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KDE 4.8 RC 1 Now Available

Posted by timothy on from the many-thousands-of-hours-of-work dept.

jrepin writes with this quote from an article at Phoronix: "Just in time for some holiday testing, the KDE SC 4.8 Release Candidate is now available. The final release of KDE 4.8 is about one month away, but now the release candidate is available to ensure it shapes up to be a solid release. Among the features of KDE Software Compilation 4.8 is support for Qt Quick in Plasma Workspaces, quite visible improvements to the Dolphin file-manager, KSecretService is now available as a shared password storage pool, and there's many performance improvements. Lots of bug fixes (measured in hundreds) can also be found in KDE 4.8."

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  1. Release candidates. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    So now that I've got the RC, how do I launch the comprehensive automated test suite? You know, formal testing? The thing you do with release candidates? Where is it? I see no mention of how to test the thing on the page linked to. Googling "KDE test plan" returns nothing relevant.

    Oh... I forgot. This is amateur hour.

  2. Who cares? by ilikenwf · · Score: -1, Troll

    KDE and GNOME suck lately if you go by the comments around the interwebs...