The KDE Projects is announcing the third beta of its future KDE 4.0 platform. "This Beta has mostly been focussing on finalizing the design of the libraries in preparation for the release of the KDE Development Platform. Yet, many user-visible changes have gotten in as well. While new features and usability improvements were added, bugs were found and fixed in KDE and the stability of Beta 3 has improved much compared to the previous Betas. With the third Beta, the KDE project has begun to finalize KDE 4.0."
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Member since:2005-10-13
Who said anything about rewriting the DE? I said they would be rewriting a single plasmoid. Plasma was designed from the ground up to make replacements like that possible, since a big issue in KDE3 was that it took huge amounts of work to even make a tiny change to Kicker.
Edit: Ok, looking back at my post perhaps it does look i was saying they would rewrite plasma as a whole. That's not what i meant, sorry.
Edited 2007-10-18 05:32
Member since:2005-07-07
nah, they won't rewrite plasma, they're just gonna improve on the current panel implementation. Sure, it's worse than Kicker - no doubt about that. But porting kicker only to remove it later on (it wouldn't have been feasible to keep it around for the whole 4.x series anyway) was considered a huge waste of time. Thus it was decided to settle with a bit less functionality for 4.0, to be fixed in 4.1.
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2005-10-13
Kicker is dead, and replaced by a plasmoid in plasma which is still brand new. And probably will be rewritten before 4.1 comes out, from what I've heard.
From SVN:
> Aaron J. Seigo committed changes in /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace:
> Now the kicker lay down to sleep,
> I pray svn its code to keep;
> And if it crashes ere I wake,
> I pray a backtrace you do take.
>
> <fadeout>"s-i-i-lent night ... h-o-o-ly night ... doo doo doo, doo doo doooo.."</fadeout>