KDE 3.0 Alpha1 Available for Developers

Dre writes: "Just a few weeks after the release of the rock-solid KDE 2.2.1, the KDE Project today announced the release of KDE 3.0 Alpha1. Targeted at developers who want to get a head start on porting or writing applications to KDE 3, the release is pretty much a straight port of the KDE 2.2 branch to Qt 3. However, for developers this brings an impressive array of new features to KDE, including new database classes, new data-aware widgets, improved RAD development with a much-enhanced Qt Designer, a new powerful regular expression class (with full Unicode support), improved internationalization support (including the ability to mix different character sets in the same text), bi-directional language support (for languages such as Arabic and Hebrew), multi-monitor (Xinerama and multi-screen) support, better integration of pure Qt applications into KDE, and hardware-accelerated alpha blending. With the Qt port out of the way, the KDE developers can now focus on the planned KDE improvements. Read the full announcement here, or go straight to the source (alternative link)."

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Why offtopic?

[mangu]

At the time I post this, the parent is moderated (-1, offtopic).

WHY?

It's about KDE. Absolutely ON topic...

I post this using my own nick because I'm stuck at +50 and need someone to mod me down...

Re:GNOME _is_ obsolete

[jonathan_ingram]

I think you're running the risk of turning from one sort of fanatic to another.

When KDE was in transition from 1.1 to 2.0, a lot of people assumes that there was very little work going on, when in fact (as we now know) they were almost completely rewriting the core libraries. A similar thing is happening with Gnome -- and it's very hard to show people what you are doing until the main libraries are 90% complete. So lets give the Gnome guys a chance and see what they produce.

(the only thing I'm waiting for to make me happy is for Lyx 1.2 to come out so I can finally get rid of that xforms library...)