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An Interview with the KDE Team (LinuxTimes)
LinuxTimes
interviews George Staikos, the KDE North American Representative.
Q: "What is the one area of KDE that needs the most work, or, What is the first priority for the KDE project at the present moment?" A: "Actually due to the timing, KDE's priority at the moment is KDE 4 - porting to Qt 4 and fixing architectural issues in KDE. This will be the main focus for 2005, and it should make a huge difference for KDE overall. Qt4 promises much better performance and the ability to take advantage of more advanced technologies and cleaner designs. As a part of this, there will be a focus on sharing more specifications and interoperating with other desktop software (GNOME, OpenOffice, Mozilla), and an effort to choose and integrate with a new multimedia framework." (Log in to post comments)
An Interview with the KDE Team (LinuxTimes) Posted Jan 13, 2005 18:55 UTC (Thu) by Zenith (subscriber, #24899) [Link] Being a fluxbox user myself, I currently have little use of KDE itself, but the project holds, as I see it, great promises for the future with QT4 if just most of their intentions come true. I'm particularly thrilled about the greater cooperation the DEs in between, that is, primarily GNOME and KDE, through the use of freedesktop.org specifications.Also, I still have installed, and use, several KDE programs, as I am sure many others also rely on K3b for their CD-burning needs.
Although switching back to KDE will be a most interesting one, if that should happen, I'm more interested in this as well, as KDE is the first impression many new users get of Linux, and as such, it is of great importance that it presents itself well.
Have high hopes for KDE 4!
An Interview with the KDE Team (LinuxTimes) Posted Jan 13, 2005 21:10 UTC (Thu) by jayavarman (subscriber, #19600) [Link] I don't use KDE either but one KDE program which I think will be great in 3.4 is Kpdf. It seems to be progressing quite neatly and is going to include great features I always found lacking in Xpdf.
Anyone knows if there is somthing being developed for GNOME like the next Kpdf, featurewise?
An Interview with the KDE Team (LinuxTimes) Posted Jan 13, 2005 21:47 UTC (Thu) by AdHoc (subscriber, #1115) [Link] gpdf
See the Grumpy Editor article about PDF viewers :) http://lwn.net/Articles/113094/
An Interview with the KDE Team (LinuxTimes) Posted Jan 13, 2005 22:17 UTC (Thu) by jayavarman (subscriber, #19600) [Link] Yes, actually in that article there are links to some screenshots of the next kpdf showing the features I was talking about. Do you know if something like those are getting into gpdf too (maybe for 2.10)?
An Interview with the KDE Team (LinuxTimes) Posted Jan 13, 2005 21:50 UTC (Thu) by drathos (guest, #6454) [Link] GNOME (really GTK+) already has gpdf which is also based on xpdf. Personally, I prefer kpdf out of the bunch, but they're all missing viewing and navigation features that I use in Acroread v5 (let alone v6 or v7 in windows).
Maybe this? Posted Jan 13, 2005 22:21 UTC (Thu) by jayavarman (subscriber, #19600) [Link] Looks cool, but kpdf seems to be quite ahead with things like continuos page rendering. Wouldn't it be simpler to just port kpdf to gtk and gnome?
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