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KDE 4.0 Is Out

Posted by kdawson on from the years-in-the-making dept.

Many users wrote to alert us that KDE 4.0 has been released. Here's Computerworld Australia's take on the release KDE 4.0 is based on the Qt4 toolkit, which brings significant enhancements in the way memory is used. "So it ends up making KDE less resource intensive than KDE 3, which is quite an improvement," according to Australian KDE developer Hamish Rodda, who calls the new architecture "future-proof." Computerworld notes that developers are already at work porting the new environment to Windows and the Mac.

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  1. Underwhelming by malevolentjelly · · Score: 0, Troll

    I downloaded a KDE4 livecd and found a slightly shinier, glossier kde3- i really wanted to be wowed. This is nothing like a gnome upgrade. :p Hell, it even felt klunky like kde usually does. The main problems with kde's seemingly accidental interface still exist: awkward menus and button placement and unnatural organization.

    I am glad they got all these great new features, but it will be news when they catch up with gnome. You can make any computer (with 512 mb of ram or more) feel like a mac with gnome.

  2. Very KInteresting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    While I am Kwight pleased with the work on the UI, I Kan't help but think some of the KNames of the applications are a bit, oh, Kontrived? Instead of naming a picture viewer something sensible and logiKal like "Image Viewer" they instead call it "GwenView" (which must be a typo, because there's no K in there at all! KBlasphemy!)

    OSS needs to stop letting engineers work on the external aspects of the program. MS software is just about as bad, but at least they aren't prefixing every application with "K" on the front as a weak form of branding. It reminds me a lot of Hungarian notation, actually. And Hungarian notation largely died off among programmers because it usually fails to convey genuinely useful information. What does the K in names tell us? That it runs on KDE? Woop-de-doo...why don't we suffix the name with "Application" just to let everyone know that this program is indeed an application? Why stop there...we could split them into ConsoleApplication and GraphicalApplication.