KDE 4.10 Beta 2 rilasciato

Dicembre 4, 2012 Marco Giannini

Oggi il team di KDE ha rilasciato KDE 4.10 Beta 2.

Grazie ai feedback ricevuti con la precedente beta si è potuto apportare significativi miglioramenti al sistema sotto il profilo correzioni bug e stabilità.

Ma ricordiamo cosa c’è di nuovo in KDE 4.10

Qt Quick in Plasma Workspaces — Qt Quick is
continuing to make its way into the Plasma Workspaces. Plasma Quick,
KDE’s extensions on top of QtQuick allow deeper integration with the
system and more powerful apps and Plasma components. Plasma Containments
can now be written in QtQuick. Various Plasma widgets have been
rewritten in QtQuick, notably the system tray, pager, notifications,
lock & logout, weather and weather station, comic strip and
calculator plasmoids. Many performance, quality and usability
improvements make Plasma Desktop and Netbook workspaces easier to use.
New Screen Locker — A new screen locking mechanism based on QtQuick brings more flexibility and security to Plasma Desktop.
Animated Wallpapers — Thanks to a new QtQuick-based wallpaper engine, animated wallpapers are now much easier to create.
Improved Zooming in Okular — A technique called
tiled rendering allows Okular to zoom in much further while reducing
memory consumption. Okular Active, the touch-friendly version of the
powerful document reader is now part of KDE SC.
Faster indexing — Improvements in the Nepomuk
semantic engine allow faster indexing of files. The new Tags kioslave
allows users to browse their files by tags in any KDE-powered
application.
Color Correction — Gwenview, KDE’s smart image
viewer and Plasma’s window manager now support color correction and can
be adjusted to the color profile of different monitors, allowing for
more natural representation of photos and graphics.
Notifications — Plasma’s notifications are now
rendered using QtQuick, notifications themselves, especially concerning
power management have been cleaned up.
New Print Manager — Setup of printers and monitoring jobs was improved thanks to a new implementation of the Print Manager.
Kate, KDE’s Advanced Text Editor received multiple improvements regarding user feedback. It is now extensible using Python plugins.
KTouch — KDE’s touch-typing learning utility has been rewritten and features a cleaner, more elegant user interface.
libkdegames improvements — Many parts of libkdegames have been rewritten, porting instructions for 3rd party developers are available.
KSudoku now allows printing puzzles.
KJumpingCube has seen a large number of improvements making the game more enjoyable.

Visto e considerato che anche con la prima Beta di KDE 4.10 i primi fortunelli ad averla ricevuta sono stati gli utenti #ArchLinux (aggiungendo il repository [kde-unstable] ed aggiornando il sistema con un bel -Syu) ipotizzo che anche questa volta l’aggiornamento approderà prima da loro (sigh)
Per gli utenti ArchLinux il topic ufficiale è:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1196794#p1196794

Se siete utenti openSUSE e volete installare KDE 4.10 Beta 2 vi lascio il link all’ottima guida 4.10 Beta 2 packages available for openSUSE