KDE 4.2.2 Released
The KDE team today announced the release of KDE 4.2.2. Here’s what they had on their site:
KDE Community Ships Second Translation and Service Release of the 4.2 Free Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance Improvements and Translation Updates
April 2nd, 2009. david rubin . replacement windows milwaukee . The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of “Cano”, (a.k.a KDE 4.2.2), another bugfix and maintenance update for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop. Cano is a monthly update to KDE 4.2. It ships with desktop workspace and many cross-platform applications such as administration programs, network tools, educational applications, utilities, multimedia software, games, artwork, development tools and more. KDE’s award-winning tools and applications are available in more than 50 languages. 
The KDE 4.2 Desktop
KDE, including all its libraries and its applications, is available for free under Open Source licenses. KDE can be obtained in source and various binary formats from http://download.kde.org and can also be obtained on CD-ROM or with any of the major GNU/Linux and UNIX systems shipping today. Enhancements
As a service release, the changelog contains a list of bugfixes and improvements. The most user-visible improvements are: Stability fixes in KRunner – KRunner’s threaded search for results is now more robust and a possible deadlock condition has been fixed. Performance enhancements in KMail – Synching email of cached IMAP accounts is now faster, a number of displaying changes makes reading emails smoother experience
Bugfixes, performance improvements and optimization in KHTML – Text rendering has been optimized, support for CSS selectors has further been improved Note that the changelog is usually incomplete, for a complete list of changes that went into KDE 4.2.2, you can browse the Subversion log. KDE 4.2.2 also ships a more complete set of translations.
As always this release has been pushed to the openSUSE KDE 4 Factory repository. To set up this repository using zypper do:
sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.1/ KDE 4 Factory
To upgrade the packages from this repository do:
sudo zypper up -t package -r KDE 4 Factory
To make this repository automaticlly update do:
sudo zypper mr -r KDE 4 Factory
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I used primarily Gnome but since KDE 4.2 i’m using KDE which is surprisingly les memory hungry than Gnome??
KDE 4.2.2 still has regressions which make it inadvisable for prime time use compared to the venerable KDE 3.5.10. For example there are notable printing issues first commented upon in Nov 2007 and yet to be solved:
http://www.layt.net/john/blog/odysseus/easter_progress_on_printng
http://www.archivum.info/kde-core-devel@kde.org/2007-11/msg00187.html
http://forum.kde.org/missing-odd-even-pages-option-in-print-window-t-7848.html#pid9003
KDE still cannot get its collective head into condensed combined multi site time and weather applet such as Gnome wonderful little gem. Instead we have to suffer dashboard clutter.
Odd even page printing is not implemented and there is no sign of when it will be:
http://www.qtsoftware.com/developer/task-tracker/index_html?method=entry&id=219318
Should we remove old repos from list after enabling this factory repo? Cause my list looks like this:
1 | KDE 4 Community Factory | KDE 4 Community Factory | Yes | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.1_KDE4_Factory_Desktop/
2 | KDE 4 Factory | KDE 4 Factory | Yes | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.1/
3 | Libdvdcss repository | Libdvdcss repository | Yes | Yes | http://suse.linuxin.dk/repo/11.1/
4 | Mozilla | Mozilla | Yes | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.1/
5 | Packman | Packman | Yes | Yes | http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/11.1/
6 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.1-Debug | Yes | No | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/
7 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/repo/non-oss/
8 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Oss | Yes | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/
9 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.1-Source | No | No | http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/
10 | repo-update | openSUSE-11.1-Update | Yes | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.1/
11 | subpixel repository | subpixel repository | Yes | Yes | http://opensuse-community.org/subpixel/openSUSE_11.1
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