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Its out.. KDE - KDE 4.3.0 Caizen Release Announcement

WIll post the detailed news tomorrow

[vishalrao]

Take Oxygen icons surveys: Oxygen Icons Icon tests

Currently survey for KDevelop icons is running... very short and quick.

via: Ongoing Oxygen Icons Usability Survey: KDevelop | KDE.news

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^^Already done Even participated in k3b survey

[vishalrao]

just now updated my arch desktop install... gotta update arch on tablet and karmic and fedora too... got quad boot now you see (show off)...

note there is a new login kdm theme which "oxygen-air" or something which is better than the ugly black one, so run "kdesu systemsettings" in the desktop and go into the login manager applet to change it

edit: also just now noticed the menu levels/structure is cleaned up and flattened/reduced so you click less to start an app.

[archish]

hmm one simple question, which kde distro for no frills usage, something like ubuntu which is well integrated and has good repos, i find many people complaining that kubuntu is not that well integrated with kde..
basically want to try the new kde 4.3 , the last kde version i used was 3.x or something...lol
also how much memory is it hogging compared to earlier versions? any chance it has reduced/speed is better?

[vishalrao]

i was also one of the "complainers" about kubuntu earlier but when i tried 9.04 with KDE 4.2 it is very good. it gives a clean KDE experience without too much modification/customisation like the other distros give you. So go for Kubuntu 9.04 but it only has KDE 4.2

If you want KDE 4.3 you can still install stable kubuntu 9.04 and add the unsupported repositories mentioned in the kubuntu.org homepage and you will get KDE 4.3 which is cool

Or you can run Kubuntu 9.10 alphas if you are brave hehe.

Another very good option (but lot more work/risk) is running Arch Linux but I would say stick to Kubuntu.

[archish]

will be running in virtual machine only but still will use kubutu 9.04 with the backports available in lauchpad

arch linux maybe later, is it a derivative of slackware?

[vishalrao]

i dont think arch is a derivative or anything.... not sure tho. explore their website : archlinux.org

[Dark Star]

Do I need to say anything more *cough*

[vishalrao]

hey darky you are on opendesktop (kde social desktop), me too, so add me, username: vishalrao

[vishalrao]

OK some KDE 4.4 stuff:

polishlinux.org KDE 4.4 dev: What’s new?
KDE 4.4 Desktop – An Early Preview at Harsh J
via: Upcoming KDE SC 4.4 Gains Positive Reviews | KDE.news

See:


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Apparently the progress bar movements have been smoothed out... can't wait to get on 4.4 soon...

[Gaurish]

Looks great! but didn't much understand the hype behind new concept of "Activity"

[vishalrao]

Check out this blog post: Few things about kdm that do not make much sense to me | David Vignoni Visual Designer Blog Archive

So one of the devs responded: QML to KDM! Presto!! | Enrico Ros

Some awesome videos of QML animations, one even on the Nokia N900, sweetness!


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I'm running 4.4 beta 2 on Kubuntu 10.04 alpha and I can see it starting to come together... the task preview/popup sliding from one task to another is now super smooth. Although progress bars still are not smooth, so got to see what up with that... I don't have this "animations" tab as seen in the screenshot from polishlinux review, so will try installing nvidia driver to see if I get it...

[vishalrao]

Wooo - just now completed compiling basic KDE 4.4 RC1 (4.4 branch latest) stuff from source and have the desktop running on Arch! Progressbar has smooth increases but abrupt decrease. Still not as polished as Win7 but I'm sure it's easy to improve. The source checkout took TWO weekends ahahaha...

Chrome beta runs quite smooth.

[Gaurish]

Looks awesome! now, KDE desktop is ages ahead of gnome or any other DE.using other desktop's Like gnome feel like back to stoneage. KDE 4.4 looks tempting too, But I would wait for a proper release instead.

Currently, Even KDE3 has hell of customization options which I haven't tried yet. still KDE is not stable for me, I get a few random crashes every now & then.

the bugs which made it crash were:
* Dolphin Qt-dbus random crashes (Nepomuk integration?)
* Plasma Workspace (kdeinit4),Segmentation fault.

I just wish KDE people focus more on bug fixes than adding new features. as stability is more important to me