Is KDE 4.0 the Holy Grail of Desktops?

An anonymous reader writes "With KDE 4.0 being expected some time this year, expectation runs high in the linux/unix users camp and the media read a lot between the lines of what the KDE developers say and do. In some ways KDE will provide a standard as to how a desktop should look and behave. This interesting article wonders whether KDE 4.0 will become the complete desktop which will meet the needs of a wide cross section of computer users. One of the common complaints that some Linux users have over KDE is that it is too cluttered. And by addressing this need without putting off the power users, the KDE developers could make it an all in one Desktop. Keep in mind that KDE 4.0 is based on Qt 4.0 and so can be easily ported to Windows and other OSes too which makes this thought doubly relevant."

Comments

I still don't know

[CmdrGravy]

I think I must have got the wrong article from that link. The one I read said that there may be a replacement for Konqueror called Dolphin but that Konqueror would still be available if people wanted it.

Was the one about KDE Being The Holy Grail Of The Modern Desktop anymore interesting ?

what-does-that-make-gnome-then

[richdun]

what-does-that-make-gnome-then

The Holy Hand Grenade

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Re:Explorer is just a shell

[saskboy]

You realize what you've done right? You've encouraged geeks everywhere to switch their XP to Windows 3.1 desktops for the day! I would, if I could find the "ding..ding..ding" noise to go with it.

Re:Why?

[Anonymous Coward]

Cool. Now we can ask Dell for windows boxes running KDE :-)

There are even better shells for windows.

[jozmala]

For instance halflife.exe is a good shell for windows.

Re:The Holy Grail of Desktops?

[BobPaul]

Hmmm... would they possibly be people whose platform of choice begins with an "A" and ends with an "E", and which has "PPL" somewhere in the middle?

That's not how you spell GNOME.

As Uncyclopedia says:

[dildo]

Whereas KDE policy is "If you disKover some empty spaKe, add an useless feature or somethinK very very irritatinK. The iKon must be shiny, rotatinK, and Kontain at least one K.", the GNOME policy is the opposite: "If you find a feature, it might confuse a user, so remove it." [1]

Re:Why?

[misleb]

Yes, everything still works. If you've tried blackbox for windows, GeOShell, or Litestep, you'll notice everything still works. What would KDE make different about that? It's not like it goes off and assinates MFC and SWF.NET to replace them with libqt

Ok, but CAN it do that?

-matthew