The KDE Community is proud to announce KDE Frameworks 5.0. Frameworks 5 is the next generation of KDE libraries, modularized and optimized for easy integration in Qt applications. The Frameworks offer a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms. There are over 50 different Frameworks as part of this release providing solutions including hardware integration, file format support, additional widgets, plotting functions, spell checking and more. Many of the Frameworks are cross platform and have minimal or no extra dependencies making them easy to build and add to any Qt application.
The release candidate for Plasma 5 has also been released.
KDE now becomes the Boost of QT, a very welcomed change.
Hope this brings more contributions for 3rd party commercial users.
And a MUCH better comparison than “the Eclipse for GUI”.
As I said elsewhere, I belive the comparision is with the Eclipse Foundation, not the IDE (fortunately).
What you don’t get is that both of those are jokes.
Sorry, I didn’t realize it was in jest, but why both? The OP didn’t sound like joking at all.
I mean both of my comments that you replied to regarding KDE -> Eclipse were both jokes.
Ha, sorry, I really though I made that comment in another website
Or you mean the IDE and the Foundation? (sorry but I’m not familiar with either).
I wonder if, unlike KDE 4, kdelibs/Windows will be officially maintained and supported.
If true, it could be a major improvement over stock Qt when developing cross platform UI.
– Gilboa
I don’t think that’ll be the case (though I’d like to be proven wrong).
The thing is, the Windows team lacks resources, mostly people willing to do and maintain ports.
Let’s hope the situation improves.
Not the news I was hoping for – but thanks nevertheless.
– Gilboa