Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 21st Jan 2008 18:22 UTC
KDE Ars reviews KDE 4.0.0: "KDE 4.0 was officially released last week after extensive development. The long-awaited 4.0 release ushers in a new era for the popular open-source desktop environment and adds many intriguing new features and technologies. Unfortunately, the release comes with almost as many new bugs as it does features, and there is much work to be done before it sparkles like the 3.5.x series." They were also at the KDE 4.0 release event.
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RE[6]: Comments Unfair
by emerson999 on Tue 22nd Jan 2008 08:21 UTC in reply to "RE[5]: Comments Unfair"
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So unless you have a magical way to develop bug-free software without large scale user testing on a realistic budget, there isn't really much of an alternative. If you have one the software engineering community would love to hear about it.


In this case, a good way is to look at the top three or five most used applications/functions, and ask if they have even 60% of the functionality from the previous version. If there's even a question about it, then no, it's not ready for release. As much as I'm a little tired of snipings at the kde devs, come on now. It doesn't take a giant usability team to figure out that the panel is just a toy or that fish is messed up.

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