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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 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.