KDE 4 Rocks your Opensource Socks
Many of you probably don’t use a Unix Operating System (Linux, BSD, Mac OS X). Some of you may not even know about KDE, the second most famous desktop enviroment the opensource community has to offer. Throughout the years, KDE became a very customizable and stable DE, with all the bells and whistles you can dream of.
Since its final release, KDE4 (not KDE 4.0), the Great Leap Forward by the KDE community, received praise, more praise, and also a whole lot of critique coming from this desktop enviroment’s fans.
We’ve all seen the uber-cool Plasma effects, the glassy theme, the great videos and the framework, Dolphin, the new filemanager and last but not least, the Kicker, which you still cannot customize properly.
I’ve already tested KDE 4 on my PCLinuxOS desktop, and I still feel it’s not ready for everything. The guys at KDE have certainly made a great deal of improvements, but there is still a lot of polishing to do: I don’t like the toolbar in the upper right corner, I miss Konqueror, hate the clock in the tray.
In conclusion, I would personally be much happier if the KDE group released KDE4 6 months later. The hype was there, and while KDE lived up to a lot of expectations, it did not exceed them. I’m still staying with my 3.5 with Konqueror and a pretty lousy gray theme with Plastik and Compiz Fusion. While we wait for the 4.1 release, let’s take a look at a video:
I’ve never tried a Linux distro with KDE and I have no intention to turn my GNOME Ubuntu into Kubuntu, because for me Compiz fusion & its Desktop effects, which turn out to be quite useful if you are a multitasking machine like myself, is the best DE solution out there.
I think Linux users and your faithful readers would be glad to hear why the heck is KDE so much better than GNOME? I know this could be an endless debate, but please, take the challenge and make us change our DE
PS: We will continue our little project (you know what I’m talking about
) in february, because I have loads of coding and studying to do. Ok?
You can use a compositing WM with KDE to, you just change teh enviroment. On my PCLinuxOS box, I’ run Compiz fusion + KDE
Why is KDE better than GNOME? I never actually implied it, but KDE has more features – look at it like this: GNOME and KDE have a very similar CPU demand – and while KDE has a REASON, GNOME has none. GNOME hasn’t got almost anything XFCE doesn’t – and just look at XFCE’s specs.
That wasn’t a critique
. Although at that time nothing nice was to be said about 4.0 
. I use KDE 4.0 on a daily basis, and KDE 4.1 is really looking to kick it good 
.