KDE 4.8 Review | LAS | s20e07
Posted on: February 19, 2012
Posted in: Featured, Linux Action Show, Video

Is the latest release of KDE the best yet? Or really stinking terrible. Tune in to find out.
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NEWS:
- Spark Tablet Available for Preorder
- CyanogenMod Needs Your Help!
- Update 1:45pm EST We’ve done it!
- VLC 2.0 is Officially Released
- MythTV Is Now Forked As Torc
- SuseStudio can now build distro’s for… Microsoft Hyper-V?
- Window Maker… LIVES!
- OS X 10.8 makes it harder for Linux-centric developers to use Mac’s
- CUPS 1.6 to drop features used by Linux but not OS X, orphaned features to be split off to OpenPrinting.org project
KDE 4.8 Review
- Dolphin has had a nice upgrades, smooth scrolling, better speed.
- Krunner – Is Great
- Kate vs Gedit?
- What used to feel like clutter, is starting to feel more elegant. More like control.
- Device Notifier uses the new QML support that Plasma widgets now rock.
- KWIN now has lots of Compiz style effects.
- KDE 4.8 minor tweaks, major improvement
- KDE 4 Reloaded – SUSE Gallery
- The Chakra Project Latest Releases has KDE 4.8
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