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Re: KDE4
by Troy Unrau on Tuesday 06/Feb/2007, @21:08

Well, as anyone who has been around in the KDE 1.1.2 -> KDE 2.0 series transition, backend changes can mean a long development cycle. In the KDE 2 series however, great KDE technologies like kio slaves, kparts, dcop, etc. were born, and it was worth the wait.

(KDE 2->3 was less of a big deal, a lot more code cleanups, less huge structural changes...)

KDE 4 is introducing many new great technologies, and like KDE 2.0 (or OS X 10.0), may lack a little polish when it's first released, but should be a precursor of great things to come. The downside is that the 4.0 transition cycle will be quite a lot longer than 3.0's transition cycle. Honestly, I think that we'd be lucky to see KDE 4.0 this year. However I'd wager we'll see our first alpha released this July for Akademy. As noted above, however, this is an opinion, and there is not an announced release schedule for 4.0 yet.

Note also that 3.5.7 is likely also on its way, within 3 months if irc rumours are true.

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