The KDE Community and the release team have put together a release plan for the long anticipated version 4.0, which is planned to be released in October 2007. KDE 4.0 will likely contain initial versions of all the major subsystems that have been described in recent Dot articles. These 'Pillars' of KDE set the stage for desktop and application growth and maturity over the life of the KDE 4 series.
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Dolphin now has a tree view pane! I knew that if so many people were complaining about this, then it would be included in a hurry. Look what happens when you have a development team that actively seeks continuous feedback and truly cares about giving the users what they want.
This is where we start making that other OS look silly. We can design ambitious new "pillars" for our platform, too. Except we don't drop them in the middle of the cycle, delay the release by a couple years, and release something underwhelming. And when we create new APIs, our applications actually use them when the platform is launched. What a novel concept!
KDE4 is still several months away from its first release and probably over a year away from really hitting its stride, but there's plenty to be excited about. You can tell that the KDE community is excited, and this is the best possible sign when it comes to community projects. The devs know this is gunna kick ass, so they will take pride in their work and pour everything they can into it.
The timing is right and the foundations are solid. This is the free software desktop finally gone right.
Edited 2007-03-22 02:26
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http://dot.kde.org/1174518648/
I think KDE 4 looks amazing