On Wednesday 13 November 2002 11:12, Dvir Volk wrote: > AFAIK, this is the main goal of KDE 3.2 - increasing interface > responsiveness and launch speed, rather than bloating KDE with more > features.
Just to disparage the myth that KDE releases have some specific development direction -- a KDE minor version release is simply an opportunity for developers to include new features (which do not break backward compatibility; that's the main rule of minor versions). If one of the developer's goals is to prepare major speedups in time for the 3.2 release - they'll arrive. Usually, the developers don't have a joint goal like a major software house does (e.g. Microsoft can decide that for Windows .NET Server, their main goal would be improving security and they'll allocate N developers for that) so each developer will just scratch his own itch. That's not the "official" development method of KDE; that's just the way things are, in real life. A rule set by the release managers is that you should announce the features you plan to add ahead of time, rather than dropping a patch on the doorstep one day before the freeze. Those are the things you MIGHT see in KDE 3.2: http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/kde-3.2-features.html ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
