Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 27th Nov 2008 21:45 UTC, submitted by lemur2
The KDE team has released the first beta of KDE 4.2, slated for release coming January. Quite a lot of new features have been added, as well as lots of bug fixes and performance improvements. This release also makes a lot of strides to feature parity with KDE 3.x, by adding those small little features that KDE 3.x users are barely aware of, but which were missed in KDE 4.0/4.1, such as taskbar grouping, multiple rows in the taskbar, panel auto-hiding, a traditional icon desktop through 'full-screen' foderview, and so on.
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Well, very good news and looking forward to January. However, I don't think I'd call the complete absence of power management, among other things, a "small little feature". It's a crucial component of any modern DE. Of course from one POV this doesn't matter, if you treat KDE 4.1.x and 4.2.x as works in progress and beta, which is very probably how one should even though one might have had to stick with KDE 3.5 or switch to Gnome to get day to day stuff done reliably. But the problem is that the world seems not to see it like that and so far, anyway, I'm rather worried that KDE 4's rather uncertain birth may have tarnished the project's image.