KDE 4.8 RC 1 Now Available

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 22, 2011 @09:21AM 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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Serious Reply by Bill,+Shooter+of+Bul · 2011-12-22 09:31 · Score: 5, Informative

OpenSuse.

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Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
Re:Serious Question by Outtascope · 2011-12-22 09:36 · Score: 5, Insightful

Kubuntu is hardly going "out of your way to use it".
Re:KSecretService by qbast · 2011-12-22 09:59 · Score: 5, Interesting

As usual, KDE has something working for years, then gnomies create something from scratch (with 100% more DBUS or whatever buzzword is popular that week), stick it on freedesktop and start screaming for KDE devs to switch, because this is now "standard".
Re:Release candidates. by qbast · 2011-12-22 10:09 · Score: 5, Informative

Pass -DKDE4_BUILD_TESTS=TRUE to cmake while building and then run 'make test' . Better googling next time.