Solid, Phonon, Plasma, Nepomuk, Akonadi, Sonnet, and many others.
Some of them paid off well (eg Solid and Plasma), some were less successful. That's a very normal thing.
KDE 4 wasn't a mess. Later versions (4.7 afterwards) were very polished and usable.
The problem was that KDE 4.0 was hyped to no end. Distributions jumped on the hype and had a race to ship it first. Although KDE developers all warned that the .0 release is nowhere as stable.
They had to get it out though. It was already in the works for 2-3 years and some projects were losing volunteers because their working was not going to be released and were losing motivation.
Solid, Phonon, Plasma, Nepomuk, Akonadi, Sonnet, and many others.
Some of them paid off well (eg Solid and Plasma), some were less successful. That's a very normal thing.
KDE 4 wasn't a mess. Later versions (4.7 afterwards) were very polished and usable.
The problem was that KDE 4.0 was hyped to no end. Distributions jumped on the hype and had a race to ship it first. Although KDE developers all warned that the .0 release is nowhere as stable.
They had to get it out though. It was already in the works for 2-3 years and some projects were losing volunteers because their working was not going to be released and were losing motivation.