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KDE SC 4.4.2 Released
KDE Software Compilation 4.4.2 Out Now: Codename "Colibri" KDE Community Ships First Translation and Service Release of the 4.4 Free Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance Improvements and Translation Updates March 30th, 2010. Today, KDE has released a new version of the KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC). This month's edition of KDE SC is a bugfix and translation update to KDE SC 4.4. KDE SC 4.4.2 is a recommended upgrade for everyone running KDE SC 4.4.1 or earlier versions. As the release only contains bugfixes and translation updates, it will be a safe and pleasant update for everyone. Users around the world will appreciate that KDE SC 4.4.2 multi-language support is more complete. KDE SC 4 is already translated into more than 50 languages, with more to come. KDE SC 4.4.2 has a number of improvements: * Possible crashes in Plasma, Dolphin and Okular have been fixed * The Microblog applet now shows the correct time in the timeline * The audioplayer KRunner plugin has been fixed to not freeze the KRunner UI anymore The changelog lists more, if not all improvements since KDE SC 4.4.1: http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog4_4_... Full announcement: http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.4.2.php -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9 _______________________________________________ kde-announce mailing list kde-announce@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-announce (Log in to post comments)
KDE SC 4.4.2 Released Posted Mar 30, 2010 22:36 UTC (Tue) by alecs1 (guest, #46699) [Link]
Running it from Debian experimental. I don't exactly know what's happening, but I observe mostly no benefit from this upgrade. At least 4.3 left everything in a relatively good state*, so after some stabilisation has been achieved in 4.2 and 4.3, work on fancy eye-candy can continue in 4.4+ :).
-the biggest thing I notice is an annoying taskbar animation (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=224883).
*this is a relatively good state from my POV; from a corporate point of view, Nautilus still seems to be the options for Window shares, and Evolution for Exchange. Others may exist, but I'm no authority in these matters.
KDE SC 4.4.2 Released Posted Mar 31, 2010 4:41 UTC (Wed) by bcebul (guest, #41527) [Link]
Fascinating. According to the Debian mirror checker, as of today, the latest Debian update available is 25 March. ftp-master.debian.org is not available. There is a rsync error.
KDE SC 4.4.2 Released Posted Apr 1, 2010 1:07 UTC (Thu) by foom (subscriber, #14868) [Link]
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/03/msg...
"Hardware trouble ries.debian.org - ftpmaster.debian.org / release.d.o services disabled"
KDE SC 4.4.2 Released - Larger Initial Memory Footprint Posted Mar 31, 2010 7:05 UTC (Wed) by ejmarkow (guest, #56170) [Link]
I notice with KDE version 4.4.2, the initial memory footprint upon booting my system (all other packages and kernel held constant over time), my laptop is now chewing up an additional 150 MB RAM. Only KDE has changed on my machine, nothing else. It is only during the last two versions of KDE that the memory footprint has obviously increased.
KDE 4.4.0 => 4.4.1: + 50 MB
It would be nice to make KDE lighter instead of a resource hog, if possible. Anyone else have a similar experience?
KDE SC 4.4.2 Released - Larger Initial Memory Footprint Posted Mar 31, 2010 7:37 UTC (Wed) by wstephenson (subscriber, #14795) [Link]
Please use Exmap to tell us where the memory is going on your system http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/4166
KDE SC 4.4.2 Released - Larger Initial Memory Footprint Posted Mar 31, 2010 10:13 UTC (Wed) by ejmarkow (guest, #56170) [Link]
Holding everything constant (except KDE & related dependencies), I examine two Memory indicators: Total Memory (free -m) and By Process (ps -eo user,pid,comm,rss --sort -rss). First, I initially examine "Memory Free" (from 'free -m') immediately after a fresh boot, going into KDE with the following applications running: Konsole, Dolphin, Firefox, & Skype. This is the most basic measure without examining each process.
Average 'Memory Free' (in MB) on KDE versions in multiple boots:
Oddly, when I examine compare the RSS - resident set size, the non-swapped physical memory that a task has used (in kiloBytes) - of each KDE process (and all non-KDE processes using 'ps -eo user,pid,comm,rss --sort -rss'), there isn't any noticeable difference in RSS between processes, making it difficult to pinpoint precisely where memory is being used up. So, what can explain the difference in 'Memory Free' upon each boot, between three versions of KDE?
Memory Summary between KDE 4.4.1 and 4.4.2 (Link):
KDE SC 4.4.2 Released - Larger Initial Memory Footprint Posted Mar 31, 2010 10:54 UTC (Wed) by niner (subscriber, #26151) [Link]
I hope you at least used this line of free -m output for your
measurements: -/+ buffers/cache: 951 2066
otherwise it's completely useless.
KDE SC 4.4.2 Released - Larger Initial Memory Footprint Posted Mar 31, 2010 13:19 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
That figure isn't much use either, because it eliminates the effect of
readonly mmap()s of things like text pages. You need something like exmap or ps_mem.py to get an accurate indication of memory consumption including this. (It's depressing that ps(1) can't do this, after so many years...)
KDE SC 4.4.2 Released Posted Mar 31, 2010 21:32 UTC (Wed) by ikm (subscriber, #493) [Link]
I'm running a snapshot of something between 4.4.1 and 4.4.2, and have the following to say -- great work! I've really started to like KDE4 this time. I remember the times when I first installed 4.0 -- yeah, without any hope of using it, of course -- played a bit, but that was it. I actually considered moving to KDE4 circa 4.1, and I didn't really liked it much. It was kinda wobbly, unfinished, slowish... well, you know. KDE 4.3 felt like it worked, no complaints, but nothing too special either. But right now -- I'm loving this thing. The compositing suddenly makes sense, the animation effects feel just right, and so on. I can't even describe why -- I guess it's just a lot of all the smaller things put together, but, well, to my likings, the difference between 4.3 and 4.4 is really huge. Great work, KDE people, thank you!
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