KDE 4.1: Good, bad, or beautiful?
The last week, I’ve been struggling with KDE 4.1. I really want to like it. Actually, I do like it. It’s stable, it’s fast, and it’s gorgeous. I love the Oxygen look, the plasmoids, the KWin desktop effects…it all looks great.
On the software side there’s much to like too. I haven’t used Dolphin extensively yet, but I can’t find any faults with it. I like the layout, even the three column view; I like the breadcrumbs, I like the fact that yes, it does have tabs.
Amarok 2 is pretty sweet. At the moment, it’s still in alpha, which means it lacks some features, but the stability was just fine. The layout is a definite improvement over the 1.4 series, and it went through and played my collection just fine.
I haven’t had any major problems, except the nvidia issue, which was solved pretty easily with this fix. Unfortunately, that still left me with a lot of minor problems.
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It's really quite good, but I hope somoeone forks it.
Really, I don't want to oppose KDE 4. It's a necessary step forward for GNU/Linux,and it's awesome. I just don't want to use it, or have to think about it anymore. But it's important. We need KDE 4, and that's why we need a fork. A classic KDE fork would be a preservation effort, not a development effort, so it could start out slowly, with a couple of years of basic maintanance. Security updates, while the project finds its feet. It's probably feasible, if the interest is there. I'm not a developer, but consider this a 50 dollar pledge.