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Re: wow
by fred on Wednesday 30/Apr/2008, @08:39
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> Because the point is not that Plasma is currently unstable, the point is that after telling everybody that 4.0 was the broken release and 4.1 was for stabilisation, they did the exact opposite and went ahead with more major changes to Plasma.
> Whether they pull it together and fix things before 4.1 is released is beside the point. Porting to new APIs while adding features does not increase stability, it does the opposite. The fact that they are willing to do that shows that the claims that 4.1 was the stabilisation release was just an excuse. The truth is that 4.0 was simply unfinished and moving to 4.1 is a case of completing all the development they wished they had done for 4.0.
Dude, making a software stable is not only achieved by keeping all things in order and start bugfixing. Sometimes if the underlying tool offers something better, we need to replace our own implementation with better one.
With the new WoC on Qt 4.4, Plasma devs can get rid of tons of code in their own layouting and widgets code, and probably less bugs since they're now relying on Qt's layouting which is already proven. So the devs can spend their time fixing other bugs and issues rather than spending time fixing the layout issues. They can't use WoC for KDE 4.0.x simply because Qt 4.4 was not released (Qt 4.4 is to be released before KDE 4.1)
You can read here: http://vizzzion.org/?blogentry=812 And some more blogs about Widget on Canvas which I've forgotten. |
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