kde development

The KDE development community has banded together and today released an early Christmas present to those using the K Desktop Environment on Linux and other operating systems.

The first beta release of KDE 4.2 is now available. KDE 4.2 Beta 1 features a large number of improvements since the release of KDE 4.1 in July.

KDE.News covers some changes that are planned for the KDE development process.

"At Akademy 2008, KDE Release Team members Sebastian Kügler and Dirk Müller discussed the future of KDE's development process.

Describing the challenges KDE faces and proposing some solutions, they spawned a lot of discussion. Read on for a summary of what has been said and done around this topic at Akademy.

Our current development model has served us for over 10 years now.

The KDE development community announced today the official release of version 4.1, the first major update of the new 4.x series.

The KDE development community announced today the official release of version 4.1, the first major update of the new 4.x series.

This release finally delivers on the promise of a next-generation desktop environment and resolves most of the problems that afflicted the original 4.0 release.

Overall; I like the FolderView widget and the idea of Icon-less desktop through sets of plasmoids. Kudos to the KDE development team for the component - a must have widget in the default collection.

"It has hardly been a few weeks since the release of KDE v3.5.4, one of the most popular desktop environments for Unix/Linux/FreeBSD operating systems, and the KDE development team is already hard at work.