Linked by David Adams on Wed 2nd Jul 2008 16:11 UTC, submitted by elsewhere
"After the recent release KDE 4.1 beta 2 and openSUSE 11 with KDE 4.0.4, some critics have been especially vocal in expressing their displeasure with the KDE 4 user interface paradigms. The debate has grown increasingly caustic as critics and supporters engage in a war of words over the technology. The controversy has escalated to the point where some users are now advocating a fork in order to move forward the old KDE 3.5 UI paradigms. As an observer who has closely studied each new release of KDE 4, I'm convinced that the fork rhetoric is an absurdly unproductive direction for this debate."
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Am I alone in actually liking KDE 4.1? I've been running the beta for several days and I actually like it. The theme could use some serious changing, and the menu maybe some enhancing, but I've found 4.1 much more usable than 4.0. Now, with that in mind the set of applications that are built with 4.x in mind are lacking for sure.
I really, really like KDE, and have since 3.0. The issues I have with 4 right now are UI related, like the silly boxes around the icons that cause apps to not launch because I don't click them right, the lack of customization I am used to with my task bar, and things like that in general. Small things really, but enough to keep me from using it.
Aside from that, I find 4.0 a beautiful release and can't help but really appreciate the time and effort that has been put into it.
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2007-09-06
Am I alone in actually liking KDE 4.1? I've been running the beta for several days and I actually like it. The theme could use some serious changing, and the menu maybe some enhancing, but I've found 4.1 much more usable than 4.0. Now, with that in mind the set of applications that are built with 4.x in mind are lacking for sure.
For background purposes, I was a GNOME user before GNOME 2.0 (before that WindowMaker), and moved to KDE after the whole "lets simplify/hide all the options of gnome". But eventually moved back to GNOME, and then XFCE, and now finally KDE 4.1. I don't really consider myself either a GTK or QT zealot.
What I find extremely odd is my machine uses a ton less resources with the beta of KDE 4.1 than GNOME 2.24. It seems like it is on the lower end of between XFCE and GNOME actually.