I have managed to find some time to cover the recent changes in the development version of KDE 4.4. The number of changes is not impressive but they are interesting enough to write an article.

Aaron Seigo has published a list of changes and new features to Plasma, the desktop shell for KDE4, that will be included in KDE4.3. This list is quite long, so I will only try to show the most important changes.

Lancelot and Raptor are alternative menus intended for KDE 4. We are, however, at the frosty point, and we should ask ourselves the most important question here – which one to choose, and are they sufficiently mature and functional at all to compete with the default menu? Let’s look at them closely then to know [...]

Finally the day has come, when the curiosity about the KDE4.3 development branch took the better of me. Unfortunately the gap between what I was blogging on caused some confusion on what is really new out there. So the review will be a little unusual, more like a shooting in the dark ‘oh this looks [...]

The Beta1 of KDE 4.2 Desktop Environment has been released at 26.11.2008. So it’s been there for a while – let’s take a look at the revision 893046.

Dolphin is the default file manager for KDE4. It is very powerful, offering many functionalities. The developers have focused on the functionality of Dolphin – being a file manager. As a long-time user, I can say it is a very proud substitute for its older brother, Konqueror (the default file manager for KDE3).

KDE4 isn’t the only application under development rush in the KDE world. KDevelop 4 and KOffice 2 are also being migrated to Qt4 and enriched with new features. This time I’m going to check what KOffice 2 Beta 2 can offer. I’m using KOffice 2 SVN build (frome day before beta 2 was announced).

DigiKam is an application to manage your digital photos professionally, with a claim of: „Manage your photographs like a professional, with the power of Open Source”.