We are almost one step away from what will be a new Desktop Environment, more semantic, faster, more beautiful and if everything goes well, they will give it to me as a birthday present in June. KDE 5 It is almost here.
Today they announced the availability of KDE 4.13, leaving the series 4.12.X and that incorporates a lot of new features. Let's see some of the most interesting.
KDE Kontact introduces new features and more speed
What followed Contact It presents a series of characteristics in its various components. KNotes can now generate alarms and introduce search capabilities, and there have been many improvements to the data cache layer in Kontact, resulting in the speeding up of almost all operations.
KMail introduces Cloud Storage (cloud support) which will be included as with links in emails, and adds better support for filtering with Sieve. Supported "cloud" services include dropbox, Box, KolabServer, YouSendIt, UbuntuOne (this no longer makes sense), Hubic and there is a generic option of WebDav. The tool storage service manager help with file management in these services.
The Quick Filter Bar has a small user interface enhancement and benefits greatly from the improved search capabilities introduced in the KDE 4.13 development platform. The search engine is much faster and more reliable.
Console brings a little extra flexibility by allowing custom style sheets for tab bar control. Profiles can now store desired column and row sizes. Umbrella makes it possible to duplicate diagrams and introduces smart context menus that snap their contents to selected widgets. Gwenview introduces support for previewing .RAW files.
Kate introduces animation support for braces and brackets, changes to make AltGr-compatible keyboards work in vim mode, and a number of plugin enhancements, especially in the Python support area. The status bar now allows direct actions, such as changing indentation settings, encoding, etc… A new tab bar in each view, code completion support for the D programming language, and much more.
The search interface Dolphin it has been modified to take advantage of the new search infrastructure and received new performance improvements. The sound mixer KMix introduced remote control through the inter-process communication protocol DBUS. And more, much more ..
You can see the release notes at this url and the news in the applications here..
And it is already in the KaOS repos
A new ISO of KaOS 2 will be released no later than 2014.04 days.
And it is already in the ArchLinux Testing repos ... so in a couple of days at most it will also be available 😀
Is that Andrea Scarpino is the one who packages everything, and uploads it to Arch Linux. I guess then Manjaro, Chakra and KaoS, they copy and paste in their repositories. Let's not detract from Andrea, who is the one who maintains KDE in Arch and therefore in all derivatives. Regards.
KaOS is not derived from arch, everything is packaged from scratch for the distro.
And tomorrow Kubuntu 14.04 will be available and guess what, it will bring KDE 4.13 😀
I don't see it as something positive .. I would have left KDE 4.12.4 and without haste, I later upgraded to 4.13 .. Then come the Bugs, problems and users complaining ..
It is supposed to be a final version, not a beta. Bugs are unavoidable and will always appear (either 4.12.4 or 4.13).
Well, if they've gone to the trouble to iron out any rough edges in the source code (like Fedora), chances are they've gotten rid of potential bugs.
For me, Kubuntu 14.04 is one of the roundest versions in its history (from what little I have seen) but there is no complex software without bugs or errors (Fedora is no exception).
Interesting, I'll wait for it to come out in Arch repos.
At the moment Opensuse is in Factory (for developers) in the next few days it will be in KDE SC (latest stable version) although I will wait a few weeks for the versions already patched and thus avoid any problems.
If you use the new KDE repository for openSUSE "current", I imagine that in a couple of days you will have the updates ready to install.
It is already in Gentoo Testing, the good thing is that Gentoo has calmer policies and does not force you to update so often, especially KDE
Well, Gentoo is a KISS distro in every sense of the word (it takes a little more time than Arch and Slackware put together, but to achieve the desired performance, it is worth it).
At the very least, I don't underestimate that distro like I used to (reading the Slackware and Gentoo handbook is the closest thing to the early GNU / Linux handbook).
Actually in KaOS we have been testing the betas and RCs for a long time, plus 4.13 internally.
Today, Tux through, we will have a new KaOS ISO (2014.04) with KDE 4.13 and much more !!!
Tux through? A religious fanaticism on a level that I do not understand. xD
I think that with this ISO of kaos in addition to 4.13 they change to 100% baloo instead of nepomuk, do you know if it is convenient to do a clean installation or to update it?
Baloo is the rebirth of Nepomuk (analogically speaking, it is his reincarnation, but improved).
Well I prefer Baloo a thousand times than Google Desktop Search and Nepomuk together.
with that wallpaper it seems that they passed a magnet over the monitor and it was like this XD
For the moment I am sticking with KDE 4.10.5 from Slackware 14.1 which I get rid of versiontitis and acute dystrotitis: D.
Who would say that I go from Debian to CentOS, from CentOS to Fedora, from Fedora to openSUSE and from openSUSE finally to Slackware: D.
Slackware is definitely the best distro. Easy, fast, entertaining, stable and you learn a lot with it.
From here I thank @DMoZ whose posts about this distro convinced me and for which I went to Slackware.
And don't forget about my tutelage how to make Slackware usable without dying trying or using compilers.
Yes @ eliotime3000, I also looked at them and very, very grateful to both of them 😀
Hehe, it's curious, I consider that Slackware is usable as it is after installing, it all depends on the use that is given to it, and the Gentoo ones will not let me lie but compiling is better than binaries in every way except the time of installation, by the way the tutorial is very good, nobody is born knowing.
regards
people, I think there is reason in this. Slackware has something that works well, fast .. I don't know the package system it uses to install (I know it has it in some way and it also compiles) but as a partner of my debian I have a wifislax with kde that works very very well ... , They are also made to measure and need for that distro -kde and slack-.
I'm using Debian Sid with no complaints but noticed that this distro "slides" a little better. a little.
When I have other things on my mind I dedicate a slackware to my pc. Cheers
Animate: D. I don't regret anything: D. The applications run much smoother and faster as you compile: D.
I was thinking about whether to use Slackware or Gentoo and in the end I opted for Slackware since you leave Slackware ready in a few hours while Gentoo in a few days (depending on the machine of course .. I have 1GB of Ram and single core processor in my laptop ): D.
Very interesting topic about KDE, they always so at the forefront.
Will they release kaOS at 32 sometime '?