arstechnica.com — KDE 4.0 is very exciting, though not yet production ready, and that shows with this weeks' release of the first beta. A major milestone release such as 4.0 is a long time in the making. Here follows a number of things to look forward to for those of you brave enough to try this early beta.
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puelocesarAug 6, 2007
Plastik is indeed beeing completely replaced by Oxygen Style. See a preview here: <a class="user" href="http://pinheiro-kde.blogspot.com/2007/06/oxygen-style-is-coming-to-town.html">http://pinheiro-kde.blogspot.com/2007/06/oxygen-style-is-coming-to-town.html</a>Nuno pinheiro is responsible for Oxygen Style, and he's a very talented artist, but we don't know exactly how Oxygen will be when it's finished, because they aren't releasing a full preview of final artwork.
xvampirexAug 6, 2007
Couple that with the new techs going into the kernel and you should have a rather neat desktop :)
soapdishAug 6, 2007
But that is only to support applications.Stuff like plasma and kwin that change the feel of the desktop, will not be portable because they are still dependant on X. KDE4 on linux will still be unique.
kozoAug 6, 2007
I have been a Gnome fan lately, but this KDE4 is shaping up to be way to exciting to just pass by.
skeithyAug 7, 2007
Some of the most interesting parts of KDE4 won't be seen by the users, but developers will love them. Solid and Phonon in particular along with the soon to be multiplatform kdelibs will allow some KDE applications to run on any platform using almost the same code (last time I checked, kdelibs was almost working on windows). In addition to making applications using them operating system and multimedia framework agnostic sometime in the future when the engines have all been written. Rumors have been circulating about Trolltech adopting them for use in qt for better cross platform development.
stealthtomatoAug 8, 2007
Telephony; though telepathy would be freakin' sweet.
maz2331Aug 13, 2007
Maybe they'll make a KDE replacement for Windows Explorer?