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'."

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Re:What are the main differences between KDE &

[the_B0fh]

You forgot the other thing. IANAP, but from all reports, KDE's internals is very clean and neat, and easy to get into.

GNOME, otoh, is freaking spagetti bullshit.

I remember trying to build gnome from source years ago - oops, this needs version 12beta2 of that. but that needs version 13beta3 of this. can you spell circular dependencies?

Never understood the attraction of that POS gnome.

Re:who might slip the release date?

[chromatic]

Why can Microsoft not slip release dates without getting flack, but it's okay for open source projects?

Microsoft developers waste more paid development time checking e-mail and chatting around the water cooler in a week than most F/OSS projects ever have.

Re:It gets worse

[pherthyl]

Always easy to snipe on the sidelines... Developer time is limited. If Aaron spends time getting the traditional menu in shape, then it is at the expense of other, more important features. What part of that do you not understand?