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KDE 4.10 Released, the Fastest KDE Ever
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).
The better question is why do you care? Use Kubuntu, or one of the many other distributions that default to KDE
OK, so you are saying that I don't have to turn the bladdy nepomuk thing off anymore as the first step after an install, since it may actually work now?
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
Well this is some seriously good news. The bloody thing was not only completely useless but was sucking the life out of my desktop. It should have never been enabled by default.
No offence... but isn't it time we stop complaining about 4.0 every time there is a KDE story?
Another poor decision. But GNOME lost all their momentum. It's getting irrelevant.
As long as Red Hat controls Gnome it is not going anywhere.
Eh? You're comparing a complete desktop environment to a window manager.
Translation
hey guys- I've replaced my full blownout desktop environment with a lot of different services and stuff tightly integrated into it to make this shit actually useful for this window manager and oh boy, it's so much faster!
I'm the AC Parent. I'm gonna reply to the other AC, Flyingfsck and Pesho all in one go...
Yes it should work now.
It had some use but it was too buggy and unstable to be truly useful.
Yes you can still turn it off.
Here's ONE of the blogposts explaining the changes, links to the posts about OTHER changes in Nepomuk/Strigi for 4.10 are included in the post.
http://vhanda.in/blog/2013/01/what-new-with-nepomuk-4-10/
--Ericg--
I weep for the mountains of coal that have been burned for the millions of nepomuk indexers that nobody ever used or knew to turn off.
My God, it's Full of Source!
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