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What To Expect In KDE 4.1

Posted by timothy on from the plenty-of-goodness dept.

andrewmin writes "Recently, Gnome's been gaining a lot of ground on its KDE counterpart in the desktop environment wars. The KDE developers were hoping to change this with KDE 4, the new radical release of KDE, but it was not to be. KDE 4.0 was buggy and unstable, leaving everyone except the hard-core KDE lovers. Mainly, this was because it just didn't work most of the time. However, the developers were not without hope. They promised that KDE 4.1 would be more stable and fix all the holes and problems with KDE 4.0. That time is coming soon: in just four days, K Desktop Environment 4.1 will be released to the Linux masses." A release candidate for 4.1 came out just over a week ago, with binaries available "for some Linux distributions, and Mac OS X and Windows."

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  1. Re:TFS is a lie? by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 1, Troll

    so you are the kind of user that started XP without waiting for SP1?

    Well, you see, most open source projects don't have this problem. Most Ubuntu releases are at least better than the previous version, and the major issues are usually fixed within a few weeks of release.

    The only issues are with large, well-established projects -- and then, only with porting third-party development to the new version. That is: Apache2 was rock-solid at release, but mod_perl was only stable on Apache1 for a very long time.

    I could forgive KDE4 if it was just that apps hadn't been ported -- which many haven't (Kmail? Amarok? You know, some of the main reasons I use KDE at all??) -- I could probably even forgive them if it was somewhat unstable. But the core desktop environment not only isn't stable, it isn't even half as functional. Example: The panel is HUGE, and no way to fix it, until 4.1.

    ok sorry this is not OSS but still the concepts hold

    Only in poorly-managed projects -- which we all should realize that KDE is.

    And while we're at it -- in pre-SP1 XP, couldn't you still put the GUI in Classic Mode, including the Control Panel? It might not have been as stable as 2K, but it was certainly as usable.

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