KDE 4.9 Released With Many Enhancements

[RealNC]

This is a graphic driver problem. It occurs with Open Source radeon drivers and power profile method. With fglrx it works fine.

I'm on the NVidia blob.

That's something new.

Has been there since, hm, 4.6 I think. Definitely over a year.

This works fine and was never broken for me. I recommend to try some not rolling distros sometimes, because they make additional fixes.

Well, then you're running some mini fork rather than upstream, official KDE. If Kubuntu doesn't have the bugs, it doesn't mean that KDE doesn't either.

[RealNC]

Have you checked your options on the last page of login manager settings? There's option for changing that.

Yes. That option has no effect.

[RealNC]

So, you don't know yet and you comment? Except it's usable unlike dos and windoze. Amarok and Phonon works great

Phonon is broken right now. Amarok plays the same track twice. But it's fixed for the next release.

But I switched to Clementine anyway because of all the Phonon issues. Works much better for me. No bugs so far with that one!

[RealNC]

This is a bug in Aurorae which got spotted last weekend, while the patch is already finished it was too late for 4.9.0. Switching to any non Aurorae theme will fix this issue.

I just tried different ones, but it doesn't help.

Now before someone asks: no I don't move windows through the titlebar. I use the window content area or alt+lmb, so no I did not spot this issue.

Just tested that. This has the exact same issue here. Alt + grabbing and moving in the middle of a window shows the same lag.

I'm using the 302.17 NVidia drivers on a GTX 560Ti, btw.

[Awesomeness]

Nearly. Rick Stockton is working on this and it's aimed for Qt 5.1 IF he gets it done. Might even be 5.2. And yes, it is a Qt limitation. Qt - as it stands right now - only allows shortcuts to be set based on keyboard keys. So CTRL + Mouse click is not possible yet.

What does Ctrl+Click have to do with Back and Forward in Dolphin, etc. which is only a single click on Mouse4/Mouse5? IIRC Qt 4.x uses a really weird data format for mouse buttons which limits it to 3 buttons but according to http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/10970 the fix to support up to 31 mouse buttons was committed to Qt 5 last November.

[TheBlackCat]

Many thanks go to TheBlackCat who, if I understand correctly, did a huge part of the job, offering the packages for openSUSE! (Currently still RC2 but that one works great here.)

Thanks. Unfortunately obs is having some problems right now, but the x86_64 packages for openSUSE 12.1 at least should be available.

[Teho]

KDM stopped remembering the user name of the last logged in user after 4.6.

Have you checked your options on the last page of login manager settings? There's option for changing that.

[kraftman]

KWin is very slow and choppy with low power GPU modes (50Mhz graphics / 135Mhz mem / 101Mhz proc). So I have to force a higher performance level.

This is a graphic driver problem. It occurs with Open Source radeon drivers and power profile method. With fglrx it works fine.

Icons "jump" around when hovering the mouse over them (Desktop as well as in Dolphin). Doesn't always happen. Whether it happens or not seems to be fixed at login time.

That's something new.

KDM stopped remembering the user name of the last logged in user after 4.6.

This works fine and was never broken for me. I recommend to try some not rolling distros sometimes, because they make additional fixes.

[kraftman]

And none of the bugs fixed, probably. And new bugs introduced. Most stuff in KDE has been on a downwards slope the last year.

Let's hope 4.9 is an exception. KDE has more bugs than MS-DOS, Windows 95 and Windows Me put together. Amarok and Phonon have even gotten to a point where it's not possible to play your music anymore.

So, you don't know yet and you comment? Except it's usable unlike dos and windoze. Amarok and Phonon works great, but I'm using Kubuntu where packages aren't upgraded when just new release arrives.

[mgraesslin]

Why didn't you test?

KWin is a bit of a disaster :-| Too much lag. Moving a window around means the mouse cursor moves first, and only later does the window catch up to where you moved the mouse.

This is a bug in Aurorae which got spotted last weekend, while the patch is already finished it was too late for 4.9.0. Switching to any non Aurorae theme will fix this issue.

I just want to point out that the regression was introduced in January or February. It seems to be very easy to spot when you use this functionality. Anybody complaining about this being in the release should ask himself why he did not spend some time to test the betas and release candidates. With the Project Neon KVM image that's easy enough to do.

Now before someone asks: no I don't move windows through the titlebar. I use the window content area or alt+lmb, so no I did not spot this issue.