20090701 KDE 43 Reaches Release Candidate Preview of KDE 44 Appears
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KDE 4.3 RC1 Release Announcement
KDE Community Ships Release Candidate of KDE 4.3 Free Desktop, Containing Many New Features and Improvements July 1st, 2009. The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of KDE 4.3 RC1, a release candidate of the 3rd iteration over the KDE 4 desktop, applications and development platform.
http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.3-rc1.php KDE's Seigo gives sneak peek at version 4.3
Core KDE developer Aaron Seigo posted a much-anticipated screencast of the upcoming 4.3 release. This snapshot is approaching the final release (due in a month) and comes after more than 2300 bugs (including duplicates) were closed.
http://www.techworld.com.au/blog/talkingtech/2009/06/kdes_seigo_gives_sneak_peek_at_version_43 let's play a game!
Let's a play a game of "Spot the New Feature"! Here's a screenshot, submitted by our own Helio, that shows a new feature in Plasma that will debut in KDE 4.4...
http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2009/06/lets-play-game.html Krusader 2.0 Review - First Stable KDE4 Release
Krusader is a twin-panel file manager for KDE which has been around for around seven years and was always a good alternative to Konqueror since KDE3 days. Its interface resembles the one of the popular file manager Midnight Commander for the console. Codenamed 'Mars Pathfinder', 2.0 is the first KDE4 stable release, bringing lots of new features and coming with the entire interface ported to Qt4 libraries.
http://tuxarena.blogspot.com/2009/07/krusader-20-review-first-stable-kde4.html
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KDE 4.3 Plasma Overview Screencast
Ho, ho! Finally! The KDE 4.3 Plasma screencast arrives! It's 10:36 in length and covers some of the nice improvements we've in Plasmaland for 4.3, including:
- The new Air theme
- Small panel sizes
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http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2009/06/kde-43-plasma-overview-screencast.html
10 Awesome Features of Krunner in KDE 4
Many KDE 3 users depended on Krun, a simple yet effective application used to execute commands. Executed simply by pressing “Alt-F2″, it was much easier to start applications using it, rather than navigating through a launch menu or opening a terminal window. The only catch with Krun was that you had to know the exact name of the command you intended to launch. With the advent of KDE 4, that has all changed.
http://maketecheasier.com/10-awesome-features-of-krunner-in-kde-4/2009/06/29
Yakuake - Great Quake-Like Terminal Application for KDE4
A while ago I wrote an article called 13 Terminal Emulators for Linux, where I briefly reviewed all those popular shell-like applications and a few flavours of xterm or rxvt. In this article I will talk about Yakuake, a powerful terminal application for Linux, and also the KDE counterpart of Tilda in GNOME.
http://tuxarena.blogspot.com/2009/06/yakuake-great-quake-like-terminal.html
KDE 4.3 RC + Lancelot themes… a bad combo
Just as a note, since Air is now the default theme for Plasma (and what’s worse, it is even called “default” instead of “air”), you’ll see that the Lancelot themes in 4.3 RC are screwed up. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to fix this before 4.3 RC tagging today (I was too late to discover the issue in the first place).
http://ivan.fomentgroup.org/blog/2009/06/24/kde-4-3-rc-lancelot-themes-a-bad-combo/
KDE 4.3 branched, trunk is now 4.4
The release team has just done something a bit different from past release cycles to test out some modifications to our usual work flow: with the release of the first release candidate, 4.3 has been immediately branched off of the mainline trunk, and trunk is now 4.4. In the past we've done this only when the new release is actually made, not during the release candidates.
http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2009/06/kde-43-branched-trunk-is-now-44.html
On KDE4.3
We are almost one month far away from the kde4.3 release. Yesterday the 4.3 rc1 was tagged and due to excellent work of our colleagues in OBS we have it already. Personally, I would have liked it to go a little bit further away in terms of usability, we will speak about that later. This release will mark the break with 3.5. I see no real reason for not using kde 4.3. All the functionality that people were crying after from 3.5 is finally up and running (a lot of time better) in KDE 4.3.
http://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/06/24/on-kde43/
KDE 4.3 Beta 1: A Short Preview
There are a ton of features in KDE 4.3, more than I could possibly mention in one article. It seems that there are improvements all over the place.
http://www.itnewstoday.com/?p=389
Selective list of Plasma changes for KDE 4.3
Aaron Seigo has published a list of changes and new features to Plasma, the desktop shell for KDE4, that will be included in KDE4.3. This list is quite long, so I will only try to show the most important changes.
http://polishlinux.org/kde/selective-list-of-plasma-changes-for-kde-43/
KDE 4.3 Beta 1 - looking pretty
Looking back for a moment, there's no question that KDE 4 has had a very rough ride. Certainly, version 4.0 was a disappointment for many users, lacking features and functionality to make the move from 3.5 worthwhile. Version 4.1 started to repair the damage, and 4.2 padded it out to be good all-round desktop (don't miss our top KDE 4.2 tips!). Will 4.3 be the first 4.x release to win over armies of Gnome fans?
http://www.tuxradar.com/content/kde-43-beta-1-looking-pretty
KDE 4.3 Beta 1 Out For Testing
The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of KDE 4.3 Beta 1, the first preview of the 3rd iteration over the KDE 4 desktop, applications and development platform. KDE 4.3 focuses on polishing and completing the user experience by providing a modern and beautiful Free working environment. KDE's award-winning tools and applications are available in more than 50 languages. The KDE team is now in bugfixing mode in order to provide a smooth KDE 4.3.0 to end users in late July.
http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.3-beta1.php
KDE 4.3: First Widget for Social Desktop
A widget has been included in KDE 4.3 as the first implementation of the „Social Desktop“ which allows the user to view other KDE users in his or her city or region.
http://www.linux-magazine.com/online/news/kde_4_3_first_widget_for_social_desktop
KDE 4.3 - early preview
Like it or not, KDE 4.3 will be a great leap forward in this environment’s development. I won’t hesitate to say, it will be a bigger one than KDE 4.1 to 4.2. Interestingly enough, my compilation of development snapshot worked stable and jerk-free - no major issues there.
http://polishlinux.org/kde/kde-43-early-preview/
wallpapers and other bobbles for 4.3
We have a number of new Plasma components lining up to make it into 4.3. Not least among them is a geolocation DataEngine, making it absolutely trivial for anything Plasma to get at the information either via a GPS device or by looking up the location of your network address if you are online. Along with a handful of new widgets, some I've already written about recently, we also have no less than six new wallpaper plugins that may make it into 4.3!
http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2009/04/wallpapers-and-other-bobbles-for-43.html
Air and KDE 4.3.
Air was the wallpaper we introduced in KDE 4.2, but that is just the beginning of something larger. Air is supposed to be different than what Oxygen is, something that tries to appeal to a user base looking for a more "sexy" experience than Oxygen (yeah I know you are out there :) ), but to still have the capability of merging nicely with what we have now.
http://pinheiro-kde.blogspot.com/2009/02/air-and-kde-43.html
Five Improvements For KDE 4.3
The new year has already brought us a nice treat in KDE 4.2. I found it to be a very solid desktop, yet with some issues that keep it from 100% perfection. I’m happy to say that 4.2 occupies all of the computers that I use, yet there are still some serious problems that remain. Last year I did an article similar to this one, detailing the things I feel would make the KDE desktop rise to a higher level of perfection, and now that KDE 4.2 is released, it’s time to do it again.
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