Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Aug 2009 00:12 UTC, submitted by rexstuff
The KDE team has released KDE 4.3. This release comes packed with improvements and bug fixes - in fact, over the last six months, 10000 bugs were squashed, 2000 feature requests handled, and 63000 changes were checked in by 700 people. We've already talked about this new release in quite some detail last week, but let's take a look at the most important new features anyway.
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Member since:2006-01-02
Polished my ass. I still encounter the same bugginess, misfeatures and slowness as before. I still don't know why resizing windows and doing simple things like browsing files should be painfully slow and require pegging the CPU. KDE 3.5 flies on the same machine. Bugs have been filed, but who cares at this point. I'm not using the latest high speed graphics card on a quad core machine, so apparently users like me don't count.
Member since:2007-11-03
See this comment to Thom's review, it is a known bug http://www.osnews.com/permalink?375523
Member since:2005-09-10
Polished my ass. I still encounter the same bugginess, misfeatures and slowness as before. I still don't know why resizing windows and doing simple things like browsing files should be painfully slow and require pegging the CPU. KDE 3.5 flies on the same machine. Bugs have been filed, but who cares at this point. I'm not using the latest high speed graphics card on a quad core machine, so apparently users like me don't count.
Do you, by any chance, use Kubuntu? Which distribution do you use?
On Fedora KDE 4.3 is rock stable, fast, beautiful - dunno where your "bugginess and misfeatures" come from. Oh, and if you don't like one feature or another, that does not make it a misfeature - others may appreaciate it...
Member since:2008-02-02
Resizing windows is slow due to lagging graphics drivers. I've tested it on various combinations (nVidia blog, ATI blob and free, Intel), and in principle the desktop is fast. Bad drivers (or badly setup drivers) cause this kind of delay in resizing windows.
Please file bugs for those drivers, so we can all have fast graphics at some point.
Member since:2006-01-24
I'm with you I have used KDE from the early alphas when the only way to get was to compile it your self all the way to 3.5.10 now I just have no use for it, like Vista it requires too much of my system I use my computer to get things done while I do want it to look good I don't want it to spend the bulk of it's time doing that instead of doing what I want it to. It just seems like we are adding things to the system just because we can not because it helps us get things done.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/20/13 6:17 UTC, submitted by MOS6510
"In the first episode of Microsoft's new film series 'On the Whiteboard', Editor Pamela Woon chats with two-time Oscar winner Randy Thom about the (often underestimated) importance of sound in human-technology interactions. Thom, the lead sound designer at Skywalker Ranch who worked on films such as The Incredibles, Castaway and Forrest Gump, says that people rarely consider the significance of those signature sounds that come from their trusty devices, whether it be a cell phone, a computer or a tablet."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/19/13 23:02 UTC, submitted by M.Onty
"Microsoft has sensationally abandoned its controversial plans to restrict the sharing of XBox One games, and has also removed daily online authentication requirements for its forthcoming console", reports The Guardian. They had no choice. Still a good move.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/19/13 22:28 UTC
"A snippet of code in the Steam digital distribution platform has revealed that Valve may be planning to let users easily share their games with friends in the future. The Verge has verified the code's authenticity, which was originally spotted by a member of the NeoGAF gaming forum; the code references a 'shared game library' and a notification that would alert a user when their games are currently in use by a borrower." This would change the, uh, game.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/18/13 22:33 UTC
Official Apple statement on PRISM and privacy: "Regardless of the circumstances, our Legal team conducts an evaluation of each request and, only if appropriate, we retrieve and deliver the narrowest possible set of information to the authorities. In fact, from time to time when we see inconsistencies or inaccuracies in a request, we will refuse to fulfill it." This is basically Apple re-publishing their earlier statement in a more official manner. You either believe it, or you don't.
Linked by Anonymous on 06/18/13 22:26 UTC
The open source Contiki operating system and its commercial Thingsquare distribution are making strides towards the connected home. According to a Computerworld article, a new LED light bulb manufacturer is putting small computers into their light bulbs. Each computer runs the Contiki OS, which gives each bulb an IP address and allows them to be controlled with a smartphone application. To connect the bulbs to the application, the bulbs use both Wi-Fi and the much lower power IEEE 802.15.4 mesh technology.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/18/13 22:25 UTC
"Google asked the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday to ease long-standing gag orders over data requests it makes, arguing that the company has a constitutional right to speak about information it's forced to give the government. The legal filing, which cites the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech, is the latest move by the California-based tech giant to protect its reputation in the aftermath of news reports about sweeping National Security Agency surveillance of Internet traffic." Draining the ditch after the cow has drowned in it.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/18/13 17:45 UTC
"I can't find one person who has been using the Nexus 7 for an extended period of time, and hasn't seen a massive downgrade in performance. Just what kind of downgrade are we talking here? I cannot pick up my Nexus 7 without experiencing problems like a lag of ten seconds, or more, just to rotate the display; touches refusing to acknowledged; stuttering notification panel actions; and unresponsive apps." Fully and utterly agreed. My Nexus 7 was blazing-fast and awesome for a few months, and at some point, it just started sucking. Just like that. I've tried loads of ROMs, and nothing helps.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/18/13 17:32 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
A new release of the hobby operating system MenuetOS! The release notes are a bit non-descript, but you'll have to take what you can get: "updates and improvements (picview, httpc, ehci, ...)".
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/17/13 17:58 UTC
"The Internet is one of the most transformative technologies of our lifetimes. But for 2 out of every 3 people on earth, a fast, affordable Internet connection is still out of reach. And this is far from being a solved problem. There are many terrestrial challenges to Internet connectivity - jungles, archipelagos, mountains. There are also major cost challenges. Right now, for example, in most of the countries in the southern hemisphere, the cost of an Internet connection is more than a month's income. Solving these problems isn't simply a question of time: it requires looking at the problem of access from new angles. So today we're unveiling our latest moonshot from Google[x]: balloon-powered Internet access." Insane.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/17/13 17:52 UTC
"MineAssemble is a tiny bootable Minecraft clone written partly in x86 assembly. I made it first and foremost because a university assignment required me to implement a game in assembly for a computer systems course. Because I had never implemented anything more complex than a 'Hello World' bootloader before, I decided I wanted to learn about writing my own kernel code at the same time. Note that the goal of this project was not to write highly efficient hand-optimized assembly code, but rather to have fun and write code that balances readability and speed. This is primarily accomplished by proper commenting and consistent code structuring." Just cool.More News »
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2006-06-12
"Great" really describe this release. It is now so polished that nobody can claim anymore that the desktop experience is weaker than 3.5. It may be different, but different in the right direction.
With all GSoC project going well, 4.4 will be an even better release, but KDE 4.3 is KDE4 (4.2 was to in my opinion). KDE4 is not Current version +1 anymore, it is now, we are living in and every new version is just a step forward to the long term goals and vision of KDE.