Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 7th Oct 2009 15:48 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
The KDE team has released version 4.3.2 of their Free software desktop environment. It's a minor release which comes with a number bugfixes and enhancements, with the focus being KMail and KWin. It'll find its way to your distribution soon enough.
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Member since:2007-03-26
For me KDE 4 is still not catching up. Also I dont see people now moving back from GNome to KDE the way people moved from KDE to GNome. I also agree with earlier post that says "KDE 4 is now feels more like a bolted Windows Vista/7"
KDE4's biggest problem now isn't KDE4 itself but the disappointing numbers of distro's that implement KDE4 packages badly.
Take Kubuntu for example: it's simply terrible! And they're no excuse for it to be so bad as it's a distro that's supported to be pre-configured for KDE and aimed at KDE users.
The ironic thing is, one of the best distro's I've used KDE on is actually a distro that doesn't push any WM/DE onto it's users -> ArchLinux.
The KDEMod packages in ArchLinux are nothing short of outstanding and really demonstrate what KDE4 can be like - correction: SHOULD be like!
Hopefully Kubuntu (and others) will get their acts together pronto and fix the mess they've made. (I'm sure I've recently seen an article on here titled "Kubuntu Gets Some Love", so maybe there's hope for it yet)
RE[2]: KDE 4 not catching up
by sbergman27 on Thu 8th Oct 2009 16:30
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Member since:2005-07-24
KDE4's biggest problem now isn't KDE4 itself but the disappointing numbers of distro's that implement KDE4 packages badly.
Meanwhile, the KDE devs continue to refuse to get their hands dirty with packaging, while simultaneously moaning about how badly other entities package KDE.
When the KDE devs say "we do this for fun", as they are so fond of saying, it should be taken very literally. Packaging isn't fun, so they refuse to do it.
This phenomenon is not limited to the issue of packaging. Stuff that isn't fun they leave to someone else to do.
Edited 2009-10-08 16:32 UTC
RE[2]: KDE 4 not catching up
by TusharG on Thu 8th Oct 2009 20:28
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Member since:2005-07-06
The problem is KDE allowed GNome to catchup during the 3.5 to 4 transition. I was hardcore fan of KDE and used KDE from Version 1...
I also agree with you that distos are not manging KDE implementation properly and KUbuntu sucks if you directly compare it with Ubuntu implementation of GNome. Also God knows whats up with PCLinuxOS! After there 0.9.2 version which was shipped with KDE 3.5, I still have not seen them releasing full fledged KDE 4 release.
Never the less I hope KDE gus without losing there momentum continue to develop KDE 4 and someday people may move back to KDE.
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2005-07-06
For me KDE 4 is still not catching up. Also I dont see people now moving back from GNome to KDE the way people moved from KDE to GNome.
I also agree with earlier post that says "KDE 4 is now feels more like a bolted Windows Vista/7"