Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 12th Aug 2008 23:59 UTC, submitted by AdamW
Here is an interesting discussion of the changes KDE 4.x (via Mandriva Linux 2009 pre-releases) brings to desktop interaction. The article argues that KDE 4 might very well be the next big thing in computing, as it finally tries to steer away from the Xerox desktop metaphor we've all been using since the glory days of disco. While I personally don't really believe KDE 4.x to be revolutionary (I see it more as evolution with pepper in its butt), the article details many of the new things in KDE 4.x, and might make the lives of those first confronted with the new desktop just that little bit easier.
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((( In January of this year KDE released KDE 4.0 as a developer release which found it's way onto many desktops and got roundly condemned by many people. The KDE people are partly to blame for this as they didn't make it clear enough that the .0 release was what it was and not something you could use well or at all for daily work.
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As usual in the FOSS world, people pinned their hearts on their sleeves and ill tempered comments flew on blogs, web sites and elsewhere. Some well informed and others, to be polite, less so ))).
To me KDE people got what they deserved in an open and informative way, hopefully they will learn from the experience.... with all the articles and interviews on how KDE 4 was going to be the most amazing desktop the world had ever seen.... the hype machines went on for around two years, with interviews etc etc.....
"In the case of Microsoft and Apple there's also the reality of investment"
Just to point out all OSes and all environments have probably invested in their interfaces with time and effort blood n sweat...
"its looked the same regardless of who it came from and works the same with the same advantages and drawbacks."
Please from your own screen shoots it looks totally the same as 3.5 and gnome
"From this stable world has erupted KDE 4.1"
Thats a joke right... 4.0 was stable?? hmm
what is true is if KDE team had released 4.1 as 4.0 back in Jan 2008 and called it a developer release then people would have given it a lot more respect and not been as disappointed.
The plan fact of the matter is the dev team spent a lot of time on the foundations and development which is a good thing...... but forgot the user interface not wanting to tell people to wait another eight or nine months before seeing anything... luckily over this time there were no reasons to move from KDE 3.5x otherwise KDE usage would have taken one huge hit in % and may not of survived.....
My side issue for KDE4.1 release....
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Theres are a few applications I would like to use on windows from KDE 3.5 (been down coLinux path) Konsole would be mighty useful... The current windows installer fails for me probably because I am behind a firewall and proxy but as I don't have windows out side this environment then testing becomes interesting.
What I probably need is a way to fully download KDE4 for windows and install locally rather then download an installer and fetch other parts, which never get found...
Edited 2008-08-13 09:26 UTC