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NewsForge: KDE 4 Promises Radical Changes to the Free Desktop

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 26, 2005

“As the dust settles from aKademy 2005, the annual KDE
conference, it’s a good time to take a look at what the KDE
developers are working on. Though KDE 3.5 isn’t even out yet,
developers are already working on KDE 4. Plenty of work has already
gone into porting existing code to Qt4, the GUI toolkit upon which
KDE is based, and KDE developers are working on projects that could
radically change how the world’s most popular free desktop looks
and works.

“KDE 3.5 is due out in late October. The 3.5 release will give
KDE users and developers a mature, stable, and integrated desktop
platform with a wide range of applications…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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