release plan for 2.2.2

Mark Kretschmann kretschmann at kde.org
Wed Nov 11 08:38:08 CET 2009


On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Seb Ruiz <ruiz at kde.org> wrote:
> 2009/11/11 Lydia Pintscher <lydia at kde.org>:
>> Also something to think about: Do we want to depend on KDE 4.3
>> starting with Amarok 2.2.2? So far packagers seem happy with that. If
>> anyone objects please speak up now ;-)
>
> I don't have a problem doing so, but unless there are some good
> technical advantages of doing so then I don't really see the need.

One advantage is that we could make use of the new Systray
implementation from Plasma. This is far more advanced than the
traditional XEMBED approach of yore.

At the same time, we could utilize some of Qt 4.5's new features, e.g.
QWeakPointer [1].


[1] http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2009/08/25/count-with-me-how-many-smart-pointer-classes-does-qt-have/

-- 
Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
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