KDE 4.1 RC1
While it still is guilty of the "sins" that you imply in your review it's now usable for most of not all daily use.
There are still rough edges, mind you, as there were when KDE 3.0 appeared and that took some time to work out.
Widgets are fun things, sorta. In GNOME they're called something else but they're there too.
And I am glad they didn't integrate Compiz for the simple reason that I've always felt that it's just eye candy for it's own sake when I could actually get it to work.
I will disagree with Jaqui in that I'd never recommend GNOME to someone coming from Windows, though it's seriously dumbed down interface and lack of configurabiltity is similar to Vista.
KDE remains a far more powerful desktop than GNOME, it isn't reliant on Mono to work well and it far more configurable.
The eye candy is nice but, then again, in the eye candy department GNOME is worse looking than Win 3.1.
All this pitching for E17 means I'll have to take a look at that too!
ttfn
John
(And no, I don't use GNOME, don't like it and aren't likely to except the occasional glance to see why anyone in their right mind would ever use it.)
