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KDE 4.0 Beta 1 Released
dbhost writes "Along with this morning's cup of coffee and log reviews, I discovered that the KDE team is moving forward with a long awaited beta release of KDE 4.0 beta release of KDE 4.0. The most interesting item I found in the notes is that the file manager in KDE is being separated from Konqueror into a component called Dolphin. Also, according to the announcement, konsole has been treated to a number of improvements such as split view, and history highlighting."
Because browsing to audiocd:/ and dragging the contents of the "MP3" virtual directory to your ~/Music is such a stupid GUI. You really have no clue about the power of ioslaves, do you?
Pirate Party UK
E17 doesn't needs "more devs". E17 needs to:
- Release SOMETHING, even if it's incomplete, because if you try to be perfect you won't never have a product. Releasing "incomplete" products allows you to attract people and then have more programming resources. The KDE guys are not going to include some of the promises of KDE 4.0 until 4.1 which means that KDE 4.0 will be incomplete.....AND WHO CARES? E17 did beat Mac OS X and Vista in some fields before Vista was released, but since they don't release anything, now vista and mac os x have released infrastructure to do what E did before them, now E looks like they're catching up, and in some sense it's true.
- Realize that enlightenment only has sense if you aim to be a full desktop, not just a "desktop shell". I like enlightenment, but then those guys say that E17 "will not compete with GNOME or KD"E....so I keep using GNOME/KDE. They aren't so good in the graphic field as E, but since they are the ones that are desktops, it only has sense to improve and support those, not the one that is not aiming to bring good linux desktops to the masses. Technology itself is cool, but if you don't make it have real-world applications then I don't care.