New KDE Applications, Workspaces and Development Platform Releases Bring New Features, Improve Stability

It's out and it's time for celebrations!

- Plasma Workspaces Become More Portable Thanks to KWin
- Updated KDE Applications Bring Many Exciting Features
- Improved Multimedia, Instant Messaging and Semantic Capabilities in the KDE Platform

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Read the official announcement here.

So far I am loving 4.7. Had one hiccup that required me to move my plasma-desktop-appletsrc file to a backup in order to start plasma-desktop, but that wasn't a biggie.

I do have one question, however. When viewing the release announcements on kde.org, I noticed one screenshot with a very nice wallpaper.

http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.7/sc ... plasma.png

I was hoping this wallpaper would be included with 4.7, but it wasn't. Does anyone know what this wallpaper is called and where I might find it?

Any info would be appreciated.

I am trying 4.7 out on Arch and I am loving it! - It is so awesome!! Thank you so much KDE team you have done such an excellent job with KDE 4.7! Every KDE release just continues to amaze me how much effort has been put into each release and I am very grateful for it

Thanks

Renze wrote:So far I am loving 4.7. Had one hiccup that required me to move my plasma-desktop-appletsrc file to a backup in order to start plasma-desktop, but that wasn't a biggie.

I do have one question, however. When viewing the release announcements on kde.org, I noticed one screenshot with a very nice wallpaper.

http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.7/sc ... plasma.png

I was hoping this wallpaper would be included with 4.7, but it wasn't. Does anyone know what this wallpaper is called and where I might find it?

Any info would be appreciated.

I did a reverse image search on that screenshot and found this:
http://wlppr.com/2009/12/30/fall-wallpaper

Excellent! Thanks, ah7013.

Renze wrote:Excellent! Thanks, ah7013.

You're welcome

Yes, 4.7 has arrived. I read there where more then 1000 fixed bugs but my 4.7 on Archlinux now 1000 new bugs -.-

I read there are 1000 fixed bugs in 4.7 and i think there 1000 new bugs -.- I'm an Arch-user, so I know there risks of using rolling release. The systemtray won't work correct. Plasma chrashes sometimes when I want to change my wallpaper. This button in right top corner is 1 or 2 cm away from the edge, the transparency of the menu isn't working. These are the bugs I have found after the reboot.
So there is no reason to celebrate 4.7

Odd, I'm on Arch and I haven't had any problems. So far everything works as advertised.

I'm on Gentoo, which is also rolling-release, with the addition of compiling everything. I had one issue with plasma-desktop crashing at start, but all I had to do was remove my ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc file and everything was fine.

There are always some bugs left over in x.x.0 releases, but these will get fixed in the subsequent minor point releases.

i have to say.. i do not notice a big difference on my pc... but on the other hand... congratulations anyway ! i love the new oxygen icons ... they look much more professional now.

I am running ArchLinux (pretty much right out of the box though) and 4.7 is running smoothly. I thank you so much, KDE team!

I have fallen in and out of love with KDE a couple times due to bugs and such, but, boy is it good to be back. Talk about reclaiming your desktop! KDE is smooth, sexy, stylish and absolutely 100% balanced in its reconfigurability - a real pleasure to use.

In the real world, away from all the gloss and polish, some bugs are bound to crop up but as far as a general desktop usage is concerned this is just right.

Panel - resized
Window buttons - moved
Window glow - changed to black

Good to go with a brand spanking new and modern KDE desktop. Who said Linux can't have nice clothes, eh?