[dot] Third KDE 4 Development Snapshot Released: " Kludge"

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1172249109/

From: Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org>
Dept: get-your-latest-hacking-fix-now
Date: Friday 23/Feb/2007, @08:45

Third KDE 4 Development Snapshot Released: &quot;Kludge&quot;
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   The KDE project announces the availability of the third development
snapshot of the upcoming KDE 4. This snapshot is meant as a reference
for developers who want to play with parts of the new technology KDE 4
will provide, those who want to start porting their applications to the
new KDE 4 platform and for those that want to start to develop
applications based on KDE 4. This snapshot is not for end users, there
is no guarantee that it will be stable, the interfaces are subject to
changes at any time.

     This new development version of KDE features the following new
technologies:
    * Sonnet which has previously been covered on Linux.com
      [http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/01/1935238].
    * Solid [http://solid.kde.org], KDE 4's unified layer to deal with
      hardware and network resources.
    * Vastly improved support for the new platforms Windows and Mac OS
      through cleaning up the source code from dependencies on X11. See
      kdelibs.com [http://kdelibs.com/] for more information.
    * The recently added filemanager Dolphin
      [http://enzosworld.gmxhome.de/] which will be the default
      filemanager for KDE. Konqueror will still be available and share
      much of the code with Dolphin.


     After "Krash" [http://dot.kde.org/1155935483/], the first
development snapshot, this is another milestone towards KDE 4.0 which
will be released later this year. The KDE developers aim at a release in
summer 2007. Reaching this target depends on application developers
picking up the new technology to use in their applications. While
"Krash" marked the milestones initial Qt4 port, the use of DBus
[http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=DBUS] as
inter-process-communication system, the merge of Phonon
[http://phonon.kde.org] as the multimedia framework and CMake
[http://www.cmake.org], KDE's new buildsystem. The next planned change
is new integration of Oxygen [http://oxygen-icons.org/], the new artwork
concept. Work on Plasma [http://plasma.kde.org/] is also taking up pace.

     For those who want to keep track of the development process, the
Dot [http://dot.kde.org] regularly covers new and upcoming technologies
through the series "Pillars of KDE 4" (informing about upcoming
technologies) and "The Road to KDE 4", which covers new stuff that has
been integrated in the official development tree.

     Questions about KDE 4 can be answered on various mailing lists such
as kde-devel [https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel] and
kde-buildsystem [https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-buildsystem],
as well as on #kde4-devel on irc.kde.org. Documentation for getting up
to speed with KDE 4 development is available from a number
[http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=KDE4] of sources.
 [http://developer.kde.org/build/trunk.html]