Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 13th Jan 2008 20:09 UTC
KDE 4.0.0 has been released on January 11th, after a number of delays; the months preceding the release, the KDE developers tried very hard to downplay expectations. KDE 4.0.0 was just the first release in the KDE 4 series, and such, should not be seen as the best possible representation of the KDE 4.0.0 vision. So, when I installed KDE 4.0.0 on my Ubuntu Gutsy installation last Friday, I knew what to expect: KDE 4 Developer Release 1 (yes, I am a BeOS guy - how did you know?). Read on for a few quick first impressions.
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2005-07-03
As a GTK/Gnome/XFCE4 type of user, I generally don't go with KDE, but this new release enticed me to give it a swing. Firstly, installation was somewhere in between. If you don't have packages built for KDE, then you might be in trouble, as I couldn't find any working documentation as of last night. Luckily they have a developers guide to getting installed and set up. If you follow that, it has the same effect (and you can use the official source tarballs if you want, which is what I did). Once you get it set up and start doing the building, it's a rather smooth process.
From the system itself, I was really impressed. I thought how the composition works KDE4 is really good for a first release and looks good. The new file manager is pretty good, I like the new theme (though the tool bar is a bit awkward, the search functionality is wonderful). It's a very great base to be working off of.
I guess the next step (from what I hear, I should have just waited for 4.1) is the applications. As said in the article, Konquorer is surprisingly buggy which I'm not really used to when I use it. I also had trouble getting JuK to give me any sound, but I'm sure that was my own fault.
Application issues and documentation aside, I think that this release is huge for KDE. This is by far the direction KDE should go in and it's really going to pay off for them in the end. I recommend everyone give it a stab themselves and try things out. Here's to KDE for this release.