I’ve just got my hands dirty with KDE 4.1 beta 1 and all I can say is WOW! I have a kde4daily image running inside a virtualbox on Windows XP and an openSuSE 11 installation on a seperate partition with KDE 4.1 Beta 1 installed. The openSuSE installation had working composite so all the extra goodies like transparency and Wobbl Windows are there. Strange enough the krunner was the old one. Plasma crashed when resizing the panel. I dislike OpenSuSE more than ever. They still haven’t got there package management figured out. As soon as beta 1 packages arrive for Hardy Heron (which are announced), it’s back to Kubuntu in a flash. The functionality is much more stable in kde4daily. Giving the current state of this beta and the enormous amount of development work these days I suspect KDE 4.1 will be great.
Ever since my last post about KDE, in which I had some worries, I am now much more positieve! By the end of this year we will possibly have KDE 4.2 and the ported versions of the super-four K3B, Amarok2, Digikam and KDE-PIM. Also koffice2 is on it’s way. If the quality by then is what I hope and suspect, THE desktop for *nix has arrived and we will see a lot of new users comming from a certain other desktop 
