If you happen to have a Nintendo DS, Nintendo made some excellent nonogram games for it under the "Picross" label, including one that translates the gameplay into three dimensions! Be careful, though, it's horribly addictive...
They started migrating several releases before 4.10, maybe that's why.
To sum it up, I'll paste this: "In short, QML makes it very easy to write fluid user interfaces, while retaining speed. The advantages expand well beyond the mobile application sphere, and represent a new way to do GUIs." http://jontheechidna.wordpress.com/2012/05/19/my-thoughts-on...
Aaron Seigo also had some good points on his blog (If I remember well) but I couldn't find them now. Check his blog nevertheless, it's worth it: http://aseigo.blogspot.com/
Qt Quick has many advantages over traditional Qt widgets:
1. It provides a simple JSON-like declarative syntax for defining UI layouts, and is quite easy to write new layouts for different use cases (desktop, tablet, netbook etc)
2. Very easy to do animations
3. Qt Quick is fully OpenGL accelerated in Qt 5 and beyond. While this KDE release is not using Qt 5, it provides a good transition path for the future.
I used to love KDE, but they lost me and all the other users where I worked when they stopped supporting NFS home directories. Kmail was one of KDE's greatest assets, and now we are stuck with thunderbird on XFCE.
KDE claimed to be "Enterprise Ready" once ( http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-2.2.php ), but silently went back on that when they forced the usage of the terrible akonadi and nepomuk with even the most basic components. I don't know of an enterprise setup that doesn't have NFS home directories by default, so I guess KDE is no longer ready for the enterprise?
Akonadi uses a MySQL db which is kept in your home directory to keep everything - mailbox index, your contacts, calendars etc. MySQL frequently has issues on NFS, and isn't supported to work with that.
Strangely I cannot find any official comment from the KDE or KDE-pim projects about what has happened here, even though the forced adoption of this immature technology has caused a lot if ire withing the community. As a single example I give you http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.pim/33089 but there are thousands more that you will find if you ever try and google a solution to the various and sundry Akonadi/Strigi/Nepomuk issues that people are having.
Those of you on fedora can get the latest by adding the kde-redhat repo here: http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/
You'll need to temporarily enable fedora-updates-testing and upgrade systemd before upgrading the kde packages (at least on F18), but otherwise it's been stable for me.
So I just installed KDE 4.10, plugged my HDMI cable to watch some series and - TA-DA! - it is finally recognizing AND adjusting the screens in the right resolution without my assistence! It still asks me if I want to do it, which is great, but it actually set up the resolutions exactly right (opposed to gnome3, which messed up the resolutions completely). Great stuff!
I think it's better to turn them off. I've tried to use razor-qt for 2 weeks and I finally quit. There are some stuff that are not done, or half-baked, that we take for granted in KDE.
Debian easily allows the install of KDE under alternative desktops in the boot setup menu instead of the default Gnome 3. Also recommend using at least Debian Testing repositories if you want things to be relatively new.
It's because there are two types of voters: those that vote because they agree or disagree with a sentiment and those that vote because the comment was useful and added to the conversation. We want more of the second group voting; the first group's votes are useless and counterproductive.
Your first comment completely deserves a downvote by the second group, and your second comment is intresting but off-topic; I generally vote those up if I vote on it at all.
Probably just haters of emotional outbursts on HN in general. Usually a signal that the rest of the post will be content-free, opinion, cheerleading, etc.
The screenshots, to me, look like an accurate reflection of how the desktop looks when configured to look the most professional and estatically pleasing.
Why didn't they just jump to KDE 5? KDE 4.10 is a confusing name, because in standard decimal format it would look like KDE 4.1...
This looks very nice. KDE is the most polished desktop environment currently out there for Linux/BSD/illumos, and the 4.10 release seems to be the one that's finally caught up with OS X in terms of fit and finish. I would download it, if only I had a computer fast enough to run it...
Stuck with a 1.6GHZ dual-thread Atom desktop with 1GB of RAM and an ancient integrated graphics chip. Xfce is the only full desktop environment I can run with minimal performance impact. Guess it's time to upgrade to either the iMac or the XPS One.
Double digit minor version numbers are very common. Linux was 2.6.34 or something, GNOME was up to 2.32, current Blender is 2.65 etc etc.
KDE major version numbers seem to follow Qt major version numbers, KDE3 was based on Qt3, KDE4 on Qt4, so I'd assume that KDE5 will eventually be based on Qt5.
KDE5 is going to require a significant refactoring of the code base into qt quick 2 and c++11 anyway. Just look at all the things they need to add to kwin (though it is probably the worst case): http://community.kde.org/KWin/Qt5
My understanding is that KDE4 was itself the result of a significant refactoring. My guess is that it's only a matter of time before the conversion happens (and by the looks of it, the devs are already looking into it).
Any KDE based application could in theory start using qtquick instead of qt C++. I don't know why you would take a C++ implementation and make it run on qtscript, though.
I easily see new applications written against kde5 using a lot of qtquick and js implementations. Especially with Ubuntu phone coming, there would be little to change between some gui designs between supporting the desktop and phone.
BTW I love the PicMi game included in KDE Games!
http://kde.org/announcements/4.10/applications.php