KDE 4.1
Two days ago, the KDE Community finally released a significant update to the brand new KDE 4. KDE 4.1 is marketed with the slogan Don’t look back, an indication of the problems the 4.0 release brought along with it.
I’m still partial to GNOME, primarily since I consider it cleaner and easier to navigate. KDE reminds me too much of Windows…
Nonetheless, KDE 4.1 solves the most irritating issue users had with KDE 4.0: the integration of many applications into the desktop manager and the correction of many Plasma issues. New in the release is KDE-PIM including the mail client KMail, KOrganizer for scheduling, Akregator (RSS feed reader) and KNode (newsgroup reader). Based on the announcement, the new Plasma shell should now be usable by all users and will replace the older KDE 3 shell.
KDE 4.1 is dedicated to Uwe Thiem. As a long-time contributor and educator to users in Africa about Free Software, his untimely death is a great loss to the FOSS world.
