drowstar.blogspot.com— KDE 4.0.0 has been finalized and will be released on January 11th.The article shows the progress made since KDE3 including many screenshots of what KDE4.0.0 will look like.
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I agree, the foundation put down in 4,0 allows for easier maintenance and extension for years to come. Solid and Phonon are especially interesting, since they are only wrappers KDE4 will be able to adapt to changes around it. If a HAL-killer is ever released all applications written with the Solid API could use it as soon as a developer finished creating a backend for it. Phonon works the same way, applications that use its API don't care what multimedia framework they are using. It lets the uses or distro creators choose which framework to use without worry (again, provided a backend is made).From what I understand KDE's stance used to be to leave things like search, hardware and compositing up to the distro creators. But moved almost everything in-house for various reasons. Probably because in these days those features are all expected to be standard on any operating system, they need to look professional and consistent.
EquesArdor sent me a shout asking about the best linux setup. Well, you have shouts blocked so I figured this is the best place to reply. There Really is no "best" setup. Ubuntu is a great way to start if you've never used linux before, or even if you have. I recommend Kubuntu since I prefer KDE. Ubuntu is based on Debian, which is also good, but a little more advanced. I like the debian package system more than RPMS, but RPM is good too. openSUSE and Fedora are great distros for that. To try linux out, but go beyond the live CD, try doing a dual boot. This is really easy. Just shrink your windows partition by about 10GB and install linux on that partition. GPartEd Live is a good Partition editor. Linux should take care of your bootloader with grub or lilo. You can use either windows or linux this way, so it is easier to migrate.
skeithyJan 7, 2008
I agree, the foundation put down in 4,0 allows for easier maintenance and extension for years to come. Solid and Phonon are especially interesting, since they are only wrappers KDE4 will be able to adapt to changes around it. If a HAL-killer is ever released all applications written with the Solid API could use it as soon as a developer finished creating a backend for it. Phonon works the same way, applications that use its API don't care what multimedia framework they are using. It lets the uses or distro creators choose which framework to use without worry (again, provided a backend is made).From what I understand KDE's stance used to be to leave things like search, hardware and compositing up to the distro creators. But moved almost everything in-house for various reasons. Probably because in these days those features are all expected to be standard on any operating system, they need to look professional and consistent.
keyoJan 7, 2008
You know that themes can be changed right? On the live cd the old kde themes are there.
ryebryeJan 7, 2008
I think you meant "subconsciously" - or else you know some very talented people.
internetworld7Jan 7, 2008
It appears you have a common case of "I'm stuck in the 80's" GUI syndrome.
Closed AccountJan 7, 2008
does anyone know where to find that background/wallpaper image?
digerati1338Jan 12, 2008
EquesArdor sent me a shout asking about the best linux setup. Well, you have shouts blocked so I figured this is the best place to reply. There Really is no "best" setup. Ubuntu is a great way to start if you've never used linux before, or even if you have. I recommend Kubuntu since I prefer KDE. Ubuntu is based on Debian, which is also good, but a little more advanced. I like the debian package system more than RPMS, but RPM is good too. openSUSE and Fedora are great distros for that. To try linux out, but go beyond the live CD, try doing a dual boot. This is really easy. Just shrink your windows partition by about 10GB and install linux on that partition. GPartEd Live is a good Partition editor. Linux should take care of your bootloader with grub or lilo. You can use either windows or linux this way, so it is easier to migrate.