KDE SC 4.4.0 Caikaku Released

Pedro · Feb 9, 2010

9th February, 2010. Today KDE announces the immediate availability of the KDE Software Compilation 4.4, "Caikaku", bringing an innovative collection of applications to Free Software users. Major new technologies have been introduced, including social networking and online collaboration features, a new netbook-oriented interface and infrastructural innovations such as the KAuth authentication framework. According to KDE's bug-tracking system, 7293 bugs have been fixed and 1433 new feature requests were implemented. The KDE community would like to thank everybody who has helped to make this release possible.
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Release Announcement

The new tabbing feature in KWin allows the user to group windows together in a tabbed interface, making the handling of large numbers of applications easier and more efficient. Further improvements to window handling include snapping windows to a side of the screen and maximizing windows by dragging them. The KWin Team also cooperated with the Plasma developers on further improving the interaction between the workspace applications bringing smoother animations and increased performance. Finally artists can more easily develop and share themes for the windows thanks to the development of a more configurable window decorator with the ability to use scalable graphics.
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Two other long-term projects by the KDE community come to fruition in this release. Nepomuk, an international research effort financed by the European Community, has reached the point of sufficient stability and performance. Dolphin's integration of desktop search makes use of this Nepomuk's semantic framework to aid the user in locating and organizing his data. The new timeline view shows recently used files organized chronologically. Meanwhile the KDE PIM team has ported the first applications to make use of the new data storage and retrieval system, Akonadi. The KDE addressbook application has been rewritten, sporting a new easy 3-pane interface. A more substantial migration of applications to these new technologies will come in future releases of the KDE Software Compilation.
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tlu · Feb 10, 2010

I've just upgraded openSUSE 11.2 to KDE 4.4. after adding

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.2/

to my repositories. The upgrade itself caused no problems. Everything seems to work as it should - with one exception: I got a message that Nepomuk is disabled. I have to investigate that.

Pedro · Feb 10, 2010

BTW are you using Kickoff or Lancelot? Or Krunner for that matter.

tlu · Feb 11, 2010

The Nepomuk problem seems to be solved. I found the decisive hint on http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=84500&start=20#p143959 : Under ~/.kde4/share/apps/nepomuk/repository/main/data/ I had to manually create the subfolder redland. After restarting Nepomuk and Strigi everything works flawlessly.

tlu · Feb 11, 2010

Pedro said:

BTW are you using Kickoff or Lancelot? Or Krunner for that matter.
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The classical KMenu. Hm - quite frankly, I've never thought about using anything else

What about you?

tlu · Feb 11, 2010

Just in case that you got error messages from Akonadi like this one:

http://img80.imageshack.us/i/bildschirmfoto1t.png/

I found a solution here.

Regarding Akonadi, this and this sites also stress its importance and present some troubleshooting tips.

Pedro · Feb 11, 2010

tlu said:

The classical KMenu. Hm - quite frankly, I've never thought about using anything else

What about you?
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I use Lancelot, and of course KRunner. They're fantastic.
KMenu is so 3.5

tlu · Feb 11, 2010

Pedro said:

KMenu is so 3.5
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Perhaps, but I'm familiar with it. Well, tastes differ ...

Pedro · Feb 11, 2010

I'm just kidding of course. But you should give it a go someday (Lancelot), it's very configurable, including its size.

Pedro · Feb 18, 2010

KDE Review: KDE 4.4 Comes in from the Cold

Between radical changes and limited functionality, the KDE 4 series got off to a rough start. However, with each release, KDE 4 has improved steadily and silenced more critics. Now, with the KDE 4.4 release, the series has reached first maturity.

Those who expect everything to behave exactly as it did in the KDE 3 series may still struggle with 4.4. But, for those willing to accept change, 4.4 has no shortage of new features to offer, ranging from the implementation of several long-term directions to enhanced usability on the desktop -- including Plasma Netbook, a new interface designed specifically for netbook computers.
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By Bruce Byfield

Beavenburt · Feb 19, 2010

Pedro said:

I use Lancelot, and of course KRunner. They're fantastic.
KMenu is so 3.5
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I've actually gone back to 3.5 for the time being. It feels quite retro-cool to be running it. So light and fast I just can't give it up fall time just yet.
Although it's fast kde4 still feels somewhat bloated, i'm struggling to warm to it. It's still lacking some of the simple functionality that 3 provides. I'll probably wait until 4 is in stable before switching full time now, if at all. LXDE seems to be closer to what I want DE wise than kde4. So perhaps when Debian drops 3 I will drop kde all together.

Pedro · Apr 15, 2010

Aaron Seigo on the Future of KDE

No one is better qualified to talk about the state of the KDE desktop than Aaron Seigo. A former member of the board of KDE e.V, the German non-profit that oversees the project, Seigo is a lead developer on the desktop. Last weekend, I interviewed him at the Calgary Open Source Systems Festival, COSSFest, in front of an audience, on where KDE is today and where it is heading.

According to Seigo, the large-scale changes that began two years ago with the release of KDE 4.0 are mostly complete now. "We've reached the stage with the 4.4 release that happened in January where we've got this nice feature set on the desktop and we have applications available for it and some nice refinements in the look and feel. That's where we are. But where are we going? That's always the difficult question. Once you've arrived at a place,what are you going to aim for?"

Seigo's answer to his own question is that KDE is currently moving in three directions: adding functionality to the desktop in both small features and within specific applications, extending the concept of the social desktop, and the introduction of KDE on to every possible hardware platform. Each is a small story in itself.
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By Bruce Byfield

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