KDE 4.1 Beta 2  beta

Publisher's Description:

KDE is a powerful graphical desktop environment for Unix workstations. It combines ease of use, contemporary functionality and outstanding graphical design with the technological superiority of the Unix operating system. It is an Internet project and truly open in every sense. Development takes place on the Internet and is discussed on our mailing lists and USENET news groups to which we invite and welcome everyone. No single group, company or organization controls the sources. All sources are open to everyone and may be distributed and modified by anyone subject to the well known GNU licenses.

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Reviewer:	zenarcher	Apr 2, 2008
Version:	4.0.3
I'm experimenting with 4.0.2 right now on Mandriva 2008.1 and it's really progressing along! Can't wait for this update and see how much better it will be. I'm a KDE user all the way, as I love the ease of configuring the desktop and it just does everything I want.
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Reviewer:	HornyToad	Feb 6, 2008
Version:	4.0.1
Hi all! I must say I'm amazed: KDE 4 is not only good- (even better-)looking, it's also much more user-friendly, and doesn't seem to be quite the power-hog some predicted it would become... Tried it first on a newly-minted Kubuntu live-cd, then decided to install it on a new partition on my Toshiba laptop (my Guinea pig of all trades...), just for the fun of it, and I just love it. One thing, though: what was called Kwifi Manager on former versions of KDE is now so well hidden I have yet to find it... If anyone knows where it's gone hiding, feel free to holler... Aside from that, a plain 5. Truly deserved, IMHO!
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Reviewer:	Ian C.	Feb 6, 2008
Version:	4.0.1
Well it's available for windows now, in the alpha phase. But there is no KDE shell port planned. :( http://techbase.kde.org/...on_Windows/Installation Using kdewin-installer-gui-0.8.5.exe to install 4.00.80 packages: * starting a KDE program correctly starts dbus-daemon.exe * many games run * choosing File > Open correctly starts klauncher.exe, kioslave.exe and kded4.exe, and runs kbuildsycoca4.exe as needed. * Help > Program Handbook (often mapped to the [F1] key) does not work because the KDE Help Center is not available on Windows. This is due to its use of the K3Process interface and external dependencies not ported such as perl scripts, htdig, and other libraries. o khelpcenter will be included in the next unstable release. The K3Process issues are fixed now. Perl scripts are disabled, which means there is no fulltext search. -- rhabacker * Applications that try to play sounds will display an alert about "Multimedia Backend" problems. A Windows backend for Phonon is not packaged yet. General notes: * There are many other KDE programs that are not part of KDE 4.0.0 and are not currently packaged for Windows, such as KOffice 2 and Amarok. * By design, KDE-windows does not provide the full-blown KDE desktop, thus no KWin composite manager, KDE-specific "start" menus, Plasma desktop, etc.
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Reviewer:	bigmama	Nov 24, 2007
Version:	4.0 (3.96) RC1
KDE + Good enviroment + Clear colors + Some good programs - Gnome simplicity is better - Desktop OS (e.g. ubuntu or fedora) use Gnome so i used to gnome
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Reviewer:	dpcdpc11	Nov 21, 2007
Version:	4.0 (3.96) RC1
there are tears of joy in my eyes to see that someone is working to port KDE4 on windows... just love this kde... hopefully not long after the final KDE4 for linux release.. there will be a windows port as well... currently i'm using bbLean and i got the most of it and would be the perfect time to switch to another shell.
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