KDE Announces 4.9 Releases · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday August 1, 2012 @05:12AM from the shinier-than-ever-before dept.

jrepin writes "KDE announces 4.9 releases of Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. Version 4.9 provides many new features, along with improved stability and performance. Some of the highlights include, but are not limited to: more thorough integration of Activities throughout the Workspaces, ability to display metadata (ratings, tags, image and file sizes...) next to file names in Dolphin file manager, Mercurial versioning system support in Dolphin, detachable tabs in Konsole terminal emulator, support for MPRIS2 protocol in various places, ability to store and print PDF annotations from Okular document viewer, Okular can also play videos embedded in PDFs, Lokalize translation tool supports Qt's TS translation files, Kontact PIM suite gains ability to import data from Thunderbird and Evolution, Pairs is a new memory training game added to KDE Education package, and Marble desktop globe includes Open Source Routing Machine and support for bicycle and pedestrian routing. This release is dedicated to the memory of recently deceased KDE contributor Claire Lotion."

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Re:Another Win by metalgamer84 · 2012-08-01 05:34 · Score: 0, Troll

The last KDE environment that I liked(and still use on a couple of machines) was 3.5.10, I tried 4.2 awhile ago and hated a lot of it. I currently run Xfce and have no reason to switch as it works so well for me.