Kubuntu 13.10 Released

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66 points·Tsiolkovsky··5 comments

I've been using KDE 4.11 for a while now, and it's by far the best release they've ever done. The new multi-monitor support is perfect and addressed a big issue for me, and everything is incredibly fast and stable. It's no wonder they've decided that major work on the KDE 4 series is now complete with this release.

Can anyone elaborate on "prepares the ground for future developments using Wayland and Qt 5."?

Does it have any impact on this release? On the face of it, it looks like justification for not being able to list more user visible features. Does anybody know any different?

It's in a paragraph about KDE Software Compilation 4.11, which has indeed been preparing for Qt 5 and Wayland by porting additional shell elements to QML and further work on X11-independence in the window manager. The Kubuntu team specifically has also been looking into packaging the stack bits that will eventually be needed; I don't know how that translates into packages in this release.

Specifically in the context of a Kubuntu announcement it might be mostly there to reassure people Kubuntu isn't having a problem due to Canonical's work on Mir.

Does this Kubuntu strip the Amazon integration I've heard of in standard Ubuntu?

Yes, the Amazon integration is a Unity lens and has nothing to do with Kubuntu.

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