URL: http://dot.kde.org/118
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From: Sebastian Kügler <sebas kde.org>
Dept: glescas-glory
Date: Wednesday 04/Jul/2007, 10:23
KDE 4.0 Alpha 2 Released
========================
The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate
availability of
the second alpha release of the K Desktop Environment. This
release
comes straight out of Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland
where
aKademy [http://akademy.kde.org] is
currently taking place. Hundreds of
KDE hackers are working like crazy to hunt down bugs,
complete features
for KDE 4.0 and sit together developing and finishing new
and exciting
applications for the new major version of the leading Free
Desktop.
The most exciting new development is currently going on in
Plasma
[http://plasma.kde.org],
KDE 4's new shell for the desktop. Plasma
provides krunner, an application to directly launch programs
and start
other tasks. Plasmoids are applets that display information
such as the
time, information about hardware devices and also provide
access to
online resources, for example showing RSS feeds, images or
providing
dictionary lookup.
Systemsettings, the replacement for kcontrol is an improved
user
interface hosting various modules for configuring the
desktop and other
aspects of the system is another addition worth mentioning.
The upcoming weeks will be spent on further stabilizing
and
streamlining the underlying KDE libraries to provide a
stable interface
for programmers for the whole KDE4 lifecycle. Furthermore,
the focus
will shift to finishing the applications that are shipped
with the base
desktop and polishing their user interfaces.
The end of July will see a full freeze of the kdelibs
module,
manifested in the first beta release of KDE 4.0 with the
final release
currently planned for the end of October this year.
For the bravehearts who want to try KDE 4.0 Alpha2, please
refer to
this page [http://www.kde.org/i
nfo/3.91.php] to find ways to have a
peak at the current status yourself. As the pace of
development would
outdate screenshots very quickly, the best way to find out
about
progress is to refer to sites such as The Dot [http://dot.kde.org] or
Planet KDE [http:://planetkde.org], the collection of KDE
developers'
weblogs.
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