Ronnie Tucker

Updated my Kubuntu 8.04 (with KDE 4.0.3) to KDE 4.1 beta and it is niiiiice!

Got itchy fingers and decided to try Kubuntu Hardy with KDE 4.1 on the EEE to see how good/bad it’d be.

Suffice to say, it is much goodness!

KDE 4.1 beta 1 is now in the Ubuntu repositories for testing. Check Kubuntu.org for full instructions. All you need to do is add a repo, refresh, and you’ll be able to update your KDE 4.0.x to KDE 4.1 beta 1.

Here’s my (KDE 4.1 beta 1) desktop at the moment:

Some things I’ve noticed so far:

• The taskbar can now be semi-transparent (see screenshot above)
• The width, and alignment, of the taskbar can now be altered (by using the little button on the extreme right of the taskbar).
• Comes with desktop themes which skin the taskbar, widgets and widget frames etc.
• PostIt widget can have auto-resized text.
• Couple of new widgets (Folder View, Konq Applet, Kate applet, Lunar, etc)
• Menu Editor
• Widgets can now be locked in place.
• Folders/files now have a +/- icon over their icon to select multiple items without the Ctrl/Shift keys.
• Slight change in graphics here and there.
• Easily switch to classic menu style
• Some new Window effects like wobbly windows, ipod style cover flip, vista style flip.

… and sooooo much more.

Only been using it for a few hours but it seems pretty stable and it was extremely easy to upgrade from 4.0.3 to 4.1b1.

KDE4 rocks!

That was quite possibly my worst post title yet, but still applicable!

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