A new Desktop era with KDE 4.1

While the release of KDE 4.0 earlier this year is still kind of a Technology Preview rather than a full-blown release (considering lack of native applications, bugs, glitches and performance issues), it seems that KDE 4.1 will finally be not only a Desktop but an exciting all-in-one platform. A full-scale development environment will mean more than just the API. It will ensure consistency and stability of the system. What more, KDE expansion plans which include Windows may once for all sync the two worlds. Gnome had a similar attempt with GTK but it never went beyond porting GIMP and X-Chat to Windows.