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KOffice separated from KDE ?
by Philippe Fremy on Tuesday 26/Aug/2003, @19:38

KOffice plans to switch to Qt4. But KDE has not planned this yet, as far as I know. This means that future version of KOffice will be independant of KDE ?

Also, beware that such huge rewrites have killed more than one project. Gnome has been stopped during two years just to switch to Gnome 2 and the same situation occured during the KDE1 KDE2 switch.

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Re: KOffice separated from KDE ?
by capit. igloo on Wednesday 27/Aug/2003, @01:54

> "Also, beware that such huge rewrites have killed more than one project. Gnome has been stopped during two years just to switch to Gnome 2 and the same situation occured during the KDE1 KDE2 switch."

But not for KDE3...

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Re: KOffice separated from KDE ?
by Nicolas GOUTTE on Wednesday 27/Aug/2003, @04:25

I do not thing that it means that KOffice is going its own way. It only menas that Koffice 1.4 will be delayed until KDE 4.0 is out. And I do not think that it is a waste of time, as there is enough bugs and wishes for KOffice.

I do not really understand your comment about the huge re-write. In any case, we do not have any Qt4 (alpha, beta...) right now. So we will have to do the file format switch first and then the Qt4 switch. I still see an opening for a KOffice 1.4 for KDE 3.x if there is really a need.

Have a nice day!

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I'm all for it!
by Alex on Thursday 28/Aug/2003, @15:37

Sure a rewrite might take a while but that's where innovation really comes from, luckily Linux does not have sucha big user base so we can still afford to break compatibility. One of Microsoft's greatest weaknesses IMO is that they can't break compatibility any time soon.

Also, IMO the advanatages gained from the KDE 1->2 rewrite or GNOME 1->2 rewrite far out weigh the consequences.

Please break compatibiltity if it yilds large advantages. KDE 4 is not a point release, you're meant to break compatibiltiy. but please don't break compatibility between X.X and X.X.X releases. However, KDE 4 will be a X release and we need to let 3.x live longer anyway so the time required to make a rewrite will not be a problem.

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Re: I'm all for it!
by Rayiner Hashem on Friday 29/Aug/2003, @00:59

KDE 4.x will *not* be a rewrite. KDE has kept the same basic architecture since 2.x, and IMHO its a good one. It should be good for at least a couple of more full releases. Stuff that breaks compatibility might be useful, but a full rewrite would just be a waste of perfectly great code. Plus, a large amount of what KDE needs to work on now is not the internal technology (except for maybe replacing aRts!) but UI polish.

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