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KDE 4.2.2 released
Version 4.2.2 of KDE has been
announced.
"The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of "Cano", (a.k.a KDE 4.2.2), another bugfix and maintenance update for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop. Cano is a monthly update to KDE 4.2." See the
change log
for more information.
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KDE 4.2.2 released Posted Apr 2, 2009 22:34 UTC (Thu) by alecs1 (guest, #46699) [Link]
"the most advanced and powerful free desktop."
I appreciate phrases with some courage in them, even though it may sound a bit corporate.
KDE 4.2.2 released Posted Apr 2, 2009 23:29 UTC (Thu) by sebas (subscriber, #51660) [Link]
I'm sure we're balancing it out with a bit of unprofessional behaviour once in a while, if only to make you feel more comfortable ;-)
KDE 4.2.2 released Posted Apr 3, 2009 1:44 UTC (Fri) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]
Plasma is really great.
One thing if i'm allowed to suggest is the support of Panoramas.. and why not Dreamscenes... after all, those as implemented by Stardock are looping mpeg-2 videos... it could be improved if i may say so...
http://dream.wincustomize.com/
and Dreamscenes with a Panorama as background would be really awesome!...
Another thing would be the possibility to move all those widgets in the Z axis... different from zooming, more like what happens in the SphereXP
After all, the popular 3D cube already does that for the virtual desktops... extending that to "discrete" windows and widgets is what is missing.
KDE 4.2.2 released Posted Apr 3, 2009 12:56 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
I believe you've found a use for textured video! Xv video overlays are
obviously unusable for this 'cos they'd stop you doing any normal video playback as long as your background was active (i.e. forever), but textured video would work fine.
... now if only video cards / drivers could do it with low CPU
KDE 4.2.2 released Posted Apr 4, 2009 1:27 UTC (Sat) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]
C'mon "nix" i believe that you can afford it, and any recent card from ATI or Nv below the $100 mark, can dance around your antique...
Its good to think about *legacy* support.. but there is no need to exaggeration, just because OSS end-users are used to obsolete HW due to the development delegating very little and get trapped very often with having to reverse engineer things... for instance with Dynamic loading of partial device drivers that can be a thing from the past.
KDE 4.2.2 released Posted Apr 10, 2009 22:13 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Oh yes indeed, I have no illusions that my present antiques are worth catering to, and will be upgrading imminently... but it's still sort of scary to find one that X works with and is decent :)
KDE 4.2.2 released Posted Apr 4, 2009 1:34 UTC (Sat) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]
..also with GCC supporting Gallium 3D and the OpenCL standard...
Well LLVM already does that or is very close to get it. Then that textured video can be processed by the GPU or better said GPGPU. Upgrade your graphx card and upgrade the processing power of the all system without having to waste more CPU cycles.
KDE 4.2.2 released Posted Apr 3, 2009 9:51 UTC (Fri) by xorbe (subscriber, #3165) [Link]
Can they please test and fix dual monitors of different resolutions... and the psycho behavior of icons on the desktop for two monitors! (See Gnome or KDE3 for sane window manager and icon behavior.)
KDE 4.2.2 released Posted Apr 3, 2009 18:54 UTC (Fri) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]
I'm sure the testing could be done by you - the dev's might be willing to
do the fixing part. Why not send an email to plasma-devel and offer to help debug any bugfixes for this?
KDE 4.2.2 released Posted Apr 4, 2009 22:56 UTC (Sat) by sebas (subscriber, #51660) [Link]
That's actually not that easy. We were able to close a large number of bugs related to multihead support, but apparently not all. There are huge amounts of different cases we need to deal with (different layouts, different randr versions, different expectations, ...), and on top of that graphics drivers that expose their own interesting ways of doing multihead.
We're definitely well under way of fixing most of those problem, though for specific cases we need the help of the users, in the form of good bugreports and testing possible fixes.
FWIW, I've been using a dualhead setup since before 4.0 was released with KDE4 and I didn't encounter grave problems with it. YMMV, of course.
As to the psycho behaviour of icons on the desktop for two monitors, they're just different views on a folder (or on different folders, if you'd like it to behave that way). Not sure what's psycho about that, maybe you can explain how you'd expect it to behave?
KDE 4.2.2 released Posted Apr 8, 2009 19:15 UTC (Wed) by russelljohn (subscriber, #57603) [Link]
System updated!
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