Ars Technica Reviews KDE 4.0

“KDE 4.0 was officially released last week after extensive
development. The long-awaited 4.0 release ushers in a new era for
the popular open-source desktop environment and adds many
intriguing new features and technologies. Unfortunately, the
release comes with almost as many new bugs as it does features, and
there is much work to be done before it sparkles like the 3.5.x
series.

“KDE 4 is largely built with Qt 4, the latest version of
Trolltech’s commercial open-source development platform. Qt 4
brings significant performance improvements to KDE and offers a lot
of really sophisticated new features for developers, like the
Arthur painting framework and Scribe text layout system. KDE 4 also
inherits many of Qt 4’s most valued attributes, particularly its
high portability…”

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