KDE 4.0.1 Released

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 5th Feb 2008 20:50 UTC

KDE 4.0.1 has been released. "The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of KDE 4.0.1. KDE 4.0.1 is a maintenance release which provides corrections of problems reported using the KDE bug tracking system and enhanced support for existing and new translations." Here's the changelog.

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by leos (4.84) on Tue 5th Feb 2008 21:56 UTC

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here: http://dot.kde.org/1202239435/

3.5.9 due out in a couple weeks.

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kongrats

by REMF (2.64) on Tue 5th Feb 2008 22:58 UTC

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nice to see stuff moving to skhedule, looking forward to 4.1.

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Poor Pluto

by DigitalAxis (2.8) on Wed 6th Feb 2008 00:35 UTC

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It's a pity that the bug in kstars about treating Pluto as an asteroid instead of a planet, wasn't #134340.

Obscure joke, sorry. Check Wikipedia.

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RE: Poor Pluto

by Punktyras (3.68) on Wed 6th Feb 2008 11:25 UTC in reply to "Poor Pluto"

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Since 2007-08-24 Pluto is not the planet any more. It's planetaoid or something like that. I remeber it, 'cause it was announced on my birthday

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RE: Poor Pluto

by raver31 (4.28) on Wed 6th Feb 2008 11:25 UTC in reply to "Poor Pluto"

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No, it is correct, Pluto is now a plutino. Kstars was originally wrong calling it a planet, but, then so were countless astronomers.

Sad hobby..

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RE[2]: Poor Pluto

by DigitalAxis (2.8) on Thu 7th Feb 2008 04:11 UTC in reply to "RE: Poor Pluto"

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It's a dwarf planet, which means it's big enough to be spherical, not orbiting a recognized planet, but hasn't cleared out all the objects in its orbit.

Depending on how technical you want to be, that also excludes Jupiter, Neptune, and the Earth... but anyway.

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Not Working!

by jlacroix (1.8) on Wed 6th Feb 2008 02:34 UTC

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4.0.1 just became available in the Kubuntu repositories, and now since I "upgraded" to it, almost none of my KDE4 apps will even load. What gives?

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RE: Not Working!

by Erunno (3.48) on Wed 6th Feb 2008 07:47 UTC in reply to "Not Working!"

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"Works-for-me"(tm) on openSUSE with the KDE/KDE4/STABLE/Desktop repository. Maybe there's a problem with the Kubuntu packages. The maintainers even backported the resizable panel from trunk :-)

Edited 2008-02-06 07:48 UTC

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RE: Not Working!

by m_abs (2.84) on Wed 6th Feb 2008 08:17 UTC in reply to "Not Working!"

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The problem might be that some of the binaries or .desktop-files were renamed in kubuntu packages, so all the KDE4 apps I had in favorites didn't work anymore since the entries didn't point to them anymore, so I had to readd the apps to favorites.

Edited 2008-02-06 08:17 UTC

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RE[2]: Not Working!

by jlacroix (1.8) on Wed 6th Feb 2008 13:51 UTC in reply to "RE: Not Working!"

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It definitely is a packaging problem with Kubuntu. It's just very annoying that they botched the packages.

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RE: Not Working!

by fernandotcl (3.76) on Wed 6th Feb 2008 14:53 UTC in reply to "Not Working!"

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If you're talking about the apps in the "Favourites" tab, apparently the location of the KDE4 binaries was changed to /usr/lib/kde4/bin. Remove the apps from your "Favourites" tab and add them again and they should work fine. If it still doesn't work, delete ~/.kde4 (all your settings and things like ktorrent's torrents will be lost, though).

If you're using kdm-kde4 as well, you might want to edit /etc/init.d/kdm-kde4 and replace genkdmconf-kde4 with /usr/lib/kde4/bin/genkdmconf and make sure that /etc/X11/default-display-manager says "/usr/lib/kde4/bin/kdm".

Other than that, I found an annoying bug in Konqueror that asked me to save all links, even links to regular web pages. But it seems to be fixed in 4:4.0.1-0ubuntu2~gutsy1~ppa1 (released a couple of hours later).

Let's not forget this is really a packaging problem, and also that this isn't even an official Kubuntu repository.

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RE[2]: Not Working!

by jlacroix (1.8) on Wed 6th Feb 2008 16:57 UTC in reply to "RE: Not Working!"

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The Kubuntu logo is placed right on the Kicker menu. Looks official to me.

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RE[3]: Not Working!

by joeprusa (2.08) on Wed 6th Feb 2008 23:34 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Not Working!"

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The Kubuntu logo is placed right on the Kicker menu. Looks official to me.

Well, adding unsigned launchpad repository sounds official to you?

From Kubuntu web site:

Add deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu gutsy main to your /etc/apt/sources.list
Install kde4-core, note that PPAs aren't authenticated so you will likely get a warning when installing

KDE4 will be officially in Hardy, it is "as is" in Gutsy. But it could be more emphasized and should not be advertised on Kubuntu front page, IMHO.

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RE[2]: Not Working!

by anda_skoa (3.52) on Wed 6th Feb 2008 18:52 UTC in reply to "RE: Not Working!"

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If it still doesn't work, delete ~/.kde4 (all your settings and things like ktorrent's torrents will be lost, though).

Which is why one should never even suggest this.

At most suggest to rename/move .kde4/share/config which at least keeps the user data in share/apps intact (Mails, contacts, calendars, bookmarks, etc.)

As a rule of thumb never suggest an option you wouldn't use yourself because of the potential consequences.

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RE[3]: Not Working!

by fernandotcl (3.76) on Fri 8th Feb 2008 04:44 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Not Working!"

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No. If you're scared about losing your data, use 3.5.8 or whatever your distro ships with.

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Mandriva 2008.0 packages?

by gireesh (2.24) on Wed 6th Feb 2008 02:43 UTC

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No packages for Mandriva 2008.0 this time around?
Is the Mandriva sponsored KDE developer some well deserved vacation?

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RE: Mandriva 2008.0 packages?

by superstoned (3.2) on Wed 6th Feb 2008 11:40 UTC in reply to "Mandriva 2008.0 packages?"

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or we just forgot to mention their packages or something...

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