KDE 4.0 RC 1 Released

angryfirelord writes "The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the first release candidate for KDE 4.0. This release candidate marks that the majority of the components of KDE 4.0 are now approaching release quality. While the final bits of Plasma, the brand new desktop shell and panel in KDE 4, are falling into place, the KDE community decided to publish a first release candidate for the KDE 4.0 Desktop. Release Candidate 1 is the first preview of KDE 4.0 which is suitable for general use and discovering the improvements that have taken place all over the KDE codebase."

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Re:Slashdotted

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Mmmm yeah, plasma. From the wikipedia page:

providing an API for developers to write widgets and mini-applications called plasmoids, to place on the desktop and panel

I don't care what the official name of them is, I'm going to call 'em plasmids :)