{"id":106,"date":"2008-08-01T21:07:32","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T21:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/?p=106"},"modified":"2008-08-01T21:07:32","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T21:07:32","slug":"kde-41-is-really-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2008\/08\/01\/kde-41-is-really-nice\/","title":{"rendered":"KDE 4.1 is really nice."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kde.org\/announcements\/4.1\/\">KDE 4.1<\/a> is made <i>entirely of delicious eye candy<\/i>. It&#8217;s still slightly unfinished and geeky, but remains deeply tasty. As I say that &#8220;KDE is like Windows but it works,&#8221; so KDE 4.1 is like Vista but it works. Which is a bit like &#8220;KDE is like anthrax but not bad for you,&#8221; but anyway.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not willing to geekily beat it into behaving, don&#8217;t try it yet. But if you are: <a href=\"http:\/\/maketecheasier.com\/install-kde-41-in-ubuntu-hardy-heron\/2008\/07\/31\">how to set it up<\/a> in Ubuntu Hardy (you have to add an experimental repository); install <tt>gtk-qt-engine-kde4<\/tt> to solve the <a href=\"http:\/\/ubuntuforums.org\/showthread.php?t=873949\">Fugly Firefox<\/a> problem; install <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kde-look.org\/content\/show.php?content=78061&#038;forumpage=2&#038;PHPSESSID=cae\">quick launch<\/a> if you want that (though I couldn&#8217;t get it to work); <a href=\"http:\/\/ubuntuforums.org\/showthread.php?p=5505365\">switch off single-click launch<\/a> in Konqueror; reboot; fiddle with all the settings. Play and have fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KDE 4.1 is made entirely of delicious eye candy. It&#8217;s still slightly unfinished and geeky, but remains deeply tasty. As I say that &#8220;KDE is like Windows but it works,&#8221; so KDE 4.1 is like Vista but it works. Which is a bit like &#8220;KDE is like anthrax but not bad for you,&#8221; but anyway. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2008\/08\/01\/kde-41-is-really-nice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;KDE 4.1 is really nice.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4FmVR-1I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}