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Incense
October 31st, 2007, 04:47 PM
Code name "kippie"?:confused: Is it just me, or the closer we got to the release date, the more it looks like KDE3?

From: http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.0-beta4.php


KDE Project Ships Fourth Beta Release for Leading Free Software Desktop, Codename "Kippie"

With the fourth Beta, the KDE project would like to collect feedback to ensure the quality of KDE 4.0.

October 30, 2007 (The INTERNET).

The KDE Community is happy to release the fourth Beta for KDE 4.0. This Beta aimed at further polishing of the KDE codebase and we would love to start receiving feedback from testers.
As KDE has largely has been in bugfix mode, this latest Beta aims to encourage testers to have a look at it to help us find and solve the remaining problems and bugs. Besides the stabilization of the codebase, some minor features have been added, including but not limited to much work on Plasma, the KDE 4 desktop shell.
Sebastian Kügler notes: "The improvements have been huge, and plasma is much closer to what it needs to be before the release. I am confident we will be able to finish it and present a very usable plasma to our userbase with KDE 4.0. We will then be able to extend on that and present truly innovative desktop interfaces throughout the KDE 4 lifecycle.

The new Beta 4 incorporates many improvements from previous Beta and alpha releases: Beta 3, Beta 2, Beta 1, Alpha 2 and Alpha 1.



Some Screens

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=898&num=1

maagimies
October 31st, 2007, 05:24 PM
Well, KDE is customizable, but they should really focus on the default look.
Also.
http://xs220.xs.to/xs220/07443/crappy.png (http://xs.to)

Kingsley
October 31st, 2007, 05:30 PM
Well, KDE is customizable, but they should really focus on the default look.
Also.
http://xs220.xs.to/xs220/07443/crappy.png (http://xs.to)
Send a message to the developers. Bitching here won't help anything.

rek2
October 31st, 2007, 06:25 PM
when are packages for Kubuntu coming out?

mech7
October 31st, 2007, 06:48 PM
The minimize / maximize / close buttons look really dated. Why would they ever put those in :confused:

stmiller
October 31st, 2007, 06:52 PM
The minimize / maximize / close buttons look really dated. Why would they ever put those in :confused:

It's much more elegant in real life. Hard to see the nice new looks from these low quality jpeg images.

awakatanka
October 31st, 2007, 07:04 PM
Code name "kippie"?:confused: Is it just me, or the closer we got to the release date, the more it looks like KDE3?

they still busy with a lot of things. There also showstoppers still there and release can still be moved because of that.

http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.0_Release_Beta_Goals

Ub1476
October 31st, 2007, 07:21 PM
Wow, looks nice! Not sure to whether use Ubuntu or Kubuntu when Hardy comes..

mech7
October 31st, 2007, 08:21 PM
It's much more elegant in real life. Hard to see the nice new looks from these low quality jpeg images.

No but i mean the way the it looks like somebody slapped them on there.. it is not integrated very well ;)

MacUntu
October 31st, 2007, 08:39 PM
Already in the backports?

Incense
October 31st, 2007, 08:55 PM
Already in the backports?

Looks like Beta 3 is still in there, but not 4. I'm sure it will hit soon. I'm really looking forward to the new Amarok, and koffice.

prince_niceguy
November 1st, 2007, 01:34 AM
sorry for being dumb... but how did you configure the kde4 so that you can login into the same?

thanks in advance.

EtniesBMX
November 1st, 2007, 03:04 AM
prince_niceguy
Re: KDE 4 Beta 4 Released
sorry for being dumb... but how did you configure the kde4 so that you can login into the same?

thanks in advance.

if you mean allow kde4 to be a separate session from kde3, follow instructions here:

http://kubuntu.org/announcements/kde4-beta3.php

if you don't mean that, could you clarify?

racoq
November 1st, 2007, 03:15 AM
Ah! thought they were going to innovate on KDE4 :D I Still see a horrible big Kicker version 2:P

Do they have anything against good looking thin Task bars?

Well apparently they are dropping that ugly plastik theme, which is in fact a good thing.

luca.b
November 1st, 2007, 10:35 AM
I'd like to say that instead of saying "this si ugly" etc, please provide the developers with constructive criticism, or help somehow.
There's a bug-hunting session this saturday in #kde4-krush, so if you want to help triaging bugs, go there.