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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2008-04-04
I guess I can be considered of being somewhat critical, but I was critical about it because some things did not work as adviced, and it would have been more upfront to LESSEN the hype about KDE4 done by some KDE developers.
The problems and bugs get lower and lower by each release but it still feels not 100% ready. Don't get me wrong, I prefer the KDE approach any time over Gnome, but I think aside from the pointless comparison to other projects the KDE team should have be more self-critical.
Being self-critical is a good thing.