KDE 4.0 RC1+ Video Tour
November 25, 2007 around 8am (KDE, openSUSE)I got the chance to play a little more with KDE4 since the first release candidate was announced, so I made a brief video tour of a few things that particularly interest me. You can easily get going with the openSUSE KDE Packages, KDE 4 Live CD, or the new KDE4Daily QEMU image.
KWIN Composite (the new KDE desktop effects) was the only thing that I didn’t get to demonstrate as xvidcamp/recordmydesktop completely fail if it is enabled. Nevertheless, that is certainly something to try out for yourself.
High quality mpeg (27 meg)
Things covered in this little tour:
Killer Applications
- Kickoff, new KDE Menu
- Dolphin, new File Manager
- Konqueror
- JuK, audio Player
- KDE System Settings — KControl Replacement
- Kopete
- KMplot, Kalzium, Kate
Oxygen, the beautiful style and icon theme
Plasma, with convenient/attractive widgets for your desktop
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About recordmydesktop and composite video capture: there is an option in recordmydesktop to capture the entire image for each new frame. That is usually deactivated but must be activated in case you want to record composite effects.
I’ve used Istanbul with Beryl with the “Record 3D” option.
liquidat: thanks for the tip, it does indeed work very well now with the –full-shots option.
Francis, you’re welcome. Would you mind uploading another screencast somewhere? I can’t test Kwin composition right now, but would love to see more screencasts about it!
That is indeed the plan, I just have a very busy few days now (exam, birthday, not to mention being ill
), but I should get around to it soon enough hopefully.