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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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.
Member since:2006-03-29
ad 1) I think it was a mess lately, especially because of the introduction of WoC, but now with the latest Revisions I'm positively surprised. I could actually use it --> if I could compile it on my main PC, on a different where I test stuff it works.
ad 2) I guess you would have to elaborate that more. Do you mean websites with Java-Apps, Java Script, Flash, websites heavily using CSS X (where X is the version number) or just "normal" websites.
Member since:2005-09-21
Yeah I guess after the WOC changes it was very unstable. I think its getting better quickly though. I use the debian packages so I don't see all the mess
Yeah I stopped using Konqueror entirely in KDE 4. I like Dolphin so much more as a file manager, and as a web browser I use Firefox 3 now, which is quite good. Another possibility for the future is Aurora for Webkit goodness (http://code.google.com/p/arora/)
Yes. I don't think this will happen in the released version...
Member since:
2005-09-21
IT IS A MESS!!!
Works nicely for me. Can you elaborate what exactly you think is a mess?