Want to have a look at kde4.2?

[Fintan]

For those of us who are utterly bored since II was released and feel the urge to go where Captain Kirk never dared:
http://roderick-greening.blogspot.co...ker-in_03.html

[c_martini]

Re: Want to have a look at kde4.2?

Interesting. Though I think I probably have been adventurous enough upgrading to Intrepid (with kDe 4.1.2) in the first place. Warp drive seems to be offline at the moment. We are only running on impulse Captain

I wonder when 4.2 will make it into the normal Kubuntu repos

[toad]

Re: Want to have a look at kde4.2?

And, you done it? Does it nestle into ~/.kde (my biggest worry) and destroy whatever is in its path or does it have its own playground to confuddle?

[Rog131]

Re: Want to have a look at kde4.2?

About Kde 4.2 alpha:

http://lists.kde.org/?t=122453623300002&r=1&w=2

List: kde-release-team
Subject: Re: KDE 4.2 Alpha

On Wednesday 22 October 2008 7:05:01 pm Dirk Mueller wrote:
> On Monday 20 October 2008, Matt Rogers wrote:
>
> > > Just curious.. the release schedule says we have an Alpha tagging on 21
> > > Oct.
> > >
> > > Still planned?
>
> I missed this day due to being on all-offline vacation (after 10 months), I
> plan to do a weekly snapshot today.
>
> we can label that snapshot alpha1 and give it a bit more buzz. usually alpha's
> don't get much attention anyway. so I'll upload the tarballs (without
> translations) during tomorrow.
>
> > I'd say the regular snapshots suffice until we get to Beta
>
> I'd say as well, but it doesn't hurt to get some feedback on one particular
> snapshot.
>
Thanks Dirk for making this happen.
And welcome back.

[Fintan]

Re: Want to have a look at kde4.2?

Does it nestle into ~/.kde (my biggest worry)

No, it creates a ~/.kde-neon and doesn't touch .kde

[toad]

Re: Want to have a look at kde4.2?

Cheers, Fintan

Bind the warp line into warp sources, bring it online and engage!

[Fintan]

Re: Want to have a look at kde4.2?

Yeah it is pretty neat

Check out the different desktop settings (plasma workspace) choices

[kubicle]

Re: Want to have a look at kde4.2?

Obligatory screenshot:
http://www.kubuntuforums.net/index.p...o_show&ida=224

Still very Alpha, but looks like a smashing KDE release coming up.

[billyd]

Re: Want to have a look at kde4.2?

I hope it kisses the boos boos we have now and makes life easier - which updates are supposed to do.

[suplero]

Re: Want to have a look at kde4.2?

I am posting this from KDE4.2 alpha.

Overall, I like it. It still has some of the same quirks, but there are a lot more options to customize the interface. Grouping of tasks can be turned on or off [don't know if it works yet], and reordering of the taskbar icons is possible [and easy].

Problems:

the application menu is empty. No gui starting of anything but favorites. Good news: Alt-F2 works, and brings up icons of matches to run. Very intelligent and intuitive.

Taskbar still reorders...

Clock is still covered.... Multiple time zones display on hover.



It looks like application settings carry over [don't know if KDE4.1 will work properly with another login yet - that is the next step]

Konqueror now uses ark built in [I guess that's how I would describe it...] zip files now come up with an "extract here with autodetect" option. "Copy to" and "Move to" are back.

I've had a couple of crashes, but not fatal.

[Fintan]

Re: Want to have a look at kde4.2?

the application menu is empty

I saw that. Use lancelot.

don't know if KDE4.1 will work properly with another login yet - that is the next step

Not to worry. KDE-Nightly sets up and configures from .kde-neon not .kde

For the rest, it is still very alpha but a lot of stuff has been improved.

[kubicle]

Re: Want to have a look at kde4.2?

I regard it as a preview rather than a working environment. There are still a lot of glitches and occasional plasma crashes...but I have to say, kwin has gotten some serious performance improvements. My T41 laptop (with Ati Mobility Radeon 7500) is not a speedster by any standards (glxgears <1000), but kwin flies on it even with 3D effects on...The heavier effects are rather choppy in KDE 4.1.2.

[Fintan]

Re: Want to have a look at kde4.2?

but I have to say, kwin has gotten some serious performance improvements.

I have the same experience with my ati 9520 pro card and nightly

[Fintan]

Re: Want to have a look at kde4.2?

After todays upgrade (nightly):

Lancelot has disappeared

Kmenu (kickoff) still has no applications and app search does not work.
Classical mode only gives favorites, as does kickoff

Taskbar settings (two rows) works

Run command (alt+F2) remembers commands

Kwin rocks

Plasma is still unstable when placing other panels than the default (bottom)

Haven't had the time to check out more

All in all this is going to great.

[Nate]

Re: Want to have a look at kde4.2?

Are you running this in a VM or on your normal kubuntu machine?