KDE Software Compilation 4.6.0 Released 202
jrepin writes "KDE is delighted to announce its latest set of releases, providing major updates to the KDE Plasma workspaces, KDE Applications and KDE Platform. These releases, versioned 4.6, provide many new features in each of KDE's three product lines. The KDE Plasma Workspaces come with a new Activities system, which should make it easier to manage different tasks."
Thanks, (Score:2, Insightful)
but no, thanks!
My KDE 3.5.10 serves me well. No stupid Windows Vista-like menus, no bling bling. I'll wait for KDE5. Hopefully, they'll come to their senses.
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You can turn all that off really easily.
Turning stuff off (Score:2)
People, it is an illusion that you just can turn stuff off everywhere. You can turn off things up to the level of how the system was designed. And KDE is now designed for over-componentisation, over-information and over-configuration. It needs a consistent narrative. Maybe it will develop one. This is needs something that would be good to turn on, not off. :)
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If you really like 3.5.10 why don't you use Trinity [pearsoncomputing.net]?
For me KDE 4.6 serves all my needs, memory footprint could be better, but it's now the way it should be.
I'm afraid to look (Score:4, Funny)
And then finding a worm in the seventh one ...
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Every new release of KDE is like opening a box of chocolates.
And then finding a worm in the seventh one ...
Mmmm... Chocolate coated worms!
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If you don't like the worms, I'll trade you a crunchy frog.
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Um... OK, I give up. You do?
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I'm afraid you're mistaken; Gnome is the official desktop manager for foot fetishists.
KDE is for kool kids who don't kry about konstant krashes.
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but it's an actual picture of RMS's foot!
also that's gnome...
Re:I'm afraid to look (Score:4, Informative)
Been there a couple years now. M.
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Yeah, but that kills all the other plasma functions on the desktop.
Not really the way to go now is it...
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Wonderful - everyone should try this! (Score:5, Informative)
This is a fantastic and welcome suite of upgrades, bugfixes, optimizations, and changes. Thank you KDE team!
For those who have forsworn KDE due to bad experiences with the 4.x line, let this be a formal request to reconsider your aversion. The initial KDE 4 releases were unusable, and this has greatly hurt their image and reputation. However, as of KDE SC 4.5, it is ready to replace other desktop environments. I promise you, to both GNOME users and KDE3.5 clingers: it is worth your time to try KDE SC 4.5 (or 4.6), and you will not be disappointed.
For a bit of history, even the KDE team understood that the early KDE4 releases were not suitable for most users. They urged those who wanted feature-complete desktops to avoid it [wikipedia.org]. Much to their own disappointment, major distributions like Ubuntu and OpenSUSE rushed to adopt it and the result was ... well, mass disappointment. The first release recommended by the KDE team as a KDE3.5 replacement was 4.2 [wikipedia.org], which was still generally lacking but worlds better than its predecessors. Every release contained more polish, and 4.5 was (in my opinion) the milestone of a release that fully eclipses KDE 3.5 and leaves no doubt about the vision of the KDE team.
Re:Wonderful - everyone should try this! (Score:5, Interesting)
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You realise that the functions you are asking for are OS functions, and not related to the GUI? If you want the beahviours you describe, then use FUSE -- perhaps through kio-fuse.
In dolphin, I have sftp remote locations which appear just like any other folder...
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I actually miss Linux in many ways. I used it daily from 1994 (Yggdrasil linux) until 2008 or early 2009 (various distros in between but during 2007-2009, Fedora). Then I got distracted with my photography and other tasks that basically _required_ me to use Windows (no, Photoshop under Wine did NOT work well at all, and GIMP doesn't cut it for lots of reasons). I changed my dual-boot to default to booting Windows XP and eventually the linux partition disappeared entirely. If I recall my last install of linu
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For Windows apps that you absolutely can't live without and aren't supported in wine, there are always VM apps.
I used to run Windows 2000 in qemu until I finally decided to cut the cord completely.
VM all the way (Score:2)
I've been running Windows in a window since around 2001, and haven't booted MS software on the bare metal since. This way I get all the usability and admin goodness of whatever Linux flavor I want, while still getting to use any Windows-only software that work requires of me. And having the ability to take snapshots of the machine is quite nice -- if an install hoses something in the virtual Windows box, I just roll back to the last snapshot. Plus the VMs are portable, since they're basically files, so I
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I've been running Windows in a window since around 2001, and haven't booted MS software on the bare metal since. This way I get all the usability and admin goodness of whatever Linux flavor I want, while still getting to use any Windows-only software that work requires of me. And having the ability to take snapshots of the machine is quite nice -- if an install hoses something in the virtual Windows box, I just roll back to the last snapshot. Plus the VMs are portable, since they're basically files, so I can just copy the whole VM over to my laptop when I'm traveling.
Cheers,
Yes, you've listed several distinct advantages of the VM approach. I should have included in my initial post that I still do have Linux machines (my fileserver for example) I just don't use it as my primary desktop OS.
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If you only need Windows for one or two apps, you might give VMware or Parallels a spin -- both work on hosts running Lin/Win/Mac, and with Unity mode in VMware or Coherence mode in Parallels, the integration with the host desktop environment is much smoother. In fact, as I write this in FF in Mac, I've got some of my Windows-only work software each appearing as their own window just under the browser window via Parallels, and iTunes in the background keeping my ears happy. When I'm at my desktop, I use a
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I've since switched to GIMP but I did run Photoshop under wine perfectly for many years.
For Windows apps that you absolutely can't live without and aren't supported in wine, there are always VM apps.
I used to run Windows 2000 in qemu until I finally decided to cut the cord completely.
Last I tried Photoshop (CS4?) under Wine it didn't work perfectly, but it's quite possible I stuffed up the installation.
Yes, having Linux as my primary OS and using VM's to run those programs I cannot live without is a perfectly valid and reasonable option. It's just that 99% of my apps require Windows so I do it the other way around now (run linux in a VM, whereas in I used to run XP in a VM under linux and have a dualboot system as well). I don't do a lot of programming these days, but when I do I use th
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Code::Blocks was not around back then, and the last time I used it the debugger (well, the gdb interface) was horribly broken -- couldn't break out of an infinite loop, for example. DevCpp was pretty good, but as far as I can tell it's no longer maintained. I actually never had any problems with kdevelop. It's currently in (for me) an unusable state though because of the KDE 4 "upgrade". Visual Studio is quite nice, but it's WINDOWS ONLY so that only supports my reasoning for moving from Linux to Windows as
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To me, KDE just looks so darn busy compared to Gnome. Until they change that overall aspect of design, I really don't see using KDE regularly.
I like a few KDE programs a lot, especially Kate. But the overall desktop just isn't doing it for me.
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Seriously, it's not that hard. My desktop is entirely bare, I have a vertical panel with just a task bar, tray, and clock. My plasma theme almost completely lacks gradients. Oxygen is probably least offensive in this regard - it looks great on my high dpi screen, and isn't ridiculously glassed like certain themes are.
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Have you possibly tried changing a setting in KDE before?
Seriously, it's not that hard. My desktop is entirely bare, I have a vertical panel with just a task bar, tray, and clock. My plasma theme almost completely lacks gradients. Oxygen is probably least offensive in this regard - it looks great on my high dpi screen, and isn't ridiculously glassed like certain themes are.
It's not the theming so much as programs like Dophin. It seems like, for whatever reason, KDE programs have really cluttered toolbars and controls around the edges of various frames. It seems like with Gnome, there's more of a design ethos of hiding most details behind menus and configuration dialogs, whereas KDE apps seem to like putting them all in front of you on the main window. Maybe I'm over generalizing, but that's my impression anyway.
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Have you even used Dolphin? It has as many toolbar icons as Nautilus does. In fact, Dolphin is like a slightly better clone of Nautilus. If you pick a theme other than ugly-ass Oxygen, it actually looks pretty decent. I, myself, use QtCurve, which has the added benefit of providing a GTK version that uses the same settings as the Qt version, so your GTK and Qt apps look as similar as they ever will.
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Interesting. I'll probably give 4.6 a try once it hits Ubuntu's repositories.
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With the release of KDE 4.6, KDE has also finally incorporated oxygen-molecule, which is a very complete Oxygen theme for GTK+.
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Let's start with the fact that if this was a KDE message board, and I was to thoughtfully complain in any way, my message would be quietly deleted. I don't bother posting any feedback, filing bugs, or doing anything for KDE any more. KDE doesn't give a fark about it's users. The developers are writing code for themselves and some strangely distorted user-effigy they built up, but who doesn't exist.
But nevermind KDE as a Window Manager itself. What you did to apps like Amarok is a crime. Fark you. I li
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I whole-heartedly agree about Amarok. Used to be my favorite music app back when it was a clean, but featureful clone of iTunes. Now that it's panel-mania with no discernible UI goal, I can't stand it. I really hate apps that insist on you having a playlist before you can do anything. Maybe I just want to click on a song in my collection and play it? I don't want the wikipedia entry or lyrics to load. I don't want album art. I just want to play a damn song.
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DE integration is overrated. Just look what it's done to Windows, where every program under the sun has shell integration and start up services that use as much of your RAM and CPU cycles as they possibly can while providing little to no added value.
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Add me to the list. It is so heavy and slow, but losing working Shoucast station integration was the last straw for me. Before Amarok I was using Songbird, until that died, then I went to using Exaile [exaile.org] under KDE. Excellent player. Clementine [clementine-player.org] is supposed to be Amarok-lite (based on the KDE 3.5 version), but I now use Guayadeque [sourceforge.net] which is snappy and has all the functionality I need.
Phillip.
Try Clementine (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Wonderful - everyone should try this! (Score:5, Informative)
Care to bring specific examples? I'm one of the administrators of the KDE Community Forums, and not once we have deleted a message we disagreed with. In fact all that's asked to users is to respect the Code of Conduct, their opinions can be freely expressed.
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Re:Wonderful - everyone should try this! (Score:5, Insightful)
They said this about KDE 4.2. They were wrong.
They said this about KDE 4.3. They were wrong.
I'm sorry, but you only get so many chances. KDE has used theirs up.
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They said this about KDE 4.2. They were wrong.
They said this about KDE 4.3. They were wrong.
I'm sorry, but you only get so many chances. KDE has used theirs up.
Even worse, they also said it about KDE 4.1. And KDE 4.1.3 really p*ssed me off by being a terrible incoherent and buggy scaffolding.
With KDE 4.2 things did indeed improve, and some early adopters (such as myself) were actually happy with it.
Although I still miss the good old days when KDE was neat and nimble, and you could run it on all your systems, even a 5 year old laptop. Nowadays even XFCE has gotten really fat, and my only resort for old hardware is LXDE. Which incidentally is a lot like KDE 1, on
Re:Wonderful - everyone should try this! (Score:4, Funny)
PS: I'm posting this under a friend's account just in case you're not quite all better yet.
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They urged those who wanted feature-complete desktops to avoid it [wikipedia.org]. Much to their own disappointment, major distributions like Ubuntu and OpenSUSE rushed to adopt it and the result was ... well, mass disappointment.
I didn't follow that situation closely, but in my opinion they totally failed in communication. They said it was for "early adopters" but at the same time they labelled it 4.0 and stating something in the line of "we want as many early adopters as possible."
That's doublespeak and a total communication fail. Part of communication is *keep it simple* so that there's nothing to misinterpret and nothing to get "lost on the way".
They could have communicate this better much better. They could have called each ver
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Dude, what's wrong with the file containment? You get icons just the same except they have a square around them. Big whoop. Get over yourself.
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Revisionist history at it's finest. At the release of 4.0, KDE had on their front page that it was ready to go. Then, after the big shitstorm, they say they never said this.
That's interesting because I remember trying 4.0 right after it came out. I remember the arguments over whether they should release it as a "finished" product and the KDE team responded by saying it's a X.0 release so you shouldn't expect it to be as polished or stable and if you need something stable stick with 3.5.
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The KDE team was doing an awful lot of doublespeak. Of course a x.0 release isn't as stable as a x.5 release that is the very last of a long series, but you still expect it to be as stable as is commonly accepted for x.0 releases. They pretend they gave a warning, but in reality they didn't because that's what everyone says even when there's just minor kinks to work out. It's exactly the same as moving from the last SP on one Windows release to the first release of the next Windows version, and that was nev
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Still KDE is missing integration for FF, Chrome, OO.
Um. Surely you mean, "Still FF, Chrome, OO is missing integration for KDE"? Last time I checked, it was unreasonable to expect KDE developers to go out and patch KDE integration into [insert your every favourite application here].
I think OS community does not have enough resources to maintain different applications for several desktop, or maintain several desktops.
As long as people are able to choose to do something different, there will be people who do choose to something different. As soon as you mandate the One True Desktop Environment (for example) you lose most of the power of Free software.
Competition is good, but linux needs standards to make it easier for software and hardware manufactures to support it.
What, you mean like POSIX [wikimedia.org], the Filesystem Hie [pathname.com]
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Tried 4.5 on a new distro (Sabayon) install and was very disappointed. Dolphin was frustrating to use, and most other things were too just too buggy and unstable.
Interesting. I've been using KDE4 on Fedora as my main system since about Christmas 2008, and I haven't found it to be "buggy and unstable" since about mid-2009. What particular bugs have you encountered? Might be something to do with my hardware setup that's making it more stable for me...
The Gnome version just worked.
Do you mean, "I want KDE to act exactly like GNOME, but it doesn't, so it's clearly inferior"? Because I see that a lot. Last time I used GNOME it was exactly as buggy and unusable as KDE, just in different places. ;-
Gnome/KDE/Compiz/Emerald (Score:2)
Is it just me (Score:2)
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Well, they are not dead, but they seem to be becoming irrelevant. Consumers really like touch phones and pads and app stores, and only android seem to work well in these devices.
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First it was that KDE basically made it's ui a mix of vista and macos to have a selling point and rushed out of the door limping.
Having used Vista and OS X, and as a KDE user, I feel very comfortable in saying that KDE "basically" did nothing of the sort, and you don't have a clue what you're talking about.
Now Gnome is all like 'we want our own plasma shell just because'.
It's interesting how GNOME are always playing catch-up, isn't it?
32-bit went fine, 64-bit was a bit of a pain... (Score:5, Interesting)
Don't know anyone else who's had this problem but on the 64-bit upgrade X started throwing errors about a missing session - then you clicked "okay" and KDE started normally.
Solution was in this thread - all I had to do was select KDE as a session once.
http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=91936 [kde.org]
Also, my panel lost transparency although compositing was enabled. Changing the panel theme and then changing it back solved that.
On the 32-bit netbook which has just about all unnecessary stuff turned off including akonadi KDE's memory footprint went from ~180mb to ~170mb at idle. I use compiz instead of kwin on both machines, though.
Thoughts on KDE (Score:5, Interesting)
With KDE 4.4/5 the basic desktop (window manager, taskbar thinge, desktop, etc) became worthy (stable, mostly feature complete, etc.) Memory use is entirely reasonable. The file manager (konqureror) even survived. Yay KDE.
I did run into some 'social' subsystem (akonadi or some such) that actually launches a MySQL instance with a 50MiB (and growing) seed database to track one thing or another (or something; I haven't the faintest idea what it's trying to do.) Fortunately it can be removed with few consequences; think I've seen one program that spewed some console errors because the dbus services were missing. Now the only goofy thing left is the 'kde wallet' nag that jumps up once in a while for software you wouldn't suspect of being integrated with KDE by default (that one may actually belong in the distro's lap.)
(This isn't an appeal to have these things explained; I'm not interested and won't be developing an interest.)
Thanks for the great work on the basic desktop stuff KDE. Please consider that some folks would prefer a less integrated experience; KDE is found in places where unloading your life into various 'social' databases or configuring your personal info into single-sign-on 'helper' stuff is very inappropriate. A 'just works without all the personal info/high touch integration and corresponding configuration nags' option would be ideal. Overlooking this is entirely understandable; enthusiastic developers often have tunnel vision and fail to consider the simpler use cases while building their visions. Without those people nothing would be built at all.
Also, KDE needs a built-in (meaning no extra stuff to install, lightweight, no glitches, no elaborate tray pop-ups) no-mouse-required, minimal-keyboard-gymnastics way of entering all Unicode characters into everything that accepts text.
Thanks again.
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I did run into some 'social' subsystem (akonadi or some such) that actually launches a MySQL instance with a 50MiB (and growing) seed database to track one thing or another (or something; I haven't the faintest idea what it's trying to do.)
Akonadi [kde.org] is basically an abstraction layer for all PIM data (e-mail, contact info, calendar, to-do list, etc). As long as you're not using KDE's PIM programs, you won't miss it.
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I have the keyboard-switching applet in my systray that cycles through American English, Spanish, German, and Esperanto (those four give me all the diacriticals I need). I do recall at one point ALT-CTRL-K or something similar was a global shortcut to cycle it, instead of having to click. Yeah, that was so annoyingly convenient, I can see why they had to pull the functionality.
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For those still waiting... (Score:4, Informative)
For those still waiting for KDE to port things from KDE3, there's Trinity - http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/ [pearsoncomputing.net] Not perfect, but a great alternative.
It is nice to have OCR and Quanta fully functional again.
I just wish (Score:3, Interesting)
they'd put Ksirtet back in kdegames. At one point, I was 81st in the world on its worldwide high scores board, and that was my life's peak.
Bluetooth (Score:5, Interesting)
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You'll need the pulseaudio module for bluetooth, enable the pulseaudio support in Phonon and then use the newly-released "bluedevil" (new version of the BT stack for KDE) to pair your headset.
This is AFAIK.
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Re:GNOME becomes more and more irrelevant. (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:GNOME becomes more and more irrelevant. (Score:4, Informative)
And the new defaults seem much more space oriented - smaller taskbar size at the the bottom, thinner window decorations etc.
Re:GNOME becomes more and more irrelevant. (Score:4, Interesting)
Disagree. Kde is awesome in its goals and has been very ambitious in the kde 4 redesign. I love where they are going and use it every day.
However ... Its not as polished under the hood. At by that I simply mean kwin is much more finicky than metacity. I can crash kwin at will sometimes. When it does work, the display is less likely to be as smooth with or without the compositing. I'm looking forward to trying 4.6 as they say kwin's been fixed up quite a bit.
Plus, I have no hate for Gnome 3. I think I like where they are going. Its fast and seems to just focus on workflow improvements. KDE I feel like it still isn't quite there. Its very flexible, sure. But I have yet to see that flexibility pay off in such a dramatic way as gnome 3 does by default.
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Re:GNOME becomes more and more irrelevant. (Score:5, Informative)
However ... Its not as polished under the hood. At by that I simply mean kwin is much more finicky than metacity. I can crash kwin at will sometimes. When it does work, the display is less likely to be as smooth with or without the compositing. I'm looking forward to trying 4.6 as they say kwin's been fixed up quite a bit.
I think there's a decent chance you're citing problems with your OS's packages or some other external cause rather than a bonafide KDE4 problem. I've been running KDE4 build from FreeBSD ports for a couple years now, and 4.3+ has been exceptionally stable for me on issues like compositing/windowing and such. There are still a few quirks/bugs that I run into once in awhile, but they aren't anywhere near serious enough for me to consider switching DE's. I'd run KDE4 simply for konsole and it's notifications subsystem alone it's that useful to me.
I think a lot really depends on your platform and how/where/when you get the packages. Maybe year or so ago, I tried out KDE4 on a Debian Lenny install and it was an absolutely brutal experience. If I hadn't had a previous very solid experience with KDE4 on FreeBSD, I might have been tempted to assume it was a KDE4 issue. I've also seen some really awful versions of things like kubuntu which don't do anything to help KDE4 reputation.
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Can you record sound with your installation of KDE? I'm talking about you singing or playing an instrument, and using an internal microphone. What about recording video with an internal web cam?
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There's Kamoso, at least for recording from your webcam. Disclaimer: I've never used it before. As for sound, IIRC there's nothing built in. You can try Audacity.
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I can crash kwin at will sometimes. When it does work, the display is less likely to be as smooth with or without the compositing. I'm looking forward to trying 4.6 as they say kwin's been fixed up quite a bit.
Prepare to be disappointed. While KWin crashes are rare since the bad old days pre 4.3, it's performance leaves much to be desired. 4.6 is still slower than other WMs like OpenBox. For example: If you play Minecraft and use F11 to toggle fullscreen it takes a few seconds for KWin to do it, but OpenBox does it instantly. This is with compositing off.
I still use KWin because it integrates better than Compiz.
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Then file a bug report! http://bugs.kde.org [kde.org]. If you have a repeatable set of actions that can make KWin crash "on command", then TELL THEM and they'll fix it.
M.
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I have. It and several duplicates were already there. It will be fixed, as all of my issues I've found on have been. I have no doubt of that. However, I've never been able to reproducibly crash Gnome. I've found three such bugs with different causes in KDE since 4.3
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Never mind about that whole "gnome never crashes" bit. Just found a case that crashes nautilus :)
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The only real competition KDE has today is XFCE.
KDE has a lot of nice things, but some of us just want a taskbar, a start menu and a system tray. The fancy new desktop things in KDE don't interest me all since I don't even have a desktop turned on. Same with the fancy new graphics (I like Clearlooks) and programs (I used to like Amarok, but Banshee suddenly became more attractive with KDE 4). I think it really just comes down to what you want from from your DE.
Also, GNOME 3 doesn't look bad. Of course I'm a little worried that it'll suck (there are defin
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The only real competition KDE has today is XFCE.
KDE has a lot of nice things, but some of us just want a taskbar, a start menu and a system tray. The fancy new desktop things in KDE don't interest me all since I don't even have a desktop turned on. Same with the fancy new graphics (I like Clearlooks) and programs (I used to like Amarok, but Banshee suddenly became more attractive with KDE 4).
You do know that you don't have to use "fancy new desktop things" and "fancy new graphics" just because KDE provides them, right? You can, um, turn them off?
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Whoosh?
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Re:Utterly bored of gnome (Score:4, Interesting)
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Have to second this. Back when I ran Linux, I loved Arch. It seemed to provide for many of the benefits Gentoo claimed, with none of the drawbacks.
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Bullshit.
KDE does not create any folder other than the .kde[4]/ hierarchy, where it stores its settings. Gnome, on the other hand thought it good to have virtual folders that seem like they are folders -- but really reflect the UNIX filesystem in no way.
Basically, you screwed up your home with the help of GNOME, and KDE just showed you the mess you have really made.
As an aside, how anyone can live with the GTK file selector is beyond me.
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What is the big deal with printing? Install CUPS, point a browser of your choice to localhost:631 and configure away and your done.
Can you get a print preview feature using that strategy?
With KDE3, I made a point of using KDE apps to print things because they all had great print preview functionality. With KDE4, that all went away as far as I can tell. Non-KDE apps have really spotty and/or inaccurate preview support, and now I end up wasting paper on messed up printouts.
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Yes you can get a accurate print preview with KDE4 apps, eg okular while printing to a CUPS based printer. I started using KDE4 full-time with the 4.2.x branch and I don't recall print preview as an issue. Maybe you were using some apps that hadn't been ported to correctly?
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Hmm, it looks like okular does have a print preview... but that doesn't help me much because PDFs are just about the only thing that almost always print as expected anyway.
From a quick check, none of konqueror, kate or gwenview seem to have it. That seems to rule out print previewing most non-PDF files with the primary KDE apps. (My pet peeve is printing web pages; it seems that every browser developer is in some kind of conspiracy to print the last text line of any web page alone on its own sheet of paper,
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I don't print very much so I hadn't noticed the preview abilities absence in some of those apps. I imagine that would be an inconvenience if you are printing regularly from it. A couple other base KDE4 apps do have the ability and stuff like koffice does, and of course you can always print to a PDF/PS and open with okular and set it's format. Again, that would be an inconvenience but are you really trying to print from kate frequently? I use kate for many things, but not for printing. I can't even reme
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Re:I'm so excited! (Score:4, Informative)
Konqueror is still there, doesn't take much to make it default if you'd like.
That said, I run KDE 4, and I use Thunar (from XFCE) as the file manager, most of the time. I like it's simplicity, I guess.
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They've fiddled with it so that it uses the same layout for files as Dolphin. Might as well use Dolphin.
Re:I'm so excited! (Score:5, Insightful)
Though I greatly prefer Konqueror, I have to reluctantly agree with the present arrangement. New users get a simple, easy to use file manager, and those who know what they're doing can change the default easily.
This is actually one of the greatest things about KDE: defaults that are both sensible and not too surprising to newbies, and the ability for power-users to easily configure things pretty far from those defaults.
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From what I remember, click on the 'cashew', select 'remove this workspace' or some such, and bingo, plain-ass desktop. Seems easier than typing all that complaint up ;-)
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Sounds like you have an Nvidia card. The 2D and Xrender performance is really poor and I find that PowerMizer makes the sliding menu choppy only when it's at the lowest speed. It's the price you pay for working 3D.
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You know, like GNOME, Winblowz, and OS X do. If I didn't want them there, I'd use a Tiling Window Manager.
Incidentally, KDE 4.5 introduced tiling support for kwin. So KDE's WM *is* a (basic) tiling window manager.
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I hate to be another naysayer in this pick on KDE board so I will mention that it is my primary DE/WM on my primary computer, and that I think Solid is great.
That aside KDE 4.5's tiling window support was not usable.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246153 [kde.org] means it breaks whenever you close all but one of your windows and then try to open more
Also on my system kwin would crash when tiling was turned off.
Those bugs are still open so I don't think it's gotten much attention for 4.6 but I will try this week