KDE 4.8 Released 165
jrepin writes "The KDE community has released version 4.8 of their Free and open source software bundle. The new version provides many new features, improved stability, and increased performance. Highlights for Plasma Workspaces include window manager optimizations, the redesign of power management, and integration with Activities. The first Qt Quick-based Plasma widgets have entered the default installation of Plasma Desktop, with more to follow in future releases. KDE applications released today include Dolphin file manager with its new display engine, ..., and KDE Telepathy reaching its first beta milestone. New features for Marble virtual globe keep arriving, among these are: Elevation Profile, satellite tracking, and Krunner integration. The KDE Platform provides the foundation for KDE software. KDE software is more stable than ever before. In addition to stability improvements and bugfixes, Platform 4.8 provides better tools for building fluid and touch-friendly user interfaces, integrates with other systems' password saving mechanisms and lays the base for more powerful interaction with other people using the new KDE Telepathy framework."
Re:LALALALALA (Score:5, Informative)
No, it doesn't. It actually rocks. I really have become bored of all that desktop environment hate going on /. cough....) . KDE has always been a powerhouse of a desktop
in semi knowledgeable circles (cough...
environment and a feature complete one at that. It definitely can become option heavy but this is exactly
what a user that needs a productive environment wants.
The only thing that I don't like about KDE is that whenever I touch an "out of the box" implementation of it
I feel like using an overpolished windows NT machine. But that is only the KDE aesthetics not being my
kind of soup. Software wise it still is a top notch environment.
New in konsole (Score:5, Informative)
I'm guessing konsole will get a lot more use with this crowd, that, say, Marble. I'm not sure this feature list is worth the effort of upgrading, but here it is:
http://konsole.kde.org/changelog.php [kde.org]
Noteworthy:
Before any window is opened, make sure pty device has right size before starting the terminal process.
Allow an image to be set as the background in the terminal window.
Close session reliably when the session process doesn't die with SIGHUP.
Don't show the default profile in menu New Tab list when no others are listed.
Add "Select All" action for selecting the whole history of this session.
Add popup menu for drag-n-drop operations using KonqOperations::doDrop.
Bidirectional text support is on by default.
Left-To-Right direction will always be used in the terminal area even when the language is Right-To-Left.
Add support for Unicode decomposed characters and in general better unicode displaying.
Re:Pause after click fixed? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:New in konsole (Score:5, Informative)
Hey, I actually like that idea. I can have ssh sessions open for up to five different machines... I'd definitely find it useful to attach different backgrounds to each one so I immediately know which machine I'm currently using. It would prevent me from entering commands in the wrong session, which I've done multiple times before with somewhat disastrous results...