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  • An Early Look At KDE 4.1

    Phoronix: An Early Look At KDE 4.1

    The first alpha release of KDE 4.1 isn't planned until the end of April, but this past weekend the OpenSuSE team had updated their KDE Four Live spin against the latest KDE 4.0.66 snapshot packages. The KDE 4.0.66 development packages contain new Kickoff and Plasma features along with much other work to the numerous packages that will ultimately make up this first major update to KDE 4.

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  • #2
    can't wait to see KDE 4 officially included in distributions like openSuse - really, openSuse 11.0 w/ KDE 4 and improvements like better package management and pulseaudio will be a blast.

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    • #3
      Yep

      It also looks much better when running under Kubuntu because of Ubuntu's LCD sub pixel patches.

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      • #4
        when many applications get ported to KDE4 and Amarok 2 is completed, I am sure it will be a gr8 desktop experience

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        • #5
          Oh yes, it will

          Hopefully a Kickstart replacement like Raptor or Lancelot, Kaffeine (Dragon Player is not as good imho), KOffice2 (with KWord and Krita, which are candidates not to be in the 2.0 release) will be finished for the KDE 4.1 release, too.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by d2kx View Post
            Yep

            It also looks much better when running under Kubuntu because of Ubuntu's LCD sub pixel patches.
            Available in openSUSE as well.

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            • #7
              Preferences

              Have they expanded the user preferences and interface options? I was exceedingly disappointed by them in KDE 4.0. If developers are worried about confusing people with too many options, just make an option that alters what level of configuration you get.

              As someone who has been using Enlightenment since 14.2 but grows tired of waiting on e17 fixes, it almost causes mental breakdown when I can't set my preferences to something so intelligent or have to switch to something noticeably slower. With a 3.4 GHz Core 2 Quad, I should not ever notice any interface as slow, except for possibly waiting on useful animations.

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