lifehacker.com — What KDE 4 does best is give users the ability to almost completely re-design their desktops, putting their programs, icons and useful widgets wherever they see fit, on as many desktops as they want, to create their ideal workspace. I spent some time exploring the features of the less-than-week-old system, the results of which are after the jump
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ukshadowJan 19, 2008
I"m a coder, and freelance designer. Wtf do i do?
kwilliamJan 19, 2008
@sirspocksalot and friends: Read Aaron Seigo's blog. There are long, detailed reasons and logic behind everything about the 4.0 release. You just need to read it to understand: the dev team has reasons, and it's because of the way open source works. (Basically, you need to release early and often or a project will stagnate.)
kwilliamJan 19, 2008
Me too. We'll just have to wait more months, maybe till KDE 4.1. :-(In the mean time, I've found if you drag .desktop files from /usr/share/applications to the panel, it creates application launchers.
kwilliamJan 19, 2008
Well, some think the GNOME desktop looks hideous. Others think the Windows desktop looks hideous. And a few bold people declare the OSX desktop looks hideous.Your point was?
kwilliamJan 19, 2008
joebaker: Why not vote for the bug on bugs.kde.org? <a class="user" href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67504">http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67504</a> It sounds like this is something that needs to be addressed in the Akonadi structure for KDE4 PIM.
visyJan 21, 2008
I like it.Its not what I'm used to but hey...change can sometimes be a good thing.