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Re: wow
by sebas on Tuesday 29/Apr/2008, @16:10
Yep, that was needed. We did the following two things:

- Porting plasma to Qt 4.4 new widgets on canvas support. Previously, it was not possible to use Qt widgets in Plasmoids. Plasma in 4.0 needed its own layout system, and widgets. Now we can use all the gorgeous Qt and KDE widgets. Better integration, much faster development, smaller codebase, and instantly lots of new features.

- API review. This is more a mid-term thing. For the 4.2 timeframe, we would like to merge parts of Plasma into kdelibs. Also, before a wider adoption of the Plasma libs, we wanted to make sure that the API is intuitive to use and well designed. The changes necessary to make it a nice, consistent and easy to understand interface will definitely pay off long term. Aaron Seigo has just written an interesing blog about that btw.

All that nearly in time for an "Alpha1". In fact, both, the WoC porting and the API changes are in by now. That's where we can get back to stabilising. Not a surprising strategy WRT to release plans. That said, the current state of things feels very good, at least on my box, and starting in May there are a solid two months to stabilise everything even further.
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Re: wow
by Alex on Tuesday 29/Apr/2008, @16:33
> Yep, that was needed. We did the following two things:

Yes, sure. But from my POV, plasma has been the component which receives most criticism in KDE 4.0.x. So finishing the announcement for the first 4.1 alpha with "expect more breakage in plasma" is IMO "suboptimal".

Alex
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Re: wow
by David Johnson on Wednesday 30/Apr/2008, @11:58
Widgets on the canvas is a cool feature, but please don't overdo it. Some of us don't have high end video cards. On my laptop's Radeon X1400, it's dog slow. Qt's pad navigator is barely usable and the he embedded dialogs demo is downright painful. It's even worse on my home system. This is with qt-4.4.0 release (commercial).

I know this isn't KDE's problem, but Trolltech's, but it's still still going to directly impact us. I'm not going to throw away a perfectly good two year old laptop just to run the KDE desktop!
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