KDE 4.4 Released Alongside Website Redesign 368
Cryophallion writes "KDE 4.4.0 has finally been released, along with a redesign of the KDE.org website. New features include tabbed windows, improved desktop search and social desktop features. 'Major new technologies have been introduced, including social networking and online collaboration features, a new netbook-oriented interface and infrastructural innovations such as the KAuth authentication framework. According to KDE's bug-tracking system, 7293 bugs have been fixed and 1433 new feature requests were implemented.' A feature guide is also available."
Re:Is it time to look yet? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Is it time to look yet? (Score:5, Funny)
Are you looking at the same KDE that the rest of us are looking at?
My 11 and 15 year old daughters use it successfully, without crashes.
Dude, you're being out-linuxed by little girls!
Re:Sweet (Score:1, Funny)
Sounds like they made a mess of the web site. Doesn't make me want to look at the changelist for kde itself...
PS (Score:2, Funny)
Oh I was hardly vague or speaking out of turn - that's now proven.
I have open patches on bugs KDE4, one for many months, and part of my frustration is watching how badly issues are treated on that project - even when they have a clean fix all prepared and ready to apply, at the end of an impeccably documented bug. But you know, that wasn't even worth mentioning, because your underlying point was so stupid.
Re:Sweet (Score:5, Funny)
I tried, and yes, F12 seems to work great in KDE 4.4, but my keyboard doesn't have an F13 key so I'm kinda stuck.
Re:Maybe, you were too much used to KDE3 to be fai (Score:4, Funny)
First of all I really appreciate you sharing your perspective on this.
Who can be objective about these things? I loved KDE3, really did. I've really enjoyed may different fundamental UI frameworks, from Amiga's Workbench to nextstep to early gnome and xfce... Everyone's particular about different things. Who knows.
Obviously KDE4 was unstable for ages, but beyond that there seemed to be things that hinted at a bad underlying direction, too. Take the plasmid that showed folder contents on the desktop. Context menu items, keyboard shortcuts, and drop behaviors were broken and/or different from what konq or dolphin did. You know, I actually liked that they contained the "desktop" folder in a plasmid and let you control that. Great concept. But someone clearly was implementing file management a second time rather than generalizing what KDE already had. And that's just the first basic bit of functionality on the desktop that most everyone sees by default.
It's just one example. It was not only a bad user experience (when the DEL key deletes selected files, except on the desktop), but it betrayed a kind of architectural ineptitude.
BTW, I assuming they must have fixed that DEL key on the desktop at some point. But did they do it by laboriously getting the plasmid to copy the existing file browser code?
Re:Sweet (Score:2, Funny)
Bad luck mate.
I'm lucky. This keyboard goes to F13!
Re:KBadDesign (Score:5, Funny)
Why do the KDE developers insist on using uber-bizarre names for user programs? Can you get even the slightest idea what these programs do from reading their names: Neopomuk, Dolphin, Gwenview, Blogilo, KGet, Kopete, Kstars, Parley, Marble, Cantor, Rocs, Nepomuk, Akonadi, Kauth, KNewStuff3?
You're right. You'd never catch reputable software distributors carrying on with such shenanigans. Like Adobe Flash, Apple iPods, Microsoft Excel, or Mozilla Firefox. I mean, where do these KDE guys get off?
(Please tag as flamebait since ./ers don't like these kinds of challenges.)
Nah, I'll see it and raise.
Re:Is it time to look yet? (Score:4, Funny)
Just because someone agrees with you doesn't mean the people who disagreed somehow changed their mind. Perhaps they just didn't read you comment, or didn't bother replying... As for Amarok 2, I personally don't see what's wrong with it. It does what I want it to do (organize and play music) and stays out of the way.
If that's what you classify as, ``stays out of the way,'' I'd hate to see what you consider in your face.