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.
here: http://dot.kde.org/1202239435/
3.5.9 due out in a couple weeks.
nice to see stuff moving to skhedule, looking forward to 4.1.
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.
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
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..
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.
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?
“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
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
It definitely is a packaging problem with Kubuntu. It’s just very annoying that they botched the packages.
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.
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:
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.
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.
No. If you’re scared about losing your data, use 3.5.8 or whatever your distro ships with.
No packages for Mandriva 2008.0 this time around?
Is the Mandriva sponsored KDE developer some well deserved vacation?
or we just forgot to mention their packages or something…