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KDE Applications 15.08.0 Released

Posted by samzenpus on from the check-it-out dept.

jrepin writes: KDE announces the release of KDE Applications 15.08. With this release a total of 107 applications have been ported to KDE Frameworks 5. There are several new additions to the KDE Frameworks 5-based applications list, including Dolphin, the Kontact Suite, Ark, Picmi, etc. This release of Kdenlive video editor includes lots of fixes in the DVD wizard. Okular document reader now supports Fade transition in the presentation mode.

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  1. Re:Too late by Gavagai80 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I didn't like Kubuntu 15.04, so I switched to 14.04 LTS. What's wrong with KDE 4 until 5 is ready?

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  2. Re:Too late by Peter+H.S. · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, interesting that people want bleeding edge and then complain about bugs and missing features. KDE 4 works fine (and is upstream LTS now).

    I don't know if it is a good or bad sign that people expect FOSS DE's to be mature and finished before they are released, just like commercial DE's like MS Windows.

    There used to be an understanding that FOSS software projects needs to release early and often, and that this sometimes meant releases with missing features and bugs.

    Anyway, people should remember how few developers actually working full time on Linux DE's (the number is probably lower than the number of Baristas employed by Microsoft).

    It never really ceases to amaze me how good the KDE desktop and its applications are compared to products from multi-billion dollar companies.

  3. Re:Too late by Peter+H.S. · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ubuntu's desktop releases are hardly "bleeding edge."

    Well, if they wanted a stable KDE release they should have chosen KDE 4. KDE 5 (KF, Apps etc) are still a work in progress.

    But people (including me) wants new and shiny, so most distros tend to ship the newest Linux DE instead of the old boring stable one.

    Face it. The KDE team screwed up. All software teams do, sooner or later. They post a broken "release", and it gets shipped.

    I disagree and I don't think you really understand how FOSS DE and software development work; all the major DE versions starts with feature regression, rough edges and lots of bugs, and then later start to stabilize as users report bugs and developers catch up. Gnome 3 happens to be further into the stabilizing phase since it is older, but it certainly was released with both bugs and features missing.
    Both Gnome 1, 2, 3, and KDE 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 followed the above pattern without exception.

    This is not because KDE or Gnome developers "screws up", but because this is how FOSS DE software with basically no funding has to be developed; release early and release often, have the users report bugs and supply RFE's and general feedback for what is important to fix.

    If people rage-quit instead of reporting bugs Linux development will suffer.

    Besides, it's not like there aren't a bazillion desktops out there waiting to replace one that's been screwed up.

    Really? As I see it there are only two DE's out there with any kind of application development going on and that is Gnome and KDE (and a few Qt apps).

    If KDE disappeared then there would only be Gnome and GTK apps left for Linux. (Qt would probably disappear too since they would no longer have any economic incentive to support Linux anymore).

    But hey, there is always CDE.