Hi guys & girls,
it looks very promising with the KDE4.3 and I can`t wait when is due day woohoo.
I hope it will work on my new highend Nvidia GeForce GTX 295 that will be a perfecto .

Alte_esel

I completely agree with you.

I've followed the development of KDE4 ever since packages were available for opensuse.
4.0 was damn scary, but I understood that it was a developers preview and not for general consumption.

4.1 was when things got exciting, it was pretty much stable but maybe missing a feature here and there.

4.2, where we are now, what can I say?. It's rock solid here. All the app's that have been missing are starting to appear and everything is starting to come together pretty damn well.

I'm currently running the packages from the opensuse Unstable repo on one of my machines and I have to say it's looking amazing.

The machine is getting on a bit now but thanks to the new nvidia driver (180.44) and QT4.5
It feels like a new machine!

A huge thanks to everyone involved in producing the most beautiful and functional DE out there. :thumbs_up:

Maybe I'm blind or don't know where to look, but is there a page describing in some detail what we can expect from 4.3? I've seen bits and pieces of it but I miss the bigger picture if you will.

Kryten2X4B wrote:Maybe I'm blind or don't know where to look, but is there a page describing in some detail what we can expect from 4.3? I've seen bits and pieces of it but I miss the bigger picture if you will.

Well it's quite hard to find, but I found it:
http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.3_Feature_Plan

Primoz wrote:http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.3_Feature_Plan

Ah, thanks! Now I'm waiting for it even more impatiently than before...

Kryten2X4B wrote:

Primoz wrote:http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.3_Feature_Plan

Ah, thanks! Now I'm waiting for it even more impatiently than before...

It should be noted that the Feature Plan largely exists as a way to enforce feature freezes during the KDE release cycle - "Soft Feature Freeze" - which is today, coincidentally - means that only features that have been added to the Feature Plan for 4.3 can be worked on from this point on. This often results in many people adding in a whole bunch of features "just in case" they want to work on them before 4.3 is released, many of which will not even be started until after 4.3 is released (I added a few a couple of months ago, but unforeseen work commitments meant that I never got around to starting them, and so they'll have to wait for 4.4 ) So think of the Feature Plan as a "best case" feature list rather than a realistic one

GeneralZod wrote:So think of the Feature Plan as a "best case" feature list rather than a realistic one

Certainly a good idea One thing I've learned is that plans almost never will turn out as completely as one would like them to...still, nice to know what's on the agenda and planned for anyway even if we have to wait longer than 4.3 for some of them to materialize.

:shade::-DI am wait happy for the new KDE 4.3...^^... I wait for more things and very very news...:thumbs_up::-P:-D

Hopefully it will be less bugy. Kontacat crashed few minutes ago (Jaunty Jackalpe 9.04 beta).

Kryten2X4B wrote:Maybe I'm blind or don't know where to look, but is there a page describing in some detail what we can expect from 4.3? I've seen bits and pieces of it but I miss the bigger picture if you will.

I recommend checking out Polishlinux's preview of KDE 4.3. It really blew me away! (Air looks great, BTW;-))
http://polishlinux.org/kde/kde-43-early-preview/

:-D:-D...Work very nice with my NVIDIA FX 5200...:shade::shade::shade:
:clock::clock:...But i wait more for final release of KDE 4.3...:clock::clock:

by now looks fair same as 4.2.3 to me

(the plasma theme was a bit better in 4.2 though)

Now using KDE 4.3 in Kubuntu 9.04 is very very good... Hyper fast and beautiful i love it... =D :D:D

I was using it in Gentoo and enjoyed every minute of it. Of course, I didn't enjoy Gentoo quite as much because every time I upgraded something broke... and re-compiling all of KDE every month isn't fun...
So I installed Kubuntu again, allowed backports and added the PPA. I have to admit, the Kubuntu guys have done a good job if this is any indication of the kind of experience we'll get in the next version, I'll start handing out Kubuntu CDs.
Of course, there's the usual nag about network management that I'd like to see fixed, but otherwise, excellent work.