KDE 4.6.3 Released
jrepin writes "KDE has released a series of updates to the Plasma Desktop and Netbook workspaces, the KDE Applications and the KDE Frameworks. This update is the second in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.6 series. 4.6.3 brings many bugfixes and translation updates."
It isn't mentioned in the summery, but:
The 4.6.3 release is dedicated in memory of the young daughter of KDE developer Daniel Nicoletti who tragically passed away after a car crash last month. The KDE community wishes to express their deepest sympathy and support to Daniel and his family in this difficult time.
Kinda nice, I am not to familiar with the KDE release cycles, do they dedicate every release?
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. -- Isaac Asimov
I'm tired of the 4.x user interface. It's so 2000's. When is KDE going to completely overhaul it's outdated legacy design and make the whole desktop work like my smartphone?? I want sliders and swoopy bars and stuff.
KDE has improved *greatly* since its 4.4.x days. It is a lot snappier, less buggy and doesn't clutter up your desktop like it used to. With the rapid changes in various desktops, I tried working with the Gnome shell, Unity and KDE on my laptop, and found that KDE is the only one out of these which doesn't get in my way.
It definitely will not run on older computers, but it runs great on my 3 year old laptop with intel built in graphics chipset and 4 GB ram. I highly recommend KDE to someone who wants to upgrade from gnome 2.32 but doesn't like gnome shell or unity.
PS: I still run Gnome 2 on my desktop. IMO, it's the most efficient in terms of resources:features.
The list of changes look pretty minimal. Not really interesting unless you use Kopete. Much as I enjoy KDE 4, Unity looks interesting. Give it another couple of months for KDE to release their next version, and for Unity to shake out some of the kinks, and it could be worth upgrading to Natty.
Phillip.
Property for sale in Nice, France
Of course they just released a new version of KDE. Ubuntu shipped last month.
It also works quite well on netbooks with 1gb or ram, using the KDE netbook interface.
This is a minor release...
I wonder if Dolphin can auto-mount samba shares yet. Even Thunar does that these days.
..yay, let's have a global proxy setting for everything and force that on everything. KDE & Gnome developers both seem to thing that's brilliant. Except.. configure konqueror to use say privoxy and poff, kopete doesn't work anymore. this has been an open bug for several years and I guess pr. proxy app support will be added.. never. great. the panel auto-hide feature actually hides the panel since 4.6.2, so some things are improving. I don't like plasma much, switched to xfce due to that, but the KDE apps I use are mostly nice and stable. except the whole kdepim mess, who got the great idea to release that on a different schedule?
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Is it a lot better than v3.5.10?
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
You can configure Amarok2 to look almost like Amarok1 by switching off the context pane, enabling the Slim toolbar (and moving it to the bottom) and disabling album grouping under playlist->playlist layouts.
So playing video back from SMB shares won't work by clicking in dolphin. A *lot* of KDE tries to induce a copy to local disk before *starting* to open, which is useless when the file is many gigs. Of course, if you want to use a non-KDE app because it's better or the only one, the KDE developers *should* consider that problem (even though I've seen them express the rather foolish sentiment that it's not their problem).
kioslaves *were* great, then gvfs came along and went the extra mmile of FUSE integration and suddenly kioslaves were far from the sensible approach.
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
Ubuntu bunnies breed faster.
Seriously, I should revisit Suse considering my preference for KDE. Especially now that they are out from under the thumb of certain Novell VPs whose names I will not mention because it makes me spit.
Have you got your LWN subscription yet?
...and Debian won't see this in sta(b)le until 2013.
Speaking of Nepomuk / Akonadi / Strigi, I'm going to jump in with a not-very-on-topic question about the KDE system that's going to display my ignorance:
What the heck is Nepomuk / Akonadi / Strigi, and how does it affect me as a user? Every explanation I've found has been too abstract to relate to.
As far as I can tell, "Akonadi" = "You must have MySQL installed or else KDE is completely unusable. Oops, sorry if you already had a running MySQL system set up --we're going to take it over now."
"Strigi" = "If you pre-label all your 'family heirloom-related' files as 'family heirloom-related', then KDE will be able to identify them as 'family heirloom-related' even if the file name is a mundane-seeming 'test.txt'. Impressive, huh? Unfortunately, if you don't pre-label your files, then this feature is completely useless. Go use grep instead if you're looking for info within the files."
"Nepomuk" = "No bloody idea. What the heck is this, anyway?"
I'm being facetious, of course, but can someone please explain how these buzzword-loaded features make KDE easier to use for me? Thanks.
404555974007725459910684486621289147856453481154 in hex is "You sank my Battleship?"
[GPG key in journal]
Key word: almost.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit
This is from Dante's Inferno.
When the policeman of the tie, rule you violate, hello punishment of the kitty?