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I’ve been playing with KDE4 for awhile now since Kubuntu released 8.04. Although it’s a little more polished and useable than when I tested the 4.0 release, it’s still not quite there yet. That is, it doesn’t give compelling reason to switch from KDE 3. That said, KDE4 is beautiful.

One of the complains against KDE that it wasn’t very beautiful. It was very functional, but beauty… To me, it was like most enterprise level software. Functional, does what you need it to do, but it’s not a thing of beauty (if you want beauty, check out what Apple is doing with their stuff). KDE4 is beautiful. The artwork team in KDE has done a really good job. And with the addition of 3D accelerated graphics, it actually feel smoother too.

I really look forward to what the KDE team has in store for v4.1 and beyond. It’s going to be an exciting year.