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:2005-07-24
So KDE should sit back and not innovate like the other Desktop Environments and provide work arounds?
Users don't really care about "innovations". (That's a rather overused and misused PR and marketing term.) And they don't care about excuses. They care about having something that works and is usable. To the extent that KDE devs want to see KDE4 used, they need to address KDE4's problems, regardless of the cause, instead of falling back on Microsoft-like appeals to the 'I' word.
Member since:2005-11-12
No, I think people should just turn off Desktop Effects( or turn off "Show Window contents while resizing") and stop moaning then, it's not like it's a 'needed' feature to use KDE.
KDE4.3 does work just fine unless the distributions add their dirty buggy patches or experimental network manager which crashes plasma (Yes Kubuntu).
Edited 2009-08-05 13:42 UTC
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2005-11-12
So KDE should sit back and not innovate like the other Desktop Environments and provide work arounds?
People complain about Linux Desktop Environments not innovating and when KDE does, people moan about like it's all KDE's fault. I'm gob smacked by the assumptions made here about Kwin's speed.
KDE4/Qt4 shows how bad the Linux driver stack is, it shows XOrg bugs when you use it's features not utilized before (ARGB). I'm sure things will improve with Qt 4.6 but to suggest that other Desktop Environments don't have such problems, well yes they do. I've seen countless complaints about Compiz with the NVIDIA driver and there will be until they fix it proper, rather than provide work arounds.
People have reported that KDE4.3 has improved Desktop Effects performance, since Kwin now handles the KDE Colour Scheme for the window shadow/glow effects. As a added note, you should upgrade to Qt 4.5.2( if you haven't already) which fixes some performance and cache issues.
Plasma Desktop is entirely SVG themed and no other Desktop Environment has done this. You don't need Composite for translucency on Widgets thanks to the great tech that is QGraphicsView. Just wait until Qt gets OpenGL(it's currently a experimental backend).
Edited 2009-08-05 13:30 UTC