Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 29th May 2008 17:04 UTC
Tuesday, we reported that the KDE project had released the first beta of KDE 4.1, the release that is supposed to be ready to replace KDE3 on normal users' desktops. The information and marketing speak in the press release sure was promising, so Ars decided to take the KDE 4.1 beta out for a spin.
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2006-05-30
Personally, if I wanted to use OSX or Vista, I'd just install one of them. But, I guess there will always be a demand on the "other" end of the *nix user community that wants to copy off of the mainstream OSes. I remember back when FVWM95 was the default RedHat window manager.
However, I find this recent obsession over widget toolkits to be rather silly. Not only does all this work have to keep being redone over and over, but the end results are ugly and often less functional. If we were making progress towards some UI nirvana, then it'd be great, but I'm pretty sure such a state doesn't even exist (though tiling WMs are close). I just want my UIs to not waste screen real estate or get in the way.
Another thing that annoys me about KDE is that there's now all these K-apps out there that you have to be careful to avoid. Installing them will drag in a mess of KDE/Qt dependencies and bloat your system. The majority of these projects disappear so fast that by the time you really get used to it, development has ceased. But then, you can take one look at KDE and rightly assume that it's an environment that draws in ADD-afflicted latest fad-chasers.