Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 15th Dec 2003 07:07 UTC
The latest beta of KDE's 3.2, beta 2, was released a few days ago. I installed the provided Fedora RPMs and had a look in this early pre-release version of the popular X11 desktop environment. Six screenshots are included. We look at both the strengths and the weaknesses of the DE.
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Like many of Eugina's numerous nitpicks in this review, I
likewise could find quite a bit to nitpick about the review
itself - however, I was quickly able to forget my misgivings
once I read the first two paragraphs of the final part.
Those two paragraphs summed things up extremely - KDE's got
everything necessary to be a real winner, all that's needed
is a little more polish, and a little less clutter. While I
don't personaly think that KDE should go nearly as far as
Gnome has gone in this direction; I do agree that a few
more focused cleanups to the UI, would make huge impact on
the usability, and very much increase those all important
first impressions for new users.
And I also believe that it becomes _very_ clear with this
release, that honestly - KDE's foundational technologies
far outclass Gnome's current architecture. It will be
_significantly_ easier and timely for KDE to add polish and
to focus further on usability/HIG, than it is for Gnome to
bolt/hack a comparable underlying architecture to that of
KDE's.