OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/21083/KDE_4_2_1_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sun, 19 May 2013 14:21:27 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com works great! http://www.osnews.com/thread?351789 http://www.osnews.com/thread?351789 Using 4.2.1 from the openSUSE build service, and it works great. Most of the bugs I ran into are now gone and it also feels to load faster.

A big thank you to the KDE team! Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pczanik) Comments No title http://www.osnews.com/thread?351791 http://www.osnews.com/thread?351791 Arch Linux actually released this already a week ago. The same happened with KDE 4.1.x releases aswell. Dunno where they got it.

Nice that the KDE team fixed that annoying KRunner bug, but a bad thing they didn't fix the problems with Konsole. I'm always a bit frustrated when right click menu dies for no reason and I have to close my SSH sessions and boot Konsole. Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SJ87) Comments Plasma Icon http://www.osnews.com/thread?351794 http://www.osnews.com/thread?351794 Anyone else noticed that the plasma icon is a rip-off of the gnome foot? Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (charlieb) Comments RE: Plasma Icon http://www.osnews.com/thread?351798 http://www.osnews.com/thread?351798 No... and looking at them both now - still can't see what you mean. Sure, they're both round and have dots... but a rip-off? haha... Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zegenie) Comments RE: Plasma Icon http://www.osnews.com/thread?351808 http://www.osnews.com/thread?351808
Anyone else noticed that the plasma icon is a rip-off of the gnome foot?

Have you noticed that your post is collapsed?

I'm running KDE 4.2.1 on Mandriva 2009.1 and it's just beautiful and stable. Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (satan666) Comments RE[2]: Plasma Icon http://www.osnews.com/thread?351817 http://www.osnews.com/thread?351817 I must have forgotten to select the "joke alert" icon...

Oh wait that's El Reg... Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (charlieb) Comments 4.2 from ports http://www.osnews.com/thread?351862 http://www.osnews.com/thread?351862 Have any of you had problems getting 4.2 working and running from ports? I haven't figured out if it's a port issue with X7.4 or if it is K4.2. I am wondering if this maintenance release will fix whatever is going on once it gets ported over. Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Lengsel) Comments RE: No title http://www.osnews.com/thread?351874 http://www.osnews.com/thread?351874 Distributors get KDE releases 1 week before official release. You can find that information somewhere in KDE site. Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Zolookas) Comments Black taskbar... Grey windows.... http://www.osnews.com/thread?351918 http://www.osnews.com/thread?351918 Hmmm... the taskbar is still black... so I guess I will stick with Vista for now... and... the windows are grey gradient... gotta keep MacOS on my notebook for now too... Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Jason Bourne) Comments RE: Black taskbar... Grey windows.... http://www.osnews.com/thread?351951 http://www.osnews.com/thread?351951 Hmmm... the taskbar is still black... so I guess I will stick with Vista for now... and... the windows are grey gradient... gotta keep MacOS on my notebook for now too...

I know I shouldn't feed the troll, but...meh, I just woke up, my head aches and I don't feel too happy so what the heck; you know you can change the theme? O_o I hate the default theme myself too, it's downright ugly, but it shouldn't be that hard to download another one from kde-look or something. I don't think chimps would understand the concept but any human being over 12 years old should. Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (WereCatf) Comments RE[2]: Black taskbar... Grey windows.... http://www.osnews.com/thread?352019 http://www.osnews.com/thread?352019 Oh come on, you know better than that.
When the Vista theme is ugly you just need to change it, when it's a Linux theme that's ugly it's a major disaster without salvation. Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Soulbender) Comments RE: Black taskbar... Grey windows.... http://www.osnews.com/thread?352080 http://www.osnews.com/thread?352080 Well, if it matters so much for you, KDE 4.3 will introduce a new Plasma theme called 'Air'. It will be mostly white/gray. BTW the taskbar isn't black, its transparent, and the color thus depends on your background. Without compositing (and thus without transparency) it is blue. Sat, 07 Mar 2009 09:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (superstoned) Comments RE[3]: Black taskbar... Grey windows.... http://www.osnews.com/thread?352089 http://www.osnews.com/thread?352089
Oh come on, you know better than that.
When the Vista theme is ugly you just need to change it, when it's a Linux theme that's ugly it's a major disaster without salvation.


To be strictly faithful to the type of commenter that kicked off this particular sub-thread ... if its a Vista theme it is necessarily beautiful, whereas if it is a Linux theme it is by definition ugly ... and indeed a major disaster without salvation to boot. Sat, 07 Mar 2009 10:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lemur2) Comments