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KDE 4 Promises Large Changes

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the evolution-will-be-televised dept.

HatofPig writes "As the dust settles from aKademy 2005, the annual KDE conference, it's a good time to take a look at what the KDE developers are working on. Though KDE 3.5 isn't even out yet, developers are already working on KDE 4. Plenty of work has already gone into porting existing code to Qt4, the GUI toolkit upon which KDE is based, and KDE developers are working on projects that could radically change how the world's most popular free desktop looks and works."

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  1. Changes? by Naerymdan · · Score: -1, Troll

    O_o changes is good. Evil is good, good is evil so evil is good!

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  2. here we go by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    KDE developers are working on projects that could radically change how the world's most popular free desktop looks and works.

    Here we go. The day KDE stops hyping and starts delivering will be an interesting day. The KDE seems to specialize in making up shit that will get posted on slashdot, whereas the GNOME project actually delivers the goods (accessibility, working multimedia framework) without the all hype. P.S I'm a Windows user... an outside observer if you like. The KDE project seems a lot like Windows (promise a lot, deliver little, rely heavily on mouthpieces to do your marketing), but without the huge user base.

  3. why not... by idlake · · Score: -1, Troll

    If it's going to be a "radical change", why not change the toolkit and/or the programming language while they are at it?

  4. C? by ftsf · · Score: -1, Troll

    are they going to switch to using C? that would be nice. Or use GTK as a base.

  5. AJAX DESKTOP PLEASE by LogicallyGenius · · Score: -1, Troll

    ENOUGH OF SLOW KDE

  6. change by Tom · · Score: 1, Troll

    that could radically change how the world's most popular free desktop looks and works.

    Good! It's about time that they move ahead, and I so hope that they finally abandon the "let's copy everything from windos" meme, which is not a winning strategy. If you want to copy, at least do it from the original (MacOS) and not another already crappy copy (windos).

    #1 reason I'm not using KDE: It looks and works like windos, and windos usability is rock bottom.

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  7. KDE still trailing miles behind Microsoft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you read German, here is an article comparing the best software offerings amongst each other. Linux/KDE still can't hold a candle to Microsoft Windows. Interestingly, they admit that Linux/Gnome is not quite as bad as KDE.