KDE 4.2

[dexter11 2]

The long awaited stable release of KDE is out. This is supposed to be the first release of KDE 4 for end users.

 

You can see what you can expect from this release from the visual guide and the release notes. Plus you can read an interview with KDE project leader Aaron Siego on the OSnews announcement.

[scarecrow 0]

Unless I have used some pre-release (which I doubt- the kdemod guys told us this is the final code!), KDE 4.2 is still buggy and unusable for any serious desktop user.

I do believe KDE 4.3 will be genuinely good though... but up to then, allow me to use something else: I don't have much time to spare with pre-beta "finals"... :P

Edited January 27, 2009 by scarecrow

[mindwave 0]

ANy idea when it will be available in the mandriva repos?

 

j

[isadora 1]

ANy idea when it will be available in the mandriva repos?

Together with Mandriva2009.1?

[CygnusX1 0]

ANy idea when it will be available in the mandriva repos?

if you enable the testing repositories, i understand 4.2rc 2 is already posted. i imagine 4.2 final should show up in the next few days.

[ffi 0]

Together with Mandriva2009.1?

https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=47047

[aRTee 0]

Quick question: is it now possible to have a different background image per desktop?

[neddie 0]

Well, this bug (which is over a year old) is still marked as "NEW", so I guess not.

I don't know how many users would see the lack of this feature as a "deal-breaker" (ie enough of a reason not to use KDE4), rather than as an annoyance.

 

I'd like to see a live CD with KDE 4.2 so I can try it out, I guess this will come out with 2009.1 (in March/April).

[dexter11 2]

There is a live cd already. It's Suse but it's good enough to look at KDE 4.2. ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/kde/stable/4.2.0/KDE-Four-Live/

[scarecrow 0]

Crashes all the time here...

I didn't have such problems with 4.1.3

I believe it has something to do with my 7600GS videocard. I have tried the newest nvidia beta drivers (rev.85 and 87), but it still crashes after a simple rightclick on the desktop. This ain't nice.

I've read that disabling the composite features from the xorg.conf should stop the crashes, but I simply don't feel like using a fully hardware accelerated videocard with composite disabled!

[neddie 0]

There is a live cd already. It's Suse but it's good enough to look at KDE 4.2. ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/kde/stable/4.2.0/KDE-Four-Live/

Great, thanks for the tip! The torrent is already screaming :)

[dexter11 2]

Thanks for Helio hthere are Mandriva packages available: http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3877

The link of the README is wrong in the article. The correct one is: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/4.2.0/Ma...a/2009.0/README

[speedball2 1]

Installed from ftp.kde.org, works well, very nice too :)

[iphitus 0]

Crashes all the time here...

I didn't have such problems with 4.1.3

I believe it has something to do with my 7600GS videocard. I have tried the newest nvidia beta drivers (rev.85 and 87), but it still crashes after a simple rightclick on the desktop. This ain't nice.

I've read that disabling the composite features from the xorg.conf should stop the crashes, but I simply don't feel like using a fully hardware accelerated videocard with composite disabled!

 

It doesn't seem a widespread bug. A quick search of the archlinux bug tracker shows only one bug reporting crashes, with only one reporter, who has ATI.

 

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13018

 

I know you're using KDEmod, but if it's really a KDE bug, then it should be just as common on both.

 

James

[SilverSurfer60 2]

It took me at least five attempts to install but finally manged it by removing everything to do with kde, even deleted the .kde4 folders and did a re-install of ked4 from the ftp site and it's working fine now. So far anyway.