Star KDE 4.0 Beta 1 Released
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 2nd Aug 2007 13:15 UTC, submitted by irbis
KDE Five weeks later than planned, the KDE project has released KDE 4.0 Beta 1. "The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the first Beta release for KDE 4.0. This release marks the beginning of the integration process which will bring the powerful new technologies included in the now frozen KDE 4 libraries to the applications." Update: Screenshots.
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Nice To Have Some Competition
by sukru on Thu 2nd Aug 2007 13:52 UTC
sukru
Member since:
2006-11-19

As a GNOME user, I'd like to congratulate KDE team for their best efforts. They're really building a nice foundation of libraries for their new release.

It's nice to know that there is some competition that gives people choices, and helping keep desktop development at its current pace.

Thanks,
A GNOME User

Edited 2007-08-02 13:53

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sbergman27 Member since:
2005-07-24

Another Gnome user here. What sukru said! :-)

And when KDE 4 is released, I'll be checking it out. I'm particularly excited about the usability improvements.

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KugelKurt Member since:
2005-07-06

Then don't get too excited about KDE 4.0. The main goal for 4.0 is to have a stable foundation. The real polishing will take time until 4.1/4.2.

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l3v1 Member since:
2005-07-06

It's nice to know that there is some competition that gives people choices


I had a wierd feeling reading that, because given that there are still probably more KDE users than Gnome users, I'd expect the reverse to be said from a KDE user ;)

Having said that, KDE is much (much) more than another project giving competition and the possibility of some other choice. It's always been. What is chaning with the coming of v4 is that even fanatic kde-deniers begin to take it a bit more seriously.

As a long-time kde user (and gnome, and xfce) all I feel is pure joy when I see where kde4 is going.

As an outsider, who never really contributed anything to kde besides a few articles about kde apps, all I can say is congratulations and wish them strength to try to keep the pace.

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