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."

Comments

Kugler?

[Anonymous Coward]

Jesus Christ, even the developers' names...

Re:Kugler?

[shaji]

Did you mean to say Jesus Khrist?

Re:Can we stop posting links to cio.com.au?

[impaledsunset]

Don't worry, they are already slashdotted. That's what you get for requiring multiple requests to read a single article.

Re:Labelling.

[QCompson]

While I don't know if this will help in your particular situation, I've found random sluggishness like that much reduced after I got an Intel SSD.

Now that's a ringing endorsement. KDE4: it won't be sluggish if you use a SSD!

Re:Labelling.

[Andy Dodd]

It's the choice of enterprise desktops because it fits with the mantra of locking down the user and preventing them from doing anything useful. With Windows you need bigbrotherware to do it. With GNOME, the functionality has simply been removed in the name of usability as part of Havoc Pennington's reign of terror.