KDE 4.2.1 release big on bug fixes
- 05 March, 2009 11:16
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KDE 4.2 gets its first update with 4.2.1
The KDE project has added another rung to its KDE 4.2 experience ladder with the first maintenance release, 4.2.1, which focuses on fixing errors and minor feature enhancements.
KDE 4.x has been criticised for not being user-friendly enough, but the developers are sticking to their original vision of making KDE 4.2 and beyond a “mainstream” desktop environment.
According to the KDE project, the most notable improvements in this release have been made to Okular, the document viewer, Kopete, the instant messaging client, KMail, KDE's email client, and KHTML which received many bug fixes, optimisations and feature improvements.
KDE 4.2.1 also ships more translations.
At release time pre-compiled packages are available for Mandriva and OpenSUSE, with packages for Ubuntu (and Kubuntu) likely to follow soon.
For a digested summary of the changes made since the 4.2.0 release, see the 4.2.1 changelog page.
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Comments
Anonymous
Fix my dam video driver. 945GM yeah, that is it. FIX IT. Let me run my dam external monitor! what is wrong with you people! I want to love KDE but you make it so difficult. I'm still waiting to switch to KDE
Anonymous
What the hell does a video driver have to do with KDE? Thats a kernel/Xorg problem.
TonyY
KDE4.2
Frankly, in my opinion, KDE4 (**any version**) is still not fit for mission critical time.......too many comments on it suggest strongly that it is difficult to use and even more difficult to get to the state where you can apply it easily. As most readers point out: EVERYBODY KNEW HOW TO DRIVE KDE3.5......KDE4 BREAKS THAT KNOWLEDGE VERY STRONGLY.......Why in heaven's name should developers have the right to tell me that I have to relearn what I can already do so easily in KDE3.5 ? Time is money !! KDE4x is frustration and time.....words still fail me. I have already written elsewhere that I do not expect KDE4x to be useful until it hits at least iteration 4.3, and even then I will look on it with a jaundiced eye and probably opt for Xfce. The only possible way I can see me using KDE4x is if it can mimic the KDE3.5 setup........Now there's a hint KDE team ?
Lysdestic
That bit about Time being money, and developers not having the right to tell you what to relearn is very much the attitude many windows users have.
How ironic.
Anonymous
Why not just use Xfce and be happy with it? I think the KDE4 is a great plan forward, and even though there are a lot of things to straighten out, they have (for the first time for a Gnu/linux/unix project in years?) tried to do something different, to reach a new plateau.
It is great that they get criticism, everybody needs that to make things better, but it needs to be constructive, and not just "make things the way they where!!111!". If you like kde3.5, why not stick with it? If you like xfce, use it, and stop telling everybody kde4.2 should be like it.
TonyY
You don't have to like what I say, but it is my choice
Ironic it may be, but nevertheless, from a business point of view, it is correct. And Linux is now heavily invested in by business......so it has considerable validity, ironic or not.
And second, of COURSE you are welcome to use KDE4.2.....Go for it, enjoy it, use it, learn it, take the time, debug it, enthuse over it, be excited; I have no interest in preventing you, nor could I even if I wanted.......but think for a moment outside your own interests. In any event, the Linux world is full of projects that did something new, but withered on the vine because no-one else took the projects up. That's normal too. And finally, I would hate for KDE to remain static at KDE3.5 so I have no wish to see development of KDE frozen.
My constructive criticism (and that is legal and encouraged in the Linux world whether you like it or not) is that the jump from KDE3.5 to KDE4 was too large and too different. And that seems to be the point you are either missing or deliberately ignoring. It is as if you had everybody sitting happily at the controls of a dear old Boeing 747 and knowing exactly what should be done under any circumstance, and suddenly you are thrown into the seat of a new Boeing 7E7 Dreamliner with no controls where they should be, but expected instantly to take up the flight and run it perfectly...There is no doubt that the 7E7 is better than the 747 and I am equally certain that KDE4x is better than KDE3x, but think for a moment of the people who have to migrate instantly and produce equivalent work instantly.......or if you don't have to move instantly, then the time it will take to learn the new system. It still remains a problem whether you like it or not. For the moment, KDE4 still has the odour of "developers' desires to break new ground", not "consumer/user" desires. Of course one can use KDE3.5 or Xfce, but the former is now showing its age and the latter is equally a break with the KDE tradition......
david
KDE 4.2
Can't see what all the fuss is about.... I'm a truck driver and have a perfectly working KDE 4.2 desktop except for one thing............................ I'm running twin monitors and play with and tweak me system every night.......... whats the problem ?? the thing works fine and will only get better..
whats the problem again dweebs ??
metalfreak22@gmail.com
Well..to be frank, the biggest issue surrounding the development of KDE is support. Open source software may be a great way of combating corporate demon but a dedicated support base is still far off.
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