KDE 4.5: KDE 3.5’s Stability + KDE 4.0’s Promised Features

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 2, 2010

[ Thanks to Prashanth for this link.
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“My last review of KDE 4.X was a bitter disappointment,
as KDE 4.4 refused to work. Period. Follow the jump to see if this
version of KDE works out any better. The first thing I notice is
that KDE 4.5 does, in fact, work. Yay! (A word of warning to anyone
who wants to install KDE on top of another DE: do not use KDM, as
it will cause problems.)

“The Cube effect

“The theme carries over largely unchanged from KDE 4.4. However,
the most noticeable change is the superior integration of icons
into the system tray — whereas before, icons used to look
blocky and out-of-place, now they are all-white and more rounded,
integrating better with the panel theme. Along with this comes
better integration of GTK+ applications into the system tray, as
well as better-looking (and less intrusive) notifications.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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