KDE 4.1 released

KDE 4.1 has been released. I hope it makes it into Kubuntu 8.10.

http://dot.kde.org/1217341401/

 

KDE leading the way! (eventually) I read Shuttleworth, Ubuntu financier, donated a lot of money to KDE to become a member for eternity or something like that

 

I started out with KDE due to it being somewhat like Windows when I used Red Hat and Mandrake. Then when I tried Ubuntu, I found Gnome to be to my liking. However, I will go with Kubuntu next version though if they use KDE 4.1. Torvalds also prefers KDE over Gnome.

 

KDE 4.1 should be a big improvement over 4, from the article I read today. One of the things the article mentioned was that the issue with resizing panels and drag and dropping items to panels has been fixed.

I will put Kubuntu with KDE 4.1 on my laptop and see how it is, since it is my experimental machine anyway. I have never used KDE 4.x so i am real excited to see how it is. I prefer KDE over Gnome...

 

I think Torvalds thinks gnome is too simplistic, and he doesn't like the fact that whole new suite of apps was created because of it.....I read that somewhere.

 

Yeah, some people think Gnome treats users like imbeciles who can't function in a complicated environment, and resent the fact that there aren't a lot of options. I can see where he and others are coming from, but I tend to like my interface to be simple. More complex and one time configuration should be done at the command line. Unfortunately Gnome makes even that difficult, though they are starting to take good advantage of gconf.

Personally, I've never liked the cartoony look of KDE, but that seems to have changed to some degree with KDE4. I've played with it a little with the unstable branch of kdemod for Arch, but never really did get things working well. What was there intrigued me, though, I think I'll give it a try in Kubuntu 8.10

 

You mean the cartoony look of the default KDE theme. If you installed a different theme, it wouldn't look 'cartoony'.

 

If Torvalds isnt happy, let him make his own

 

Yeah! Exactly! Who is this Torvalds dude anyway!

 

LOL....truth be spoken as that train has long since left the station....

 

Yep.....the default KDE theme is just a lightweight lowest common denominator type theme....I wouldn't use it myself it that's all there was to it.....lol

 

I'm now using 4.1. Much more stable than 4.0 but there are still important features which seem to be missing. e.g. hitting the sleep button on my laptop does nothing. I've had to manually start kpowersave.

 

Naw, I mean the cartoony look that seems almost inherent in the QT toolkit it's so common in KDE themes.

 

lemur, what distro are you using it with?

 

Kubuntu 8.04.

The problems I'm seeing may be due to Kubuntu rather than KDE 4.1 per se.

 

I am using KDE4.1 now, as well (on Arch Linux). Huge improvements from 4.0 I've tried, but there are still some annoyances. For example, it doesn't save plasmoid location on logout. I have to save them manually by restarting plasma. On the other hands, I do like some new things in KDE 4.1 though - it feels snappier, and there's some usability improvements. I'd say KDE 4.2 will be good.

I suspect that is because Kmilo for KDE4 is discontinued because of the lack of maintainers. I had to install keytouch to make multimedia keys working again.