KDE 3.1 Alpha1 is Here

navindra writes: "A brand new alpha of the breath-taking KDE 3.1 development branch has been announced. This release sports everything from wonderful new eye candy to tons of popular new features including new and exciting "easter eggs" (aka bugs) just waiting to be discovered. Remember, this is not a stable release -- those of you concerned with stability should use KDE 3.0.2, whereas those of you who want to help KDE 3.1 be the best KDE ever should use this alpha. Kudos to Dre for writing the announcement and to the tireless Dirk Mueller for coordinating this release. Party!" On a related note, pAlpha writes: "Over the past years a large amount of myths has built up around KDE. Recently Aaron J. Seigo released a page about the KDE myths and facts." Good for convincing the boss.

Comments

question about KDE, from a Gnome user

[Ender Ryan]

Looking at these new screenshots, I can see that the KDE developers are improving the look/feel of KDE recently, which is very good because frankly I found it rather ugly.

One thing that keeps me from from giving KDE much attention is a small pet peeve of mine. The task list, I absolutely hate task lists, it's absolutely the the epitome of bad interface design. You have a horizontal list of application names, which are variable sizes, and the more you have the smaller they can be... ugg, disgusting.

So, my question is, does KDE have any type of drop down task switcher, a la MacOS<=9.x and Gnome? Or an icon box a la OSX and Enlightenment? I simply cannot stand the windows style taskbar, it's... you get the idea...

Thanks

Re:KDE Usability

[HanzoSan]

ok so when will they use the icon animation ability of KDE to improve useability while also providing eyecandy?

Right now its useless flash put your mouse over a folder and it opens, its not useful like put a cd in your cd rom drive and hit burn and a spinning burning cd,