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KDE 4.1 delivers a next-gen desktop Linux experience (ars technica)KDE 4.1 delivers a next-gen desktop Linux experience (ars technica)Posted Aug 1, 2008 4:45 UTC (Fri) by reptiler (guest, #53207)Parent article: KDE 4.1 delivers a next-gen desktop Linux experience (ars technica)
At first I also missed the search-bar in Konqueror 4, but actually you pretty quickly get used to using shortcuts. "gg: Something" takes me to Google, looking for "Something", fm: takes me to FreshMeat and so on. Sure, it's not as intuitive as just selecting where you want to search from a dropdown, and for the "normal user" (whatever specification may apply to that kind of user) it might not be the best solution, but I find that it's more flexible than the dropdown. I actually happen to like KDE4, although I am aware of different problems and missing stuff. But hey, KDE has come a long way from KDE 1, which at its time already was quite good. I guess Fedora will probably not stream 4.1 into F9, so I'll have to wait a few more months to check it out (or try it in a VM with Rawhide). So, there may still be problems with KDE (for example I cannot run 1280x1024, I hope that'll be fixed in 4.1), but it's far from being bad software.
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KDE 4.1 delivers a next-gen desktop Linux experience (ars technica) Posted Aug 1, 2008 6:59 UTC (Fri) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742) [Link] Yes, you can just use the shortcuts, they exist since KDE 2.0 :-) wp is Wikipedia, leo for translations, qt for the Qt docs. Alex
KDE 4.1 delivers a next-gen desktop Linux experience (ars technica) Posted Aug 1, 2008 11:46 UTC (Fri) by wstephenson (subscriber, #14795) [Link] > At first I also missed the search-bar in Konqueror 4, but actually you > pretty quickly get used to using shortcuts. The search-bar is still in Konqueror 4! If it's not listed in Settings->Configure Extensions... and disabled (Look for 'Search Bar'), then your distro has packaged it separately. On openSUSE the packages is kde4-konqueror-plugins. HTH
KDE 4.1 delivers a next-gen desktop Linux experience (ars technica) Posted Aug 3, 2008 13:56 UTC (Sun) by erwbgy (subscriber, #4104) [Link] Thanks, that was useful. The package is konq-plugins on Fedora 9.
KDE 4.1 delivers a next-gen desktop Linux experience (ars technica) Posted Aug 3, 2008 13:50 UTC (Sun) by erwbgy (subscriber, #4104) [Link] I guess Fedora will probably not stream 4.1 into F9, so I'll have to wait a few more months to check it out (or try it in a VM with Rawhide). I just did: $ yum --enablerepo=updates-testing groupupdate "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"on my Fedora 9 host and am now running KDE 4.1.
KDE 4.1 delivers a next-gen desktop Linux experience (ars technica) Posted Aug 4, 2008 4:58 UTC (Mon) by reptiler (guest, #53207) [Link] I tried similar, but with the rawhide-repo. Problem is that I have quite a few packages from the livna-repo installed and at least Kino is complaining and thus preventing the update. Anyway, by playing in the X-config I found a way to run 1280x1024 now, but I had to disable RandR for it, which I think isn't the optimal solution.
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