The sleepless KDE/QT developers have started work for KDE 3, the X graphics environment, planned to be released sometime next year. KDE 3 will be based on QT 3.0 and will also feature educational and other apps (like Kompare and KWinTV) as part of the default installation, support for extremely large files, new versions for KNode and KMail, email templates in KMail, advanced Web Shortcuts, S/MIME support, plugins for the KMenu, a graphical Regular Expression app (KRegExpEditor) and much more. A mailing list for the KDE3 users can be found here. Update: If you are an adventurous user, there is an alpha version of KDE 3 available.
Work for KDE 3.0 Has Started
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Darn, now I have to go through the agony of porting Qt3.0 to BeOS. When will it end …
To give kudos where kudos is due, TrollTech have much cleaner internals (design and code) so porting Qt shouldn’t represent a problem. KDE is a different story altogether.
I agree that QT 3 is an incredible Toolkit and C++ API. I would go as far saying that the QT API is the closest to BeOS you can find around in its design and “philosophy”. Highly recommended.
As for KDE, I don’t like its bloated interface, or the way itself and its apps look. I don’t like Gnome either. Now that I am thinking about it, I don’t like any X environment (however KDE is the one I am using the most when I am under Linux). Hmm.. maybe this is the reason I write this comment through another OS.
I agree, KDE (and X) are way too bloated. I like BeOS much better, I hope KDE 3 will be better, but I would really like to see Qube become a popular alternitive to X and KDE on NIX and BSD systems.
mail.kde.org is down!
“””KDE (and X) are way too bloated.”””
You can run a full UNIX and X11 system in 4Mbytes of RAM on a 20MHz 386. Those are the kinds of platforms that X11 originally was developed for; there is nothing bloated about the design of the X window system.
There is indeed something quite bloated about Qt and Gtk on X11. In part, that’s because those toolkits are not using the X11 APIs as they were intended to be used (in the case of Qt, that’s doubtlessly due to its cross-platform heritage) and because they duplicate a lot of functionality. The XFree86 implementation of X11 also uses resources rather liberally, but then the machines it runs on usually have the resources available.
“You can run a full UNIX and X11 system in 4Mbytes of RAM on a 20MHz 386.”
Sure: X11R1, but not X11R6.4.
Even in Linux’s early days, X needed 8-12MB to function…