Re: [Cooker] KDE4 news

[Fabrice Facorat]

2007/10/1, Gustavo Pichorim Boiko <boiko@mandriva.com>:
> Hi
>
> I've spent some time on KDE4, and Salem has helped me on making it at least
> usable for test purposes for 2008, so here some changes:

cool, great. Thanks a lot.

> - task-kde4-full and task-kde4-minimal: Neoclust and Salem have created this
> tasks providing both complete KDE4 installation and a minimal working KDE4
> desktop for people to try.

which packages are installed ?

> - kicker is back: since the new taskbar plasma provides does not have a menu
> yet, we brought kicker back, so that people can at least launch applications
> from a menu. It is not as stable as we wanted it to be, but it is still
> better than nothing.

I read that there was a port of kickoff for kde4.

> - k4: we have added a macro that makes it simple for launching KDE4
> applications on a KDE3 session. For example:
>          k4 dolphin
> opens the new file manager of KDE4.

wow.
Are the kde4 apps using oxygen style in the kde3 session, or are they
using the normal style ?

> Please test it if possible and report any problems you find.
> (mandriva-kde4-config is not yet built, but will be soon)

As I will write my article concerning kde4 tomorrow, expect many
reports from me ;)


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