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What's Coming In KDE 4.4
buzzboy writes "If you're wondering what the folks over at KDE have been cooking up for the next major release, KDE 4.4, well, quite a bit as it turns out. In a lengthy interview, KDE core developer and spokesperson for the project Sebastian Kugler details the myriad changes that are coming with the 4.4 release — the fifth major release since KDE 4.0 debuted to much criticism nearly two years ago. The project has closed about 18,000 bugs over the past six months and the pace of development is snowballing. The 'heavy-lifting' in libraries and frameworks for 4.0 is now starting to pay off. Perhaps the biggest change is in the development of a semantic desktop. According to Kugler, 'If you tag an image in your image viewer, the tag becomes visible in your desktop search. That's how it should be, right?' There is also a picture gallery of KDE 4.4 (svn) screenshots so you can see what it will look like."
Actually, worse than Vista, more like a bastard stepchild of Vista and OS X 10.0 (aka the paid beta)... Have missing features from 3.5 finally been implemented in 4.x? Last time I touched it (4.2 IIRC) it was still buggy as hell and almost all the stuff I had known from 3.5 was gone. Heck, can kpanels (or whatever they are) stretch across xinerama/twinview screens yet?
BTW, has KDE4 finally gotten the useful 'run command' in whatever they call kpanel now? One that hooks into konqueror shortcuts so you can fire off URLs, man pages, shortcutted searches, commands, etc? At this point I'm limping along with deskbar-applet but it's not nearly as good.
ps: Missing features are not wishlist items. They are bugs.