[dot] openSUSE 11.0 Released with KDE 4.0.4

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From: Francis Giannaros <francis at opensuse.org>
Dept: take-the-green-pill
Date: Sunday22/Jun/2008, @09:18

openSUSE 11.0 Released with KDE 4.0.4
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   openSUSE 11.0 has been released
[http://news.opensuse.org/2008/06/19/announcing-opensuse-110-gm/]
(screenshots) [http://opensuse.org/Screenshots/openSUSE_11.0], offering
KDE 3.5.9 and an excellent experience
[http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080620-first-look-opensuse-11-out-offers-best-kde-4-experience.html]
of KDE 4.0. There has been a huge collection of changes and additions in
this new release. For a summary of these you can see the KDE Sneak Peeks
article
[http://news.opensuse.org/2008/06/17/sneak-peeks-at-opensuse-110-kde-with-stephan-binner/]
over at openSUSE News, which features an interview with KDE developer
Stephan Binner [http://en.opensuse.org/User:Beineri]. He talks about the
challenges faced, plans for the future, and what changes you can expect
in the upcoming KDE 4.1.


  I. KDE 4.0
 The openSUSE 11.0 release includes an installable Live-CD with a
SUSE-polished KDE 4.0.4 desktop, while the DVD contains KDE 3.5.9 as
well [http://en.opensuse.org/Media_Layout/11.0]. While many applications
such as the openSUSE updater applet (with an optional PackageKit backend
[http://news.opensuse.org/2008/06/06/sneak-peeks-at-opensuse-110-package-management-with-duncan-mac-vicar/])
have been ported to KDE 4, not all KDE applications are ported to KDE4
yet. In these cases, KDE3 versions of applications such as Amarok, K3b,
KOffice or KNetworkManager (adapted to NetworkManager 0.7) are used,
which integrate pretty seamlessly. A native KDE4 NetworkManager plasmoid
is in development [http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3462] and will
become available via openSUSE Build Service repositories. There has also
been a whole horde of Plasma updates and fixes
[http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3516] put into the release.  As KDE
4.0 doesn’t include KDEPIM (Kontact, KMail, KOrganizer etc.), therefore
openSUSE 11.0 includes beta versions of KDEPIM  4.1. These applications
work fairly well, and will be updated to final versions via official
online update as soon as possible. The online repositories contain many
more KDE 4 applications, such as Dragon Player, Okteta, KSystemLog, and
Yakuake. Webkitpart is optionally included which makes use of the WebKit
part of Qt 4.4.

 II. YAST PORTED TO QT4
 openSUSE's administration and installation tool, YaST, and SaX2 have
been ported to Qt4
[http://news.opensuse.org/2008/06/05/sneak-peeks-at-opensuse-110-new-installer-with-stephan-kulow/]
for this release. This allowed the YaST developers to use CCS-like Qt
stylesheets for the installer, giving it a themed look: 
[http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/4/47/OS11.0-inst-6.jpg] 
[http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/e/e4/Opensusedvd-install7.png]
YaST is now using Oxygen icons to give it an integrated look in KDE 4.

III. KDE 4.1, KDE FOUR LIVE
 While KDE 4.1 did not manage to make it into openSUSE 11.0, its
packages will be available via 1-click-install in the openSUSE Build
Service. You can track KDE4's development by using the regularly updated
KDE 4 snapshot packages [http://opensuse.org/KDE4]. The openSUSE-based
KDE Four Live [http://home.kde.org/~binner/kde-four-live/] CD will be
based on openSUSE 11.0 in future releases.