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KDE 4 is almost ready to go

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 4 comments
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KDE e.V, the nonprofit organization behind the popular KDE desktop environment, has announced the immediate availability of the first release candidate for its next major release: KDE 4.0. With this release candidate, the majority of KDE 4's components are almost ready for prime time. At the same time, with the final bits of Plasma, the brand-new desktop shell and panel in KDE 4, falling into place, Release Candidate 1 is the first preview of KDE 4.0 that is suitable for general use.

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tracyanne ·
I decided to download the openSuSE distro with KDE4 Beta 4 , just to give KDE4 a spin, unfortunately openSuSE refused to recognise my 1440 by 900 Acer LCD monitor, and kept trying give me 1280 by 1050, which put some parts of the desktop off the screen.

openSuSE is the only distro, I've tried recently that refused to recognise the monitor, even Ubuntu had no trouble.
zenarcher ·
Likewise, Mandriva 2008 set up the 1440 by 900 display just fine on my desktop systems, but I also had to manually get it right with OpenSuse 10..3
herzeleid ·
I think that's a problem with the new X server, not really distro specific. Having said that, I run opensuse 10.3 and am quite happy with the graphics on intel and nvidia equipped systems.
tracyanne ·
Quoting:I run opensuse 10.3 and am quite happy with the graphics on intel and nvidia equipped systems.


As far as i can tell the graphics on the openSuSE distro are fine. It was it's inability to recognise the wide screen monitor. Other live CD versions it've tried Mandriva One, Ubuntu 7.10 for example had no trouble configuring for the monitor. I'll probably try the Knoppix live CD so I can have a good look at KDE4.

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