KDE 4.10 Released, the Fastest KDE Ever 184
sfcrazy writes "The KDE team has announced the 4.10 releases of KDE Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Development Platform. It brings many improvements, features and polishes the UI even further, which already is one of the most polished, stable and mature desktop environments. With 4.10 KDE users can experience a much more sane global-menu like implementation without interrupting their workflow. A list of improvements is available here."
This release makes major steps toward further Qt Quick/QML integration (more plasmoids are written using QML, you can create animated desktops using QML, etc.). KWin's configuration applet also supports fetching extensions from KDE Look. Perhaps the best improvement is a new indexer for Nepomuk, with claims that the semantic desktop is finally usably fast (after suffering through a multi-week indexing on my laptop, I have to say Nepomuk is really cool, but having an unusable system for that long is not so I for one welcome our new indexing overlords).
Nepomukrewr (Score:3, Informative)
Just to clarify for people, the new Nepomuk indexer was COMPLETLY and UTTERLY rewritten from scratch and shares ZERO of the old code. IT uses 2 pass indexing just like OS X-- pass 1 is just file name and location so that basic search works. Pass 2 is when it starts figuring out music tags or director tags for movies , things like that.
One of the reasons the old indexer was so slow would be because you could search by content WITHIN the files, unfortunately it would scan every file, even those without any useful content for indexing like movies or music. This does mean some reduced functionality but it also means a lot more stable and quick system.
Also STRIGI has been completly thrown out so thats not an issue anymore.
Re: Gnome is going to Sandbox their Apps (Score:2, Informative)
Gnome divided and scared their entire users away.
Re:Ubuntu switching to KDE (Score:2, Informative)
They already did (at least the port to Qt part), it was their version of Unity for low-end devices and graphics cards that do not support 3D acceleration on GNU/Linux, and it was called Unity2D [launchpad.net].
Unfortunately they ditched it [omgubuntu.co.uk] and are going to use LLVMpipe to make the full Unity work with the low-end/non-3D-supporting devices instead. It's easier to support a single codebase, I suppose. However, this does show that you're correct: Unity can (and has) been re-created using Qt.
Re:This feels like what 4.0 was meant to be (Score:3, Informative)
No offence... but isn't it time we stop complaining about 4.0 every time there is a KDE story?
I totally agree. I switched to KDE just last year, so for me the experience was awesome from the beginning. Continually hearing about old bugs from 2008 that were fixed long ago is like listening to people who are still bitter about Windows ME. Give it a rest already.
Re:This feels like what 4.0 was meant to be (Score:5, Informative)
Bullshit. I have one of the nicest looking WM setups I have ever seen, and people who are used to Windows always do a double-take and ask me what software I am using to get such an awesome look. I don't even have this latest release and my 4 year old laptop is already blazing fast with KDE. Anyone who complains about performance or a look they don't like is either trolling or ignorant and/or incompetent.
Re:Ubuntu switching to KDE (Score:3, Informative)
AFAICT it was a licensing issue for the longest time. Previously, the licensing options for Qt forced developers to either use GPL for their code, or to buy a commercial license from Trolltech if they wanted their code proprietary. It wasn't a bad deal for free software, but not a good proposition for luring developers to the platform. Of course, today the available licenses [digia.com] from Digia also include LGPL, but that came pretty late.
Re:This feels like what 4.0 was meant to be (Score:2, Informative)
4.0 was meant to be a rough implementation not aimed at or recommended for end users, but with a stable API so that KDE developers could start developing and porting apps for KDE 4 and not have to worry about rewriting them again later, so that there would be a large ecosystem of software ready for when KDE4 would be at a point where it was good enough to recommend over KDE 3.5, which was expected to be at roughly 4.3 or 4.4.
Is that what this feels like to you?
Re:OK button on the right (Score:5, Informative)
in .kde/share/config/kdeglobal, you can change the value of
ButtonLayout=1
This will change the button order. This is one of those things that should never have a GUI option :). But this is KDE, so an option there is!
Re:OK button on the right (Score:4, Informative)
That's apparently controlled by the "Widget style". If you use the "Bespin" style, for instance, then one of the things you can configure in "Input/System" is called "Dialog buttons layout". They offer four choices: Windows, OS X, KDE, and Gnome.
So, yes, you can put the OK button on the right in KDE dialogs.