KDE 4.1 Review: The Rocky Road of the New KDE
Aug 1st, 2008 | By David Harper | Category: LinuxDatamation: With its 4.1 release, KDE is taking few chances. While the 4.0 release’s announcement emphasized excitement and significance, the tone of the announcement for 4.1 is more subdued. This time, the announcement talks about maturing technologies and underlying improvements, and the only claim is that the 4.1 desktop “can replace the KDE 3 shell for most casual users.”
The change of tone seems a direct result of the numerous complaints about KDE 4.0, which somehow reached end-users’ hands despite warnings that it was a development release. However, whether the 4.1 release will silence the complaints depends very much on individual users’ tolerance for change, their willingness to customize, and the degree to which the available programs fit their needs. Only after these considerations, I suspect, will users get around to exploring everything that is new in 4.1, much less to appreciating it.