Visual Walkthrough Of KDE 4.1

Posted by Ruhaan Ahmed 11 August, 2008

The KDE 4 desktop environment was released to much criticism many of which said that it was severely limited, to face those criticisms the KDE organisation worked on KDE 4.1 to battle many of the problems, I will take you through the new features in KDE 4.1

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1)Upon first boot up of KDE 4.1 the first most prominent feature is the inclusion of a new desktop management widget

When hovering over the left or right side of the widget clear navigation options can be seen to resize and option for the widget.

2) One new addition is the option to resize the panels which previously was not possible because many distro’s did not integrate the feature.

Resizing the panel is very easy simply moving the arrows resizes it

3) The functionality of widgets was planned to be released in KDE 4 but it wasn’t but now it has been included in KDE 4.1 and no compiling is required to install new widgets simply click install new widgets and new widgets can easily be downloaded from KDE-look.org

4) On the release of KDE 4 the first complaint people had was that the default theme could not be changed without tweaks in the root folder this problem was eliminated in KDE 4.1 and an automatic theme installer has been added