{"id":27,"date":"2007-12-01T13:28:07","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T13:28:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-03-07T16:50:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T16:50:24","slug":"kde4_applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mark_alec\/2007\/12\/01\/kde4_applications\/","title":{"rendered":"KDE4 Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"

As promised<\/a>, here are some of my thoughts about the first release candidate of KDE4.<\/p>\n

I am not going to comment on the artwork or plasma at this point in time, because I know that it has been significantly improved in SVN, so when RC2 comes out in a few days<\/a>, it should be in a better state for review.<\/p>\n

System<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dolphin is a very<\/em> nice file manager. The breadcrumb navigation resembles GTK+’s file dialog, but is much more powerful. Being able to click the little arrow to navigate to other directories is great. It does take a little while to get used to the fact that you can’t ctrl + t<\/code> to open a new tab, but Konqueror is still available, seemingly as powerful as ever.<\/p>\n

Konsole’s configuration has gotten an overhaul. Customising the appearance is now much more streamlined.<\/p>\n

Games<\/strong><\/p>\n

These are all great. The SVG graphics are a real improvement upon the older pixmap ones in KDE3. Gameplay is the same as before, just in a slicker interface.<\/p>\n

Graphics<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kuickshow has been replaces by Gwenview, which has a nicer interface. Unfortunately it wasn’t stable, crashing multiple times. For PDF viewing, KPDF has been superceded by Okular, which has a nicer interface and actually seems to render documents faster.<\/p>\n

That is about all there is for now. I haven’t had the opportunity to try any of the EDU, PIM, multimedia or office applications. Neither have I attempted to try any of the new fancy technologies like Phonon, Solid or Strigi. If Plasma is in a good state by the next release, I can see that KDE4 will be a solid release. It will not be as feature complete as KDE3, since many important applications still need to be ported and polished, but it should provide a base for my desktop environment for quite some time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As promised, here are some of my thoughts about the first release candidate of KDE4. I am not going to comment on the artwork or plasma at this point in time, because I know that it has been significantly improved in SVN, so when RC2 comes out in a few days, it should be in … Continue reading KDE4 Applications<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mark_alec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mark_alec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mark_alec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mark_alec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mark_alec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mark_alec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mark_alec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mark_alec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mark_alec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mark_alec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}