[NTLUG:Discuss] Interesting Video of Win7 UI development

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 11:47:24AM -0500, Leroy Tennison wrote:
> I wish i could say that "progress" equaled "improvement".  Sadly, I'm 
> not so sure.  Closer to home, I hear KDE4 is a radical departure from 
> previous.  What little I've seen doesn't impress me.

I played with KDE 4 briefly in Kubuntu 8.10 (just released) this 
weekend; and while there obviously are a lot of new features and
capabilities and some possibilities for radical departures,
out of the box it didn't feel like a radical UI departure was being
forced upon me..  Mostly it felt more like "Oh, I have to go 
figure out where such-and-such feature is" -- similar to the 
experience of moving from Windows to Linux, or from Microsoft Office 
to OpenOffice.org, or from Gnome to KDE (or vice-versa).

That said, I ultimately decided that I'll be sticking with 
Kubuntu 8.04 for the time being, because there are too 
many "must-have features" that I need that apparently haven't
made it into KDE 4 yet.  (Keyboard shortcuts tops the list.)

When KDE 4 is more complete I suspect it'll be just fine as a
desktop environment for me, but until then I'm staying with 
what I have now (KDE 3.5).

Pm