I just installed KDE 4 into my Ubuntu virtual machine and I must say, it’s just about the sexiest User Interface I’ve ever seen.

For one thing, Kicker doesn’t expand as you explore applications, instead the entire panel switches to the list view of all the categories, then when you select one the panel is filled with the related apps. You switch back to the parent menu by clicking on a nice arrow that points left. Very nice.

Installation was painless. I added the KDE 4 repository (deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu gutsy main)to my /etc/apt/sources.list file, aptitude’d (Terminal: sudo aptitude update – then: sudo aptitude install kde4) the download and install, and logged out, selected a KDE session from the Options and that was that.

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