KDE 4.6.3 Released

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Posted by Soulskill on Friday May 6, 2011 @06:55AM from the new-and-shiny dept.

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."

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Dedicated to: by Ancantus · 2011-05-06 06:59 · Score: 4, Interesting

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?

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1. Re:Dedicated to: by RPoet · 2011-05-06 07:13 · Score: 2
  
  It's happened before, but very rarely. Notably it happened for KDE 4.1.
  
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Boring by Anonymous Coward · 2011-05-06 07:03 · Score: 2, Funny

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 It's so 2000's. When is KDE going to completely overhaul it's outdated legacy design and make the whole desktop work like my smartphone??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 is really good now.. by kvvbassboy · 2011-05-06 07:12 · Score: 5, Interesting

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.
1. Re:KDE is really good now.. by kvvbassboy · 2011-05-06 07:32 · Score: 2
  
  Yea.. but the desktop folders is actually more usable now. For instance, you can copy-paste stuff onto it. (Pretty sure you couldn't do that in earlier versions).
  As for the applications menu, I reverted to the classic. So yea, the applications menu is not up to the mark yet. But, it's not worse off than alternatives in other DEs.
2. Re:KDE is really good now.. by Timmmm · 2011-05-06 08:05 · Score: 2
  
  Does it still have the irremovable 'kidney bean' on the desktop?
3. Re:KDE is really good now.. by Hatta · 2011-05-06 08:50 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  I threw KDE 4.6.something on a spare C2D box on a fresh install of Arch. That lasted about 2 minutes, as there was appreciable lag (at least half a second) switching between the tabs at the bottom of the app menu.
  I would not call KDE 4.6 snappy by any stretch of the imagination. On the same machine, I can open as many windows as I want and still switch virtual desktops faster than it takes to redraw the screen. There's no excuse for any GUI element to take longer than a vblank interval to draw.
  
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4. Re:KDE is really good now.. by oakgrove · 2011-05-06 09:25 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  I personally think Kde4 is fantastic and I'd be thrilled to use it for more than the 5 minutes it always takes me before I scuttle off back to Gnome were it not for one thing. The kickoff menu is a complete disaster. Tabs lining the bottom and a complete click and delayed hoverfest to find anything. it's pure abomination. And the classic menu omits the one thing that makes the new menu useable: instant search. Lancelot is terrible too, imho. If there were just a good menu for the panel, I'd be using kde. until then, Gnome 2.32 for me.
  
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Of course they did... by Dcnjoe60 · 2011-05-06 07:41 · Score: 2

Of course they just released a new version of KDE. Ubuntu shipped last month.
1. Re:Of course they did... by Just+Some+Guy · 2011-05-06 08:20 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Of course they just released a new version of KDE. Ubuntu shipped last month.
  How dare they not rush it out the door months earlier to give the Ubuntu guys extra time to screw it up.
  
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Not news by diegocg · 2011-05-06 07:57 · Score: 2

This is a minor release...
Re:I wonder. by gnud · 2011-05-06 08:14 · Score: 2

Well, you can browse the local SMB network with ease - and all KDE programs can read/write to SMB shares automagically.
Compared to v3.5.10? by antdude · 2011-05-06 08:26 · Score: 3, Interesting

Is it a lot better than v3.5.10?

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Re:Not very interesting by MonsterTrimble · 2011-05-06 08:56 · Score: 2

Seriously, KDE developers needs to throw some time into the plugin selection or just say 'Screw it - we're porting Empathy'. Kopete still has a lot to offer over Pidgin & Empathy including video, mutliple identities and a clean, nice looking interface! The issue I see (beyond the Akonadi / Nepomuk fiasco) is that there are only a few plugins for Kopete when there are literally hundreds of plugins for Pidgin. Plugins like Bot Sentry and the ability to sort contact by the chat log size. These are indispensible and the only way Kopete has a hope in hell of surviving.

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