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  KDE 4: Understanding the Buzz
Developer Posted by Jonathan Riddell on Thursday 11/Aug/2005, @05:03
from the only-1-more-than-3 dept.
With all the excitement surrounding KDE 4 development at the moment people are starting to ask why they have not seen any updates on what KDE 4 will look like. KDE 4 - Understanding the Buzz answers these increasingly common questions by explaining the current status of KDE 4 development and why the exciting work so far is only visible to developers. "Before any new features can be added to KDE and projects like Plasma can get underway, the porting of KDE to Qt 4 has to be completed."


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A HUGE job indeed.
by manyoso on Thursday 11/Aug/2005, @05:13
Also, people need to realize that even the status of KDE4 since the article was written is still in huge flux. The kdelibs API is going to be changing and when that happens apps will be broken until they've been updated to reflect the new API.

This is a tremendous and complicated effort. It'll take time and patience on the part of library developers, application developers, third party developers, documenters, translaters, artists, and of course... our users. Stick with us though, we have every reason to believe it is going to be marvelous when it is done. :)
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Thank you, jhall
by Anno v. Heimburg on Thursday 11/Aug/2005, @08:58
I'ld like to say "Thank you" to Jhall for her great articles on kde. A part of the buzz that recently (and finally) surrounds KDE is due to her. The KDE PR machinery seems to finally have rumbled to a start.
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SkinStyle
by arequipa on Thursday 11/Aug/2005, @11:39
I found that really cool project, it would be great if KDE4 would integrate it, itīs Qt based and GPL.

http://dev.openwengo.com/trac/openwengo/trac.cgi/wiki/SkinStyle
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kdom
by Filip on Thursday 11/Aug/2005, @13:11
also there's a lot happening on kdom. As far as I understood kdom is a new layer that will serve as a base for khtml2, ksvg, mathml?, .. Apple already started adopting it for Webcore!
And once kdom and khtml2 are a bit more finished I suppose lots of merges will happen from Webcore back to kde now that webcore cvs history is available.

Also there is being worked on a abstraction layer for multimedia playback, it is called kdemm. Once it's finished you'll be able to choose between different backends (like gstreamer for instance)
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What about tenor?
by Mark Williamson on Thursday 11/Aug/2005, @17:15
What about tenor? The pervasive search stuff sounds like it should be really cool but I haven't heard about it for some time - any details forthcoming, code, etc (yet)?
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Font Kerning
by Gogs on Thursday 11/Aug/2005, @22:41
As I understand, QT4 should be able to display TT fonts as well as Windows, however looking at the screenshots the fonts still look as ugly as ever.

Anyone have any further info?

Thanks...
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SVN digest
by Bram Schoenmakers on Friday 12/Aug/2005, @05:24
I assume this article is not part of the "This month in SVN" series. Am I right?
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Do we want to go off the QT 4 cliff
by minty on Friday 12/Aug/2005, @23:04
QT4 on Linux is at best in beta stage, the performace is so slow as to not even be usable.

Unless you link to the qt3 libraries in qt 4 virtually every line of QT in KDE will have to be rewritten.

Might be best to wait, perhaps even fork QT3 to a KQT and do something over time that doesn't break everything
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Endogenous buzz
by mhn on Saturday 13/Aug/2005, @04:43
This buzz explanation is itself generating lots of buzz (finally, as someone said). Keep it up! :) What good would be a great DE without people fining out about it?
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listviews in qt 4
by hannes hauswedell on Saturday 13/Aug/2005, @07:54
i really hope they did something to improve speed of listviews in qt4...
searching, filtering oder otherwise working on listviews is soooo slow!
how come the qtable widget is advertised with being able to scale a square milllion cells without problems, but filtering a listview with >10k items freezes the app for a second?
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