Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 11th May 2007 18:21 UTC, submitted by diegocg
"The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the first alpha release of the KDE Desktop Environment, version 4.0. The release is a basis for the integration of powerful new technologies that will be included in KDE 4. It has been given the codename 'Knut'." Meanwhile, the KDe HIG team is looking for help with finding applications that violate the (unfinished) KDE HIG.
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note to Kaffeine devs: If I, who think Konqueror is peachy, feel that Kaffeine's UI is a mess.. OMG
Ha! That's exactly how I feel about Kaffeine. It's a shame, too, since at one point it was (IMO) the most intuitive, wonderfully simple interface going. It also had an awesome, powerful backend with many easy to configure options. It still has that backend, but it's trying to be too many things at this point, and frankly is a displeasure to use from the interface standpoint (again, IMO).
It is, without a doubt, a fantastic app, but someone should really look at the interface from about 2 years ago and compare it to the interface today and have an aha moment.
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2005-11-11
Where does that leave people who like KDE because it isn't like Gnome?
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We fork. That's one of the best things about KDE from a development perspective.
There is that possibility, and the good separation between the GUI and the logic you mention does help with that. I actually forked Kaffeine (just for myself so far) when its UI got [huge irony] too complex [/huge irony].
You are right though. In the same way people frustrated with complexity created Mailody and Dolphin, someone wanting more OMG widgets could create an app to their taste, and with KDE's solid underneath it shouldn't be hugely difficult. Thanks for your thoughts.
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note to Kaffeine devs: If I, who think Konqueror is peachy, feel that Kaffeine's UI is a mess.. OMG
Edited 2007-05-11 20:34