what's happening in the world of kde4? well, in the last fortnight or so:
oxygen icons started making their way into svn; kde4 made the switch to dbus after thiago and others worked on it tirelessly for some time now; kdialogbase and kjanuswidget (which most people know from kde application configuration dialogs) is updated after it's 7 year reign with the less mysteriously named kpageddialog which sports both a simple interface like what we had (but with a far clearer API) and a model/view driven option; bits of kservice were moved into kdecore so we can plugin enable things like kconfig and kspell2 (ktrader was also broken into pieces and now we have API-improved traders for services and mimetypes; is also leading up to dfaure implementing the xdg mimetype spec as see on fd.o); applnk/ is on its way out with only the screensavers left to leave (working on it).
akonadi also entered svn, though that may have been more than 2 weeks ago now?
and this isn't even touching on the "usual" progress made elsewhere in the codebase. even old standby apps like ksysguard are getting love and attention, while newer apps like okular (was kpdf) continue to move forward and koffice2 devel progresses nicely.
i've also heard rumours of a possible kde4 scripting (aka "application automation") meeting (ala k3m) being arranged... sweet.
so the pace is quickening. still, there is a lot yet to do. sometimes when faced with such a mountain it's easy to not notice the progress that is being made, even if it is coming along nicely =)
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And what about Plasma?
foundations first, roofs and windows later ;)
there is a lot of work leading up to the finishing bits. it's very important to know where we are headed though to be able to make the right foundations.
i also have code that i can't release until trolltech starts doing snapshots of 4.2 which comes with qgraphicsview.
odd tidbit: it wasn't my intention to make a -big- thing about plasma publicly until late last year / early this year. it was well meaning users and fellow developers who spread the word and once out it spread like wildfire. i know it's really hard to wait and being teased with something that is a 12+ month project sucks ... but can't do much about that now; everybody asks about it, everybody wants to know about it.. and fair enough, it's an exciting project.
if it were a project at apple or microsoft you still wouldn't know about it for another year ;)
Shouldn't you change the roadmap for plasma on plasma.kde.org.
It now tells us that milestone 3 and 4 needed to be finished before april 30.
As milestone 3 and 4 are still "in progress" it seems as if you guys are lagging behind.
Hey Aaron, do you know any news about Tenor?
I think tenor will never get released .... we don't have any news for almost a year ....
yeah...I agree that the plasma site should be updated more often.
You’re traveling in a car at the speed of sound and there is another car 25 feet in front of you also traveling at the speed of sound. You beep the horn. Does the car in front of you hear your horn? 12 of us have been arguing about this for a month now. We do not want a guessed answer. We need to know facts. That way we can rub it in the others face. Thank You
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Assuming you are both traveling at the speed of sound, the car behind cannot emit any sounds that will be heard by the car in front as sound only goes the speed of sound. However, the car in front can make noises that the car behind can hear as the sound will travel in all directions.
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