KDE 4.4 beta 2

[isaacj87]

Woot!

KDE SC 4.4 reaches its 2nd beta. You can read the release announcement here: http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.4-beta2.php

I've been running it for a day or so and it feels pretty good. Haven't had any crashes with plasma or anything. It basically feels like 4.3 with a little more pizazz and polish. Looking forward to the final!

[RiceMonster]

Excellent, it's getting closer. I'm really excited for this release. Looks like it's going to be great!

[NoaHall]

Brings a few nice features to KDE, for sure.

[ikkefc3]

Plasma feels a lot smoother. Also: if you disable plugins in some QT webkit browser (e.g. Arora or Rekonq), scrolling goes a lot smoother without flash elements.
KDE 4.4 SC beta 2 is some less complet than on the Opensuse build service (e.g. no virtuoso backend for nepomuk), but it's a lot better than KDE SC 4.3.4 I think.

[Xbehave]

Compositing is back

Does anybody else have these issues? and for bonus points fixes?
I have a problem with alt+f2 lag when compositing is enabled
I have no settings for individual desktop effects
Powerdevil does not show my list of profiles if the list extends below the bottom of the box (not a 4.4b2 issue)

Also there is a known bug (not sure where it started) that may confuse you, but is easy to work around:
if you right click an unlocked plasma panel and try add widget, nothing happens.

[Shpongle]

excellent, it's getting closer. I'm really excited for this release. Looks like it's going to be great!

+1

[SuperSonic4]

It is working well under the hood too. There have been a few problems - mostly that Pulseaudio is needed to load KDM

[Pasdar]

Pulseaudio is not even used in Kubuntu right? At least I dont have it in my kubuntu install.

[SuperSonic4]

Pulseaudio is not even used in Kubuntu right? At least I dont have it in my kubuntu install.

Correct, although this could be my install as I'm using an unofficial [arch] repo. I believe Pulse may be introduced

[Xbehave]

kubuntu announcement

It is working well under the hood too. There have been a few problems - mostly that Pulseaudio is needed to load KDM

Not here, but i don't have pa installed

ii  kdm                                       4:4.3.85-0ubuntu1~karmic1~ppa3            KDE Display Manager for X11
un  pulseaudio                                <none>                                    (no description available)

the update put it as default output but kdm still worked and kde just fell back.