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First KDE 4 Snapshot Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pretty-gooeys dept.

Rich writes "KDE has just released the first developer snapshot of KDE 4. This release isn't for end users, but should help developers who want to begin writing applications for the KDE 4 desktop. This release already includes a new CMake based build system, a change from DCOP to DBUS and of course a port to Qt 4. If you're interested in desktop development, check it out."

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  1. Dbus over Dcop? by Surye · · Score: 3, Insightful
    a change from DCOP to DBUS
    Maybe I am a minority, but the dcop interface was one of the things I loved about KDE. It made scripting trivially easy, hell I could do old tasks that used to take a whole script (like a xmms announce script for xchat or something), and do it with a one-liner alias with dcop. Perhaps this will be good for dbus, assuming it's a better backend technology, to give it a dcop-style interface?
  2. I'll switch to dbus when ... by Gopal.V · · Score: 4, Insightful
    They let me do this with dbus
    alias loud='dcop kmix Mixer0 setMute 1 0'
    alias silent='dcop kmix Mixer0 setMute 1 1'
    No, I've used dbus too. But there's nothing like dcop, especially for such hooks for mundane things.

    But I guess, it is a good thing KDE and gnome are converging ... for the linux desktop, at least in the short term.

    --
    Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur
  3. Kde 4.0? :) by Klaidas · · Score: 3, Insightful

    First Development Snapshot of KDE4 "Krash" released. Before anyone goes ahead and compiles/runs this, please be aware that it will look exactly like KDE 3.5 - except for being broken in lots of places.