- 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.
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Just thought I would point out you can move the panel to the top of the screen by fiddling with the config files (and it's actually quite easy).
Kill Plasma
Open ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc
Search for the containment with the plugin of panel
Change the location option appropriately (trial and error, its just a number)
Save and relaunch plasma.
Not as nice as doing it via a Gui, but just in case you really want to move the panel.
Hi adz21c,
sounds good. However, the content looks like:
[Containments][1]
alignToGrid=true
backgroundmode=0
selected=
showIcons=true
wallpaper=/usr/lib/kde4/share/wallpapers/Finally_Summer_in_Germany/contents/images/1280x800.jpg
wallpapercolor=224,223,222
wallpaperposition=2
[Containments][1][Applets][10][Configuration]
showSecondHand=true
showTimeString=false
And I don't quite get where to edit/add the location...
Yakuake for Kubuntu is current in the "New" queue for Hardy. I will talk to Terence about putting it into the PPA for Gutsy users.
The KDE4 version of Yakuake is also in the KDE SVN now. According to comments on the dot, it works well.
Actually, it was in KDE SVN about 10 days before the beta was released - the Commit Digest is published with a certain delay. There haven't been any changes since the beta was released, either, i.e. the beta1 code is current.
The error message about -fvisibility=hidden is built into the KDE build system, so it's not Yakuake's code specifically testing/asking for that.
You'll be happy to know that yakuake-kde4 is now in the PPA for Gutsy. Should be apt-getable by now :)
Terence, yes, that makes me very happy indeed!
I realized this morning that there is one last show stopper... I work with confidential data, so when I leave my working place, I lock my screen. However, the Kubuntu packages did not seem to have a 'greeter' configured, making it impossible to lock the screen.
We noticed this a little while ago, it seem that it needs kdm-kde4 installed to get the greeter working. You don't have to select to use kdm-kde4 is the default display manager (in fact we recommend against it for the time being), but just have the package installed. We're looking at possibly adding a recommends/suggests relationship to kdebase-workspace on kdm-kde4, but we'd rather try and make kdm-kde4 somewhat usable first (which is becoming a major headache).
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