KDE 4.1 released

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Unlike KDE 4.0.x KDE 4.1 is stable, more configurable and able to be used as a daily desktop.

Provided, of course, that you don't pine for the 3.5.x series.

It is different and takes some getting used to. At the moment my take is that it is actually faster than KDE 3.5.9 on the same hardware even with the eye candy turned on full blast. (FYI, I turned most of it down to a dull roar after checking that.)

There is a growing list of KDE 4 friendly apps including the KDE 4.x version of Amarok, the best audio player on any platform.

The desktop is still for early adopters only though it can perform admirably as a daily use desktop in spite of the occasional blip and missing items. The latter seems to be distro specific rather than overall.

The much discussed and, it seems, disliked, plasmoids actually work now and they are an improvement over Superkaramba widgets common in KDE 3.5.9 though you can install them too, if you want.

I'm finding Folder View to be a huge improvement over the icon littered desktop and, as promised/hoped for, an exellent way to improve work flow. What it needs still to complete that is to be able to create virtual folders, which is coming in 4.2, and to be able to assoicate an app or apps to the folder which makes them available the instant the Folder View is opened.

As noted there's the issue of making Konq the default file manager over Dolphin which needs to be much easier. Of course for those of us, like me, who like the Swiss Army Knife of file managers Konq is irreplaceable.

It won't make everyone happy though I hope and suspect a lot of the angry criticism will die down to more constructive stuff. It's quite the change which does make people nervous.

That said, I'm more than happy to use it daily.

Oh, and you can actually get a KDE friendly theme for Firefox 3 that comes from the Firefox folks so that even FF fits right in rather than a sudden blast of GTK stuff in a QT3/4 enviornment!

ttfn

John

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