On January 27, a year after the release of the first KDE 4 version, KDE 4.2 "The Answer" will be released. This release will feature stabilisation and feature completion and is likely to be taken up by a wide audience of users. To celebrate the important event in KDE's history with our fans all around the world we would like to invite our community members to organise a release party. It is all up to the organising teams to make it just the way you like it. There could be presentations, workshops, maybe some translation marathons, a hacking contest, just some socialising fun with a drink or two. It can be short and sweet or a whole-day event. Do not be afraid to invite some local press to the event to get the word about KDE out there into the wide world. If you decide to throw a party, or know about one, do add it to the list of party locations.
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When KDE4 looks kick-ass we can all praise it for being the sexiest desktop on the planet. Right now it's doing allot of re-engineering and that takes (much appreciated) effort. If we simple desktop users can contribute even if it's only by posting feature requests etc, then surely it needs to be welcomed - if the KDE4 project is to move forward?
I'm not entirely sure, but I guess the poster before me wanted to say that it was there since KDE 2.1.
if you mean the Systemsettings->Appearance->Fonts->Use anti-aliasing ... Configure... ->Hinting style feature, then it's there at least since KDE 3.4
May be the original poster is talking about QT4 (prior to 4.5) not using the proper hinting style (so the fonts looks not so go, or different compared to KDE3)
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As you can see in this article ( http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2008/09/01/subpixel-antialiasing-on-x11/ ) this was improved for Qt4.5 :)
IS there release event for 4.2 planned at FOSDEM 2009 ?
That would be really cool.
Especially with a video/podcast keynote we can all watch and blog about.
This created a firestorm of blog posts last year, should be even better this year.
As they don't say in the commercial airline business, all this alleged, archived and arguably anachronistic evangelism might scare some people. However, using a flaky v4.1.3 (and having just discovered I can now more easily and more accurately record my desktop than I ever previously could), I've not so very much to grumble about.
It's seemed a long time coming, maybe, but only because ability to contribute and learn to code at the same time has been more uphill-struggle than easy-does-it. The inertia of KDE helps, but between making excuses and being distracted I don't feel well-positioned to contribute. Maybe when stabler things (4.2/3)are further downstream (?) in the distributions and I set up focused ISO files can be laid out really easily with KDE4, it's sources and a development-oriented setup, then perhaps I can just roll into the sandbox with and start burying kippers.
Don't mind me.
http://www.englishbreakfastnetwork.org/krazy/?component=kde-4.x
21002 issues!
And these are not even the real bugs as e.g.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162485
"And these are not even the real bugs as e.g."
Yes, they are no bugs. They are in many cases just warnings regarding the style, i.e. if there is code which might potentially lead to problems:
http://www.englishbreakfastnetwork.org/krazy/reports/kde-4.x/kdelibs/kde...
Alex
Yes, trivial warnings, matters of policy, easy to fix. But 22000? In other words there is a severe lack of maintenance and capacity. And then I come to "real bugs" that are hard to fix as compared to the krazy warnings and my example was one that makes Konqueror unusable for most of us. Despite that according to Murphy's law things go wrong that can go wrong.
But sure you all can say KDE 4.2 is "ready", just a bit more. Nobody told users that it would take years to complete the KDE4 transition, this was not how it was planned. Neither KDE3 nor KDE4 are fully stable by 2009 standards. They still tend to break and this is because of unresolved bugs and those small quality problems.
Will there be a Krazy sprint before the release or will KDE4.2 released with all these unresolved issues? Not to mention incomplete translations even for major languages?
Years?
As in... plural?
Does the KDE4 crypto setup support revocation list handling yet, or OCSP? It's quite difficult to take KDE seriously, as long as this is not in place - it ruins the the security model that SSL/TLS offers, when you leave out such vital functionality. For what it's worth, it's not there in KDE3 either.