Wednesday, December 19 2007 @ 02:08 PM EST Contributed by: sde
KDE 4.0 Looks Marvelous. Along with the obvious bug fixes and a few usability improvements, the KDE team has really outdone itself. The inclusion of Plasma looks promising, despite the lack of anything visually compelling on the Plasma page to indicate this.
Seriously, visiting the page marked ' discover Plasma ' only to see a nice empty space with zero information is not winning anyone over. At least not on the user front. But after looking into the site deeper, it appears that the overall mission holds great promise.
Great Application Updates, With One Exception. I have not tried the latest version of the KDE PIM (Kontact) just yet, but based on available information, they still lag behind Evolution with MS Exchange support. Don't get me wrong, application integration is well beyond anything GNOME has with its PIM, but Evolution support is a must for the typical enterprise environment. To KDE's credit, however, they do provide support for Exchange calender, but mail is only going to happen via IMAP and you can forget about contacts. That said, Kontact does have great support for open source options like GroupWise, OpenExchange and eGroupware. Most functions work well on these groupware applications.
