KDE 4.1 Is it ready for everyday use ?

In my opinion.. yes !! I think KDE 4.1 can be used for everyday work now :D The KDE development team has done a good job at recognizing what the users need.. I'll list out the advantages that we have with KDE 4.1 now. Some people might want to wait until the KDE 4.1 is realeased, it will be released on the 29th July 2008.

KDE 4.1 is scheduled for final release on July 29, 2008. This time based release falls six months after the release of KDE 4.0.

• When people asked me, why I'm using KDE, the answer was "I can make it look/work like I want it to, easily". When I first tried out KDE 4, it didn't work nicely for me.. mainly becuase it lacked the ability to customize it. We weren't able to change the look of the Panel. It was huge and wasn't very usable. But now, The Plasma widgets can be resized, as the KDE.org says, "it's as flexible as before"

• And most importantly, KDE PIM (Personal Information Management) suite is back !! That means my favourite mail client and the feed reader is back :D This was one of the main reasons why I didn't want to use KDE 4 before.

• There's a new media player, called the Dragon Player maybe this will be a good replacement for KMplayer, although I prefer to use the normal mplayer for my media viewing tasks.

• Dolphin has tabs now, makes it more easier to use, and maybe.. it will be a good replacement for konqueror.

• And there are some other changes too.. but they are not very important for me, and to many others I guess. But those are some nice changes, you can take a look at the changes from the KDE website's KDE 4.1 beta release announcement.

I didn't install KDE 4.1 yet, I'll be doing that within this week, I'm kinda busy these days, so I decided to leave it off for a day or two, and then install it.. when I have time :)

Now we just have to wait for a good review of KDE 4.1 from Polish Linux. I always liked their great reviews on KDE :)