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[Razor VinT]

The KDE Community today announces the immediate availability of "Caizen", (a.k.a KDE 4.3), bringing many improvements to the user experience and development platform. KDE 4.3 continues to refine the unique features brought in previous releases while bringing new innovations. With the 4.2 release aimed at the majority of end users, KDE 4.3 offers a more stable and complete product for the home and small office.

The KDE community has fixed over 10,000 bugs and implemented almost 2,000 feature requests in the last 6 months. Close to 63,000 changes were checked in by a little under 700 contributors.



Web integration in KDE 4.3


Some Egyptian themes


Social desktop and other online services in action


Read more about the final version of KDE 4.3

Download KDE 4.3 (Updated)
For Linux Users (final version)
For Windows Users (Final version released)

[shivaram]

thanks for the update.

[zool]

For Windows? They porting their apps so that it can be use for Windows.. Gonna try it later coz i never use KDE before.

[CommonSense]

Yes! They fixed the taskbar! Wow KDE 4.3 actually looks good!

Edited by CommonSense, 06 August 2009 - 02:29 PM.

[lareeth]

Looks good, but I still prefer Gnome!

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[Ultimate John]

I'll install it in Windows when the final version will come out.

[InlineSkate]

Now if I install this on Windows can it be removed completely and easily when wanted?

[pcHuntqwerty]

I'm gonna check out the Windows version.

[LonghornGT]

Are taskbar and other UI elements included in version for Windows?

[hab]

Sorry for noob question (windows user here) but what exactly is KDE? Is it kinda like a visual style?

[LonghornGT]

2hab:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE
also
www.kde.org

[CommonSense]

Sorry for noob question (windows user here) but what exactly is KDE? Is it kinda like a visual style?

It's a Linux desktop environment... K Desktop Environment. It's pretty much another GUI. But for Linux, it also determines what programs can be run natively without having to install extra libraries.

Desktop Environment
What Is KDE?

[gergux]

Are taskbar and other UI elements included in version for Windows?

Do not be mislead... You can run and install kde "applications" not the gui.... Would be nice if they added the gui to this.

Edited by gergux, 06 August 2009 - 10:50 PM.

[CommonSense]

I'm talking about the Linux KDE not the Windows KDE. To install KDE applications, there are certain libraries that must be installed beforehand.
Never mind. Gregux confuses me.

Edited by CommonSense, 06 August 2009 - 11:01 PM.

[gergux]

Sorry should of quoted before i posted.. I should of known it would of confused you

Edited by gergux, 06 August 2009 - 10:55 PM.

[pm_41]

KDE looks sexier than GNOME now!

[hab]

Just tried this out for Windows XP and it's pretty good but it's kinda slow and when I ran the audio player, it used over 110k ram which is pretty ridiculous. Also there's like 4 extra services just to run KDE, and when you only have 512 ram, you need everything you can get.

[fediaFedia]

KDE looks sexier than GNOME now!

Was GNOME ever sexy?

[pm_41]

KDE looks sexier than GNOME now!

Was GNOME ever sexy?

If you gave it the right touch/modifications, yeah.

Downloading Linux Mint KDE edition as we speak. Gonna try to install KDE 4.3 later on tonight.

[Liskiller]

Windows users will have to wait for a few more days for the final version.