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Sneak Preview For Coming KDE SC 4.5
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.
This just isn't true. I used KDE since 1.0. That's right, the first version. I love configuring tech stuff. It's just that the new KDE desktop is so inefficient that real work cannot be done on it. The whole "KDE is configurable" thing vs GNOME is WAY overblown. GNOME is quite configurable too.
As a long-time KDE user, I have to say to ever damn software update that KDE has released in the last, I don't know, three or four years: DO NOT WANT.
KDE4 was like Vista. In fact, I think they were trying to outright copy Vista in style, features, and bugginess. They were very successful in all three areas, except features. They had to remove features to fit new bugs in.
Every damn k app they go and touch loses features. The only thing I have anything good to say about is Dolphin, which is pretty decent.
Criticism on the KDE message boards is, for the most part, deleted by admins, so we have to go to other websites to vent and discuss why we don't like what the batty KDE devs are doing.
I use activities to keep groups of applications separate. For instance, I keep all my development apps in the one activity screen, and all my internet apps in another. Structuring your workspace in this sort of advanced hierarchal way does a lot for productivity. I work faster, and my machine is uncluttered and easy to navigate even with dozens of programmes running. It's good, you should try it.
Yes. Why are your applications not showing up in the tray? Maybe there is a problem with your brain.
You can either have a standard desktop with icons all over it, or have them appear inside a Plasma widget. It's up to you. I decided not to have any icons on my desktop at all, and no widgets. Icons look ugly and there's usually applications running on top of them any way.
Modern KDE doesn't get in the way of your applications unless you want it to. To say otherwise is to be wilfully ignorant.
Windows to Gnome?! I think users are wise enough to know how much less they can do with Gnome versus Windows when they try it, and the application base around Gnome that was built largely with venture capital money and a large following wind, while other desktops just made life easy for developers, is simply crumbling away. It's a shell rather than a desktop really. Users want features, functionality and applications to get things done, and pretending that you don't have them because it makes things 'simple' is the most braindead thing you can do in software.
All the 'Enterprise Desktop' vendors we were told about over the past decade have had ample time, money and resources to turn Gnome (their confidently proclaimed 'default' desktop) into something credible versus desktops like Windows and OS X. I think the penny should have dropped by now that they've failed completely. Windows moved ahead graphically and aesthetically with Vista and 7, OS X has done the same and KDE is the only open source desktop that has even remotely managed to keep up.