- taskbar at the top of the desktop
- option to resize the taskbar
- searching files with I tagged/rated with Dolphin/Nepomuk
- Strigi still does not have PDF support (and I'm not that fluent in C++)
- strigi search in Alt-F2 or in the KDE menu (mentioned here)
- cool plasma widgets (e.g. this calendar, or the RSS feed widget in one of the screenshots here); the set in the Kubuntu debs seems limited
Yakuake
Though I very much like the new Konsole, I got so used to Yakuake, this will keep me running a KDE3 for just now. KDE4 capable packages are reported (version 2.9b1) but I failed to compiled these on Kubuntu Gutsy:
cd /tmpAfter which I am stuck with this error message, I have no idea of how to solve in gutsy:
cp ~/Desktop/yakuake-2.9-beta1.tar.bz2 .
tar xvjf yakuake-2.9-beta1.tar.bz2
cd yakuake-2.9-beta1/
cd build/
sudo aptitude install build-essential cmake kdebase-workspace-dev
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/lib/kde4 ..
CMake Error: Qt compiled without support for -fvisibility=hidden. This will break
plugins and linking of some applications. Please fix your Qt installation.
-- Configuring done
Anyway, congratulation to the KDE developers, and looking forward to the upcoming dotdot releases and KDE4.1 this summer! If not just for the planned better Strigi/Nepomuk/KDE integration.
P.S.: I just discovered the plasmoid section on kde-look.org, which I'm going to browse right now.