KDE has released a development snapshot of KDE 4, ironically named "Krash". Nothing much to see for users, but should help kickstart porting and development.
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Member since:2005-07-07
I just haven't heard a word about stuff like Solid and Tenor lately (and very little about Plasma, though that's the one of the three I can imagine coming together). All the progress so far seems to be in porting to Qt4.
Porting to Qt4 is finished in the sense that everything compiles and links with Qt4.
There will still be some changes one could name porting in the sense that Qt4 includes new possibilites, soemthimes things KDE3 had extensions for, which can now be used in favor over KDE specific code.
Subprojects which focus on new technology an frameworks like Solid or Phonon, are progresing alongside the general porting efforts since their "all new" status allows them to code more or less independently from everything other than the absolut core libraries.
The weekly commit digest posted on dot.kde.org usually contains an overview of the work done at those frontiers and people specifically interested in some of them can watch the respective mailinglists, which are usually very low traffic but give the lurker a very close view on the implementation progress
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2005-11-11
I use KDE exclusively but I'm not so sure I'm as hyped about KDE 4 anymore. I just haven't heard a word about stuff like Solid and Tenor lately (and very little about Plasma, though that's the one of the three I can imagine coming together). All the progress so far seems to be in porting to Qt4. That's important of course, but when that's all there seems to be so far, with the high concept Tenors and Solids acting vapourish, it isn't that compelling.
Maybe that's just a reflection of how satisfied I am with 3.5. If KDE 4 manages to be even better, I guess that's cool.
At least if there's a preview out, we can guess the porting is starting to finish up and maybe now they can focus on some of the higher concepts that have been so hyped. Or maybe they already are, in which case please, let us know more about it!
Until then, I'll be happy with 3.5 and the constant refinements thereto.