We have reconsidered the case and it looks like we'd rather like to see the dezibel-kde part shipped for KDE 4.3.
Regards, Torsten On Friday 21 November 2008 18:33:26 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Thursday 13 November 2008, Torsten Rahn wrote: > > It's important to provide and ship the Decibel-KDE libs support soon. You > > can't always assume that people will always use trunk to develop with. > > I'd claim that most people who develop against KDE 4 these days try to > > develop against the stable version of KDE unless there is a really > > important API enhancement in trunk that they need to depend on (and that > > this has always been the case. the majority of application developers do > not use trunk, and even if they do they realize many of their users don't > and so avoid using library features that are only in trunk. > > > > Which apps are using/want to use Decibel? > > > > Except for Kopete and other IM messaging clients there are possible other > > applications which could use Decibel: ? > > this is where we ought to be aware of KDE4's likeness to KDE2 more than > KDE3. in KDE3 we had a pretty strict "Must already be used in applications" > policy, while in KDE2 it seemed a lot more technology was added "because > applications should be able to $FOO". that's because in KDE3 we had what we > needed and we wanted to avoid unending bloat for no purpose while in KDE2 > (and KDE4) we were adding tools to let us do what we wanted to able to do. > > decibel certainly falls into that category. > > > as for the rest of Torsten's observations and comments, i think he's > correct across the board. _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team
