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The KDE 4[ 1.].0.0 Release

beineri's picture

KDE 4.0 was released yesterday and of course openSUSE complimented with packages for openSUSE 10.2, 10.3 & Factory and the version 1.0 of KDE Four Live CD. For reactions see openSUSE News, Digg or look at screenshots - many readers seem to understand the nature of this "1.0.0 release of KDE4". Smiling

If you run openSUSE 10.3 then you're only one click away from installing/upgrading to a common KDE 4.0 desktop setup:

The KDE 4.0.0 tagging last week didn't make us stop improving our packages: we added 4.0 branch diffs of this week (so you get eg distinct resize and rotate handles for Plasmoids and Aaron's beloved "Zoom Out" button), and started to add our usual distro bits including an in our opinion better Kickoff presentation (more openSUSE 10.3 like look and/or what its upstream maintainer objected to):

KDE-Four-Live 1.0

Our current packages will be part of openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 1 next week. Of course there is lots and lots more stuff to integrate and port, everything that distinguishes a "distribution with KDE packages" from a "good KDE distribution", and to bring back old functionality (eg Kickoff/10.3 features) until the openSUSE 11.0 release in June.

As long as the KDE 4.1 schedule is still under discussion we can of course also only discuss and not decide (btw next KDE IRC meeting on 30th January) but likely we can tell you latest in the "KDE and openSUSE" (or alike) talk at FOSDEM more about our KDE 4.x/openSUSE 11.x migration strategy.

As for the build service, we will restructure our KDE repositories and track both the KDE 4.0 branch and trunk with regularly updated packages. Regularly means (bi)weekly but for sure not daily as some users rumored our packages to be after every minor package fix/revision rebuild. Smiling

PS: The talk which Bille gave yesterday to 60+ SuSE colleagues was recorded and will be afaik published soon.

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ra100's picture

LiveCD doesn't boot

I can confirm that LiveCD doesn't boot.I've tried to download it four time Puzzled (from another mirrors) and none didn't boot. Sad

beineri's picture

Re: LiveCD doesn't boot

Try the KDE Four Live 1.0.1 version with KDE 4.0.1 - it should boot on some computers with broken BIOS.

sombragris's picture

LiveCD not booting

Stephan, this is a quick note to thank you for the LiveCD you offer. I downloaded the ISO image via BitTorrent and burned it with K3B (the MD5 sum was right). However, the liveCD won't boot. Can you look into the matter if possible, please?

Thanks again

Eduardo
Member, KDE-ES l10n team

cerulean's picture

Menu Item Highlightning

I see that this version of Kickoff actually has the entire hoverable region highlighted for menu items! Things just feel unintuitive and unnatural with the current only-text-rectangle-highlighted mode, so nice one. Looking forward to updating to it.
Does it also bring back menu open on-hover? I miss jamming my mouse into the bottom left corner to bring it up. Clicking does require effort.

aseigo's picture

which kickoff things?

hi... glad to see suse's packages taking shape here.

what kickoff patches did you folks do? could you pass them on to panel-devel@kde.org so we can pick through them? there are a number of things i don't like about the kickoff in trunk/ right now and perhaps you have addressed some of them.

beineri's picture

Re: which kickoff things?

The selection highlight area and showing of infos only on hover as changed by your infamous "better presentation" commit 737196. Smiling Other than that currently just always showing "Favorites" tab when opening and the info bottom bar.

fm's picture

Changed selection area

I thought the selection area was fixed upstream, but now I see it is a openSUSE fix. Thanks alot for that!

But I really think this one should go upstream.

apokryphos's picture

The selection area change

The selection area change (for one), as mentioned above by Cerulean, which was proposed on panel-devel but rejected.

lordbernhard's picture

kde trunk repo

I really look forward to KDE4 and of course the integration in openSUSE 11.0. I hope that 4.1 will be ready to be integrated in the 11.0 release. I'm also looking forward to the repo in the buildservice for the kde trunk to get all the goodness of the latest developments of the kde team (I haven't come around to manually build KDE4 myself yet because I just don't have enough time)

Btw: openSUSE and KDE Teams ... you ROCK!!

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