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What's Coming In KDE 4.4

Posted by timothy on from the starting-to-look-compelling dept.

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."

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  1. Tags? It's called meta-data. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why call it tags when everybody else calls that meta-data?

    Oh right, Microsoft and Apple are saying meta-data, and you guys are so obsessed with your hatred of these companies that you call it tags instead.

  2. Re:Best quality, Best reputation , Best services,l by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    you dumb

  3. Re:Labelling. by SomeKDEUser · · Score: 0, Troll

    Bad distro? Change distro.

  4. Re:Labelling. by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Release early, release often" basically translates into:

    1) Give your users a terrible expectation, by starting them out on unfinished software
    2) Constantly annoy them with trivial changes until they say "screw this" and move to your competitor

    I've never been convinced that it's a good idea.

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    Comment of the year