Fedora 9 and the road to KDE4 (Red Hat Magazine)

Fedora 9 and the road to KDE4 (Red Hat Magazine)

Posted May 15, 2008 7:57 UTC (Thu) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
In reply to: Fedora 9 and the road to KDE4 (Red Hat Magazine) by sbergman27
Parent article: Fedora 9 and the road to KDE4 (Red Hat Magazine)

Then why rewrite?

It is not a rewrite, for the most part. It is a port to Qt4. Some things were re-written/rethought: kicker (the old panel) was a mess, arts (the old sound system) was unmaintained, and so on. But they have added on a whole bunch of new "technologies" that simply didn't exist in KDE3. Plasma, phonon, solid, etc. One can view some of these as the desktop equivalents of low-level components -- hal, dbus, udev -- that, also, were invented anew. (Why did they write udev from scratch rather than re-use devfs? Some of the same answers apply here.)

I don't agree with their decision to release an alpha-quality system as KDE 4.0. But they have made it very clear what to expect in that release, so nobody can really complain. They also say KDE3 will be supported for many years.

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