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KDE 4.10 Released, the Fastest KDE Ever

Posted by Unknown on from the giving-people-what-they-asked-for dept.

sfcrazy writes "The KDE team has announced the 4.10 releases of KDE Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Development Platform. It brings many improvements, features and polishes the UI even further, which already is one of the most polished, stable and mature desktop environments. With 4.10 KDE users can experience a much more sane global-menu like implementation without interrupting their workflow. A list of improvements is available here." This release makes major steps toward further Qt Quick/QML integration (more plasmoids are written using QML, you can create animated desktops using QML, etc.). KWin's configuration applet also supports fetching extensions from KDE Look. Perhaps the best improvement is a new indexer for Nepomuk, with claims that the semantic desktop is finally usably fast (after suffering through a multi-week indexing on my laptop, I have to say Nepomuk is really cool, but having an unusable system for that long is not so I for one welcome our new indexing overlords).

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  1. Nice! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hear both KDE users were super excited

    1. Re:Nice! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      I hear they were so excited they went over to the sole remaining Gnome user's house to gloat.

  2. Juicy! by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 3, Funny

    So the question: Why does Ubuntu stick to Gnome?

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  3. Re:This is the year of Linus on the Desktop! by SJHillman · · Score: 5, Funny

    I suppose Linus on the desktop is better than Linus on the laptop, he would probably break it.

  4. Re:This is the year of Linus on the Desktop! by Mister+J · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, a new version of this image, then...

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  5. Re:This feels like what 4.0 was meant to be by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    There was a sea change. KDE has gone just as mad as GNOME when it comes to adding ridiculous features. The only difference is that, in traditional KDE style, Plasma can be completely configured. And also in traditional KDE style, the one thing you can't configure it to do is look nice.

  6. Re:This is the year of Linus on the Desktop! by drankr · · Score: 3, Funny

    Shame on you! You seem to be making fun of the fact that he is what they call a "full-figured, plus-sized, real man".

  7. Re:Fastest Ever? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is KDE 4.10 really faster than KDE1 and KDE2 on the same system?

    Yes. It's quite unbelievably faster, in fact. You know those features in KDE1 and 2 that didn't exist until the 4.x series? Instead of waiting around fifteen years for them to work (and be developed), now they work in a few seconds on average. That's a considerable speed increase.

  8. Meh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll stick with Windows 8, thanks.

  9. Re:This is the year of Linus on the Desktop! by Dragonslicer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Linus on the laptop

    Damnit, I'm going to be having nightmares for a month.

  10. Re:This is the year of Linus on the Desktop! by PerfectionLost · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh man, I think that is almost not work safe.