The Road To KDE Frameworks 5 and Plasma 2

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."

Comments

Re:Remote desktop?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Deduplication (is that a word?)

[NotBorg]

One of the interesting bullet points:

Reduction of duplication with Qt by removing classes and using their Qt alternatives

A lot of classes were rewritten way back in the day when the licensing of Qt was under fire. Once those issues went away there really wasn't much point in continuing the duplication of effort. Bringing the two back together is long overdue. In the long run it could bring greater stability to KDE applications since more developers will be working on improving the same framework instead of two independent but close frameworks. This is good for both Qt and KDE.