KDevelop4 Beta 3 Released

mikesd81 writes "KDE announced on May 30th the third public beta of KDevelop4. Some new features include a new code-writing assistant, a new documentation plugin showing you the API docs for Qt and KDE APIs, a reworked Mercurial plugin, and a rewrite of the classbrowser plugin. Two plugins from the KDevelop source, QMake support and Qt Designer integration, were let go and moved to the KDE Playground area."

Comments

Re:Will we get another "don't use me yet" "release

[GeekDork]

It's a new app, there is no such thing as a regression. Same applies to many other KDE4 progs.

"many other KDE4 progs" are meant to be improvements of the originals, it says so right in the version number. I can't see any valid reasons to accept the state a lot of those major releases are in.

• KDE 4 itself has rather ugly corners, like e.g. SSL key management, printer management (kdeprint was apparently unmaintained, so the developers decided to stick with whatever the Qt team belched up).
• Amarok 2 had a major release that consistently failed to build a proper library (randomly missing tracks depending on the phase of the moon during import, ugly problems with extracting metadata), was prone to crash, and relies on Phonon for which there doesn't seem to be a reliable backend (xine can't even seek in FLAC of WavPack, gstreamer integration is sketchy at best).
• ... which is pretty much it for multimedia.
• Calling Plasma a rough takeoff would be too kind. But hey, it can haz flashy effects!!!1!
• The last release candidates of KOffice 2.0 had ugly font rendering, an extremely... esoteric font/style management, and the mentioned missing settings dialog. So tough luck if you want to e.g. show formatting characters like linebreaks.

There are probably more which I chose to forget about just to keep the blood pressure low.