KDE 4.2.0 Release
KDE 4.2.0 is not the end, but another milestone along the road of KDE 4 development. This platform is designed and intended to keep on growing far into the future, and the KDE Team would like to invite you to join us in this fantastic journey. This visual guide highlights many of the improvements in KDE 4.2, and we hope that you will enjoy using this release."
Posted Jan 27, 2009 18:40 UTC (Tue)
by kragil (guest, #34373)
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Thanks!
(Although being German I can hardly wait for the spell check with language detection in 4.3 .. but that is just me and my bad spelling talking I guess :)
Posted Jan 27, 2009 22:19 UTC (Tue)
by xaoc (guest, #54140)
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Posted Jan 27, 2009 20:37 UTC (Tue)
by proski (subscriber, #104)
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Posted Jan 27, 2009 21:11 UTC (Tue)
by dowdle (subscriber, #659)
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Posted Jan 27, 2009 22:25 UTC (Tue)
by wstephenson (guest, #14795)
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Posted Jan 27, 2009 22:31 UTC (Tue)
by wstephenson (guest, #14795)
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Alt-MMB /is/ assigned to Lower Window out of the box.
Oh and if you really like IceWM, you can start a KDE session using IceWM by putting KDE_WM=icewm in your environment.
Posted Jan 28, 2009 0:07 UTC (Wed)
by proski (subscriber, #104)
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Speaking of physical models, it's like I take a document on top of a pile, put it to the bottom and then write on it. Not very intuitive. If I lower something, it means I want to have another window on top. My intention is to work with the window that appears on top, not with the window I put to the back.
My impression is that KDE tries to frustrate users who prefer the keyboard to the mouse. New versions try it even harder. Is it really so hard to implement Alt-Esc properly? Windows 95 had it. I think even Windows 3.1 had it. I'm sure it's easier to do than wobbling windows on a rotating cube. No, I'm not a userspace developer.
I didn't have any success with making KDE use IceWM, but it would be quite pointless anyway. I can run every application from IceWM without having KDE running. The reason I want to run KDE is to use actively maintained software. But it looks like the goals of the project are incompatible with my physical abilities :-(
Posted Jan 28, 2009 0:46 UTC (Wed)
by yokem_55 (subscriber, #10498)
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Posted Jan 28, 2009 9:43 UTC (Wed)
by wstephenson (guest, #14795)
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Oh, and the environment variable to change the windowmanager is KDEWM, my mistake.
Posted Jan 28, 2009 17:51 UTC (Wed)
by wstephenson (guest, #14795)
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Posted Jan 28, 2009 7:31 UTC (Wed)
by Adi (guest, #52678)
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Posted Jan 28, 2009 10:18 UTC (Wed)
by lmurray (guest, #56356)
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If you come across any more keyboard-unfriendly actions feel free to open a bug report on http://bugs.kde.org .
Posted Jan 28, 2009 20:24 UTC (Wed)
by roblucid (guest, #48964)
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Awesome!
Posted Jan 29, 2009 0:07 UTC (Thu)
by proski (subscriber, #104)
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Posted Jan 30, 2009 7:13 UTC (Fri)
by cventers (guest, #31465)
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Congrats!
Congrats!
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OK, I tried it with KDE included with Fedora 10 (that's version 4.1.4). I configured Alt-Esc to lower the window. However, it would not change the keyboard focus. That is, the keystrokes would go to the lowered window. Moreover, I cannot hold Alt and press Esc to cycle between windows. Apparently, the subsequent Alt-Esc would try to lower the same window.
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Opened: 2009-01-28 10:33 Last Changed: 2009-01-28 11:31:35
I didn't feel good about opening a bug without being a KDE user or even intending to use it. However, I'm impressed by the positive reaction to my comment, so I may reconsider. Thank you very much!
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