Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 18th Sep 2006 15:12 UTC, submitted by Subhush
"It has hardly been a few weeks since the release of KDE v3.5.4, one of the most popular desktop environments for Unix/Linux/FreeBSD operating systems, and the KDE development team is already hard at work. They have a dream of revolutionizing the concept of desktop by providing an array of innovative features aimed at improving both the looks of the desktop environment as well as the productivity of end users. In this article, we will look at one such component called Plasma that promises to change the look and feel of a conventional desktop."
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2005-10-19
FWIW, probably the primary reason for certain delays in the implementation of Plasma is that Qt 4.0 and Qt 4.1 did not include an equivalent of the QCanvas class from Qt 3.3, a graphics canvas. However, ever since a Qt 4.2 snapshot with the new QGraphicsView was released a few weeks ago, implementation has begun in earnest.
The decision was made to wait for QGraphicsView as not to duplicate work (Trolltech is well aware of KDE's needs, obviously - Plasma's chief developer being funded by them), and as there was a lot of other stuff to do: Switch the build system to CMake (done), replace DCOP with DBus (mostly done), next-gen XMLGUI called LiveUI (work in progress), and other huge improvements and restructurings in the libraries. Better and more stable libaries make developing Plasma a lot easier too, after all.
Edited 2006-09-18 19:57