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Some KDE news

Posted by HeUnique on from the it's-going-pretty-well dept.

The KDE Development team progress seems very good these days. You can now take a look at some screenshots from the KDE 2 pre alpha. Also, the KDevelop team has announced today the 1.0 Beta 1 version of KDevelop. I must say it looks very promising.

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  1. Cool! KDE is whats going to win over microsofties. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3

    MY favoite app for linux right now is the kwm. IT rocks. I use to dislike it because its was a little bit slower then the rest of the windows managers but its getting pretty to look at with each new kde release and the new themes for it look really cool. My main reason for living it is the intergration with the kde desktop and the tool bar and everything else about kde. I really love kde as a whole bunch of programs that interact with each other. Microsoft is allways worried about the next killer app that will come out under there nose and I believe they found there match. WOrse yet its not windows based. :-)

    MY second favorite app for linux is kdevelop. I had trouble getting kdevelop .4 to install. Something about obstdc not found. I cant fidn this fiel anywhere. :-( BUt version .3 rocks on my mahcine. Its loaded with application wizards just vc++ and I can have a wizard for a kde app, qt app, or even jstu a consule app. THere is even a documentation windows so I can load a c-reference manual, kde programmer reference manual, or even just a help manual for kdevelop itself. KDe even can use emacs style key bindings. IT ROCKS. GO download it. If you can't afford code warrior this is the next great thing.


    I also have a friend who works at microsoft and he told me that kde scares the sh*t out of Steve Balmer more then any other linux app besides apache. I believe in 5 to 7years from now, kde will match if not surpass the ease of use of wibdows. KDE is allready passed windows 3.1 and is right now close to windows95 in terms of ease of use. Its still in the middle though. BUt compared to the kde beta .3 from this time last year where it was about as easy as windows 2.0 is a huge leap that scares ms half-to-death. IF this progess continues you could expect microsoft to have a terrible headache when widnows 2002 wich will ship in 2004 :-) will not be the easest to use on the block and linux will be the number1 OS in Germany, Japan, China, Korea and perhaps spain or Italy. WHo knows. All I know is that 5 years ago linux was just a toy that only cs nerds heard of. This is just my perspective on kde and how its going to change unix.

    I would love to have crystal ball and look five years into the future. I could bet you that kde will be aorund and be probably the defacto standard in xwindows managers by then with machines ranging form 768- 2 gigs of ram where the preformance drop in kde will not be that noticable compared to windows maker at that time. I imagine that linux will still run on very old machiens though so the other windows managers wills till be there. All I know is that Caldera only uses kde and has kde and qt intergrated in everything. Suse loves kde as well and even redhat who invested ing gnome also a default configuration for kde.

    In 4 weeks kde 1.2 will be done. It included lots of themes and high color icons. I cant wait for it.