KDE4 Devel Live-CD Review: Work in Progress
A few days ago first KDE4 CD images presenting the current development version of KDE4 have been published in the Internet (as a custom openSUSE Live-CD). Nobody should expect that this version is close to the final product. As the SVN code being intensively and continuously developed, no wonder it’s neither stable, usable nor it contains all the features planned for the final release due in late 2007. This review should be then treated as a pure experiment, “a glance” at the current status of KDE4 development.
Development code in action
The boot-up process of the Live-CD was amazingly smooth and this was the last thing that worked . My first problem was with… logging into KDE. The environment seemed start up normally, but it hang up on the „Starting panel” screen. The visual effect of this was the lack of the clock applet and the applications docked in the kicker. Overall, not all programs can be even started and those which can, do not work in a stable manner crashing a lot. What is more, it’s hard to guess which application is which since many icons are missing. The system itself also behaved strangely. For instance, it would not allow me to mount any partitions, each time claiming that the particular partition or disk is already mounted or busy.
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