Hands-on: Plasma, KWin improve in KDE SC 4.4 beta 1

“KDE was created with the goal of building a desktop environment
for the Linux platform. The modern KDE ecosystem, which spans
multiple operating systems and includes a wide range of
applications and development frameworks, has a broader mandate and
loftier aspirations. In an effort to improve the way that KDE
stakeholders communicate about the technology, the developers
recently announced plans to overhaul KDE’s branding.

“The assortment of applications and software infrastructure that
has traditionally been referred to as the KDE desktop environment
will now be known as the KDE Software Compilation (SC), and the new
4.4 beta, which was made available on Friday, is the first release
to use the new branding. The beta introduces several excellent
window management features that have been highly anticipated by KDE
enthusiasts.

“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.”

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