Star KDE 4.1 Beta 1 Released
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 27th May 2008 17:21 UTC, submitted by appel
KDE KDE 4.0 was released to mixed reviews; more or less everyone recognised the enormous potential of the still young platform, but some doubted whether or not the KDE project had made the right choice by releasing KDE 4.0 as, well, 4.0. The KDE developers were clear: just you wait for KDE 4.1. They released the first beta of KDE 4.1 today.
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not so excited!
by enzobelmont on Tue 27th May 2008 18:45 UTC
enzobelmont
Member since:
2006-11-08

i'm testing kde daily; i've rebuilt SVN every 3 days since 3.96 (kde4 betas), and let me tell you...

IT IS A MESS!!!

gladly it is growing fast...
it will be ready for joe user until 4.2
for kde users it is a good release...

congrats kde team!

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RE: not so excited!
by sappyvcv on Tue 27th May 2008 19:14 in reply to "not so excited!"
sappyvcv Member since:
2005-07-06

Ah, so it's not 4.1, it's 4.2 now that will be the real KDE4 huh? ;)

To be honest, it still looks very unpolished in a lot of spots.

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RE[2]: not so excited!
by zizban on Tue 27th May 2008 19:39 in reply to "RE: not so excited!"
zizban Member since:
2005-07-06

Which spots are those?

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RE[2]: not so excited!
by sbergman27 on Tue 27th May 2008 19:54 in reply to "RE: not so excited!"
sbergman27 Member since:
2005-07-24

Ah, so it's not 4.1, it's 4.2 now that will be the real KDE4 huh?

Stated nore generally, it will be the real KDE4 at "4.(x+1)". ;-)

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RE: not so excited!
by leos on Tue 27th May 2008 19:39 in reply to "not so excited!"
leos Member since:
2005-09-21

i'm testing kde daily; i've rebuilt SVN every 3 days since 3.96 (kde4 betas), and let me tell you...

IT IS A MESS!!!


Works nicely for me. Can you elaborate what exactly you think is a mess?

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RE[2]: not so excited!
by enzobelmont on Tue 27th May 2008 20:26 in reply to "RE: not so excited!"
enzobelmont Member since:
2006-11-08

1.- Plasma (it is a chaos)
2.- Konqueror (as file manager.... and as web browser)


i'm using it on my gentoo machine.

i'm not whinning about it; i know its a work in progress, i'm just remarking plasma (the MAIN FACE of kde4) as a mess.

If plasma crashes very often then joe user will feel Whole kde as a weak and unpolished DE.
i do not want to be missunderstood; i love kde4, but sometimes building it make feel, anxious!

sorry my english.

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RE: not so excited!
by Verunks on Tue 27th May 2008 19:43 in reply to "not so excited!"
Verunks Member since:
2007-04-02

what's a mess in kde 4.1? even if we are in hard feauture freeze mode it's still a beta, if you are talking about plasma, just wait a bit more since there was a lot of mess because of the WoC(Widget on Canvas) porting, if you have any questions come to #kde-devel on freenode

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RE: not so excited!
by rexstuff on Wed 28th May 2008 00:13 in reply to "not so excited!"
rexstuff Member since:
2007-04-06

I think if you're building against the SVN daily, you forfeit the right to complain about stability.

EDIT: typo

Edited 2008-05-28 00:14 UTC

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RE: not so excited!
by Googol on Wed 28th May 2008 07:45 in reply to "not so excited!"
Googol Member since:
2006-11-24

Strictly none-scientific, I would say that it looks more polished than ever on Suse after having fiddled with the live CD. Of course I don't build it every 3 days or anything...

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