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.
This new development version of KDE features the following new technologies:
Sonnet which has previously been covered on Linux.com.
Solid, KDE 4's unified layer to deal with hardware and network resources.
Vastly improved support for the new platforms Windows and Mac OS through cleaning up the source code from dependencies on X11. See kdelibs.com for more information.
The recently added filemanager Dolphin which will be the default filemanager for KDE. Konqueror will still be available and share much of the code with Dolphin.
After "Krash", the first development snapshot, this is another milestone towards KDE 4.0 which will be released later this year. The KDE developers aim at a release in summer 2007. Reaching this target depends on application developers picking up the new technology to use in their applications. While "Krash" marked the milestones initial Qt4 port, the use of DBus as inter-process-communication system, the merge of Phonon as the multimedia framework and CMake, KDE's new buildsystem. The next planned change is new integration of Oxygen, the new artwork concept. Work on Plasma is also taking up pace.
For those who want to keep track of the development process, the Dot regularly covers new and upcoming technologies through the series "Pillars of KDE 4" (informing about upcoming technologies) and "The Road to KDE 4", which covers new stuff that has been integrated in the official development tree.
Questions about KDE 4 can be answered on various mailing lists such as kde-devel and kde-buildsystem, as well as on #kde4-devel on irc.kde.org. Documentation for getting up to speed with KDE 4 development is available from a number of sources.
Third KDE 4 Development Snapshot Released: "Kludge"
This new development version of KDE features the following new technologies:
Sonnet which has previously been covered on Linux.com.
Solid, KDE 4's unified layer to deal with hardware and network resources.
Vastly improved support for the new platforms Windows and Mac OS through cleaning up the source code from dependencies on X11. See kdelibs.com for more information.
The recently added filemanager Dolphin which will be the default filemanager for KDE. Konqueror will still be available and share much of the code with Dolphin.
After "Krash", the first development snapshot, this is another milestone towards KDE 4.0 which will be released later this year. The KDE developers aim at a release in summer 2007. Reaching this target depends on application developers picking up the new technology to use in their applications. While "Krash" marked the milestones initial Qt4 port, the use of DBus as inter-process-communication system, the merge of Phonon as the multimedia framework and CMake, KDE's new buildsystem. The next planned change is new integration of Oxygen, the new artwork concept. Work on Plasma is also taking up pace.
For those who want to keep track of the development process, the Dot regularly covers new and upcoming technologies through the series "Pillars of KDE 4" (informing about upcoming technologies) and "The Road to KDE 4", which covers new stuff that has been integrated in the official development tree.
Questions about KDE 4 can be answered on various mailing lists such as kde-devel and kde-buildsystem, as well as on #kde4-devel on irc.kde.org. Documentation for getting up to speed with KDE 4 development is available from a number of sources.
Third KDE 4 Development Snapshot Released: "Kludge"
