LinuxDevCenter: Previewing KDE 4 Jan 13, 2006, 21 :15 UTC (6 Talkback[s]) (14328 reads) (Other stories by John Littler)
"John Littler: The new features I remember include a bucketload of bug fixes, a universal messaging client, and a big cleanup of the GUI. Are there more things that you should mention?
"Aaron J. Seigo: For KDE4, there is a lot more than just this. We are:
"switching to Qt4, which brings a host of new capabilities when it comes to visuals (via the Arthur paint engine) and application design (improved threading, model/view), as well as having a smaller memory footprint and allowing us to write non-GUI apps that don't require an X server..."