kde 4.3
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 at 1:57 pm, uncategorized
I’ve been using KDE 4.2 as daily desktop environment since beginning of February and for me it has been a huge improvement over the initial KDE releases. There were some small issues between minor-updates but overall everything was quite stable and ok.
Today Arch Linux updated the KDE desktop packages to 4.3 and I’m really really impressed.
Everything feels snappier, loads and renders faster. Konqueror displays sites WAY faster. Kwin also leaves a better impression. Here and there some eye candy got added, but always in non distracting ways. Generally, the desktop elements feel more mature and are kept out of my way (e.g the notification messages).
The few rendering issues I had in the past (the “ExaOptimizeMigration” stuff) disappeared as well.
Great release!
Adding emacs 23 released last week, I’m really pleased with my current desktop.
2005,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010: The year of the linux desktop ;)
