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KDE 4.0 released

By Justin Mann

On January 11, 2008, 12:14 PM

After a long, long development period and a more than extended beta, the KDE project has finally released version 4.0 of their popular desktop suite. KDE4 is an extensive overhaul of the package, with updates from top to bottom including core desktop features like the desktop shell.

The most noticeable change in KDE4 is the visual appearance and the desktop interface. The old interface has been replaced by Plasma, which incorporates new visual elements to make things prettier. Other features like compositing and hardware acceleration help make it smoother as well. The default themes and window decorations coming with Plasma look a lot smoother than the stock ones in 3.5 as well (at least in my eyes).

KDE4 also brings technical improvements, such as overhauled libraries and being built upon QT4. If you are a KDE user, it's definitely worth taking a look.

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  1. January 11, 2008 1:34 PM
    phantasm66 said:
    I'll probably wait until Fedora 9 or something is out first. In fact, I did switch to opensuse.... I don't fancy installing KDE4 by hand, though... last time i did a compile of 3 it took all day and 4 can only be worse.
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  2. January 11, 2008 3:08 PM
    Soul Harvester said:
    I will wait until Gentoo has a nice unmasked ebuild for me
    Reply
  3. January 13, 2008 3:43 PM
    bushwhacker said:
    I'll wait on next release on OpenSuSE.
    Reply

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