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By Arun, 2 months and 7 days ago

KDE 4.1 released

KDE team has released an upgrade to their new desktop environment, KDE 4.1. This release is the second feature release of the KDE 4 series, sporting new applications and newly developed feature. KDE 4.1 is the first KDE4 release to contain the Personal Information Management suite KDE-PIM with its E-Mail client KMail, the planner KOrganizer, Akregator, the RSS feed reader, KNode, the newsgroup reader and many more components integrated into the Kontact shell. Furthermore, the new desktop shell Plasma, introduced in KDE 4.0, has matured to the point where it can replace the KDE 3 shell for most casual users.

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By Arun, 4 months and 8 days ago

KDE 4.1 Beta 1 released

KDE team has released 1st beta of KDE 4.1. This beta includes

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By Arun, 7 months and 1 day ago

KDE 4.0.2 released

KDE team has updated their KDE 4.0 window manager. KDE 4.0.2 contains lots of bugfixes and some new features. Here are some of the new features introduced in KDE 4.0.2 (some of the features fixed bugs):

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By Arun, 8 months and 29 days ago

KDE 4 - couple of annoying issues

I'm using KDE 4.0 RC2 intermittently now. You might have read my reviews here and here. It's still not ready for everyday use. System settings is not working with KDE 4.0 RC2. When you click on System Settings, you get the icon in the taskbar with opening message, stays there for several seconds and then disappears without starting (similar to KDE 3.x problem and the reason, applications not starting, why I stopped using KDE). System Setting was working fine initially with RC2, but it doesn't wok any more.

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