Comments on: KDE 4.1: Visual Changelog (rev 777000)

By: bigdog

bigdog — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:56:30 +0000

I’m just glad it has a “show desktop” button

By: Ricardo Bánffy

Ricardo Bánffy — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:31:53 +0000

Ubuntu 8.04 has the KDE 3.5 packages. I tried to use 4, but had to go back. Simple things like word-wrapping under Kate did not work.

That and a couple dozens of core dumps made me move back.

I will wait for a rock-solid release.

BTW, Oxygen is cool, but the grassy, Vista-ish background must go along with the OSX scrollbars. they have no place in a Unix desktop.

Well… Arguably the Aqua scrollbars have a place in a certain Unix desktop, but that’s not what I meant here.

By: kapri

kapri — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:22:41 +0000

Oh boy,

http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Schedules/KDE4/4.1_Release_Schedule

Basically we have to wait till July 29th for a stable KDE4? Longer if you wait for the packages? That’s annoying. It was released 8 months ahead, incredible.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:58:48 +0000

Sorry about the spelling mistakes that I made, my hand got away and pressed the button before I was finished

By: Bobby

Bobby — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:53:30 +0000

How can you come to such conclusion seeing that KDE 4 just started? Do you remember what KDE 3.0 was like? I don’t but I ma 100% sure taht it wasn’t as pretty, functional, usable or powerful as KDE 3.5.9 is today. KDE 4 was a revolution to KDE 3.5x but it’s evolution just started. It would be interested to see what you will say when it reaches 4.2 or 4.3.
Concerning functionality, just be patient, everything that KDE 3.5 and more will come in time (See KWin 4 for eg. compared with KWin 3).
You got that wrong about Linux users, we do care about look and feel, about aestic beauty and usability otherwis KDE 3.5x would’t be the desktop that it is.
I am convinced that within a year or two from now taht KDE 4 will be match or (even surpass) MAC OS X.

By: Jeremy Steele

Jeremy Steele — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:59:09 +0000

That is hot, looks so much better than previous KDE versions.

By: 3_5 User

3_5 User — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:51:54 +0000

KDE 4 is going to flop, I fear, because of the over-concern on pretty and not enough on functionality. Implement the functionality first, then make it stable, then pretty it up. That’s the right way to do this, guys.

I fear someone wanted to show-off their artistic flare and forgot that Linux users are a bunch of geeks who don’t really care.

By: cerebro84

cerebro84 — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:19:26 +0000

Those emoticons are used in KMail AFAIK (at least in 3.5 they do)