Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 27th Nov 2008 21:45 UTC, submitted by lemur2
The KDE team has released the first beta of KDE 4.2, slated for release coming January. Quite a lot of new features have been added, as well as lots of bug fixes and performance improvements. This release also makes a lot of strides to feature parity with KDE 3.x, by adding those small little features that KDE 3.x users are barely aware of, but which were missed in KDE 4.0/4.1, such as taskbar grouping, multiple rows in the taskbar, panel auto-hiding, a traditional icon desktop through 'full-screen' foderview, and so on.
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RE: To compare this with the 3.x series
by Soulbender on Fri 28th Nov 2008 16:07
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Lets all take some time and remeber the old belowed 3.x series. 3.0 "sucked balls", and 3.1 was "widely hated". At 3.2 it actually got useful, but it wasn't really until 3.4 that it became what we now expect from kde.
4.1 really exceeds 3.1 stabilitywise, and I really have hope for 4.2. The only thing I really missed in 4.1 was powermanagement (powerdevil) and a networkmanager frontend (which will probably find it's ways into the ubuntu repos). It looks like it will be a great release.