On Tuesday 29 January 2002 20:26, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: | "Timothy R. Butler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > Now, a few opinions: | > | > 1.) I'm not sure if you are planning this or not, but have you | > considered delaying the distro until the release of KDE 3.0? While you | > might still want to keep KDE 2.2.2 the default desktop, you could | > either have an option to install KDE 3.0 instead, or a way to install | > them side-by-side (i.e. perhaps install KDE 3 to /opt/kde or vise | > versa). SuSE did something like this in SuSE Linux 7.1. | | Unless what's generally perceived, we mostly never plan release | date according to third party software release dates (the mostly | is here because for 7.2 we could have kde-1.99 in), because doing | a distro involves many things which are not widely known such as | scheduled development cycle, bugfixing cycle, etc. All our | releases are 6-month away from each other, with a maximum of | 1-month delay according to various things including layout of | bugfixing. | | As of kde-3.0, I may be wrong but it seems that there is only | little to hope from the user side, between kde-2.2.2 and kde-3.0, | isn't it?
There is a lot of improovement in KDE 3.0 comparing to KDE 2.2.2 Support for Asian languages is in particluar requires Qt 3.0 and KDE 3.0, which uses Qt3. I can also add that key KDE developers do no accept Bug Report against KDE 2.2 branch - as it's supposed to be closed. Other areas where KDE was significantly improoved: * Konqueror (and KHTML/LJS in particular) - JavaScript engine is re-written - CSS has a lot of improovements (better standards compliance) - DOM has a lot of improovements Besides, KDE3 (I hope) will have support for SVG (via KSVG module) and will even support SVG icons (neither MacOS X nor WinXP has support for SVG icons) SVG support is somewhat critical on a way to standards-compliant Web universe, so it makes sense to upgrade to KDE3 just because of improoved (added) SVG support. Some time ago I claimed that I will develop some SVG icons. Indeed, I did few of them - but I was sticked to KDE2 for some time and could not test them in KDE3. BTW: any chance to see Sodipodi (GNOME application) in upcoming LM 8.2? I used it for making SVG drawings, and despite some limitations program is great, IMHO. (http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net) I second back idea of installing KDE3 and KDE2 in parallel in upcoming LM 7.2 Even if KDE3 is not ready, you can install KDE3 Beta2 in parallel to KDE2 Stable, and allow users to test it and send bug reports to the KDE team. More reporting we get, higher chances that next release will be more bug-free. -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/
