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The Road To KDE Frameworks 5 and Plasma 2

Posted by Unknown on from the greenspun's-tenth-rule dept.

jrepin wrote in with a link to an article about the steps being taken toward a Qt5 based KDE 5 and Plasma Workspaces 2. From the article: "KDE's Next Generation user interfaces will run on top of Qt5. On Linux, they will run atop Wayland or Xorg as display server. The user interfaces move away from widget-based X11 rendering to OpenGL. Monolithic libraries are being split up, inter-dependencies removed, and portability and dependencies cut by stronger modularization. For users, this means higher quality graphics, more organic user interfaces and availability of applications on a wider range of devices. Developers will find an extensive archive of high-quality, libraries and solutions on top of Qt."

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  1. RTFA? by pak9rabid · · Score: 4, Funny

    Perhaps everyone is reading the article before commenting? I know...+5 Funny.

  2. Oh no, not again... by Bertie · · Score: 1, Funny

    KDE moving to a new version of Qt? Abandon hope, all ye who dare to upgrade in its first three years of life...

  3. Re:Remote desktop? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    LIES!

    It takes three keys: alt, shift and f12, and NOT ONLY THAT BUT YOU HAVE TO PRESS THEM AT THE SAME TIME! This is clearly far too complex a process, and this bug should be given highest priority.

  4. Re:Remote desktop? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Jobs. Is that you?

  5. Re:Remote desktop? by Tough+Love · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...it would be easier if KDE and GNOME and Ubuntu Unity had a fallback 2D mode that was friendly for remote viewers...

    A fallback text mode for remote access would be really sweet. How hard could that be? <runs away>

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