KDE4 R10
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General Notes
KDE 4 is a desktop environment suggested in ROSA Desktop Fresh R10 for conservative users.
Specific of KDE 4 in R10
- ROSA brand-name decorations, style and ergonomics
- SimpleWelcome is used as application launcher
- RocketBar is used as a default panel
- StackFolder is suggested for quick access to files and folders
- Dolphin file manager is now integrated with Klook viewer (which can be easily launched by pressing a space bar)
- Firefox is considered to be a primarily web browser, but it is supplemented by Chromium
- Default installation includes ROSA Media Player и Clementine, LibreOffice suite, KTorrent client, GIMP image editor, Audacity audio editor, EasyTAG mp3 tag editor and a lot of other useful applications
- PartitionManager is used to manage disk partitions
- quick-usb-formatter program is available for easy USB stick formatting
- ROSA-specific tools (such as software manager) are integrated into KDE Control Center
- Most of KDE applications are now based on KDE Frameworks 5
Some Improvements in KDE 4 in R9 and R10 Releases
- Modification of styles, colour schemes and icon themes in KDE 4 settings now affect KF5/Qt5-applications, as well (except those cases when selected style is not available for KF5/Qt5)
- Fix bugs in plasma-integration that prevented loading of some colour schemes described in config
- thunderbird is not installed by default anymore (since most users prefer Web-base interface for mail nowadays)
- gparted partition manager is replaced with partitionmanager
Download
Main Images
- 32bit ISO (md5sum: 004373dcdf2f990a951f90365d5c41ea)
- 64bit ISO (md5sum: 9bb7221aa9d849258e9cda5a3edde5c1)
Additional Images for Specific Cases
- 32bit ISO (md5sum: f29dddde502d4837f65ee8d74c2382e5) - for machines with 32bit UEFI
- 64bit ISO (md5sum: 9e5bf92818af5fbc86dfdb7824e73e90) - for old machines that experience problems with booting UEFI images
The images are also available at Yandex CDN.