I hope it gets better than it is now....

Story: KDE 4.0 ScreenshotsTotal Replies: 5
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thenixedreport

Jan 11, 2008
10:45 PM		 I looked at the screenshots, and I hate to say it, but.... I'm not impressed. I don't like the way the menu looks at all. I don't mind a lighter file manager though.
montezuma

Jan 11, 2008
10:58 PM		 I tend to agree although I am a long term gnome user.

Installed the Kubuntu version and it has a fairly unpolished feel to it at present. The menus are not nice to use and some of the configuration tools are still buggy. For example changing themes takes a long time and crashes at times and they are generally rather unappealing. The gnome desktop in Ubuntu seems a fair bit snappier with several tasks.

I guess one should not be too critical as it is 4.0.0 but it felt rushed out the door.....

Edit: Also it screwed up my qt4 settings in gnome which was rather irritating.
azerthoth

Jan 11, 2008
11:46 PM		 I just posted the story, but you were all aware that todays release was a developers release and not the stable public release right?
ColonelPanik

Jan 11, 2008
11:57 PM		 Gnome
Abe

Jan 12, 2008
1:09 AM
Quoted:
Installed the Kubuntu version and it has a fairly unpolished feel to it at present

I did the same and I agree, it needs a lot of polishing and maturing. They are on the right track though and it will only get better.

I had similar problems with changing themes among other issue. Like you said, it is 4 release.

Quoted:
I don't like the way the menu looks at all.

I agree, they shouldn't have released it with the "Kickoff menu", they should have released it with "Tasty Menu" instead. It is a day & night difference. Lot more mature with better presentation and functionality.

See it here
[HYPERLINK@www.notmart.org]

Download it from here
[HYPERLINK@www.kde-apps.org]
montezuma

Jan 12, 2008
11:24 AM		 > I just posted the story, but you were all aware that todays release was a developers release and not the stable public release right?

Yeah that is the impression when using it but this page


[HYPERLINK@www.kde.org]

hypes it a lot and downplays the beta aspect of it which I don't think all that wise. There was a lot of discussion on this point on kde blogs and my impression was that the developers wanted to go this risky route because they wanted really wide testing.

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