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KDE 4.0 Beta 4 and Development Platform RC1 Released
The KDE Community is happy to release the fourth Beta for KDE 4.0. This Beta aimed at further polishing of the KDE codebase and we would love to start receiving feedback from testers. At the same time, a Release Candidate for the KDE 4.0 Development Platform is released. This Development Platform contains the bits and pieces needed to run and build applications using KDE 4 technology. The purpose of this Development Platform is to make it easier for third parties to port their applications to KDE 4, without having to wait until the full desktop is polished enough for the final 4.0 release. As KDE has largely has been in bugfix mode, this last beta aims to encourage testers to have a look at KDE 4 to help us find and solve the remaining problems and bugs. Besides the stabilization of the codebase, some minor features have been added, including but not limited to much work on Plasma. Sebastian Kügler notes: "The improvements have been huge, and plasma is much closer to what it needs to be before the release. I am confident we will be able to finish it and present a very usable plasma to the users with KDE 4.0". For more information, please refer to the following pages: - http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.0-beta4.php - http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.0-platform-rc... -- sebas _______________________________________________ kde-announce mailing list kde-announce@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-announce (Log in to post comments)
KDE 4.0 Beta 4 and Development Platform RC1 Released Posted Oct 31, 2007 14:56 UTC (Wed) by louie (subscriber, #3285) [Link] Does anyone have any idea how to get the KDE liveCDs onto a USB key? I'd love to try it, but have no CD drive on my primary computer with which to test. (And I tried to test it with qemu and it was unusably slow.)
KDE 4.0 Beta 4 and Development Platform RC1 Released Posted Oct 31, 2007 17:22 UTC (Wed) by pynm0001 (guest, #18379) [Link] (I'm a KDE dev) Please let me be more explicit. We are *strongly* interested in feedback regarding the Beta and the RC. Every software project has trouble getting beta versions of software tested and we are no exception. Please try out the beta (or if you're a developer, the RC for kdelibs). Hopefully distributions will have packages up shortly, it is of course also possible to build from source (see http://techbase.kde.org/ for instructions). If you try it out please let us know how it went for you. Even if you weren't even able to get the environment started up we'd like to know. If you encounter a bug please report it at http://bugs.kde.org/. KDE applications also have a "Report Bug..." option in the Help menu to make this easy. If you can't report a bug please at least report it to a kde mailing list like kde-devel and mention that it's a KDE 4.0 Beta 4 bug in the subject line. Thanks! - Michael Pyne
KDE 4.0 Beta 4 and Development Platform RC1 Released Posted Oct 31, 2007 17:47 UTC (Wed) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] Google for "rename isolinux.cfg" (in quotes). Many people have done it, but it's not exactly a one-step process. In a nutshell, suppose the flash is seen as /dev/sdb, then: 1) Install syslinux MBR: dd if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sdb 2) Optional - recreate the DOS partition: fdisk /dev/sdb make partition 1 of type 6, make it active, exit with "w" 3) Format the partition: mkdosfs /dev/sdb1 4) Copy the ISO image files: mount -o ro,loop image.iso /mnt/cdrom mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/tmp cp -a /mnt/cdrom/* /mnt/tmp 5) Find where isolinux.cfg is located and copy the whole directory to /syslinux under the disk root: find /mnt/tmp -iname isolinux.cfg cp -a /mnt/tmp/boot/i386/loader /mnt/tmp/syslinux 6) Copy isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg cp /mnt/tmp/syslinux/isolinux.cfg /mnt/tmp/syslinux/syslinux.cfg 7) Unmount the flash and the CD image: umount /mnt/tmp umount /mnt/cdrom 8) Install syslinux, specify "-d" to the directory where syslinux.cfg is located relative to the root directory: syslinux -s -d syslinux /dev/sdb1 9) Disconnect the flash drive and you are ready to go (hopefully).
KDE4 liveCD in KVM Posted Oct 31, 2007 21:01 UTC (Wed) by cbcbcb (guest, #10350) [Link] To test the liveCD with KVM, you need to do some trickery to avoid KVM aborting at start up. My Core Duo machine runs at a quite acceptable speed. as root # mount -o loop /home/user/.../KDE-Four-Live.i686-0.6.iso /mnt/ as normal user create dummy hda file $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/hda bs=1M count=1 run KVM $ kvm -hda /tmp/hda -cdrom KDE-Four-Live.i686-0.6.iso -m 512 -boot d -kernel /mnt/boot/i386/loader/linux -initrd /mnt/boot/i386/loader/initrd To run the live CD at a nice resolution: 1. load KVM and wait for KDE to load 2. press Ctrl-Alt-2, type "sendkey ctrl-alt-f1", then press Ctrl-Alt-1 3. log in as root and edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf eg with vi 4. in section monitor change HorizSync to 30-90 and delete UseModes line 5. delete Section "Modes"...EndSection 6. Change all Modes "800x600" to Modes "1024x768" 7. Save xorg.conf, then press alt-f7 8. Press Ctrl-Alt-2, type "sendkey ctrl-alt-backspace" then ctrl-alt-f1 To get the network working, open a root terminal, and do dhclient eth0 Hopefully you should now have KDE4 in a usable 1024x768
KDE4 liveCD in KVM Posted Oct 31, 2007 21:25 UTC (Wed) by cbcbcb (guest, #10350) [Link] If any KDE devs can try this, I would be interested if it is actually working properly. There's various bugs that don't look like they should have made it to even a beta release so I'm wondering if it's actually KVM screwing up... For example: many icons missing in theme manager most tabs do not have room to fit all the text in (eg "dvance" instead of "Advanced") selecting the KDE classic theme gives a segfault Other than that, it seems very "Web 2.0" - it's quite pretty but I don't really understand it or how it's better than the previous version.
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