KDE Delivers 4.8 Release Candidate

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KDE Delivers 4.8 Release Candidate

Just in time for some holiday testing, the KDE SC 4.8 Release Candidate is now available...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTAzMjE

[Awesomeness]

Great. Can't wait for openSUSE to offer packages. RCs of the SC are usually very mature with only translations lagging behind.

[fatino]

Is smooth scrolling going to be working on 4.8 release. Its one small feature which I really want.

[Awesomeness]

Is smooth scrolling going to be working on 4.8 release. Its one small feature which I really want.

Yes and no. You need to understand that smooth scrolling has nothing to do with KDE. It's a feature of Qt and you have to bug Nokia about it who show no interest in improving traditional GUI elements when Qt 5 is just around the corner.
Smooth scrolling is available since quite some time in newly introduced GUI elements which Nokia added mainly out of self-interest for mobile platforms.
The interfaces of all applications would have to be rewritten almost from scratch – which is a lot to do if the only gain is slightly different scrolling behavior.
That said, newer GUIs are typically written using the more recent Qt GUI elements, like anything Plasma-related.

KApps 4.8 also includes Dolphin 2.0 which is based on newer GUI technology: http://ppenz.blogspot.com/2011/08/in...olphin-20.html
Smooth scrolling is a side effect of it.