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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> Actually the spacing is larger that those on Windows. The problem is that the font used in Menu is larger than the default in Windows.
No, this is not the case. Check on this shot how much better the GTK+ app's menu text looks compared to the Qt's: the words are well spaced-out. On Windows the spacing is bigger than in KDE too, but their font is much smaller at the same time indeed.
http://img.osnews.com/img/5410/kde1.png
> Actually the spacing is larger that those on Windows. The problem is that the font used in Menu is larger than the default in Windows.
No, this is not the case. Check on this shot how much better the GTK+ app's menu text looks compared to the Qt's: the words are well spaced-out. On Windows the spacing is bigger than in KDE too, but their font is much smaller at the same time indeed.
http://img.osnews.com/img/5410/kde1.png