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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sbergman27
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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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sbergman27 Member since:
2005-07-24

Yes. I understand that 4.0 is mainly infrastructure and not *use* of that infrastructure. Or are you saying that the usability improvements are waiting for 4.1/4.2, as well?

In which case, I should take that into account when evaluating 4.0. :-)

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rx182 Member since:
2005-07-08

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.


Really? This is not the good thing to do. Lots of people have big expectations with KDE4. They want a new GUI to play with. Most people don't care about under the hood stuff.

Honestly, I think a all-in-one release would be far more interesting ;-)

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dylansmrjones Member since:
2005-10-02

The main goal for 4.0 is to have a stable foundation


That's enough to make me excited ;)

-JAGU

Just Another Gnome User

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LB06 Member since:
2005-07-06

Well, one of the pittfalls in software engineering is to assume that, given a good architecture and infrastructure, everyting will fall into place. I'm not saying that KDE4 will not be an improvement, I'm just somewhat reluctant to presume that KDE4/4.1/4.2 will be a huge improvement thanks to just the infrastructure.

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