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The Start of Something Amazing with KDE 4.0 ReleaseSeveral years of design, development and testing came together today for the release of KDE 4.0. This is our most significant release in our 11 year history and marks both the end of the long and intensive development cycle leading up to KDE 4.0 and the start of the KDE 4 era. Join us now in #kde4-release-party on Freenode to celebrate or come to the release event in person next week. Packages are available for all the major distributions with live CDs available currently from Kubuntu and openSUSE. Read on for details or take the KDE 4.0 Visual Guide to find your way around.
The KDE 4 Libraries have seen major improvements in almost all areas.
The KDE 4 Desktop has gained some major new capabilities. The Plasma desktop shell
Lots of KDE Applications have seen improvements as well. Visual updates through
The Oxygen Artwork team provides a breath of fresh air on the desktop. Distributions known to have packages:
Thanks to the coders, artists, usability experts, testers, bug triagers and many more who have made this release the start of something amazing. Tell us what you think on this |
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Re: Is KDE 4.0 64 bit? All I can find is 32 bit
There are amd64 binary packages for Debian.
http://packages.debian.org/experimental/kdelibs5
It seems that the Debain KDE maintainers are currently preparing a new live cd for i386 + amd64:
http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde4livecd.html
They did an awesome job so far, so I guess it shouldn't take long...
Thanks, but...
I think I may wait until 4.1 until they fix the many bugs.
Lets change it to "Release early when ready, Release often when ready". By ready I mean, no bugs, all features, live up to expectations.
*Gets excited and waits another 6 months(Or whenever)*
Re: Thanks, but...
You do know that bug-free software does not exist, right? (Well, bug-free non-trivial software anyway.)
Re: Thanks, but...
Well, i just wait until my distribution comes with a new version that includes kde 4.x.
Stable or not, complete or not, bugfree or not, a desktop experience is always at best when it is well integrated with the operating system.
And just like with kde 3.0 and 2.0, that won't be the case until the next release of the distribution.
Re: Thanks, but...
>> By ready I mean, no bugs, all features, live up to expectations.
http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/01/talking-bluntly.html
Meme 3. But you might as well read it all when you're at it.
Re: Thanks, but...
How about no regressions?
That's finite.
Re: Thanks, but...
Does this not require some kind of usecase definition around usage and functionality - both previous functionality and KDE 4.0 functionality. Unfortunately i doubt there has been much thinking about those. If this happened then maybe thinking about both software defects and software bugs could be incorporated.
Maybe testing is the way where endusers that cannot code could make themselves important when software is released
kde 4 not bad not good :P... a must
1. kde 4 release as development platform for next 3-4 years is a must... just remember what kind of mess is going round in 3 branch because of old stuff which is deep insight eg. arts system or different storage of same data???...
2. the question is what kde is like to be in near future???... j don't realy want to start next little kde/gnome war cose its useless so please remeber its my humble opinion...
gnome is as simple as its possible thats ok... and kde always was as complex as possible with a lot of options... thats great to... and it still should be!!!
usability in DE itself is one thing but don't forget about apps!!! e.g. kde kontact (alot smb business is switching to kde/kontact/kolab/openoffice and care less about DE )...
people use to ask why kde is not so clear in its design like e.g. mac os x is (somebody may not like it but everybody must admit that its build with a vision)? kde will never be so solid... because of nature of open source community driven projects... where developers are free to do what they like and users may interact with them... no big boss like jobs ;)...
its time to realize that in mass market project (with corporate usage ambitions) like KDE "usability" is nothing else than providing as much features/options as possible with out breaking others...
I would like to thing about kde as an industry tool for users who like to learn or small/medium it companies which provide services for smb business which gives an opportunity for deep customization...
kde developer shouldn't bother so much about those who are crying that something is not simple!!! because it drives project to resource waisting!!!! eg. I don't understand need of dolphin!!! what is wrong with konqueror file management functions?
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