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 Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2025 5:40 pm Post subject: KDE SC 4.4.0 Caikaku Release Announcement |
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KDE Software Compilation 4.4.0 (Codename: "Caikaku") Released
9th February, 2025. Today KDE announces the immediate availability of the KDE Software Compilation 4.4, "Caikaku", bringing an innovative collection of applications to Free Software users. Major new technologies have been introduced, including social networking and online collaboration features, a new netbook-oriented interface and infrastructural innovations such as the KAuth authentication framework. According to KDE's bug-tracking system, 7293 bugs have been fixed and 1433 new feature requests were implemented. The KDE community would like to thank everybody who has helped to make this release possible.
KDE 4.4.0 Software Collection Release Announcement |
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10 things you might want to do in KDE SC4.4
Links to a collection of tips, screenshots and screencasts - may be of interest to the KDE users here
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Thanks 
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masinick
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| I believe that KDE SC 4.4.1, the next monthly update, is available, at least in the distributions that closely track KDE releases (read NOT Debian!) |
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| masinick wrote: | | I believe that KDE SC 4.4.1, the next monthly update, is available, at least in the distributions that closely track KDE releases (read NOT Debian!) |
After having gotten used to 4.4.0 in Arch, I'm actually REALLY glad Debian decided not to. While 4.4.0 was nice in many respects, overall, it s**** compared to 4.3.x IMO. Panel icons don't scale correctly anymore, I can't drag icons from a menu on 1 panel onto a separate panel to create a launcher, other minor things. I do like that you can have different desktop backgrounds on each desktop though. That rocks. I hope 4.4.1 fixes the niggles then I will actually want Debian to get modernized. 
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| I have not seen those issues myself. I have run 4.4 in Mandriva Cooker (might get to updating the Cooker again soon to see "what's up"), and I am on PCLinuxOS 2025 Beta 1 with KDE SC 4.4.1, and it seems to work fine here. |
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masinick
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| Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2025 7:34 pm Post subject: Anybody doing Debian KDE SC 4.4.2 using qt-kde? |
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| Anybody messing with KDE SC 4.4.2 in Debian Experimental? You can get it from http://qt-kde.debian.net/ should you be interested. It is also necessary to enable the Debian Experimental repository itself and it is a good idea to set a few apt pinning settings as described in the pages and comments found at that link. |
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| masinick wrote: | | I believe that KDE SC 4.4.1, the next monthly update, is available, at least in the distributions that closely track KDE releases (read NOT Debian!) |
4.4.2 is availble for Mandriva 2025 and I believe cooker is up to 4.4.2, as well.
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/4.4.2/Mandriva/2010.0/
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| And in Arch.
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| Yup, I just did the 4.4.2 Cooker tonight and revamped a number of other things. I had to remove quite a bit along the way before adding in new stuff; that is simply the nature of something as volatile as "The Cooker", but it can also be a lot of fun. I typically use IceWM while I upgrade the other development environments, so hopefully I have something pretty decent now; hacked at KDE SC 4.4.2, XFCE 4.6.1-4.6.3, and LXDE; I'll soon see what I have! |
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