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What To Expect From KDE 3.1

Posted by timothy on from the tabcandy-braincandy-candy dept.

Moritz Moeller - Her writes "As most of you desktop users already know, the KDE Project recently released KDE 3.1beta2, which will be the final development release before KDE 3.1. The good news is, KDE 3.1 is scheduled for release in just a few weeks. The following page gives a nice overview about what is coming with many screenshots. It will certainly be the best KDE ever."

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  1. Thank god by Supp0rtLinux · · Score: 2, Troll

    well... at least we won't have to wait too long to do a KDE-less install of RH8, then install KDE3.1 and skip the RH mangling part of it...

  2. Re:why i love kde by Stalyn · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah I feel the same way. I blame it on Havoc myself, he's some sort of UI nazi.

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  3. MY GOD! by _Knots · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's HIDEOUS! It looks just like Aqua and WinXP... the cartoony graphics of one and the cycle-wasting interface of the other... rolled into one bloated package. When did KDE move from being the K Desktop Environment to the K Deskop Everything?

    Not to be overly harsh on KDE - it's a wonderful environment and has been great to use the past few years (about three, I want to say). However, the feature-bloat is simply getting on my nerves. I mean c'mon... it's a DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT... both KDE and GNOME have complete VFS layers in them, along with more prepackaged doodads than you can shake a stick at.

    That said, it's time for me to find a new desktop-environment... no, what I really want is just a window manager again. Anybody got some recommendations? I think I'm going to check out Enlightenment.

    --Knots;

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