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| KDE 4.1 is scheduled for release at the end of July 2008. This is a significant milestone for the KDE 4 series and for KDE in general, but as an early
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| release in the KDE 4 cycle, it does have some known issues which will not be fixed in KDE 4.1. Huge progress has been made in KDE 4.1 which is listed in the [[Schedules/KDE4/4.1_Feature_Plan|KDE 4.1 Feature Plan]].
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| Some of the more obvious issues are listed below. If these issues are important to you, you should stay with KDE 3.5 (KDE 3.5.10 is scheduled for release in [[Schedules/KDE_3.5_Release_Schedule#August_2008:_Expected_release_date_of_KDE_3.5.10|August]]) or KDE 4.0 until KDE 4.2 when most of these issues are scheduled to be resolved.
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| It is possible that distributions will work around some of these issues before distributing to users. KDE 4.2 is currently scheduled for release
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| in February 2009.
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| == The Desktop ==
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| The desktop in KDE 4.1 will mark the start of some significant user interface changes. This is a step away from the way the KDE 3 desktop was
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| designed, but everything possible on your KDE 3.5.9 desktop will also be possible on your KDE 4 desktop. For KDE 4.1, however, some features
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| are not yet complete, but should be ready for KDE 4.2.
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| === FolderView ===
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| FolderView is a new technology on the KDE 4 desktop which allows more than one collection of icons on your "desktop" and discourages using it as
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| dumping ground for miscellaneous files. However, it can still be configured to behave just like KDE 3 did. See [http://blog.lydiapintscher.de/2008/06/14/folderview-is-the-awesome/ this blog entry by Lydia Pintscher] for some more information on FolderView.
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| The following issues are known and are scheduled to be resolved in KDE 4.2 next February:
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| * Icons do not need to be in a grid. You can drag them to any point within the FolderView. However, the location you leave them in is not saved, so they will be in a grid again the next time you start the desktop.
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| * You can have a full screen "desktop with icons", but if you do, you can not have a desktop background. See also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhYinDOKbE8
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| * You can have a desktop background, but then you must use the FolderView in regular, not entire screen mode (as shown in Lydia's blog above).
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| === Panels and workspaces ===
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| Some panel issues can be resolved before KDE 4.2. Because of the modular design of Plasma, a new panel could be quite easily written with autohide functionality. This would likely be written by a distribution team or a developer on kde-apps.org.
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| * Autohiding of panels is not yet configurable.
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| * It is not possible to set different desktop wallpapers for different virtual desktops.
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| * The Mac-style menu bar is not available.
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| === Session management ===
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| * For a number of applications, e.g. Konsole, sessions do not get restored, as you're used to from KDE 3.5
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| == Applications ==
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| === New and missing applications ===
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| Some KDE 3 applications have not yet been ported to KDE 4. Most distributions still package KDE 3 versions of these applications with their KDE 4 desktop. Some notable applications which will not be included in KDE 4.1 are listed below:
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| * KOffice has a different release schedule than KDE 4. KOffice 2.0 will likely be released late in 2008. [http://www.koffice.org/news.php#itemKOffice20alpha9released Alpha 9] has been released with binaries for all three major platforms. The developers are looking for volunteers to help put together screenshots for [http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3545 visual changelogs].
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| * Amarok has a different release schedule than KDE 4. The Amarok team is currently aiming for a first release in October 2008 for the 2.0 series. Amarok does have their first Alpha release out entitled [http://amarok.kde.org/en/node/523 Malina]. Nightly builds are available through [http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/User:Apachelogger/Project_Neon Project Neon].
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| * Konversation has a different release schedule than KDE 4. Konversation 2.0 does not yet have a release schedule.
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| * digiKam has a different release schedule than KDE 4. They have a [http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/356 beta release] of the KDE 4 port, with many new features.
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| * k3b has a different release schedule than KDE 4. An alpha release of 1.1 (the KDE 4 port) is forthcoming, but not yet released.
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| * [http://kaffeine.kde.org/ Kaffeine] has a different release schedule than KDE 4. The KDE 4 port does not yet have a release schedule.
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| * Several [http://games.kde.org/ KDE games] do not have a KDE 4 port yet. Among these are kasteroids, kfouleggs, ksirtet.
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| * [http://www.krusader.org Krusader] has a different release schedule than KDE 4. There is a [http://krusader.org/down.php#development beta release] available.
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