Reviewed: KDE 4.5

“Trepidation. That about sums up the feeling of upgrading to a
new version of KDE. You want to like it, but are afraid that
whatever has been fixed will be counterbalanced by something rather
sucky. This version of KDE has seen 16,022 bugs fixed and 1,723 new
feature requests added, so the balance is in favour of not-sucky.
Or is it? F

“or the most part, the improvements in this version of KDE
aren’t the things that you see, but the things that you don’t see
any longer. Chief among the long list of user grievances in 4.4 was
the behaviour of system notifications – no longer. Now the
notifications look better and don’t clog up the screen for 10
minutes every time you try to copy a file somewhere it can’t
fit.

“But the first thing you might notice about the new KDE happens
long before that. In the lots-faster-but-not-actually-very-fast
boot-up sequence, you’ll hear some audio; audio you can actually
hear properly. Phonon now supports a PulseAudio back-end for sound
– and while many apps don’t play properly with PA (not KDE
ones, just apps in general) it does make for a better audio
experience on KDE.”

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