KDE 4.0.0!

[Colin Pinkney]

On Friday 11 Jan 2008, Chris Gow wrote:
> - There are a lot less plasmoids/widgets than I expected. Dunno if it is
> packaging releated (perhaps not built yet) or KDE decided to strip some
> out. For example there is no:
> 	- Way to change the Analog Clock to that old bedside table analog clock
> (the ones where the numbers flipped around)
> 	- No weather applet
> 	- No picture applet
> 	- Notes/twitter applet

Try installing extragear-plasma (do NOT install playground-plasma if you have 
it as that is an older package)

Overall I like the look & feel. It seems more modern to me and I like the 
composite features, which seem to automatically disable if you are not able 
to run them like if running KDE in an Xnest.

However it still has some very rough corners so I will continue to use 3.5.8 
for now, but at least I couldn't get it to crash. :D

I think some people are still expecting it to be complete judging by the 
number of "where's this app..." or "what about feature X" questions. People 
have to remember this is version 4.0.0, "Point zero" releases are always 
rough, so you are best sticking with the previous version if you want a 
stable desktop as v3.5.x isn't going away for a while.

-- 
Colin Pinkney
http://www.cpinkney.org.uk