KDE 4.1 is really nice.

[reddragdiva]

• That's no melon!

KDE 4.1 is made entirely of delicious eye candy. It's still slightly unfinished and geeky, but remains deeply tasty. As I say that "KDE is like Windows but it works," so KDE 4.1 is like Vista but it works. Which is a bit like "is like anthrax but not bad for you," but anyway.

If you're not willing to geekily beat it into behaving, don't try it yet. But if you are: how to set it up in Ubuntu Hardy (you have to add an experimental repository); install gtk-qt-engine-kde4 to solve the Fugly Firefox problem; install quick launch if you want that (though I couldn't get it to work); switch off single-click launch in Konqueror; reboot; fiddle with all the settings. Play and have fun.

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[blarglefiend.livejournal.com]

I whacked it into an OpenSUSE VM the other day and, yes, it's very pretty. Think I'll probably wait for 4.2 before I redo my "could I live with a Linux desktop" eval, but 4.1 is showing a lot of promise and is broadly the sort of thing I'd like to be using, so...

[reddragdiva]

Sounds about right. With 4.1, unlike 4.0, they have something that's actually usable. Still clunky with subtle bits of missing functionality, but not bad at all.