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  First Development Snapshot of KDE4: "Krash"
KDE Official News Posted by Sebastian Kügler on Friday 18/Aug/2006, @14:11
from the get-your-fix-now dept.
Today, KDE releases a first developer snapshot of the upcoming KDE4 release. This snapshot is meant as a reference for developers who want to play with parts of the new technology KDE4 will provide, those who want to start porting their applications to the new KDE4 platform and for those that want to start to develop applications based on KDE4. This snapshot is not for end users, there is no guarantee that it will be stable, the interfaces are subject to changes at any time. The changes that have gone into the development version this snapshot is based on have all happened under the hood, little is visible yet. Now it is up to application developers to use the new possibilities. While this snapshot will probably not be what kdelibs will finally look like, it should give a fair idea of what to expect.

Developers can start porting their applications using this snapshot and investigate the new exciting technology. Highlights of this snapshot include:

  • An initial port of kdelibs, kdebase and kdepimlibs to Qt 4, providing the developer with a wealth of new possibilities. This snapshot uses a preview of the upcoming Qt 4.2.
  • DBus will be the Inter-Process-Communication protocol used for KDE 4. This snapshot contains an initial implementation. With the use of DBus, KDE will feature improved interoperability with other applications on the Free Desktop. Porting applications to DBus is explained on the porting wiki page.
  • Phonon (documentation) is another central feature of KDE4 providing a unified multimedia backend that offers an easy way for application developers to add multimedia capabilities to their applications.
  • CMake (FAQ) is the new buildsystem used for KDE4.

Questions about KDE4 can be answered on various mailing lists such as kde-devel and kde-buildsystem, as well as on #kde4-devel on irc.kde.org. Documentation for getting up to speed with KDE4 development is available from a number of sources.

Work is continuing on other pillars of KDE4, such as our Plasma desktop, Solid hardware layer, Oxygen artwork theme and Decibel communication architecture.

KDE development has never before been as exciting as it is today, so start hacking today!



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All I can say is ...
by imbrandon on Friday 18/Aug/2006, @21:55
I feel like a kid in a candy store, time to start compiling ;)
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Just a warning
by Robert Knight on Friday 18/Aug/2006, @22:11
Before anyone goes ahead and compiles/runs this, please be aware that it will look exactly like KDE 3.5 - except for being broken in lots of places.

The good news for developers is that this is a reasonably solid code base for diving into KDE / Qt 4 hacking. By solid I mean that it actually compiles reliably and most programs at least start without crashing ;)
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Screenshot
by Pinucset on Saturday 19/Aug/2006, @02:07
Can I see some screenshot anywhere?

Thanks! :)
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Decibel
by bsander on Saturday 19/Aug/2006, @02:55
What is it? I never heard of this project before..
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Tenor?
by Anon on Saturday 19/Aug/2006, @03:11
I remember that the "Tenor" Contexual Linking Engine (http://dot.kde.org/1113428593/) was at one point going to be one of the cornerstones of KDE4. Is there any progress on that, or has it been (un)officially canned? It would be a shame if that were the case :(
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Win32
by Darkstar on Saturday 19/Aug/2006, @03:19
How about a Win32 snapshot? I think I heard that mingw and MSVC compile kdelibs fine at this point (although D-BUS might still be an issue)
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Portland
by hill on Saturday 19/Aug/2006, @04:23
http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/IntegrationTasks

Does the Krash preview already implement the new Portland intergration stuff?
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SUSE rpms
by Anonymous on Saturday 19/Aug/2006, @06:27
Read http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2271
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kde on Win ?
by cobalt on Saturday 19/Aug/2006, @06:57
is there a chance, that one glory day we'll see KDE running natively on Windows? because I miss it every time I am forced (you know, *the evil forces*) to use a Windowsmachine. i miss Koffice and Knotes and Kalarm and Kontact and most of all I miss my beloved Konqueror, because it is much better, faster and much more convenient than Firefox.
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Plasma
by Dennie on Saturday 19/Aug/2006, @13:53
I am very excited to see some progress, but I must say there is little known about the plasma project. The plasma project website has been idle for some time and no one seems to post updates or screenshots on planetkde.

So my question to the developers is: Is it possible to post more preview screenshots or updates about plasma. Maybe some mockups about how it will look like and/or a technical document on functional decisions made. In my point of view, those two should be the starting point of development. It started nicely with the mockups, but which one made it and which one did not?

Maybe I'm missing some documents which are already available, but when I would've been a developer, a technical document on how it should look like would help me a lot. :)
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waiting
by matt2ss on Saturday 19/Aug/2006, @14:39
I think its better to wait for later version :-)
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Forget about Temor, Welcome Nepomuk
by Pat on Saturday 19/Aug/2006, @17:18
The european union is funding a €17 million project to build a "Temor killer" and Mandriva is one of the companies working at it. All the project will be released as open source:
"the Social Semantic Desktop[...] is a new computing paradigm that provides an advanced way to create, automate and structure information. The Social Semantic Desktop brings three major changes: the availability of contextual information on users' desktops, the shift from hierarchical to semantic storage of information, and advanced ways of assisting users in their day-to-day usage of computers. One common way to define the Social Semantic Desktop is to bill it as the technologies that allow computers to gather information in the same manner as the human brain does."

Here is Mandriva press release about it:
http://www.mandriva.com/en/company/press/pr/mandriva_to_participate_in_nepomuk_social_semantic_desktop

here is the project page:
http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/xwiki/bin/Main1/

Nepomuk is real, mandriva is paying full-time developers to work on this for kde4. So hope is not dead for contextual search engine for KDE4 :)
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Again on Tenor
by MM on Sunday 20/Aug/2006, @08:07
Has anyone checked out gsl3 (http://www.glscube.org)?
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Krash ;)
by somekool on Monday 21/Aug/2006, @18:15
Funny you are reusing this name for another as-much-important milestones in KDE history. Wasn't Krash 1.89 the first 2.0 preview. I think 4.0 will change the face of KDE as much as 2.0 did.

keep it up guys ! awesome work.
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Speed of KDE4 snapshot?
by rob on Monday 11/Sep/2006, @05:35
I know that KDE4 is still unsable and probably won't complete any benchmark tests but it would be interesting to see if the speed gains that have everyone is waiting for as the port to QT4 is largely done in the libraries at least (or so i gather).
Has anyone tried this port on their system and has there been any significant gain in speed? (I am just curious)
Hope that it is a lot quicker, not that KDE is overly sluggish on my system, but i look forward to the first alpha's or beta's of KDE4 :)
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