Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 2nd Apr 2008 20:53 UTC, submitted by Matthias
KDE 4.0.3 has been released. "The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of KDE 4.0.3, the third bugfix and maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop. KDE 4.0.3 comes with an impressive amount of bugfixes and improvements. Most of them are recorded in the changelog. KDE continues to release updates for the 4.0 desktop on a monthly basis. KDE 4.1, which will bring large improvements to the KDE desktop and application will be released in July this year."
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Member since:2005-07-07
Windows Vista: The use of to many archaich techniques like Messages and heavy use of interfaces.
Uh, what? You don't have to code in MFC or the Win32 API on windows. If you find message maps archaic and bothersome, you can always find something else that scratches your itch. Even Qt.
Mac OSX: It lacks in clarity of the framework, the use of objetive C doesn't help eather.
Define lack of clarity? As far as I am concerned, the Mac as a platform provides a wide plethora of frameworks that are widely documented and intuitive to use. Of course, one mans intuitive is another mans nightmare so YMMV. However, I do agree that the choice of Objective-C is a strange one but once you get used to the syntax and terminology, you find that it is actually quite good.
Failing all that, you can still fall back to using other libraries like Qt to program on the Mac.
I understand that this is a KDE news item and as such the KDE centric users and developers will be out in force. Even so, there is no need to spread nonsense about other platforms just to make your own look better.
p.s. I use GNOME but I don't develop for it, so I'll leave that to some GNOME developer to argue the point with you.
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2005-09-27
You can note the difference trying to develop an application for each platform, for example:
Windows Vista: The use of to many archaich techniques like Messages and heavy use of interfaces.
Mac OSX: It lacks in clarity of the framework, the use of objetive C doesn't help eather.
GNOME: Despite having many bindings, the lack of a central core of shared libraries is the weak point, the code has a high coupled level, they are getting better thougt.
KDE 4: Centralized and shared libraries with a loosely coupled framework that boost the code reuse, better architecture like MV.
Is just my experience as a programmer.