KDE 4 is the current series of releases of the K Desktop Environment. The first version (4.0.0) of this series was released on January 11 2008,and the latest version (4.2) was released on January 27 2... More

KDE 4 is the current series of releases of the K Desktop Environment. The first version (4.0.0) of this series was released on January 11 2008,and the latest version (4.2) was released on January 27 2009. The new series includes updates to several of KDE’s core components, notably a port to Qt 4. It contains a new multimedia API, called Phonon, a device integration framework called Solid and a new style guide and default icon set called Oxygen. It also includes the new desktop and panel user interface tool, called Plasma, which supports desktop widgets (called "Plasmoids"), replacing SuperKaramba and similar to Apple’s Dashboard widgets. The port to Qt 4 will facilitate support for non-X11-based platforms, including Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. One of the overall goals of KDE 4 is to be more easily portable to different operating systems. Major releases (4.x) are scheduled for every six months, while minor bugfix releases (4.x.y) are released monthly.  [edit]  Less