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Well, after being back in the saddle for a bit, I've drawn a few conclusions, good or bad, about the current status of KDE and KDE 4 more specifically. This is derived from my interactions with users, and monitoring of KDE related feedback on the net.

1) KDE 4.2.4 is a good release, and while some people still find ways to complain about it, that doesn't take away from it being a really good release.

So, a question that stems from my previous post: There seems to be a perception that KDE 4 has less options than KDE 3. Where does this perception come from, and can examples be provided either way? I provide some possible answers from my own experiences, but please feel free to append this list in the comments.

Possible source 1: Kcontrol->system settings migration: by removing the tree view, less things are exposed simultaneous, thereby presenting the appearance of having less configuration options.

So, I'm getting my Marketing hat back, Wade promised...

I'm a little rusty, so in order to get back into the swing of things, I thought I'd start with a quick overview of the current state of KDE in the press, including public sentiments in comments far and wide. To begin with, most of what follows is from Google's various services, Google News, Google Blogsearch, etc. I excluded all items that were already published in the KDE world in some way (Dot, planetKDE syndicated, etc.) as well as those not published in English.

Well, there was this comment on my previous posting, which I will quote, and reply to in its entry. I think this is important, so I'm bumping it.
"Stop it.
Yup, another highly relevant KDE posting on KDE planet."

Well, as I'm surfing the net this fine Sunday and reading all about the comings and goings at GCDS, slowing adjusting my hugh to an envious green, I happened to click on a dead link. Wow! I got a search page from the local ISP that provides blanket wireless to my apartment building. Roger's Cable, one of the largest ISP's in Canada, is DNS hijacking!

Well, today I installed KDE again. Only to make a long story short*, I used VirtualBox on Vista32 to host Slackware64 and KDE. The results should show to anyone that KDE 4 does not look like Vista... (the proof that Windows 7 does not look like KDE 4 is left as an exercise to the reader.)

Well folks, it's been a while since I've had time to do anything KDE related. Fortunately, I've now emerged from the smoke mostly intact and with a few extra letters behind my name. The road doesn't end here, however, and as the figure of speech goes: "out of the smoke and into the fire". I start my M.Sc. program in Planetary Sciences (Geophysics) as of September 1st. In the meantime, I get to work for my thesis advisor for the summer and, I guess, get a head start on whatever I'll end up working on...

KDE 4.2.1 has now offically replaced 3.5.x in slackware

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Hey guys, just a few reminders of some upcoming KDE-related deadlines.

KDE 4.0.0 final will be tagged on January 4th, unless something suddenly happens to change the minds of the release team.

For those of you still working on KDE 4.0.0, please note that any translations that come in after tagging will not be part of the official release, although distros may indeed pull the translations directly from SVN rather than the tarballs anyway, so while it'd be nice to get as many translations in by January 4th, don't let that deadline stop you from working later in the month :)

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