Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 30th Oct 2007 20:50 UTC, submitted by diegocg
"The KDE Community is happy to release the fourth Beta for KDE 4.0. This Beta aimed at further polishing of the KDE codebase and we would love to start receiving feedback from testers. As KDE has largely has been in bugfix mode, this latest Beta aims to encourage testers to have a look at it to help us find and solve the remaining problems and bugs. Besides the stabilization of the codebase, some minor features have been added, including but not limited to much work on Plasma, the KDE 4 desktop shell. Sebastian Kugler notes: 'The improvements have been huge, and plasma is much closer to what it needs to be before the release. I am confident we will be able to finish it and present a very usable plasma to our userbase with KDE 4.0. We will then be able to extend on that and present truly innovative desktop interfaces throughout the KDE 4 lifecycle.'"
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2006-08-04
What people seem to forget is, as much as we want the desktop golden and fully polished, the plumbing for KDE 4.0 had/has to be worked out.
The Plasma API plumbing is still has some issues being hashed out but once those are addressed the framework will be all there to start implementing the rest of the panel components. We already have systray, pager, task bar (needs refining), launcher buttons (in progress), the actual Desktop mimicing what kdesktop did (in terms of icons on the desktop).
It's not about how the panel looks like that matters; it's about the APIs being ready to reimplement some components of our old friend kicker has to an extent :-)
In fact, as of Yesterday Aaron just made big changes to the Krunner API so we can have a really metasearchable desktop in all sorts of zany forms.
Shawn Starr.