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KDE 2.0 Release Schedule
jhittner wrote to us with more news about the release of the KDE 2.0 beta. We're currently looking at a release towards the end of this month. As well, there is a new timetable on the KDE development mailing list. Update: 03/14 01:26 by E : To be more clear - it is kdelibs 2.0 that are being frozen - KDEBase is frozen around the end of April.
I checkedout KDE2 and KOffice this weekend and gave it a runthrough. Very impressive.
:-)
No, it's not stable yet, that's why they call it "pre-alpha". But it's still very nice and I can't wait for the final release.
It looks gorgeous! Makes Gnome look like it was drawn with crayons (hey, it's a joke, stop the flames alright!) Kudos Mosfet! It also loads much, much faster than KDE1 or Gnome. Konqeror kicks butt. KOffice will make Bill Gates very nervous when it's released. He should get his resume cleaned up
In short, KDE 2.0 will be the first Free Software desktop with the quality and finish that commercial users expect (but never get).
A Government Is a Body of People, Usually Notably Ungoverned
While I applaud the efforts of both the KDE and Gnome communities neither of them are actually resulting in a commercial grade UI (Windows is not a commercial grade UI either IMO). Its a fantastic effort to make the interface more usable but as Jakob Nielsen said on Slashdot these are not revolutionary steps but the same old things again. Most of KDE and Gnome away from the interface itself is fine, its just that last bit to the user that fails to reach the heights that the more pure technology aspects of Linux reach.
Is it time for some Cathedral to enter the Bazaar to enforce an interaction metaphor and a look and feel onto the Linux world rather than the continuing rise of the WILI (Well I like It) school of GUI design.
Don't get me wrong, KDE and Gnome are superb as technology projects but as UIs they fail to reach even the marsh land set by Windows let alone the heights that could be reached.
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
If you're using Red Hat Linux or something similar, you don't even need to recompile. There are daily CVS snapshots available from
http://people.redhat.com/bero/experimen tal.
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The KDE 2.0 release schedule drowned out the fact that the KDE 2.0-based Lotus Notes++ clone Magellan was made available by rsync today. The combination of Magellan, KOffice, KDevelop and KDE2 will meet most of MY requirements, atleast. :)
-- Einar
Oh, come now. Its perfectly clear the Microsoft didn't invent the Windows GUI. Besides, KDE offers a much cleaner GUI than Windows, and offers a few things that Microsoft doesn't, like a fully configurable panel. (And don't tell me that stupid active desktop toolbar crap is even close). Besides, KDE offers stability, performance and strives toward a truly object-oriented desktop environment with things like CORBA.
Or perhaps rather than stability and performance, you prize things like fade-away pull down menus and a colorful splash screen? If that's the case, by all means, Microsoft has everyone beat hands down! I give up!
KDE is not wishware
And KDE 2.0 will be better than ever, offering a full office suite, a better file manager, and even better integration features than before. I would personally like to THANK the KDE team for all of their hard work. These guys don't get enough thanks. I mean, they're doing this stuff for FREE. Sheesh. If you don't like it, maybe YOU can do better. But judging by this brain-free post of yours, my money's on them.
My journal has hot
Over the past few months, I have become friends with some of the core developers of KDE and then some not-so-core developers, but still developers. They convinced me to at least give KDE2 a try. I'd recommend that anyone interested, tries it. Every other Saturday, I run cvsup and update all my KDE2 stuff and recompile it. It's not too hard at all to do. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But it's going to be a great environment when they're through with it. ./configure, make sure you do ./configure --prefix=/opt/kde2/ I do that, and it keeps both environments totally separate of eachother. For qt2.1, do --prefix=/opt/qt2.1/ Not too hard, is it?
In regards to their timeframe, I have noticed that when I do cvsup, the most edited packages are either kdelibs or kdebase, mostly kdelibs. I do agree, it's an agressive schedule, but I do think that they can complete it.
For those who want to try KDE2, but want to keep KDE1.x, when you
That comment was posted with the aid of glibc, perl, php, bind and possibly a full GNU system, depending on what you have at your end.
perl -e 'fork||print for split//,"hahahaha"'
Uhh, I thought the schedule said that kdelibs will be frozen by the end of this month, and the first beta is planned to be released around May.
Here's what I found on the KDE News Page: The schedule is very aggressive, with a true KDE 1.9 beta due out at the beginning of May. Looks like the final release is still a few months away!
There is a HTML version of the KDE 2.0 Release plan up at http://deve loper.kde.org/development-versions/kde-2.0-release -plan.html.