KDE 4 to Be Released on January 11th

VincenzoRomano writes "It's official! KDE 4.0 will be released on January 11th of next year. The release itself doesn't sound very firm, as 'the developers are confident to be able to release a more polished and better working KDE' and not the long awaited prime-time release. At the very first Alpha release on march 11th, the release date had been forecasted to October 2007, and then shifted to the end of the year with the second Beta. Despite this, the promises for the fourth version are quite interesting and maybe deserve a 'stay tuned'."

Comments

Sounds familiar

[TBerben]

Sounds like the Vista launch, pushed back a little further with each test version. Maybe its better for the KDE team to set a date like July 2008 and surprise everybody when they are ready to release it in January?

But that means

[joeflies]

That it will miss the all-important Christmas Shopping season! Just think of all those disappointed kids who wanted KDE4 from Santa.

Re:Slippage

[zlogic]

I remember that in early 2006 KDE 4 was promised to be released about the same time as Vista, or even earlier. But at least the KDE team didn't spend three years writing stuff and then completely dumping it and starting from scratch!

Re: Dolphin Attacks

[Anonymous Coward]

Do the researchers believe the attacks were porpoiseful?

Re:who might slip the release date?

[Ramble]

Are you sure it wasn't Reiser?

Re:release it when it's done

[backwardMechanic]

Rasterman, is that you?

Re:Birthday for me?

[antdude]

Same here. I noticed many people have this day as their birthdays. Weird! :D

Re:KDE File Manager

[Anonymous Coward]

"A click away"? That doesn't sound like the KDE I know and love.

It should be exactly 17 clicks away: menubar -> Preferences -> Options -> Settings -> File Manager Settings -> ... something about a platypus ... scrolling list of Latvian surnames ... -> ah, the Dolphin/Konq switch.

Usually we don't get the tiniest little feature without 49 new checkboxes to control every last aspect of it. If they manage to add a whole new file manager, but allow you to switch back with *one* click, they've already lost. I might as well use GNOME.

Re:release it when it's done

[sqldr]

I'll answer this question when I'm ready.

Re:Birthday for me?

[ATMD]

My friend, you are misinformed! Thanks to SVG support, you can make GNOME's footprint as big or small as you like, with no loss of quality whatsoever!

Re:What are the main differences between KDE &

[ozmanjusri]

Windows is essentially locked as it is, even with those "power users'" tools.

Windows is infinitely configurable by power users, often remotely.

All you need to do is persuade the regular users to click on the right web link or email attachment, and you can do what you want with their box.

Re:What are the main differences between KDE &

[yanyan]

o My wife spilled water in my keyboard (which I love, so I don't want to replace).

Which, the keyboard or the wife?

Re:What are the main differences between KDE &

[Curien]

>> My wife spilled water in my keyboard (which I love, so I don't want to replace).

> Which, the keyboard or the wife?

Yes. :-)

Re:It gets worse

[stilborne]

urg, first, please just .. .aaron. not "mr." i hate that.

however, you missed the point of why i said what i did. it was, quite specifically, to not reward negative community behaviour. if i was a "take my ball and go home" sort of guy, i would've been gone with a lot more than a menu a long time ago.

i'm sorry you (or the grandparent poster) don't like how plasma has come around. i wish it could've gone a different way. perhaps when you try to do something really interesting that's a non-trivial amount of work that tends to push at pretty much every boundary in the frameworks (from x on up) we can have some fun story swapping sessions. until then ...