Comments on: KDE 4 Update http://www.lanterntorch.com/technology/free-software/358/kde-4-update/ linux, free software, kde, islam Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:48:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Yusuf Smith http://www.lanterntorch.com/technology/free-software/358/kde-4-update/comment-page-1/#comment-1553 Yusuf Smith Sun, 10 Sep 2006 08:50:34 +0000 http://www.lanterntorch.com/afterthought/358/kde-4-update/#comment-1553 I use KDE 3.5.4 myself on both Fedora Core 5 and Ubuntu (Dapper). I agree that it's fast, especially in loading time - they really did crack the "long KDE loading time" problem with 3.5.3 and have kept it up with the latest version. I'm sort-of concerned about KDE 4, because they have delayed it for so long after Qt 4 was released. When Qt 3 came out (Oct 2001), it was just under six months before KDE 3 was out (April 2002). Qt 4 was released in summer 2005 and it's now going into autumn 2006 and we're still not at beta stage for KDE4 - in fact, it will not even use Qt 4.1. I sort of wonder if they should not have got the Qt 4 port done first, and thought later about adding loads of new frameworks and other features. I use KDE 3.5.4 myself on both Fedora Core 5 and Ubuntu (Dapper). I agree that it’s fast, especially in loading time – they really did crack the “long KDE loading time” problem with 3.5.3 and have kept it up with the latest version.

I’m sort-of concerned about KDE 4, because they have delayed it for so long after Qt 4 was released. When Qt 3 came out (Oct 2001), it was just under six months before KDE 3 was out (April 2002). Qt 4 was released in summer 2005 and it’s now going into autumn 2006 and we’re still not at beta stage for KDE4 – in fact, it will not even use Qt 4.1. I sort of wonder if they should not have got the Qt 4 port done first, and thought later about adding loads of new frameworks and other features.

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