KDE 4.7 – a First Look At Beta 1

Posted by timothy on Saturday May 28, 2011 @07:50AM from the longevity-and-maturiity dept.

A few days ago, the KDE project shipped the first beta of the upcoming 4.7 release. Reader dmbkiwi submits a link to a rundown of what 4.7 looks like, snipping from which: "Previously it was Gnome that was the steady plodder making minor incremental changes through the 2.x series, building stability and only adding minor features. However, with the recent releases of both Gnome Shell and the Unity desktop on Ubuntu, the Gnome/Ubuntu side of the desktop linux equation has made radical and controversial steps away from the well loved Gnome 2.x series, leaving KDE 4.x as the 'steady as she goes' option."

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Re:The interface doesn't need to be changed much by seyyah · 2011-05-28 08:32 · Score: 5, Insightful

People who use KDE are typically coming from Windows so the default should look similar.
Where does this notion come from? I've see in it before and I doubt it has any merit.
In fact, I would expect that the majority of people coming from Windows use Gnome since it is the default DE for Ubuntu and other popular distros.