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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. One word by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    B l o a t

  2. Thank god by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Thank god I'm running the fastest desktop enviroment.

    Fristo posto

  3. KDE mature enough to drop the annoying K prefix? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I have two pet peeves about KDE.
    1. Let us disable the underlined letters in UI elements that signify the accelerators
    2. Drop the stupid K prefix. Yes, it is highly cute that you can somehow work the letter K into just about everything possible like you're some freakin sorority. It does nothing to help readability. As much as product names like Outlook say nothing about their purpose, at least they aren't riddled with absurd Hungarian notation-esque prefixes like K. (MS prefers to prefix them with "Microsoft," which is at least readable, but equally annoying, and probably just to appease lawyers).

  4. Re:Is KDE Taking the Lead? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ur a noob, lol

  5. Re:Is KDE Taking the Lead? by hemna · · Score: 0, Troll

    If you call forcing me to have a big black box around my desktop icons "better".

    Yah that is a LOT better. wow.