Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 29th Jul 2008 20:39 UTC, submitted by vege
Earlier this year, the KDE team released the highly-anticipated 4th major revision of the KDE desktop. Instead of bringing evolutionary changes, KDE 4.0 effectively delivered a complete rewrite of KDE, and as a consequence the first release of the KDE 4 branch lacked a lot of features of KDE 3.x, while also being quite unstable and rough. Many even complained the KDE team shouldn't have released KDE 4.0 as 4.0, but rather as a developer preview release or something similar. During this storm of criticism, the KDE team calmly pointed out that KDE 4.1 would fix many, many of the issues people had with KDE 4.0. Starting today, there's no more pointing towards KDE 4.1: KDE 4.1 has been released today.
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Member since:2005-07-06
They handled this release way way better than the 4.0 one.
The paradox is that without the KDE developers setting 4.0 in stone and working off from it, 4.1 would probably not have happened and certainly wouldn't be as good as it has turned out to be.
Still some gaps to fill in and new functionality to be added, but you can really see where they've been heading with it now.
Member since:2006-01-04
RE[3]: Don't look back
by google_ninja on Thu 31st Jul 2008 03:04
in reply to "RE[2]: Don't look back"
Member since:2006-02-05
The paradox is that without the KDE developers setting 4.0 in stone and working off from it, 4.1 would probably not have happened and certainly wouldn't be as good as it has turned out to be.
That is silly. The only reason that would be the case is if the kde core developers have no communication at all with the developers working on the platform. Since all the mailing lists are open, we know that isn't true. KDE4 was a milestone, not a release. The only reason they made it a release is because they were already late, and didn't want to look bad by waiting another 7 months to do it right.
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2006-01-04
They handled this release way way better than the 4.0 one.
I think a lot of critics won`t be as vocal as they used to be.
The anoucement is very clear and to the point and even the stable download page on kde.org got a really nice facelift.
So congrats and thank you KDE contributors ( I only contributed the odd bug report and some advocacy ;( )
I think KDE has some really cool people and I really hope Aaron will start to blog again, cause his posts were very insightfull (IMHO).
Cheers!