Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 13th Dec 2007 22:51 UTC, submitted by andrewg
Ars takes a look at the new RC2 release of KDE 4.0. "Transitions are always hard, but when the dust settles, a clean break between versions and an opportunity to introduce some innovative new ideas should lead to a stronger user experience. After years of development, unnecessary cruft builds up and things tend to get disorganized. The KDE 4 transition, though it will definitely be rocky at first, gives developers the ability to cut away the cruft and reorganize code in a manner that makes the whole environment more future-proof and easier to maintain."
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2005-07-07
Well Koffice 2.0 is still in Alpha. [Insert lame, unfair, and gratuitous joke about KDE 4.0.0 being the same.] I've been toying around with the RC 2 and things are looking good-- I'd definitely call the article fair.
The more interesting news for the day is the 'official talk' about an abbreviated KDE 4.1 cycle, and formally moving the 4.x releases to a time based schedule.
See:
http://lists.kde.org/?t=119756294400002&r=1&w=2
The discussion stated here:
http://lists.kde.org/?t=119732711500007&r=1&w=2
Realistically, the 4.0.x releases will all be transitional as the big 3rd party apps aren't KDE 4 ready:
http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/Application_Porting_Status
and there are a number of apps waiting to go into KDE proper:
http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.0_Module_Status
(And you can tack on much of KDE Webdev, and KDE Pim as not for 4.0.0.)
With that being said, I'm still practically salivating for KDE 4.0.0...