Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 11th Jan 2008 12:00 UTC
KDE 4.0.0 has been released onto the world. "The KDE Community is thrilled to announce the immediate availability of KDE 4.0. This significant release marks both the end of the long and intensive development cycle leading up to KDE 4.0 and the beginning of the KDE 4 era." KDE 4.0 is the first release of "KDE 4", but take note that the developers have clearly stated that KDE 4.0 is not KDE 4, but more of a base release with all the underlying systems ready to go, but with still a lot of work to be done on the user-visible side. Download it from the KDE 4.0 info page. Update: Screenshots.
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Member since:2006-01-12
I doubt you'll find many posts that heralded KDE *4.0* as the second coming. Instead people were almost certainly talking about KDE4 if only for the fact that it's shorter to type.
Nevertheless this is not splitting hairs. Anyone who went through the KDE 1->2 rewrite or Gnome 1->2 or OSX, or most incarnations of Windows should know that there's a big difference between the first release and the possibilities the new architecture opens up in the future.
In fact as the vast majority of KDE4 articles up to about 3 months ago talked about the architecture instead of the apps even you could have realized that noone promised world peace and cookies for the 4.0 launch party. =P
Member since:2005-07-24
I doubt you'll find many posts that heralded KDE *4.0* as the second coming. Instead people were almost certainly talking about KDE4
One need not look any further than the comments under this story about KDE 4.0.0. Just scanning the first 8 comments I can't help but notice these:
http://www.osnews.com/permalink?295321
http://www.osnews.com/permalink?295331
It's amusing, however, to see others now backpedaling on the claims. KDE4 is just another major restructuring of a popular DE. No more and no less. The claims are now migrating from 4.0, which people are beginning to realize is not really a walk-on-water release... to 4.1. I expect to be equally unimpressed then.
I'll take compatibility with popular real world file formats, codecs, and web sites (many of the sites my customers need in in their business are still IE only) over desktop pizazz any day. The "miracles" which the KDE devs have performed have little to no relevance to my users.
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2005-07-24
Excuse me, but in all fairness, it's not like some KDE fans have not been heralding KDE 4.0 as Jesus' second coming for a couple of years now. If it falls short of those lofty claims, I don't think that it would be terribly inappropriate to point it out to them, say, about half the number of times that the claims have been made. And maybe even have a bit of a laugh at their expense.