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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).
I hear both KDE users were super excited
I suppose Linus on the desktop is better than Linus on the laptop, he would probably break it.
So, a new version of this image, then...
Windows moves in mysterious ways, its crashes to perform
This is actually a legit question. Mark Shuttleworth has repeatedly praised Qt. He has forked away from Gnome. The new Ubuntu phone interface is apparently written in Qt, and he is encouraging developers to write Qt/QML apps for his new phone platform.
I bet Ubuntu could recreate their Unity interface in Plasma/Qt easily enough. But the really interesting aspect of that is that they could create one device that could easily change UIs/shells based upon how it was used. A tablet could default a touch interface, but switch to a more traditional interface with paired with a keyboard. A phone interface could change to a desktop interface in a dock.
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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!
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.
No offence... but isn't it time we stop complaining about 4.0 every time there is a KDE story?
I'll stick with Windows 8, thanks.
Bullshit. I have one of the nicest looking WM setups I have ever seen, and people who are used to Windows always do a double-take and ask me what software I am using to get such an awesome look. I don't even have this latest release and my 4 year old laptop is already blazing fast with KDE. Anyone who complains about performance or a look they don't like is either trolling or ignorant and/or incompetent.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
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!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
in .kde/share/config/kdeglobal, you can change the value of
ButtonLayout=1
This will change the button order. This is one of those things that should never have a GUI option :). But this is KDE, so an option there is!
Oh man, I think that is almost not work safe.