KDE 4.8 RC 2 Disponibile (KDE 4.7.97)

Gennaio 5, 2012 Marco Giannini

Ed ecco arrivare la seconda release candidate per KDE 4.8 (KDE 4.7.97)

Procede dunque il lavoro di pulizia e raffinamento caratteristico delle versioni RC. Da qualche giorno è stato corretto anche il fastidio bug che causava un uso anomalo della CPU causato da Kmix.

Sto usando la precedente RC su Kubuntu e devo dire che il lavoro compiuto dal team di KDE per questo rilascio è davvero eccezionale.

Ma ricordiamo cosa c’è di nuovo in KDE 4.8

Qt Quick in Plasma Workspaces — Qt Quick is making its way into the
Plasma Workspaces, the new Plasma Components provide a standardized API
implementation of widgets with native Plasma Look and Feel. The device
notifier widget has been ported to using these components and is now
written in pure QML. KWin’s window switcher is now also QML-based,
paving the way for newly designed window switchers.
Dolphin’s file view has been rewritten for better performance, scalability and more attractive visual appearance.
KSecretService optionally enables a shared password storage,
therefore making your saved passwords available to many other
applicatios, leading to a more secure system and better integration of
non-KDE apps into the Plasma Workspaces and KDE apps into non-Plasma
workspaces.
Many performance improvements and bugfixes improve the overall user
experience, making the KDE Applications and Workspaces more productive
and fun to use than ever before.