Star KDE 4.0.0: Sweet Follows Sour
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 13th Jan 2008 20:09 UTC
KDE 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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RE[8]: More problems
by Erunno on Mon 14th Jan 2008 08:40 UTC in reply to "RE[7]: More problems"
Erunno
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2007-06-22

I think the problem with konqueror is that it tried to do too much and the UI just can't handle it. Luckily with KDE 4 we now have Dolphin which is a better file manager and hopefully eventually there will be a nice Webkit browser to replace Konq as a web browser. Then Konqueror can be retired.


I disagree with retiring Konqueror. A seperate web browser and a file manager are not an equal replacement for an universal KPart viewer. A case in point are people like me who like to organize different resources belonging to the same project in the same window (SSH shares, PDF documents, web sites, etc). To me working with tabs is far more confortable than with distinct applications as tabs are more visible and I can arrange tabs in an order which suits me contrary to alt-tabbing between applications which could as well be in an arbitrary order from a user perspective.

Let's not throw the baby out with the bath water in order to please some rampant gnomes :-)

Edited 2008-01-14 08:40 UTC

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