KDE was one of the first desktop environment I used , when I started using Linux Back In 1998 , KDE was just out of beta and KDE Team had just released 1.0 version of the Desktop Environment. At that time KDE was like a revolution , other desktop environment like CDE etc though were extremely good as desktop manager, but were not user friendly and there was almost no interaction between different applications running atop these Window Manager.The applications running atop these Window Managers felt alike and disconnected from each other.

I have been a distro-junkie over the past decade jumping from one distribution to other and from one desktop environment to other.However , over the past couple of years, I have spent most of my time on Gnome (another popular desktop environment that was born because of licensing issue about QT, a framework KDE uses internally) because it did almost all the things KDE did and much faster and there was nothing exceptionally different in KDE that gnome did not offer, TILL NOW !!!

KDE 4.1 was released a couple of months back , and includes a number of features , eye candy and applications that puts it head and shoulder above the other desktop environment. In the article I try to explore some of these features :

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