The KDE team has released the first beta of KDE 4.2, slated for release coming January. Quite a lot of new features have been added, as well as lots of bug fixes and performance improvements. This release also makes a lot of strides to feature parity with KDE 3.x, by adding those small little features that KDE 3.x users are barely aware of, but which were missed in KDE 4.0/4.1, such as taskbar grouping, multiple rows in the taskbar, panel auto-hiding, a traditional icon desktop through 'full-screen' foderview, and so on.
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Member since:2005-11-05
About the first line on that link states:
"PowerDevil is part of kdebase from 4.2 on"
We are not yet at the point of an official release of KDE 4.2. Nor, clearly, do all distros yet have PowerDevil. Saying that PowerDevil is out in part and on some platforms is a long way from saying it is fully available, out of beta and generally reliable, and has been since July. I'd suggest, on the contrary, that this won't really apply till 2009 and until then this aspect of KDE 4's functionality has a question mark over it and in some case it is absent. If you want to play around with definitions or show that you're so leet with an 11.1, that's fine by me. But it really alters nothing. Most users are not beta-testers or devs and, besides, most don't run SuSE anyway. They'll use what their distro comes with, or doesn't.
Member since:2005-07-06
"PowerDevil is part of kdebase from 4.2 on"
We are not yet at the point of an official release of KDE 4.2. Nor, clearly, do all distros yet have PowerDevil. Saying that PowerDevil is out in part and on some platforms is a long way from saying it is fully available, out of beta and generally reliable, and has been since July.
And you clearly failed to grasp what the parent said, that PowerDevil is out and released in full. That the stable application will get bundled with the next KDE release does not change the fact that it has been avaliable since July.
That some distributions fail to include it are plainly a distribution issue, like all other software they fail to include.
Member since:2005-08-18
Member since:2008-04-04
And is this part of an officiel kde* package?
No?
This reasoning you can INCLUDE ALL OF THE KDE-APPS MAN.
This is an insane reasoning. Do you claim that ALL the kde apps have the same quality?
It really makes no sense at all if they are external towards the KDE core team!
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2005-07-06
That's Debian's fault. PowerDevil has been posted to kde-apps.org in July. It works on KDE 4.1. It's the distributor's responsibility to package and distribute apps.
My point is that PowerDevil is here since July. SUSE is capable of bundling it. When Debian does not bundle it with KDE 4.1, it's not KDE's fault.
It has arrived months ago: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/PowerDevil?content=85078