sauceJanuary 27, 2009. The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of "The Answer", (a.k.a KDE 4.2.0), readying the Free Desktop for end users. KDE 4.2 builds on the technology introduced with KDE 4.0 in January 2008. After the release of KDE 4.1, which was aimed at casual users, the KDE Community is now confident we have a compelling offering for the majority of end users.
KDE 4.2 is out
- Stormwatch
- DCEmu Fan
- Posts: 2090
- https://www.artistsworkshop.eu/meble-kuchenne-na-wymiar-warszawa-gdzie-zamowic/
- Joined: Thu Jul 04, 2002 11:55 pm
- Location: Brazil
- Has thanked: 0
- Been thanked: 0
- Contact:
KDE 4.2 is out
Lines join in faint discord and the Stormwatch brews
. . a concert of Kings as the white sea snaps
. . at the heels of a soft prayer
. . whispered
. . a concert of Kings as the white sea snaps
. . at the heels of a soft prayer
. . whispered
- Maturion
- Moderator
- Posts: 619
- Joined: Fri Oct 12, 2007 1:52 pm
- Location: Munich, Germany
- Has thanked: 0
- Been thanked: 0
- Contact:
Re: KDE 4.2 is out
It looks like Windows Vista.... I may have a look at it, but I really like the simplicity of GNOME.
-
- DC Developer
- Posts: 9951
- Joined: Sun Dec 30, 2001 9:02 am
- Has thanked: 0
- Been thanked: 1 time
Re: KDE 4.2 is out
No, I don't see it. The only thing it shares with Windows Vista is that the taskbar is black. Nothing else looks even remotely like anything in Vista.Maturion wrote:It looks like Windows Vista.... I may have a look at it, but I really like the simplicity of GNOME.
- Specially Cork
- Moderator
- Posts: 11632
- Joined: Fri Apr 05, 2002 10:01 am
- Has thanked: 1 time
- Been thanked: 8 times
Re: KDE 4.2 is out
Tried it on my laptop and found about 10 things I don't like about it in 10 minutes. I'm sure a lot of it is down to my laptop, but Gnome runs so much better.
-
- DCEmu User with No Life
- Posts: 3641
- Joined: Sat Feb 16, 2002 1:55 pm
- Has thanked: 0
- Been thanked: 0
Re: KDE 4.2 is out
From what I've heard, the performance problem with KDE4 is that QT4 uses an unusual pixel format that the current graphics drivers don't accelerate (and, according to at least one developer, isn't natively supported by most GPUs in the first place).
"You know, I have a great, wonderful, really original method of teaching antitrust law, and it kept 80 percent of the students awake. They learned things. It was fabulous." -- Justice Stephen Breyer
-
- DC Developer
- Posts: 9951
- Joined: Sun Dec 30, 2001 9:02 am
- Has thanked: 0
- Been thanked: 1 time
Re: KDE 4.2 is out
Depends on what graphics card you've got.Ex-Cyber wrote:From what I've heard, the performance problem with KDE4 is that QT4 uses an unusual pixel format that the current graphics drivers don't accelerate (and, according to at least one developer, isn't natively supported by most GPUs in the first place).
It's unusably slow on my desktop machine with an nVidia card, unless I run the absolute latest video drivers. In that case, it's just slow. And crashes whenever a menu appears anywhere on the screen. The performance problems on nVidia hardware were basically because KDE 4 relies on the XRender extension to do most of it's drawing, and nVidia's implementation of that API was extremely slow. It's a lot better with the latest drivers, but still not good enough.
On my Macbook, which has an Intel GMA something-or-other (crap, basically), it works great. Easily as fast as anything else (Mac OS X included).
The pixel format thing is actually a different problem. KDE uses ARGB windows for certain features, such as Plasma, so the Plasma windows can have per-pixel transparency, and arbitrary shapes. Some drivers perform very poorly with ARGB windows, and some have (or had) all kinds of bugs, or graphics corruption...
-
- DC Developer
- Posts: 968
- Joined: Tue Feb 11, 2003 4:12 pm
- Location: In a Dream
- Has thanked: 5 times
- Been thanked: 6 times
Re: KDE 4.2 is out
I haven't tried 4.2 but my initial impressions of 4.0 and 4.1 haven't been positive. I don't understand/use widgets so I'm having trouble switching to the new system and a lot of the configuration options seem unintuitive to me at this point. I'm seriously considering reverting to a simpler desktop like blackbox and using basic shell and vi for more serious work. Hopefully that will take away all the layers of abstraction ruin the multimedia/desktop experience for me in both KDE and Gnome.
behold the mind
inspired by Dreamcast
inspired by Dreamcast
- curt_grymala
- Theme Inducer
- Posts: 4274
- Joined: Fri May 30, 2003 12:14 pm
- Location: Wherever I'm Needed
- Has thanked: 0
- Been thanked: 0
- Contact:
Re: KDE 4.2 is out
Supposedly, this new version addresses a lot of the issues people had with 4.0 and 4.1.nymus wrote:I haven't tried 4.2 but my initial impressions of 4.0 and 4.1 haven't been positive. I don't understand/use widgets so I'm having trouble switching to the new system and a lot of the configuration options seem unintuitive to me at this point. I'm seriously considering reverting to a simpler desktop like blackbox and using basic shell and vi for more serious work. Hopefully that will take away all the layers of abstraction ruin the multimedia/desktop experience for me in both KDE and Gnome.
Unfortunately, though, it's still not available from anywhere but the bleeding-edge repositories on either of my Linux installations (Mint and Mandriva). Therefore, I haven't been able to test it, yet.
DCHelp - A Newbie's Best Friend
DC Evolution - Disc Images
DreamZone Forums
I Refuse To Help Anyone That Says They've Tried Everything.
DC Evolution - Disc Images
DreamZone Forums
I Refuse To Help Anyone That Says They've Tried Everything.
- mankrip
- DCEmu Ex-Mod
- Posts: 3712
- Joined: Sun Nov 04, 2001 5:12 pm
- Has thanked: 0
- Been thanked: 0
- Contact:
Re: KDE 4.2 is out
MS Windows has that since... Windows 95 (or 98, if I'm mistaken).KDE website wrote:KDE's powerful file manager Dolphin now includes back and forward buttons