{"id":2071,"date":"2008-12-16T20:14:20","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T00:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2071"},"modified":"2008-12-23T19:30:51","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T23:30:51","slug":"is-there-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2071","title":{"rendered":"Is there hope?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span>‘ve been working so much on Vista and XP lately that I forgot about the release of the first beta for KDE 4.2<\/a>, so naturally, I decided to download the latest binaries (“Neon”). Barring any bugs, I have to say I’m impressed. The following I felt were worth mentioning:\n<\/p>\n

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  1. There’s an interesting fade out from initial boot-up screen to Desktop. It’s subtle but extremely effective.<\/li>\n
  2. The Taskbar is finally looking good, and yes, it does actually auto- hide. Grouped applications are shown actually better than in Windows: KDE shows them stacked with a number of open ‘grouped’ windows. There’s plenty of more settings you can finally set: however, I’m not sure if I like the way how you have to set and move sliders to resize the Taskbar.<\/li>\n
  3. The KDE Main menu has been overhauled (more ‘blackish’) and there’s a (once again) subtle change in the ‘hover over’ tabs in there<\/li>\n
  4. The ‘Cover flow’ like Screen Switcher works smooth and perfect, even on lower-end graphical system.<\/li>\n
  5. There’s a whole bunch of notification popping up when some actions finish. I don’t like them all (the less the better), but it’s (generally) visually ‘pleasing’.<\/li>\n
  6. Wallpapers can be made dynamic: actually, these are more or less plug-ins now, which means that you can have running slideshows and even running Mandelbrots…<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you happen to run KDE 4.1, the easiest way to upgrade is to add the following line to your sources.lst file:\n<\/p>\n


    \ndeb http:\/\/ppa.launchpad.net\/project-neon\/ubuntu intrepid main
    \n<\/PRE>\n<\/p>\n
    Then run a normal apt-update followed by an ‘sudo apt-get install kde-nightly’. Remember to log-out and select the KDE-nightly session at the boot  screen and you should be good to go.\n<\/p>\n
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    12\/23\/08: <\/strong>KDE 4.2 beta gets high marks<\/a> from ArsTechnica<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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