ZDNet UK: New KDE to Arrive with Halloween Eye Candy

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"The KDE League is preparing to release the first major upgrade to its Linux desktop software since last spring, including a lot of eye candy and a raft of other tweaks and improvements.

"The software is one of the two best known graphical user interfaces for Linux, the other being Gnome. Linux is an open source operating system that is generally used on servers, but is being pushed for desktop use by companies as diverse as IBM and consumer Linux maker Lindows.com.

"KDE 3.1 is due at the beginning of November, and the visual difference from its predecessor--version 3.0--will be immediately obvious, the group hopes. The software will ship with an icon set called Crystal and a new theme called Keramik, both of which have hints of Apple's Aqua interface in Mac OS X and Microsoft's Windows XP styling. It will use a new theme manager and windows will have drop-shadows to give the desktop a three-dimensional look..."

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