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KDE 4.1 Beta 1 Released

Posted by timothy on from the when-improvements-amplify-each-other dept.

appelza contributed a link to Tuesday's announcement of the next step toward KDE 4.1: "The KDE Project is proud to announce the first beta release of KDE 4.1. Beta 1 is aimed at testers, community members and enthusiasts in order to identify bugs and regressions, so that 4.1 can fully replace KDE 3 for end users. KDE 4.1 beta 1 is available as binary packages for a wide range of platforms, and as source packages. KDE 4.1 is due for final release in July 2008." I haven't used KDE much for the past few years, but the screenshots of a "grown-up" plasma are enough to make me correct that.

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  1. Re:Is KDE Taking the Lead? by Hatta · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Gnome has always been behind KDE when it comes to features and configurability. Their only goal is ease of use. Whether they meet that goal is debatable, but I'd claim that if a desktop doesn't have enough features, and you can't configure the ones it does have, then it's not very easy to use.

    Why can't Gnome keep up? They get bogged down in policy, whereas KDE just writes things that work.

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  2. Re:Is KDE Taking the Lead? by chromatic · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    95% of users won't want to change this behavior, and those who do won't have any trouble figuring out defaults write anyway.

    I'm not sure that you can call a feature "discoverable" if you have to play "guess the combination of terms in your favorite search engine" to figure out if it even exists.

    ... accessible through GConf...

    That's very nearly the last word I'd ever use to describe GConf. Are you sure you didn't mean "soul-suckingly unusable"?

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