KDE 4 is almost ready to go

[praka123]

Nov. 21, 2007

KDE e.V, the nonprofit organization behind the popular KDE desktop environment, has announced the immediate availability of the first release candidate for its next major release: KDE 4.0.

With this release candidate, the majority of KDE 4's components are almost ready for prime time. At the same time, with the final bits of Plasma, the brand-new desktop shell and panel in KDE 4, falling into place, Release Candidate 1 is the first preview of KDE 4.0 that is suitable for general use.

KDE 4 is the next generation of the popular KDE Desktop Environment. The aim of the KDE project for the 4.0 release is to put the foundations in place for future innovations on the Free Desktop. The many newly introduced technologies incorporated in the KDE libraries will make it easier for developers to add rich functionality to their applications, combining and connecting different components in any way they want.

The KDE team has also released the final version of the KDE Development Platform, which provides the needed libraries and applications on which the KDE Desktop is based. The KDE Development Platform, comprising the basis for developing KDE applications, is frozen and is now of release quality. The source code for the KDE Development Platform can be found in the "stable/" subdir on KDE's FTP server and mirrors.

Building on this, the majority of applications included in KDE 4.0 are now usable for day-to-day use. The KDE Release Team has recently underlined this by calling on the community to participate in reporting bugs during the time remaining before the release of KDE 4.0 in December.

With the first release candidate, the KDE developers hope to collect comments and bug reports from the wider KDE community. With their help, the programmers hope to solve the most pressing problems with the current KDE 4 code base to ensure the final 4.0 release is usable. Anyone who is willing to spend time on testing to find problems can report them to the KDE developers.

Instructions on how to report bugs is available on the KDE Bugsquad site. Users who want to get to know KDE 4 better but don't want to shift over to the new desktop can give it a try with the regularly updated openSUSE KDE 4 Live CD or the Debian KDE4 Beta4 Live CD.

Several distributions are also getting ready to release KDE 4.0-rc1 packages. The complete and current list can be found on the KDE 4.0-rc1 Info Page. There, users can also find links to the source code and information about compiling, security and other issues.

While the KDE organization is running behind its initial schedule, the final version should be out before the end of the year.
source:
http://desktoplinux.com/news/NS5100346312.html
now any kde users on kde4 here i am looking forward to dolphin,the nautilus file manager lookalike for kde esp the debian kde4 cd

[Dark Star]

KDE 4 is the next generation of the popular K Desktop Environment which seeks to fulfill the need for a powerful yet easy to use desktop for both personal and enterprise computing. The aim of the KDE project for the 4.0 release is to put the foundations in place for future innovations on the Free Desktop. The many newly introduced technologies incorporated in the KDE libraries will make it easier for developers to add rich functionality to their applications, combining and connecting different components in any way they want.

It’s here folks! The first release candidate of KDE 4.0 has been released last night and it includes many improvements from previous Alpha and Beta versions :

“The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the first release candidate for KDE 4.0. This release candidate marks that the majority of the components of KDE 4.0 are now approaching release quality.”

The good news are that this release candidate is suitable for general use, so everybody can discover the improvements that were implemented in it.
While this first release candidate, codename “Calamity” hits the streets,
Plasma (the brand new KDE 4 desktop shell) code is almost finished and the KDE team released the final version of the KDE Development Platform, which provides all the needed applications and libraries the KDE Desktop Environment is based on…

Once again, this release is important too, as the KDE developers rely on the KDE community to help them find and solve any bugs, no matter how important or unimportant they are. So if you want to make KDE 4.0 one of the best desktop environments ever, please Get it, run it, test it…

“Meanwhile, preparations for the KDE 4.0 release events are taking place, with the main event taking place in Mountain View, California in the USA in January 2008. Make sure you don’t miss it!”

Home Page : K Desktop Environment - KDE 4.0 Release Candidate 1

[Gigacore]

nice eye candy

[bikdel]

yeah great looks....... but whats the biggest difference between this and KDE 3.0 in terms of usability/productivity ??

[praka123]

kde is always for eyecandy and customization of each kde software.

while Gnome is for usability and simplicity though it offers everything kde *have*.

[bikdel]

yeah but i dont like gnome much... will see to this KDE 4.0 when it comes out...

@ praka... when it is released, i can update My gutsy gibbon with it isnt it? usng synaptic?

[praka123]

kde4 may be available in ubuntu repos.also check http://ubuntuforums.org for some custom kde4 repositories.

[QwertyManiac]

Gutsy won't have KDE4 officially. Package updates would stop at the last development stage most probably. Hardy will have it by default.

[praka123]

Hoary nahi re,hardy,BTW i liked ur siggy,i know who it is upon

[QwertyManiac]

Heh, sorry was thinking something deep there perhaps. Fixed

And yeah, there's something special about the signature as well. It has equal amount of words, had to use Python a bit!

[praka123]

^thats what i said,others too knows it is a siggy war