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  Proposed Timetable for KDE 3
KDE Official News Posted by Dre on Monday 23/Jul/2001, @20:18
from the sooner-than-you-might-have-thought dept.
While we anxiously await the release of KDE 2.2 in two weeks, Waldo Bastian, the current KDE release coordinator, has posted the proposed schedule for the release of KDE 3. The upshot: KDE 2.2.1 is scheduled for September 2001 and KDE 3.0 for January 2002. The full schedule is available below.

 

From:  Waldo Bastian <bastian@kde.org>
To:  kde-core-devel@kde.org
Subject:  RFC: The Road Ahead
Date:  Mon, 23 Jul 2001 14:07:01 -0700

To wrap up the Qt3 discussion and to bring everyones expectations a bit in line, here is a proposed time-table for the rest of this year:

  • Aug 2001: Release of KDE 2.2
  • Sep 2001: Release of KDE 2.2.1
  • Oct 2001: Development release, KDE 2.89 aka Qrash3.
  • Nov 2001: KDE 3.0beta1
  • Dec 2001: KDE 3.0beta2
  • Jan 2002: KDE 3.0 final

I suggest to switch KDE CVS to Qt3 after the release of 2.2.1.

If you would like to be the release dude for KDE 3.0, now is a good time to step forward :-)

Cheers,
Waldo
--
Andrei Sakharov, Exiled 1980-1986, USSR, http://www.aip.org/history/sakharov/
Dmitry Sklyarov, Detained 2001-????, USA, http://www.elcomsoft.com/


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Re: Proposed Timetable for KDE 3
by kde-zealot on Monday 23/Jul/2001, @21:34
There is a saying ...

Vision without action is fiction

Three cheers for KDE for keeping me in the NON-fiction part of the library :)

On a side note .. the funniest thing about the new KDE site www.freekde.org is the hyperlink which reads Humour. The link points to gnome.org.

Now THAT was funny!
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i don't believe it
by john on Monday 23/Jul/2001, @21:41
my god.

6 months until KDE3.0?!

don't you people have lives?!?!

sheesh.

8*]

can't wait for it.

--john
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Migration
by Konrad Wojas on Monday 23/Jul/2001, @22:59
How about KDE2 programs? Will KDE3 be source comaptible with KDE2? Will I/O slaves written for KDE3 also work with the KDE2 programs or do you have to maintain a separate set of I/O slaves?

I'm looking forward to KDE3, but I hope some attention will be given to backward compatibility with KDE2...
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Re: Proposed Timetable for KDE 3
by M. Khawar Zia on Monday 23/Jul/2001, @23:17
what features will kde 3 have???
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KDEUpdate
by dude who cares on Tuesday 24/Jul/2001, @00:09
I think it would be beneficial to everyone if we had an update system built into KDE.

after KDE2 came out, we had update after update after update, without really a way to upgrade kde2.0 to 2.0.1, then 2.0.2 then 2.1 then 2.2, and all the beta's in between that.

Is there anybody working on a live update's package for KDE2 that can take binary packages, download them, and install them into the KDE directory for you. You would still use the system's package manager, but not for updates. KDE would take care of all that for you. Only use the distribution's package manager when doing a new install of kde, or when doing a major upgrade (ie, kde2x to kde3x)

This would also put KDE on a lot more desktops of willing beta testers. And can keep people from the kde2x series up to date, without having to re-do their whole KDE installation.

i hope you like this suggestion

bye
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Qrash3?
by antialias on Tuesday 24/Jul/2001, @01:10
Aka Qrash3? Joke? :)
When I pronounce Qrash it sounds like 'crash'.
Hehe...
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Re: Proposed Timetable for KDE 3
by AC on Tuesday 24/Jul/2001, @03:05
Great news. I have been hoping they would opt to switch to Qt 3 sooner rather than later.
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What about Speed and OS independence!
by Asif Ali Rizwaan on Tuesday 24/Jul/2001, @05:32
KDE 2.1.1 is still very much slower than Windows or say KDE 1.1 which was very fast. Here is my observation:

1. Explorer takes 2 seconds in windows 98
2. Konqueror takes 3 seconds in KDE 2.1.1
3. KFM file manager/broweser took 1/2 (half) second.

KDE Updates should be Statically linked binaries like windows Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, etc., upgrades. Other than that Opera Browser is a good example for Linux.

All I want is KDE 1.1's speed in KDE 2.2 or KDE 3.0. Have the developers Optimized the KDE code!?
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Re: Proposed Timetable for KDE 3
by JP on Tuesday 24/Jul/2001, @06:15
So when well we have Arabic or hebrow support?!
it's about time .. :)
i mean eaven if it was a beta ver. when do you think that KDE well support Arabic and Hebrow (BiDi)?
KDE always rocks :)

Thanks and keep up the GOOD work ;o)
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Too fast?
by Claes on Tuesday 24/Jul/2001, @07:12
KDE is sure moving quickly. And that is in some ways good. But in this fast speed, will KDE ever be able to mature and become truly stable? I fear that there always will be serious bugs if there is so little time to maintain a stable release before it is time to release the next major version. Compare to the Linux kernel. Even though there are newer development kernels, the old ones are maintained a long time. I wonder if it should not be better to aim for the next release much further ahead in time.
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Re: Proposed Timetable for KDE 3
by Alan on Tuesday 24/Jul/2001, @12:01
But when KDE3 comes out am I going to have ~/Desktop, ~/KDesktop, ~/Kdesktop3, ~/.kde, ~/.kde2, ~/.kde3, /opt/kde, /opt/kde2, /opt/kde3 ?
This is getting to be an awful mess - can/will the old stuff for KDE 1 be junked?
- Alan
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Re: Proposed Timetable for KDE 3
by Justin Hibbits on Tuesday 24/Jul/2001, @18:05
This will probably become a flame really quickly, just please don't flame me.

Didn't it take the team 2 years from the release of KDE 1.0 to get to KDE 2.0? Now it's only taking them 1 year to go from KDE 2.0 to KDE 3.0. I think it's a little fast....I, too, have begun to question the stability/(release speed) trade-off, since I can't bear to use KDE 2.1 any more. Hey, I've actually found a site with KDE 1.1.2 source, the most stable KDE I've used. Anyone want the url? It's:

ftp://ftp.externet.hu/pub/linux/kde/stable/1.1.2/distribution/tar/generic/source/

I am getting probably the worst connection possible, but I don't care. It's only a one-time deal.

Enough ranting...

And KDE Team, SLOW DOWN BEFORE YOU HURT YOURSELVES!
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KDE3 on Darwin/MacOSX??
by Pedro Ziviani on Tuesday 24/Jul/2001, @21:19
As Qt3 will be available for Darwin/MacOSX, will KDE3 ever run on that platform? I can run GNOME apps and WindowMaker on my Mac, but I miss KDE...
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