Kubuntu has been improved since its older versions, the new version 10.04 comes with Plasma desktop which has been introduced first time in the life cycle of Canonical, with lots of major tweaks to its older versions.
The installation the pretty same one the older versions had, but with little polished interface. After the final install/upgrade the bootup time was noticeably faster as promised for Lucid Lynx by Ubuntu developers.
The bootup time was as follows:
The Default Oxygen Theme and the Wallpaper found to be stunning and impressive. The new look they had given to the interface if very acceptable and impressive.
KDE 4.4 shows lot of improvement in terms of speed, robustness and maturity. There are lots of subtle changes which a seasoned KDE 4 user will notice. Oxygen theme seems even more polished. A few of the new features are tabs within windows, the destop widgets shown as a strip above the task bar, hovering the mouse over a minimized window in task-bar showing motion in you-tube videos (just like Win 7). Folders show the content within, the system tray can be expanded or collapsed, the USB device manager has moved to the system tray. As a result of the “semantic desktop”, searching the KMenu also shows the files related to the search term (again as in Win 7 or Mac). There are lots of features which remind of Windows 7 like double clicking the window title bar expands it to full length. Composting and window transparency is done wonderfully well (provided there is a decent graphics card). Overall I am very much satisfied and happy with KDE 4.4 release and it could easily make Gnome and other DE fans jealous, let alone Windows 7 and Mac OSX users. I would not agree to anyone claiming that KDE 4 is still buggy and sluggish.
This level of perfection reflects on how good the final release version is going to be. I would recommend Kubuntu Lucid to any serious KDE user instead of the current stable Karmic. I would rate 4.5/5 stars to Kubuntu Lucid Lynx at this stage. Here are the screen-shots:
Note: Please scroll through the images to see the complete screenshots.
You can download Kubuntu for free from the Official Website of Kubuntu.
The installation the pretty same one the older versions had, but with little polished interface. After the final install/upgrade the bootup time was noticeably faster as promised for Lucid Lynx by Ubuntu developers.
The bootup time was as follows:
- Grub to Login: 15 secs
- Kdm Login To Fully Loaded Desktop: 10 secs
- A Total of 25 secs.
The Default Oxygen Theme and the Wallpaper found to be stunning and impressive. The new look they had given to the interface if very acceptable and impressive.
KDE 4.4 shows lot of improvement in terms of speed, robustness and maturity. There are lots of subtle changes which a seasoned KDE 4 user will notice. Oxygen theme seems even more polished. A few of the new features are tabs within windows, the destop widgets shown as a strip above the task bar, hovering the mouse over a minimized window in task-bar showing motion in you-tube videos (just like Win 7). Folders show the content within, the system tray can be expanded or collapsed, the USB device manager has moved to the system tray. As a result of the “semantic desktop”, searching the KMenu also shows the files related to the search term (again as in Win 7 or Mac). There are lots of features which remind of Windows 7 like double clicking the window title bar expands it to full length. Composting and window transparency is done wonderfully well (provided there is a decent graphics card). Overall I am very much satisfied and happy with KDE 4.4 release and it could easily make Gnome and other DE fans jealous, let alone Windows 7 and Mac OSX users. I would not agree to anyone claiming that KDE 4 is still buggy and sluggish.
This level of perfection reflects on how good the final release version is going to be. I would recommend Kubuntu Lucid to any serious KDE user instead of the current stable Karmic. I would rate 4.5/5 stars to Kubuntu Lucid Lynx at this stage. Here are the screen-shots:
Note: Please scroll through the images to see the complete screenshots.
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You can download Kubuntu for free from the Official Website of Kubuntu.
