Hands-on: Plasma, KWin improve in KDE SC 4.4 beta 1
I installed KDE 4.4 SC beta 1 on openSUSE 11.2 using VirtualBox for some hands-on testing. I used the binary packages that are hosted in the openSUSE build service's unstable KDE repository.
Plasma has continued to mature and offers a number of compelling enhancements in 4.4. The dialog for selecting plasmoids to add to the desktop is gone. Its replacement is a horizontal strip that appears above the panel that runs along the bottom of the screen. That displays the available plasmoids as blocks with large icons; users can drag plasmoids from the strip and drop them on panels or on the desktop. It looks very similar to the widget selection interface from Apple's Dashboard.
Some of the most impressive new features in KDE SC 4.4 can be found in KWin, the KDE window manager. It has finally gained support for tabbed window management. Users can join multiple windows into groups that can be moved around and managed together. KWin's Oxygen theme has been enhanced so that any windows in a group will appear as titlebar tabs. You can switch which window is active by clicking on one of the tabs in the titlebar.
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