Fruits of KDE 4 brainstorming

The KDE 4 Brainstorming section at KDE Look bare fruits! Just look at this lovely task progress mock-up!

This mock-up shows system-wide, standardised task progress handling. As KDE Dot News puts it:

What started as a mocked up KDE 4 Improvement via KDE-Look.org has turned into a full-fledged KDE 4 integration project, thanks to Rafael Fernandez Lopez. And there's been a lot of progress to the point where applications are already being adapted to the new infrastructure. Last Tuesday's "Binary Incompatible Changes" day saw much of the changes officially committed to the KDE 4 repository.

One of my personal favorites among the cleaver ideas where selection eye candy. It is not something new or anything, but it truly is well designed eye candy! And if I remember correctly then eye candy is a part of KDE 4's manifesto.

I am really looking forward to KDE 4! It shows great potential (not only in mock-ups!) It is not expected before the end of third quarter this year, and probably will not be available in any distributions before early 2007.

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3 comments

This actually looks really impressing! I'm looking forward to the release, lets just pray that the KDE 4 doesn't require 2 giga bytes just to be able to start. I know its an exaggeration, but you catch my drift.

Comment by Kent Vegard Evjen at 2007-02-11 @430.

KDE 4 will actually require less of your computer due to performance improvements in the Qt 4.2 toolkit.

Comment by Daniel Aleksandersen at 2007-02-11 @710.

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