KDE Commit-Digest for 4th June 2006

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Kopete 0.12 is released after 10 months of development. Usability fixes in RSIBreak and experiments in amaroK. Common KOffice color management initiative - "pigment" - started. User interface optimisations in Adept package manager. KDE 4 changes: DCOP is finally removed from trunk/. The KDE 4 icon theme, Oxygen, is imported into KDE SVN.

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by KDE User (not verified)

Yes, and jsut the wrench seems just as intuitive. And definitely less crowded.

by mingus (not verified)

Two elements are not more than two elements...

by Martin (not verified)

LOL. Logic is not for everyone ;-)

by Kurt (not verified)

what is the difference between kviewshell and okular and why do we need two applications?

by Wilfried Huss (not verified)

You can read the responses to a similar question on last weeks Commit-Digest.

http://dot.kde.org/1148838047/1148852615/

by Corbin (not verified)

KViewShell is much older than Okular and is based on KDVI, while Okular was started as a SoC project last year and was based on KPDF. From what I can tell the pros of each of the apps seem to be that KViewShell is much more mature, and Okular has a much cooler name (while still somewhat saying what it does).

by Michal (not verified)

Cool, just rename KViewShell to Okular and have this issue solved :-)

by Kurt (not verified)

Thanks for your answers. Seems like kviewshell needs a new name, a nice homepage, regular releases and some promotion. ;-) Should not be that much of a problem, compared to the programming work that's already been done.

by Michal (not verified)

Absolutely, but also persuade Albert to combine efforts.

by S Page (not verified)

If KDE4 removes DCOP in favor of DBUS, what's up with Joris Guisson commit of /trunk/extragear/network/ktorrent which "Added Adam Forsyth's patch which expands the DCOP interface significantly" ?

Just armchair curiosity. The Flake and DBUS and QT4-ification and continuous Amarok improvement all sounds great!

by Rinse (not verified)

well, ktorrent is not part of any kde package.

And since kde4 is not due until somewhere 2007, ktorrent can use the benefits of DCOP for more then a year, before having to port it to KDE4 and DBUS

by S Page (not verified)

Thanks. I thought a check-in in /trunk implied KDE4, but I guess it's only certain packages.

by Rinse (not verified)

Correct, besides the default kde modules there are the modules extragear-*, playground-*, kdereview, kdenonbeta, koffice kdekiosk and others.

Software in these modules have their own relase cycle and decide for them self on which kde-version they will depend.

So for ktorrent, the version in branch/stable is the current release, and the version in /trunk is the development for the next release of the application (which will probably get released in a few days/weeks; after that the code moves to branches/stable and the next version will be developed in trunk)

Why does kde4 have to compete with Vista?

Besides, Vista is more then 3 years over due, so it probably should have competed with kde3, not kde4

Currently KDE 4's estimated release date is pretty close to Vista's current 'release date' (assuming its not moved back for the 100th time).

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