On 29/09/2007, Ken Mays <maybird1776 at yahoo.com> wrote: > Well, it begins. I'm back to focus on the Sun Studio 12 builds of KDE 4.0 > with ports to Solaris 8 -> SXCR. This will become the most advanced desktop > for the Solaris OS with more artwork from a professional team of > international artists and some 3D generated artwork. We are reviewing some of > the top KDE applications to rival the user experience seen on Windows Vista - > providing a near Mac OS X "Aqua" experience. >
It will be great for users to have two wonderful, mature desktop choices with KDE and GNOME to suit their individual needs. I would love to see Solaris become the premiere Free Desktop platform. If there's anyway I can help, as a developer, please let me know. > Stefan may have KDE 4.0 (beta2) already implemented in CVSdude or internally > built at Sun. Checking with him on that. > At last check, he was still working on libquicktime for 3.5.7 with the logic being that all of the dependencies were shared between 3.5.7 and 4.0. > P.S. I was going to fully update KDE 3.5.7 over at Blastwave, but with KDE > 4.0 only two months away it seemed we should move everything to KDE 4.0 > support. I'll talk to Stefan and Dennis about this as I usually support the > GCC build of KDE 3.x.x over there. > -- I think 3.5.7 would be best for folks wanting a stable environment, that's just me though. I'm certainly more interested in 3.5.7 than 4.0 at the moment from a user perspective. Thanks for the rally cry! -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " --Donald Knuth
