Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 23rd Feb 2007 22:27 UTC, submitted by reldruh
The KDE project announces the availability of the third development snapshot of the upcoming KDE 4. This snapshot is meant as a reference for developers who want to play with parts of the new technology KDE 4 will provide, those who want to start porting their applications to the new KDE 4 platform and for those that want to start to develop applications based on KDE 4. This snapshot is not for end users, there is no guarantee that it will be stable, the interfaces are subject to changes at any time.
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2007-02-23
I have installed on Suse 10.2 and I am having trouble getting the KDE desktop to load, I haven't began trouble shooting so I will keep you posted!
That's probably because the desktop doesn't exist anymore (yet). It was killed off in favour of the krunner process, which does a lot of the things that kdesktop used to do: Run Dialog, CTRL-ALT-DEL handling, screensaver activation/screen locking, and so forth. This was previously part of kdesktop, but as plasma slowly comes online, kdesktop had to die (and kicker will too, eventually).
So these essential functions got moved out into their own smaller app. The reason they didn't just go into plasma is that these functions require a certain degree of absolute stability to them... the screen locking process should not be able to fail, as this would be a security problem. Based on the planned extensibility of plasma, this would be harder to guarantee if it was bundled into this program.
So, no desktop for now, just a black screen that awaits plasma's full arrival.