Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 21st Feb 2009 18:06 UTC, submitted by John Mills
Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth has announced the plans for Ubuntu 9.10, named Karmic Koala. Jaunty Jackalope isn't out of its cage yet (April 2009), but the Ubuntu team is already planning for 9.10, which will see the light of day in October 2009. The desktop side will focus on beautification and an improved boot-up experience; the server side will target cloud computing.
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by garf on Sun 22nd Feb 2009 12:32
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by lemur2 on Sun 22nd Feb 2009 22:18
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Actually in the linked article the word bear appears twice but he never says Koala Bear. As for KDE 4.2 in Jaunty it is OK. KDE 4.2 is much better than previous releases however Ubuntu is putting all their effort into Gnome. They have introduced a new notification system for Gnome but there is nothing for KDE. Their KDE feels slapped together compared to the Gnome Desktop.
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2008/12/hands-on-kde-4-2-be...
"The Plasma components that provide the core elements of the desktop environment are where you will find the most welcome and noticeable improvements. The panel system is shaping up nicely and has a few new capabilities that I particularly like. My favorite is the progress notification feature. When you initiate a file operation of any kind, the progress will be displayed in a notification bubble that pops up out of the panel.
It will stack progress bars for multiple operations and let you control them individually. This is really useful because it eliminates the need to have progress dialogs appear when moving or copying files with Dolphin, KDE's file manager. It appears to be tapping into KIO, the KDE filesystem abstraction layer, and seems to show any KIO-based file operation, not just ones that are performed with Dolphin.
The notification bubble can be hidden by clicking the associated tray icon. The bubble can also be snapped out of the panel and dropped onto the desktop like a regular plasmoid. I was very impressed by this feature, and I think it's a good demonstration of the kind of seamless user interfaces that Plasma was designed to facilitate. "
It will stack progress bars for multiple operations and let you control them individually. This is really useful because it eliminates the need to have progress dialogs appear when moving or copying files with Dolphin, KDE's file manager. It appears to be tapping into KIO, the KDE filesystem abstraction layer, and seems to show any KIO-based file operation, not just ones that are performed with Dolphin.
The notification bubble can be hidden by clicking the associated tray icon. The bubble can also be snapped out of the panel and dropped onto the desktop like a regular plasmoid. I was very impressed by this feature, and I think it's a good demonstration of the kind of seamless user interfaces that Plasma was designed to facilitate. "
KDE 4.2 actually brings far more feature improvements to Kubuntu 9.04 over Kubuntu 8.10 than the corresponding changes between 8.10 and 9.04 in the main Ubuntu release.
Including a new notification system.
As for the original question ... KDE 4.2 is OK in Kubuntu. Just OK, as you say ... it probably lacks the attention to fine detail that it might get if it were the main focus. These feature improvements that it does have are due to the efforts of the KDE team, not Kubuntu itself.
Edited 2009-02-22 22:25 UTC
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Actually in the linked article the word bear appears twice but he never says Koala Bear.
As for KDE 4.2 in Jaunty it is OK. KDE 4.2 is much better than previous releases however Ubuntu is putting all their effort into Gnome. They have introduced a new notification system for Gnome but there is nothing for KDE. Their KDE feels slapped together compared to the Gnome Desktop.