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KDE 4 discussion thread

A meta thread to track discussions/updates for the KDE 4.x series.

To start off we have the 4.2 thread: Rock On with KDE 4.2

Now there is news that KDE 4.3 Beta 1 is released: K Desktop Environment - KDE 4.3 Beta 1 Release Announcement

I will most likely try the "KDE Four Live" live CD mentioned here: K Desktop Environment - KDE 4.2.85 Info Page the link is "KDE Four Live" CD

KDE 4.3 release schedule: Schedules/KDE4/4.3 Release Schedule - KDE TechBase

KDE 4.3 feature plan: Schedules/KDE4/4.3 Feature Plan - KDE TechBase

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Thanks couldn't create the thread as was a bit busy with burning thing you know

The best place to track almost all KDE development is Planet KDE

The only 2 things I am waiting for is Amarok 2.1.0 and K3b 2.0 Will download the live cd when Beta 2 is out

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Yes, I only recently added planet KDE dont know why I didnt do it before - I only had the kdedevelopers blogs in my list...

Downloading the "KDE Four Live" image to try 4.3 beta!

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^^Didn't see tht in opensuse page ? Maybe I'll turn my stable Mdv in cooker 2010.0 now

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It just came out K Desktop Environment - KDE 4.3 Beta 1 Release Announcement

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Some links from the KDE blogosphere:

Qt Labs Blogs Mouse gestures in Qt apps, to be or not to be.

aseigo: plasma on netbooks

Optimising: 'kdeinit no workey' - MARC


edit:

See the work of this rockstar KDE artist - Nuno Pinheiro!

http://pinheiro-kde.blogspot.com/200...baby-burn.html
http://pinheiro-kde.blogspot.com/200...and-fonts.html
http://pinheiro-kde.blogspot.com/200...-of-black.html

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Bah, waited 4 hrs for the "KDE Four Live" test ISO to download and it doesn't even have the new Air theme for Plasma! I hope it doesn't need desktop effects to be visible.... that was the main thing I wanted to check out...

Check out (I think these were posted before) :

http://pinheiro-kde.blogspot.com/200...nd-kde-43.html
http://polishlinux.org/kde/kde-43-early-preview/

edit: ok had to add some unstable/factory/community opensuse repo and install the plasma-theme-air package but its just the plasma theme (panel, widgets), i dont see air window decorations/style etc...

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Facebook support coming to Kopete: Facebook support: First milestone reached at Duncan Mac-Vicar P.

The KDE 4.3 feature plan mentioned Skype support for Kopete too but its been dropped at the moment... apparently there is some skype plugin which runs the skype closed program in the background and makes it look like Kopete is handling it...

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Another project "Ink" frm Mandriva developer Paint it Black A life inside a shell

Will enable hand writing tool in MSN !

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In KDE 4.3 you can right-click the main menu (kickoff) and pick an icon, so now I can change the default KDE to Kubuntu's "circle of friends" (CoF) icon. Downloaded the "bling" SVG official logo from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KubuntuArtwork and edited it in Inkscape to get just the CoF part. Since SVG is just an XML file simply deleted the section with the kubuntu wording and left the circle logo in it

Also, from Undefined Fire :: Noteworthy KWin commits since 4.2.0 they've fixed the flicker during login due to desktop effects self-check which is now only done when you actually change settings in the system settings applet: Revision 923842

Do self-check immediatelly during compositing setup only when it’s not KWin startup at the same time (in other words, only when activating compositing using the kcm). Currently selfcheck causes bad flicker (due to X mapping the overlay window for too long?) which looks bad during KDE startup. With this patch, KDE startup is without any flicker.

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they've fixed the flicker during login due to desktop effects self-check

A must needed

and that icon part is a welcome addon.. All I want is to ease the icon theme installation Nothing beats Gnome there...

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Lancelot 1.7 released Ivan ?uki? Lancelot 1.7: I just get carried away…

and a cool concept for tp game DrIDk's dev blog: Webcam for kde : a new way for gluon games ?

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Maybe some bling to come in future 4.x releases?

Qt Labs Blogs Welcome to Kinetic
Qt Labs Blogs Qt Kinetic hits Plasma
Qt Labs Blogs Animations and state machine APIs in qt/master

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The good thing apart from these eyecandy is that QT ganing mult-touch feature

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It seems they will be aiming netbook very soon Tale of a little pixel - Put a net in your book

Beautiful interface not as good as moblin but still much better