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KDE Releases Frameworks 5

Posted by Unknown on from the new-and-shiny dept.

KDE Community (3396057) writes The KDE Community is proud to announce the release of KDE Frameworks 5.0. Frameworks 5 is the next generation of KDE libraries, modularized and optimized for easy integration in Qt applications. The Frameworks offer a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms. There are over 50 different Frameworks as part of this release providing solutions including hardware integration, file format support, additional widgets, plotting functions, spell checking and more. Many of the Frameworks are cross platform and have minimal or no extra dependencies making them easy to build and add to any Qt application. Version five of the desktop shell, Plasma, will be released soon, and packages of Plasma-next and KDE Frameworks 5 will trickle into Ubuntu Utopic over the next few days. There's a Live CD of Frameworks 5 / Plasma-next, last updated July 4th.

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  1. It looks awesome! Totally awesome! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Congratulations to all the contributors, and thank you for all your hard work on this project!

  2. Re:You don't know the Linux desktop market. by sgage · · Score: 4, Informative

    Your citation is crap.

    From the Wikipedia entry:

    "This article is written like a personal reflection or opinion essay that states the Wikipedia editor's particular feelings about a topic, rather than the opinions of experts."

    The Wikipedia editor is a KDE fanboi. That's fine - I'm liking KDE myself, but I have a really hard time believing that Gnome 3 is splitting 4% "market shaqre" with WindowMaker and Enlightenment. We need some real statistics.

  3. Re:You don't know the Linux desktop market. by vux984 · · Score: 4, Informative

    The wikipedia article you cite doesn't include those numbers. It doesn't even MENTION Unity or Cinnamon, nevermind give marketshare percentages.

    I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you simply cited the wrong link... but I can't verify you numbers, and frankly find them suspect.

  4. Re:Does it make a sound? by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If the share is 0.2% does it matter? There are more reading this than using that.

    What's the market share of a Bugatti Veryon" Or a Lamborghini? You "market share" drones need to move to Idaho, so you can get a license plate that brags about "Famous Potatoes" to put on your Toyota Corolla.

    --
    The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
  5. Re:What's been removed,dumbed down,made incompatib by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    KDE is probably the least dumbed down desktop environment there is.

    It's really massively customizable in ways suitable for power users.