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KDE 4.7 RC Is Here: GRUB2 Integration, KWin Mobile

Posted by timothy on from the less-unitary dept.

dkd903 writes "KDE 4.7 is almost here and brings along with it a number of features and performance improvements such as a better Dolphin with a faster file search, ability of KWin to run on Mobile devices, Grub2 integration in KDM and offline search support in the KDE virtual globe, Marble." Here's KDE's own announcement of the release candidate; the final release is planned for July 27. Reader jrepin quotes the KDE announcement: "With API, dependency and feature freezes in place, the KDE team's focus is now on fixing last-minute showstopper bugs and finishing translation and documentation that comes along with the releases."

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  1. Re:GRUB integration? by Beelzebud · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You can boot in to a different distro without actually restarting the machine, with KDM.

  2. Re:Will Qt become owned by or part of KDE? by Davorama · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There are too many folks that use Qt to make large sums of money for it to go away.
    It will find a good foster home and be well taken care of if it is ever actually orphaned.

    --

    Davo -- Free speech, free software, AND free beer.

  3. Mobile devices by some_guy_88 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They keep talking about mobile devices. Is this just theoretical or are people actually running kde on real phones/tablets?

  4. "Better" Dolphin? by UbuntuniX · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What was wrong with Konqueror? It may not be the best web browser, but it's the best file manager I've ever used. Dolphin, however, is a load of crap, in my opinion.

  5. Re:KDE vs Gnome by Beelzebud · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Which version of Gnome are you using? Right now, KDE4 is much more stable, and customizable than Gnome3. However if you're looking at Gnome2, I'd say it still beats out KDE4 in the "just works" department.

    If I were choosing between the 3, it would look like this: Gnome 2 > KDE4 > Gnome 3

    That being said, I'm using neither. When Gnome 3 replaced Gnome 2 in the Arch Linux repository, I switched to XFCE4, and haven't looked back since.