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By: KDE 4 on Kubuntu – Part II | phenorbital

KDE 4 on Kubuntu – Part II | phenorbital — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:04:34 +0000

[...] been a while since I first tried KDE 4 on Kubuntu, but as I recently bought a new machine, I figured I’d give it another whirl. Admittedly, I [...]

By: spirov92

spirov92 — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:28:37 +0000

Thanks for that info, I was also wondering where the dialog is, and since I’m using compiz the Alt+F2 wasn’t working correctly.
KDE 4.2 is really nice, a lot of the bugs were fixed.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:40:42 +0000

I just installed it today from the LiveCD, and there were definitely a lot of loose ends to fix after the install, but overall it seems pretty good. I think, with work, it will be pretty awesome.

By: Chris Hawley

Chris Hawley — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:05:28 +0000

Cheers for the comments. I’ve been meaning to have another look this weekend, especially since there have been a number of updates in Kubuntu.

Very glad to hear that the windows from current desktop change has made it in, and look forward to that hitting an update for Kubuntu soon.

I should probably have made it clearer at the time that I’d not long since got out of bed and hadn’t really played around with it that much – so as you mentioned with krunner, I was obviously doing it wrong in areas.

I’ll probably post a follow up this weekend if I get chance to have a decent play with it.

By: Tsiolkovsky

Tsiolkovsky — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:35:20 +0000

Yay the fix to add an option to show only the windows from current desktop is in:
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-commits&m=120059083405119

By: Tsiolkovsky

Tsiolkovsky — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:25:53 +0000

Hm the run dialog (called KRunner) is still here. I just press the usuall Alt+F2 (or right click on a desktop en select Run Command) and the dialog shows up just fine, now even more powerful than in KDE 3. I like it for example how you can do quick calculation in it (try to enter =66/3 for example).

Yeah I also miss the panel setting like you, especialy to only show windows from only the current desktop.

And for keyboard shortcuts, they are also there just fine. I just used the search field to search for “shortcuts” and so found them in System administration > Keyboard and mouse.

And finaly I agree with you that KDE 4.0.0 is not finished yet. But that should be clear, it is the very first version released in the KDE 4 series (not even a bugfix one). I still remember when KDE 3.0.0 came out, the situation was even worse then now with KDE 4.0.0 and just look how awsome KDE 3.5 became. I believe it will already be a whole lot better in KDE 4.1 now that the solid foundations are here.