[dot] Kimono Project Nets KDE

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1080785038/

From: Richard Moore <rich at kde.org>
Dept: we-want-dot-net
Date: Thursday 01/Apr/2004, @04:03

Kimono Project Nets KDE
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   Following the success of the KDE 3.2 release
[http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.2.php], the KDE project is
pleased to announce a new ambitious project dubbed 'Kimono'. The aim of
the project is to write a complete wrapper for KDE/Qt using the Mono
[http://www.go-mono.com/] framework and is based on early work
[http://members.shaw.ca/dkite/mar192004.html#Development%20Tools] by KDE
bindings [http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/kdebindings/] hacker
extraordinaire Richard Dale [http://dot.kde.org/983311036/]. In addition
to using Mono for the back-end work, Kimono will entail migrating to
KaXul [http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/kdenonbeta/kaxul/], a
fully XML-based representation of the UI. Kimono will be the main focus
of the forthcoming KDE 3.3 release.

     "We pretty much got things right with 3.2, so it's time to shake
things up a bit," said KDE project leader Matthias Ettrich, "Exploring
new frameworks will help shake the KDE developers out of a rut, and lead
to lots of new ideas."
     It's not clear at the moment what the time frame for the Kimono
project will be, so don't expect much in the short term. It is likely to
slow things down at first, but in the longer term the benefits of using
a real object oriented language like C# with the inherent advantages of
a managed common runtime will be indisputable.