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KDE Announces 4.9 Releases
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."
Who cares about KDE when Windows 8 was just released??!
Seriously Slashdot, get your priorities shaped. I mean come on, Windows 8. Windows 8! Windows 8!!!
Just make sure the tablet UI mode stays optional. We don't need another Gnome3/Unity.
It still looks like a Fisher-Price operating system. It's still bugg riddled and messy. I've never liked the look of QT apps but somehow KDE managed to make them look even worse.
I'll admit, I've never liked KDE, even back with KDE 1-3. But Plasma has been the most god awful desktop experience ever. With the possible exception of Gnome Shell. At least GTK3 looks decent on my screen though and I don't have to spend the better part of a month configuring shit to make it semi useful.
The DE should die. Bring back decent window managers and be done with the cruft.
I'm glad the KDE crew is still pushing stuff out the door. While I'm not a huge fan of KDE4, it is improving.
Why don't they just round up and make it 5.0 releases?
Thanks KDE, your releases just keep getting better. The Metadata info will be great to have.
The haters, they just keep hating. When was the last time you used these apps?
I love KDE but I don't understand activities. Am I "doing it wrong" ? I can't seem to find a use for this feature.
The best thing they could do is to stuff KDE Wallet up the ass of the fucking knobs who created it, and anyone who promotes it. The next best thing would be to disable it by default instead of its current enabled by default. It gets in the way more than it helps. First thing I do is disable it to prevent it from annoying me at best and fucking things up at worst.
The next best thing would be if they made Dolphin look, feel, and behave like Thunar. Maybe better would be to throw Dolphin out the fucking window. The way it displays files and directories sucks shite (and NO, none of the Dolphin view options is worth a wet sack of monkey shit). Say what you will about the Windows Explorer look and feel, but Thunar is the most usable of any of the Linux GUI file managers. I don't need 90% of the bells and whistles of the other file managers (including Dolphin), and when I do there are better less clunky apps to handle the job (including the command line which is faster and easier to use than most of Dolphin). I prefer KDE over the other desktops but I install Thunar and make it my default file manager first thing after disabling KDE Wallet (the other unfortunate pile of dog vomit in an otherwise good desktop but which KDE needs to scrape off and throw in the garbage). The only thing I can think of that might make it better for my purposes is an integrated search feature.
-- I ignore anonymous replies to my comments and postings.
Many times I've tried to switch to linux from windows and many times I moved back because something doesn't work as it should or slow, etc. But recently I've installed Kubuntu 12.04 and I actually like it. It has been 2 weeks now and I'm not planning to get back to Windows. I still have windows to play games though. Anyway, good job KDE, keep up the good work!
Since Win8, Unity, Gnome3, and others have all jumped on the "mobile device" bandwagon, it's good to see that there's still someone concentrating on providing non-dumbed down desktop environments. Xfce is OK but it's a much simpler and less functional environment than KDE.
My fear is that KDE will die (maybe because QT dies?) and then we will have nothing left for people who want to use their computer as a computer rather than as a media consumption device.
Has anyone dared to install it through a backports PPA on Ubuntu?
Is it something worth doing?
Slashdot is self-trolling itself in order to generate comment activity. Kinda sad, really. I mean, if they were really super clever about it more people would fall for it.
-B
Ash and Hickory, straight-grained and true, make excellent bludgeons, dandy for the cudgeling of vegetarians.
The haters, they just keep hating. When was the last time you used these apps?
Been using KDE for years and years because I detest GNOME (though I say this and also happen to be wearing a Ximian shwag t-shirt, so go figure). Got a new machine at work a few months back, threw Kubuntu 11.10 on it. Woof.
This machine isn't a speed daemon but within 10-14 days all 10GB of RAM were used. Switching to another window resulted in 5-10 seconds of swapping and HDD light activity. And I'm only running a web browser, an IDE, a mail client, and Konsole. I could partially mitigate the issue by closing everything and logging out, but that would only reclaim a bit of memory. Rebooting was the only solution, and only then it just bought another few weeks until I had to shut down again.
Wiped it, installed Xubuntu and there's no reason for me not to use Xfce since I've been up for months now without an issue.
I'm not a "hater", but I don't know that I'll be a KDE user again. All I need is a workstation desktop environment. Not a tablet thing, not a phone thing, no "social media" tie-ins, just a stable, usable, reasonably svelte DE. Xfce has so far fit the bill perfectly.
-B
Ash and Hickory, straight-grained and true, make excellent bludgeons, dandy for the cudgeling of vegetarians.
What I would like to know is, if I do the following:
:-(
ssh -X otheruser@localhost kmail
Does it Just Work(TM)? Or does it still crash because akonadi / nepomuk / strigi / mysql / kitchensink haven't all been woken up at the same time to serve the urgent e-mail indexing needs of otheruser@localhost.
It's interesting to me that akonadi has such a nice and detailed self-test, but a pity that it seems to need it
To be, or not to be: isn't that quite logical, Slashdot Beta?
Serious question: Is the "best" KDE version still considered to be 3.5? Or have they un-broken the 4 with the newer updates?
Or, rather, something much like it, in regards to Outlook.com!
(Which I actually tried and was surprised to see it looks JUST LIKE OUTLOOK the app, only online).
Did I like it? Sure, it was familiar is why, & for the most part, yes. It worked well in WaterFox 14.02 also (I liked that).
What didn't I like about it?? Well, it's a HUGE Javascript driven CPU HOG, much like Windows "LIVE" Mail tends tp be as far as cpu usage @ least!
(See - I know this by watching CoreTemp, which I run in hot summers, and this one's setting records in that regard in the US @ least as "the hottest summer on record" ever, iirc)...
* However, other than that? It's pretty good.
So, finally getting to my point here:
Then, so what did the "trolls of /." do?
First post was this almost TOO OBVIOUS solely "raving review" of the site outlook.com.
Hey - I felt it actually is pretty good, but it has the downside I noted!
(That's not a 'giant' one that most folks would note unless they ran an app like coretemp & watched the CPU cores temps flying up to the 80-100 degree F mark, indicating what I stated).
So, then the "trolls of /." jumped all over the initial poster saying "Microsoft SHILL", etc. - THIS WAS TOO OBVIOUSLY A SETUP/"REVERSE-TROLLING"!
(Sure - it goes on with every major business concern though, in 'shilling' being done mostly by PR firms & image management companies etc./et al).
However, I know Microsoft wouldn't sink that low themselves, but their pr firms might (all of them tend to's why & we know it).
Again/once more & lastly, stressing it - However, I felt they "set that up" themselves in the trolls here... it's called "REVERSE TROLLING" by many in fact.
What makes me laugh most is basically what you said:
I feel they think folks are STUPID, thinking they'd fall for such an obvious ploy... & THAT is the trolls' main problem around here, imo @ least!
(Yes, I've been around here nearly a decade consistently enough to make that statement based on hands-on observations of their multiple registered 'luser' account dishonorable methods of sock-puppetry & more around here to make that statement based on experience with them myself!)
APK
P.S.=> Personally, I think that THAT type of deceit is almost as "low as you go" when you're a human being (being grateful in my stating that) because only wusses & whimps resort to it (what I call "not men" online, or otherwise)...
... apk
Previous post did not go through, sheesh.
My windows 7 is freezing right now while watching netflix or youtube on first monitor and web surfing(tried firefox, chrome, opera) on the second monitor, this happened 6 times so far. No hardware(all hardware checked out) issues especially video card which i swapped out, radeon to geforce and back. If i use linux i don't get this issue on the same hardware. I had problems like this before with xp, server 2003, and of course win7 on other amd machines. It's probably the windows standard drivers for the northbridge, sad thing asrock has only south bridge drivers no north bridge, even amd. Or there is something between microsoft and amd.
I went from opensuse to ubuntu to kubuntu 12.04 and I just love the kde 4.8. The kde taskbar is definitely better than the windows 7 when it comes to customization, adding extra taskbars, theme changing, adding widgets. Windows 7 on a dual screen is just sad I have to use ultramon to add second taskbar. The dolphin file manager looks better and has more options it's especially easy to reveal hidden files and folders in dolphin unlike windows 7 where you have to go through hoops just to turn this option on. Kde is nice when it comes to themes unlike windows 7 which you need software to do this. Visually, kde is just better.
There are pretty good apps out there for linux which i use but than there are apps on windows 7 that i need that are not on linux and wine can't run. For gaming I use emulators like pcsx2 and dolphin for both OS's and i find that the window versions are 15fps faster than the linux version with the opengl plugins. I hope steam influences game companies to develop for linux.
Every time I look at Activities I cannot figure a way to get them into my workflow in a way that benefits it.
Care to give me an example of how you are using them because I think I am missing something...
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Upgrading to 4.9 was painless.
Plasma Desktop is the best DE out there since 4.2.
Improving KWin scripting makes it even better! Dolphin 2.1 rocks hard.