[Sheflug] KDE 4

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello there

Hopefully we all had a good Christmas and the New Year celebrations on 
Wednesday evening will be worth going to.  Meanwhile, spare a thought 
for John Southern who is working.  Stuck in the grid somewhere.

It came to me that one or two of us might be interested in KDE 4 but 
some of us might not be completely up to date on where it's at just 
now.  KDE 4.2 has been uploaded for Debian which is where a lot of 
this kind of KDE activity kicks off...

http://kde42.debian.net/

I have now switched over to KDE 4.1.3 on my Intrepid Ibex workstation 
and found that most things that were missing in KDE 4.0 and early 
versions of 4.1 have now returned.  Such as the open and close windows 
buttons on the bottom right and left hand side of the Konsole window.  
This combined with Gnome 2.2 and AWN/Avant window manager makes for 
something of an amazing desktop as desktops go.  Both functional and 
easy to use as well as tasteful and aesthetically pleasing :)  It's 
not easy to achieve this kind of thing when you are writing a new 
desktop.  Which is why it's taken about five or eight years to get 
there.

Looks like KDE 4.2 will be with us some time near to the 7th of 
February which is when Fosdem takes place and the KDE and Gnome 
developers sit down round a table once again for a long chat over some 
Belgian beer.  Yet another milestone in the development and 
furtherance of that third desktop.  It works on GNU/Linux of course !  
(Well, some of it works on BSD as well actually).


-- 
Richard

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