A few days after FOSS.IN, on December 11 2007, if nothing went wrong, the most awaited next generation GNU/Linux desktop – KDE 4.0 – is going for its first stable release. KDE users who are not following the KDE 4 development news and its beta/RC releases will have ’something missing/something found’ feelings once they start exploring the new desktop and its offerings.

This blog post by ‘liquidat’ explains those major changes and reasons behind those highly criticised design changes which are both hidden and visible.