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Markus Mauder: A First Look at the Unreleased KDE 4.0.0

Posted by Jonathan Jesse on Tuesday 08/Jan/2008, @10:24
from the see-you-on-friday dept.
Markus Mauder on his blog posts a look at the soon to be released KDE 4.0.0 complete with screenshots and a review of some of the significant changes. "I hope you enjoy this preview and come to share my opinion that KDE 4 is going to rock!" He also has an album of screenshots on Picasa that expand on the ones in the article. The big release happens on Friday, join us in #kde4-release-party on Freenode to celebrate.

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Chinese translation for that blog
by Cavendish Qi on Tuesday 08/Jan/2008, @13:04

A KDE friend in China had translated it into Chinese:
http://linuxdesktop.cn/2008/01/07/kde4-preview-2

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Design
by bull on Tuesday 08/Jan/2008, @13:15

It is a bit like KDE 3.1. New graphics and blink but lack of coherent "style". This will emerge later.

(e.g. the plasma panel look is a bit prototypish, the KDE Icon is just too large, proportions don't fit)

The concept of the KDE 4 cycle was non-evolutionary. It seems to me the times of these development models are over and KDE 4 is now a solid base for the future.

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Re: Design by an user on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @02:10

Polish review
by newgargamel on Tuesday 08/Jan/2008, @13:16

http://jarzebski.pl/read/kde-4-rev-755000.so

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Re: Polish review by Anon on Tuesday 08/Jan/2008, @13:18

Re: Polish review by newgargamel on Tuesday 08/Jan/2008, @14:20

Re: Polish review by Koko on Tuesday 08/Jan/2008, @15:53

Re: Polish review by pcp on Tuesday 08/Jan/2008, @19:18

Re: Polish review by Stephan Sokolow on Tuesday 08/Jan/2008, @23:20
Re: Polish review by Vide on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @01:09

Re: Polish review by ciasa on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @11:39

Re: Polish review by Max on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @15:10

Beats MS Windows Vista.
by KDE User on Tuesday 08/Jan/2008, @13:41

Impressive.

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Re: Beats MS Windows Vista. by nuno pinheiro on Tuesday 08/Jan/2008, @13:51
Re: Beats MS Windows Vista. by Bobby on Tuesday 08/Jan/2008, @15:27

Re: Beats MS Windows Vista. by Terracotta on Tuesday 08/Jan/2008, @16:02

Re: Beats MS Windows Vista. by Anon on Tuesday 08/Jan/2008, @16:11

Re: Beats MS Windows Vista. by anon on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @02:21

Re: Beats MS Windows Vista. by Pascal on Tuesday 08/Jan/2008, @19:05

Re: Beats MS Windows Vista. by Allan on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @01:22

Re: Beats MS Windows Vista. by Dirk on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @05:48

Re: Beats MS Windows Vista. by mschnide on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @09:58

Re: Beats MS Windows Vista. by sebas on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @04:00

Re: Beats MS Windows Vista. by Michael Thaler on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @00:08

Re: Beats MS Windows Vista. by Robert Knight on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @05:54

Re: Beats MS Windows Vista. by Jesus R. Acosta on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @01:35
Re: Beats MS Windows Vista. by Max on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @15:15

Re: Beats MS Windows Vista. by Bobby on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @04:06

Young Skywalker
by Crabby Crab on Tuesday 08/Jan/2008, @17:21

You are not a Jedi yet.

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Bummer
by a.c. on Tuesday 08/Jan/2008, @18:43

I saw Dragon player and forgot that it was codeine. I was thinking that it was an interesting game.

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Re: Bummer by Dolphin-fanatic :) on Tuesday 08/Jan/2008, @18:46

Oxygen icons : A few mistakes
by Maximilien on Tuesday 08/Jan/2008, @20:22

Hi there,

I just wanted to highlight a few things that I consider as mistakes in the oxygen icon set, and especially on this screenshot : http://picasaweb.google.com/mmauder/KDE400/photo#5152345685276228690

- The arrow buttons (go back/go forward) don't fit at all with the others icons. They seem to have been taken from a bad GNOME icon set... :/

- The trash is not really usable, since it is just too hard to see if it empty or not. Furthermore, because the colors are exactly the same, it seems to be part of the hard drives.

- Why are the hard drives inclined, and the usb key all vertical ? I mean, they are all volumes, so why not make them look similar ? I would be far more intuitive.

To finish with, I would like to focus on this screenshot : http://picasaweb.google.com/mmauder/KDE400/photo#5152342502705462338

See the splashscreen window ?
-Why does it have square black edges on the top coming out of the round white outline ?

- Why does the white outline suddenly disappear on the right side but continue on the left side ?

- Why are the bottom edges square while the top edges are round ?

That's all I can say for the moment. The rest of Oxygen is just great :)

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Re: Oxygen icons : A few mistakes by Tray on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @19:54

Re: Oxygen icons : A few mistakes by Maximilien on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @11:29

hm
by James on Tuesday 08/Jan/2008, @20:28

When alt-tab works I'll consider playing with it some more. All I do now is update the new version from subversion and compile it up once every few days, confirm alt-tab still doesn't work.. remove .kde, reload, confirm alt-tab doesn't work again then decide it 'aint worth it.

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Re: hm by Thomas on Tuesday 08/Jan/2008, @22:32

Re: hm by Bille on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @00:11

Re: hm by fredde on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @08:04

Re: hm by fredde on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @08:11
Re: hm by vl on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @08:14

Re: hm by James on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @08:57
Re: hm by Luca Beltrame on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @11:04

The Question of the Question...
by Chaoswind on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @01:19

So, after KDE4 ist finally coming in an first version, the only things that bugs me is: where can i get it? I'm using Debian Sid(ux) and officialy, there are only the Experimental-Version, which override KDE3 :-(

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Re: The Question of the Question... by Hans on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @04:48

Re: The Question of the Question... by Chaoswind on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @05:53

Re: The Question of the Question... by Hans on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @09:04

Re: The Question of the Question... by a. spehr on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @22:14

Re: The Question of the Question... by Tempura on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @01:08

Re: The Question of the Question... by Bobby on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @05:38

Re: The Question of the Question... by Chaoswind on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @10:39

Re: The Question of the Question... by Bobby on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @14:01

Re: The Question of the Question... by Chaoswind on Friday 11/Jan/2008, @08:27

The new "K" menu.
by NabLa on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @02:02

Looks cool. However, why is the "search bar" on the top of the menu and not at the bottom where is closest to the just-depressed-K-button?

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Re: The new "K" menu. by an user on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @02:15
Re: The new "K" menu. by Robert Knight on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @05:43

Re: The new "K" menu. by Richard Van Den Boom on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @07:26
Re: The new "K" menu. by Aldoo on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @08:37

Picasa?
by Michael on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @09:18

These images are posted on a website that doesn't work in Konqueror.

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Re: Picasa? by Giacomo on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @10:15

Re: Picasa? by Simon on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @12:54

Re: Picasa? by fuegofoto on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @11:33
Re: Picasa? by Rischwa on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @06:29

Very happy about this release!
by Daniel Rollings on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @12:10

I truly appreciate all the great work that's under the hood of KDE. I'm glad there's a desktop alternative that isn't a few separate desktop apps cobbled together with the window manager <i>du jour</i>, that has a consistent design under the hood. KDE has come a long way over the years, not necessarily having the last bit of spit and polish, but certainly having the most power, and making the most efficient use and reuse of libraries to get it.

I think KDE4 is where this changes and that sense of design shines through, even at a glance. This is payoff. I hope to see KDE go toe to toe with OSX this year for the best, most productive desktop. I have machines running either of them, and I'll be interested to see how it feels to switch back and forth.

Go devs! I'd join up and bang on that code too if I could pay the bills doing what you do.

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Rocking or rock stable.
by szlam on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @07:08

It may rock, but will it be rock stable?

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Re: Rocking or rock stable. by Anon on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @07:11

Re: Rocking or rock stable. by Bobby on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @08:04

A minor bug that will keep me away from KDE4
by Robert on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @13:51

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152676

I've tried it, tried workaround and it's useless. To bad such thing is considered less important to be fixed. Using dualhead is the primary thing I use computer (and Linux) for.

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