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Sneak Preview For Coming KDE SC 4.5

Posted by timothy on from the one-moment-in-time dept.

omlx writes "KDE SC 4.5 is in feature freeze right now. Therefore, I decided to share some early screenshots with you. In general there are no major changes; it's all about polishing and fixing bugs. There are a lot of under-the-hood changes in libs, which as end users we cannot see. KDE SC will be released in August 2010." Note: you can also try out a beta of the release now, if you'd like.

2 of 249 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I try every new KDE4 release, but... by Grishnakh · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And Windows 7 was mostly polished on release, and has received a very good reception.

    Wrong. Windows Vista was crap, and everyone hated it so much they went back to XP, and demanded the distributors sell them XP instead of Vista.

    Windows Vista Redux (aka Windows 7) fixed all the problems and now people aren't complaining.

  2. Yay for you. by aussersterne · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I can't get it working with dual monitors in the way that I would like. For all the claims about GNOME being less configurable than KDE, KDE4 appears to me to be significantly less configurable than GNOME. I can't quickly/easily:

    1. Get a setup that automatically detects one or two monitor mode
    2. Get a setup that shows me one plasma bar per screen automatically in two monitor mode
    3. Find any professional-looking widget themes (no transparency, eye candy, raytracing, etc.)
    4. Find any professional-looking icon themes (simple graphic design, not photorealism, not crazy high contrast, and not stylized unicolors)

    Basically it seems that KDE4 has focused on flash and features and completely given up on usability. I downloaded and compiled KDE beginning with 1.0, and scoffed when GNOME 1.0 was released (it was an unstable disaster, for anyone that remembers back that far). I was a die-hard KDE user all the way through 3.x. But now the tables have turned, and though I keep KDE installed and updating on my F12 system, every time I log back into KDE4 intending to "really give it a shot this time," I find myself logging out in disgust a few minutes later feeling like I've wasted my time (and the KDE developers have wasted theirs).

    I just want a graphically unremarkable, stays-out-of-my-way business desktop without any "innovation" in it. I want stability, predictability, and enough flexibility to get the desktop working my way, rather than having to adjust my work habits to correspond to the desktop way.

    --
    STOP . AMERICA . NOW