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Desktop Formerly Known as KDE 4.4 Beta 1 Released

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Today the KDE team makes available the first beta release of what will become KDE Software Collection 4.4. KDE SC 4.4 Beta 1 is the first step in the official 4.4 development release cycle, which will be completed in February 2010 with the release of KDE SC 4.4.0.

Central goals for the KDE SC 4.4 release include the introduction of a variety of mobile, online and social networking features, new interface effects and tabbing/snapping in window management and of course many new and improved applications, games and workspace widgets.

Short overview

There is a new smart automounter for removable storage. The device notifier now offers actions when a USB stick or DVD is inserted directly in its popup instead of a traditional window. The same technique makes it easier to add widgets to the workspace by showing widgets to add in a panel toolbox, and system-related Plasma widgets such as the battery monitor or network management now appear in the system tray instead of elsewhere on the panel. KRunner moves to the top screen edge when activated, allowing more search results on smaller displays, and has gained a wealth of new plugins including wiki searching, bookmark searching and contacts search.

Subtle yet efficient animations are now present throughout the user interface, in menus, window decorations and in applications.

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Who is KDE?

nowwhatthe.blogspot: So who is this KDE we've just 'rebranded'? Who belong to this community? I would say anybody who cares about KDE and does his or her thing to help spread KDE and make this world a little better - is certainly part of our community. This includes people who might not see themselves as part of our community.

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konstipation: It’s out. Yes,

konstipation: It’s out. Yes, finally. This release has been a bit of a bumpy ride. First thing was that we decided to do the release two days later, because on Tuesday (the date we’d initially planned), we already had KDE 4.3.4 scheduled. Then, yesterday, Dirk, our package-it hero had to struggle with some build problems in various modules.

Still, this is not a perfect beta. When trying 4.4 Beta1, you might find yourself without compositing effects. This problem has crept up in the last two weeks, and we’ve been only able to fix it this morning, too late for the beta. It turned out to be a problem of stricter capability checking, along with a change of the driver version string reported by mesa. Dirk said, he’ll roll another set of source tarballs next week, so you’ll get your compositing effects back. In the meantime, please focus your testing on other problems.

Allen was concerned about a bug that prevents KOrganizer from starting.

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