" isn't always the best approach. Hell, GNOME and KDE don't follow it, either... so you wouldn't really expect saying "do one thing well" is buck is really that controversial.
I'd rather have both. One is far easier to script with standard issue tools since it's forced into a specific programmable interface.
Which is pretty much exactly what Photoshop's plug-in interface is, frankly. Which is also way all image transformation tools (for certain values of 'all') are implemented as Photoshop plug-ins and not little CLI applications.
Write a script that for each of our 1200 technical drawings creates a pdf with the drawings, includes highlights and text about the part, requirements + specifications, include a 3d render of that part, and puts a company logo watermark. Can this be done so a human only needs to say "GO?"
Get ready for some more troll mods, but this is exactly the kind of task that Microsoft's PowerShell is intended to handle. It's not there yet, because of poor .net support for AutoCAD and PDF formats, but with a couple (admittedly probably expensive) .net libraries you could definitely script something like this.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
Nice false trichotomy you've set there. I'm going to guess you consider yourself in the middle group?