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| KDE 4.1 was released 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 was released in [[Schedules/KDE_3.5_Release_Schedule#August_2008:_Expected_release_date_of_KDE_3.5.10|August 2008]]) until KDE 4.2 is released (scheduled for release in [[Schedules/KDE4/4.2_Release_Schedule|January 2009]]) 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.
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| == Graphics Performance ==
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| Users of NVidia cards with the binary driver provided by NVidia might suffer from performance problems in window switching and resizing. A fixed NVidia driver has been [http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html released.]
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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". However, it can still be configured to behave much 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:
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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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| Session management is not fully implemented yet, at least not as you're used to from KDE 3.5. Some of these features might get implemented in a 4.1.x release.
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| * Even though the System Settings module offers you an option to start your day with a Manually Saved Session, there's no option yet in the menu to actually save one. The functionality is available via D-Bus though and some distributions already include patches to fix this. See [http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155341 bug 155341] for details.
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| * For a number of applications, e.g. Konsole, sessions do not get restored.
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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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| '''Projects with a different release schedule than KDE4.'''
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| Project (Current Version - Final Release Date)
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| * [http://www.digikam.org/ digiKam] ([http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/371 Beta 3] - November 2008)
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| [http://www.digikam.org/drupal/about/releaseplan Digikam 0.10.0 Release Plan]
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| * [http://www.krusader.org Krusader 2.0] ([http://krusader.org/down.php#development Beta 1] - Unknown)
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| Krusader is an advanced twin panel (commander style) file manager.
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| * [http://www.koffice.org/ KOffice 2.0] ([http://www.koffice.org/news.php#itemKOffice20beta2released Beta 2] - Late 2008)
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| Binaries are available 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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| * [http://amarok.kde.org/ Amarok 2.0] ([http://amarok.kde.org/en/node/554 Beta 2 - Nujalik] - November 2008)
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| Nightly builds are available through [http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/User:Apachelogger/Project_Neon Project Neon].
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| * [http://k3b.plainblack.com/ k3b 1.1] (Pre-Alpha - Unknown)
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| 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] (Pre-Alpha - Unknown)
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| The KDE4 port is under way but requires major rewriting to support Phonon and other new features. No releases scheduled at this time.
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| * [http://kplayer.sourceforge.net/ KPlayer 0.7] (Released January 11 2008)
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| KPlayer 0.7 is the KDE4 port of KPlayer that was released on the same day as KDE 4.0. KPlayer 0.7.1 is planned for fall 2008 and will include a KDE4 port of its multimedia library which still used KDE3 compatibility layer in version 0.7.0.
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| * [http://basket.kde.org/ Basket] (1.0.3.1 (KDE3) - Released June 30 2008)
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| The KDE4 port of Basket is currently in a pre-alpha state.
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| * [http://konversation.kde.org/ Konversation 2.0] (Pre-Alpha - Unknown)
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| The KDE4 port will not be released to sometime after version 1.1, which will be the last KDE3 release.
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| *There are also several [http://games.kde.org/ KDE games] that do not have a KDE 4 port yet. Among these are kasteroids, kfouleggs.
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| * [http://www.kdevelop.org/ KDevelop 4.0] (Pre-Alpha - Unknown)
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| An alpha release of 4.0 (a rewritten from scratch version) [http://www.kdevelop.org/mediawiki/index.php/KDevelop_4/KDev3_KDev4_comparison_table is forthcoming], but not yet released. Normal users should continue to use the [http://www.kdevelop.org/index.html?filename=3.5/download.html stable KDevelop 3.5.2] version for the time being.
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