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New KDE 3.5.5 Features 1,200 Changes
lisah writes "Just two months after its last update, KDE has released a new maintenance and bugfix update. KDE 3.5.5 boasts over 1,200 changes including speed improvements to KHTML, an update of Kopete 0.12.3, support for Adium themes, and improved support for Yahoo! and Jabber IM protocols. KDE 3.5.5 also now offers extensive support for over 65 languages. Just a day after the release of 3.5.5, developers say they are already looking toward the release of KDE4, which will include improvements in multimedia, hardware integration, and more." (Linux.com and Slashdot are both part of OSTG.)
Why not? It's in Linux, and KDE runs on BSD as well as it does on Linux. BSD is a fine category to put it in.
I'm not an expert on grammar so I may have misread the summary myself, but KDE 4 has actually been being developed for a good while now. Pretty much all of KDE has been ported to using Qt4, DBus has replaced DCOP, etc. Lots of work on the new frameworks in KDE4 has also being accomplished, as well as improvements to the already existing ones as well.
Yeah. I've been using KDE for quite a while. KDE itself has sped up a lot over time, but another gain is from GCC. On my current gentoo systems, kde probably about doubled in speed when I compiled with gcc-4.1.1 instead of various 3.4.x or 3.3.x versions. gcc-4.x also takes like 2-3x more RAM to compile KDE 8-). With --enable-final turned on, a few bits of KDE take nearly 1.5GB of RAM to build.