KDE 4.3 Released

At last KDE 4.3 is released with lots of new featues and bug fixes. With GNOME becoming popular rapidly compared to KDE and the disaster with KDE 4.2 it expected that the new release KDE 4.3 (Caizen) can once again gain the user confidence.The new release focuses on End Users with beautiful graphics and stability suitable for home and small office.

Features and Changes in KDE 4.3

i) KRunner: A search and Launch system with new style. It also have a number of available plug-ins to increase performance and flexibility.




ii)Dolphin: Dolphin has been a popular file manager well integrated with KDE. It now includes multimedia previw which allows to play multimedia files in the information panel.




iii) KWin: A window manager with 3D graphical effects.

iv)Widget: Desktop can have more widget with the availability of Google widget.

v)Plasma Desktop Shell: This one is the cutting edge Desktop System and yhe most interesting feature of KDE 4.3. With Plasma widgets, Configurable key board shortcuts this one going to be the most interesting part of KDE.

vi) Kopete: Kopete now supports Skype.

How To Install KDE 4.3 in Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty):

KDE 4.3 will be a part of Kubuntu 9.10 ( Karmic Koala). To install it in Ubuntu 9.04 follow the steps.
1.Open the terminal

2.Enter The commands

sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/backports/ubuntu jaunty main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list"

sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/staging/ubuntu jaunty main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list"

3.Add the GPG key

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 8AC93F7A
4.Finally Use the command

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude dist-upgrade



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