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KDE 3.5 Beta 1 Announced

Posted by Zonk on from the new-thing-thursday dept.

christchurch writes "The KDE Project has announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.5 Beta 1, dubbed "Kanzler". This will be the last major release in the KDE 3 series. Qt 3.3.5 was released too late to adapt to it and it shows some fundamental compilation problems. We had a preview of KDE 3.5 two months ago."

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  1. Re:Konqueror succeeds at ACID2 and gets Adblock! by Einherjer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm not sure I understand your point here.

    Are you an Apple developer so you know that they are "newbie developers" ? Do you know that they littered their source? Have you even looked at WebCore?
    I did, and it is one of the tightest integration of an HTML engine I've ever seen.
    I presume you miss the goal of what was to accomplish:

    1. the KHTML want to make a full-fledged HTML engine
    2. the Apple guys want to make an Apple Webbrowser(!)

    there are fundamentally different concepts of the two being compatible in the process of engineering. that the KHTML guys wanted to know what they did is understandable, as per required by the license, but, once more, the Apple guys were never obliged to make the
    source "generic" as the KHTML engine would need it (one could wish).
    it was only after this reputation clash, that they opened up all of their WebCore to show their good will.

    so no bad rep. to apple for this. also no bad rep. to khtml for this. why?
    because in the end, what matters is, that both of the projects improved.