KDE4, here we come!

Tuesday 25th December, 2007 @ 1:51 am

Made my first KDE commit in over a month tonight to work improve the rich-text handling in KOrganizer’s incidence editors. I’ve also used the some of today (Christmas eve, sad I know!) to get KDE4 running as my desktop.

So far I’m pretty impressed with the stability and the new features. KWin’s AIGLX support is a welcome addition giving some of the “bling” of Compiz/Beryl on top of a featureful and stable window manager. The only real thing I’m missing so far is some of the old features of Kicker such as allowing me to change the size of the taskbar but this is not a big deal and I think the new panel is far more attractive than Kicker ever was.

Now that I actually have a working desktop of this stuff I think I’ll be committing more often as I’ll be eating my own dog-food for a change. I attempted to post this post using KOrganizer which unexpectedly crashed so I’ll work ASAP on fixing that and improving it to meet my purposes, hopefully managing to resist the temptation to do so tomorrow/today!

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4 Comments »

Please never say the word “bling” again. Please.

Comment by BLING — Tuesday 25th December, 2007 @ 7:45 am

Stability? What stability? Plasma crashes every few minutes. Every second time it doesn’t get restarted.

Comment by foobar — Tuesday 25th December, 2007 @ 1:43 pm

@BLING: I like “bling”. It is a good word
@foobar: I haven’t had a single crash in the few days I’ve been using it but I’ve been running the SVN version so YMMV I guess.

Comment by Mike — Tuesday 25th December, 2007 @ 2:36 pm

I agree, things have really been falling into place and the desktop looks pretty nice.
It’s the start of a long road but I think the end of it will leave us with something
amazing.

Comment by Kyle — Tuesday 25th December, 2007 @ 9:23 pm