Just FYI On Monday, 18 February 2008 08:12:18 Hudibras wrote:
KDE4 is a new desktop and things take time to develop.
Well. If it's so, why not point it clearly out in forums, web or sites? People then did know what to do.
KDE3 was starting to hit road blocks due to the nature of the underlying code. So a decision was made to rewrite the underlying libraries for KDE4 to create a framework on which to build a better KDE. So you now have (for example): - Plasma - The desktop framework. - Phonon - The sound/media framework which Qt has now taken into Qt itself though it's still developed in the KDE repository. - Solid - The hardware detection system based on dbus (dbus replaces dcop). Plus some others which are still under development: - Decibel - The realtime communications framework. - Nepomuk - The semantic desktop framework. - Akonadi - The storage and query service framework for PIM data. 4.0 was released because it was felt that the underlying libraries were stable enough in terms of the API's not changing for developers to build their applications upon. The backward compatible part was to ensure that KDE3 applications would still run under KDE4. The KDE4 versions of KOffice and Kontact are due for stable release with KDE 4.1 (currently set for July). Hope this helps. -- Regards Scott Newton -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org