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KDE 4

KDE 4. 0
Developed by The KDE Team
Latest release 4. A software developer is a person or organization concerned with facets of the software development process wider than design and coding a somewhat broader scope of A software release is the distribution whether public or private of an initial or new and upgraded version of a Computer software product 0. 5 / June 4, 2008 (2008-06-04); 10 days ago
OS Desktop: Unix-like with X11
Applications: Mac OS X v10.4/10.5, Windows XP/Vista
Genre Desktop environment
Website www.kde.org

KDE 4 is the current series of releases of the K Desktop Environment. Events 781 BC - The first historic Solar eclipse is recorded in China. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common An operating system (commonly abbreviated OS and O/S) is the software component of a Computer system that is responsible for the management and coordination A Unix-like (sometimes shortened to *nix) Operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system while not necessarily conforming Mac OS X version 104 “Tiger” was the fifth major release of Mac OS X, Apple’s desktop and server Operating system for Macintosh Mac OS X version 105 “Leopard” is the sixth major release of Mac OS X, Apple’s desktop and server Operating system for Macintosh Windows XP is a family of 32-bit and 64-bit Operating systems produced by Microsoft for use on Personal computers including home and Windows Vista (ˈvɪstə is a line of Operating systems developed by Microsoft for use on Personal computers including home and business desktops Computer software can be organized into categories based on common function type or field of use In graphical computing a desktop environment ( DE) commonly refers to a style of Graphical user interface (GUI that is based on the Desktop metaphor which A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages KDE ( K Desktop Environment) (ˌkeɪdiːˈiː is a Free software project which aims to be a powerful system for an easy-to-use Desktop environment. The first version (4. 0. 0) of this series was released on 11 January 2008. Events 1055 - Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common [1]

The new series includes updates to several of KDE’s core components, notably a port to Qt 4. Qt (pronounced "cute" by its creators is a Cross-platform application development framework widely used for the development of GUI programs (in which It contains a new multimedia API, called Phonon, a device integration framework called Solid and a new style guide and default icon set called Oxygen. Phonon is the multimedia API for KDE 4. Phonon was created to allow KDE 4 to be independent of any single multimedia framework such as GStreamer or Solid is a new device integration framework for KDE 4, the current release of the K Desktop Environment. The Oxygen Project is a project created to give a visual refresh to KDE 4, the current release of the K Desktop Environment It also includes the new desktop and panel user interface tool, called Plasma, which supports desktop widgets, replacing SuperKaramba and similar to Apple’s Dashboard widgets. Plasma, part of KDE 4, is a fundamental rewrite of several desktop interaction technologies included in the KDE desktop environment for Linux and other SuperKaramba is a tool that allows one to easily create functionality enhancement modules on a KDE Desktop. Dashboard is an application for Apple 's Mac OS X operating systems used for hosting mini-applications known as widgets. The port to Qt 4 will facilitate support for non-X11-based platforms, including Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Qt (pronounced "cute" by its creators is a Cross-platform application development framework widely used for the development of GUI programs (in which Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Mac OS X (mæk oʊ ɛs tɛn is a line of computer Operating systems developed marketed and sold by Apple Inc, the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently One of the overall goals of KDE 4 is to be more easily portable to different operating systems.

Major releases (4. x) are scheduled for every six months, while minor bugfix releases (4. x. x) are released monthly. [2]

Contents

Major updates

This is a short overview of major changes in KDE 4. Not all of these changes are available in the first (4. 0) release.

General

The port to the Qt 4 series is expected to enable KDE 4 to use less memory and be noticeably faster than KDE 3. The KDE libraries themselves have also been made more efficient. Qt 4 is available under the GPL for Mac OS X and Windows, which will allow KDE 4 to run on those platforms. Mac OS X (mæk oʊ ɛs tɛn is a line of computer Operating systems developed marketed and sold by Apple Inc, the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. The ports to both platforms are in an early state but expected to be suitable for regular use by the release of KDE 4. 1. Both ports are trying to use as little divergent code as possible to make the applications function almost identically on all platforms. During Google's Summer of Code 2007 an icon cache was created to speed up application start up times for use in KDE 4. Google Summer of Code (GSoC is an annual program first held from May to August 2005 Overview The program invites students who meet their eligibility criteria to post [3] Improvements were varied - Kfind, an application which used several hundred icons, started up in almost a quarter of the time it took previously. [4] Other applications and a full KDE session started up a little over a second faster.

Many applications in the Extragear module have received numerous improvements with the new features of KDE 4 and Qt 4. The Extragear is a collection of KDE applications that are associated with the KDE project But since they follow their own release schedule, they were not all available at the time of the first KDE 4 release. Popular applications like Amarok, K3b, digiKam, Gwenview and KOffice (though not part of the extragear module) are being ported. Amarok (ˈæməɹɒk is a Free software music player for Linux or other varieties of Unix. K3b (from KDE Burn Baby Burn) is a CD and DVD authoring application for the KDE Desktop environment for Unix-like DigiKam is an Image organizer and editor for the KDE desktop environment Gwenview is an Image viewer for the KDE Desktop environment. The current maintainer is Aurélien Gâteau KOffice is an Office suite for the K Desktop Environment ( KDE)

Visual

The most noticeable changes for users are the new icons, theme and sounds provided by the Oxygen Project. The Oxygen Project is a project created to give a visual refresh to KDE 4, the current release of the K Desktop Environment These represent a break from previous KDE icons and graphics, which had a cartoonish look. Instead Oxygen icons will opt for a more photorealistic style. Photorealism is the genre of painting based on making a painting of a Photograph. The Oxygen Project builds on the freedesktop.org Icon Naming Specification and Icon Theme Specification, allowing consistency across applications. The Oxygen team will be using community help for better visuals in KDE 4, with both alternate icon sets and the winners of a wallpaper contest held by the Oxygen project being included in KDE 4. [5] There will also be a new set of human interface guidelines for a more standardized layout. Human interface guidelines (HIG are Software development documents which offer application developers a set of recommendations

Plasma is a rewrite of several core KDE applications, like the desktop drawing and most notably the widget engine. Plasma, part of KDE 4, is a fundamental rewrite of several desktop interaction technologies included in the KDE desktop environment for Linux and other Plasma will allow for a more customizable desktop and more versatile widgets.

KWin, the KDE Window Manager from KDE 3, now provides its own compositing effects, similar to Compiz. KWIN is a commercial Radio station located in Lodi California, broadcasting to the Stockton California area on 97 Compiz is one of the first Compositing window managers for the X Window System that uses 3D graphics hardware to create fast Compositing desktop Compositing is disabled by default in 4. 0.

Development

Phonon is the name of the new multimedia API in KDE 4. Phonon is the multimedia API for KDE 4. Phonon was created to allow KDE 4 to be independent of any single multimedia framework such as GStreamer or Phonon is a different approach to multimedia backends than in previous versions of KDE, as Phonon only functions as a wrapper. Abstracting the various multimedia frameworks available for unix-like operating systems into runtime switchable backends that can be accessed through a single API. This was done to provide a stable API for KDE 4 and to prevent it from depending on a single multimedia framework. Applications that use the Phonon API can be switched between multimedia frameworks seamlessly by simply changing the backend used in system settings. Trolltech adopted Phonon for multimedia use in Qt 4. 4 and are developing backends for Gstreamer, Windows and OS X in the KDE SVN repository under the LGPL. [6]

Solid is the hardware API in KDE 4. Solid is a new device integration framework for KDE 4, the current release of the K Desktop Environment. It functions similarly to Phonon as it doesn't manage hardware on its own but makes existing solutions accessible through a single API. The current solution uses HAL, NetworkManager and BlueZ (the official Linux bluetooth stack), but any and all parts can be replaced without breaking the application, making applications using Solid extremely flexible and portable. In the field of Unix-like Software, HAL, a Hardware abstraction layer and Software project developed by Red Hat, NetworkManager is a software utility aimed at simplifying the use of Computer networks on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems A Bluetooth stack refers to an Implementation of the Bluetooth Protocol stack.

ThreadWeaver is a programming library to help applications take advantage of multicore processors and is included with kdelibs. ThreadWeaver is a programming library developed for KDE 4 by Mirko Boehm that allows developers to easily take advantage of multicore processors

Kross is the new scripting framework for KDE 4. Kross is the new scripting framework for KDE 4, the latest version of the K Desktop Environment. Kross itself is not a scripting language, but makes it easier for developers to add support for other scripting languages. Once an application adds support for Kross, any language Kross supports can be used by developers. New scripting languages can be added by creating a plugin for Kross, which benefits all applications using it.

Decibel is a Telepathy based communication framework, which is expected to be fully used by Kopete by KDE 4. Decibel is a new communication framework for KDE4, the next major release of the K Desktop Environment. Telepathy is a Software framework which can be used to make software for interpersonal communications such as Instant messaging, Voice over IP or 2 and will allow for easy embedding of chat inside applications.

Strigi is the default search tool for KDE 4, chosen for its speed and few dependencies. Strigi is an advanced desktop-independent search daemon initiated by Jos van den Oever [7] In concert with other software like Soprano, an RDF storage framework, and the NEPOMUK specification, Strigi will provide the beginnings of a semantic desktop in KDE 4. Soprano is a software library that provides an object oriented C++/Qt4 framework for RDF data The Resource Description Framework (RDF is a family of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C Specifications originally designed as a Metadata Data NEPOMUK, or Networked Environment for Personalized Ontology-based Management of Unified Knowledge, is an open-source software specification that is concerned with the development In Computer science, the Semantic Desktop is a collective term for ideas related to changing a computer's User interface and data handling capabilities so that data Users can tag files with additional information through Dolphin, which Strigi can index for more accurate searches. [8]

KDE 4 uses CMake for its build system. CMake is a Cross-platform system for Build automation. It is comparable to the Unix Make program in that the build process is ultimately controlled Since previous versions of KDE were only on Unix systems, autotools were used, but a new build system was needed for builds on operating systems like Windows and Mac OS X. The GNU build system, also known as the Autotools, is a suite of Programming tools produced by the GNU project. CMake also dramatically simplified the build process. The autotools build system had become so complicated by KDE 3 that few developers understood it, requiring hours of work for simple changes. In early 2007 CMake was shown to compile the KDE 4 version of KDElibs 40 % faster than the autotools compiled KDE 3 version. [9]

DXS, previously known as GHNS (Get Hot New Stuff)[10] and now adopted by freedesktop.org, is a web service that lets applications download and install data from the Internet with one click. It was used in the KDE 3 series but has been extended for use throughout KDE 4. One example was Kstars, that can use Astronomical data that is free for personal use but you cannot redistribute it. DXS allows that data to be easily downloaded and installed from within the application instead of manually downloading it.

Akonadi is a new PIM framework for KDE 4 that will be included in later releases. Akonadi is a Personal information management (PIM framework for KDE 4 Akonadi is a unification of previously separate KDE PIM components. In the past each application would have its own method for storing information and handling data. Akonadi itself functions as a server that provides data and search functions to PIM applications. It is also able to update the status of contacts. So if one application changes information about a contact, all other applications are immediately informed of the change. [11]

KDE 4. 0

The majority of development went into implementing most of the new technologies and frameworks of KDE 4. Plasma and the Oxygen style were two of the biggest user-facing changes.

Dolphin replaces Konqueror as the default file manager in KDE 4. Dolphin is a File manager for KDE. It is the default file manager for the current version KDE 4 and can be optionally installed on KDE 3 0. This was done to address complaints of Konqueror being too complicated for a simple file manager. However Dolphin and Konqueror will share as much code as possible, and Dolphin can be embedded in Konqueror to allow Konqueror to still be used as a file manager.

Okular replaces several document viewers used in KDE 3, like KPDF, KGhostView and KDVI. Okular is the document viewer for KDE 4. It is based on KPDF and it replaced KPDF KGhostView, KFax, KFaxview, KDVI in KDE 4 Okular makes use of software libraries and can be extended to view almost any kind of document. Like Konqueror and KPDF in KDE 3, Okular can be embedded in other applications.

Pre-releases

On May 11, 2007, KDE 4. Events 330 - Byzantium is renamed ''Nova Roma'' during a dedication ceremony but is more popularly referred to as Constantinople Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. 0 Alpha 1 was released marking the end of the addition of large features to the KDE base libraries and shifting the focus onto integrating the new technologies into applications and the basic desktop. Alpha 1 included new frameworks to build applications with, providing improved hardware and multimedia integration through Solid and Phonon. Solid is a new device integration framework for KDE 4, the current release of the K Desktop Environment. Phonon is the multimedia API for KDE 4. Phonon was created to allow KDE 4 to be independent of any single multimedia framework such as GStreamer or Dolphin and Okular were integrated and a new visual appearance was provided through Oxygen icons. Dolphin is a File manager for KDE. It is the default file manager for the current version KDE 4 and can be optionally installed on KDE 3 Okular is the document viewer for KDE 4. It is based on KPDF and it replaced KPDF KGhostView, KFax, KFaxview, KDVI in KDE 4 The Oxygen Project is a project created to give a visual refresh to KDE 4, the current release of the K Desktop Environment [12]

On 2007-07-04, Alpha 2 was released. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 836 - Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples [13] The release focused on integrating the Plasma desktop, improving functionality and stabilizing KDE.

On 2007-08-02, Beta 1 was released. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 338 BC - A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the [14] Major features included a pixmap cache – speeding up icon loading, KDE PIM improvements, improved KWin effects and configuration, better interaction between Konqueror and Dolphin and Metalink support added to KGet for improved downloads. KWIN is a commercial Radio station located in Lodi California, broadcasting to the Stockton California area on 97 Metalink is a cross-platform and cross-application open standard/framework/file format for programs that download including Download managers BitTorrent KGet is a free Download manager for

On 2007-09-06, Beta 2 was released with improved BSD and Solaris support. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 3114 BC - According to the Proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started Solaris is a Unix -based Operating system introduced by Sun Microsystems in 1992 as the successor to SunOS. [15] The release included the addition of the Blitz graphic library – allowing for developers to use high performance graphical tricks like icon animation – and an overhaul of KRDC (K Remote Desktop Client) for Google’s Summer of Code. KRDC is the KDE Remote Desktop Client KRDC was overhauled as part of the Google Summer of Code (SoC 2007 by Urs Wolfer and other developers to be Google Summer of Code (GSoC is an annual program first held from May to August 2005 Overview The program invites students who meet their eligibility criteria to post Plasma was also integrated with Amarok to provide Amarok’s central context view. Plasma, part of KDE 4, is a fundamental rewrite of several desktop interaction technologies included in the KDE desktop environment for Linux and other

On 2007-10-16 Beta 3 was released. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 456 - Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western [16] The beta 3 release was focused on stabilizing and finishing the design of libraries for the release of the KDE Development Platform. Plasma received many new features including an applet browser. The Educational software received many improvements in Marble and Parley (formerly known as KVoctrain) with bugfixes in other applications. A program called Step, an interactive physics simulator, was produced as part of the Google Summer of Code. Google Summer of Code (GSoC is an annual program first held from May to August 2005 Overview The program invites students who meet their eligibility criteria to post

On 2007-10-30 Beta 4 was released. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 637 - Antioch surrenders to the Muslim forces under Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of Iron bridge. [17] A list of release blockers was compiled,[18] listing issues that need to be resolved before KDE will start with the release candidate cycle for the desktop. The goals were to focus on stabilization and fixing the release blockers.

At the same time, the first release candidate of the KDE 4. 0 Development Platform was released. The development platform contains all the base libraries to develop KDE applications, including “high-level widget libraries, a network abstraction layer and various libraries for multimedia integration, hardware integration and transparent access to resources on the network. ”[19]

On November 20, 2007 Release Candidate (RC) 1 was released. Events 284 - Diocletian was chosen as Roman Emperor. 762 - Bögü Khan of the Uyghurs, Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. [20] This release was called a "Release Candidate" despite Plasma requiring further work and not being ready for release. On 2007-12-11 RC2 was released. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 359 - Honoratus, the first known Prefect of the City of Constantinople, takes office [21] The codebase was declared feature-complete. Some work was still required to fix bugs, finish off artwork and smoothen out the user experience.

Stable releases

KDE 4. 0 was released on January 11, 2008. Events 1055 - Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Despite being a stable release, it is intended for early adopters. [22] Users wanting a stable, "feature complete" desktop may wish to continue using KDE 3. 5 for now. [23] There are maintenance releases every month,[2] which fix bugs and add some minor features such as resizable desktop panels.

KDE 4. 0 Alpha 1, showing Dolphin and early Oxygen icons

Beta 1, showing the run dialogue, clock plasmoid and Dolphin file manager

Beta 2, showing a number of plasmoids

Beta 4, showing the new Kickoff menu

RC2, showing Dolphin and Konqueror

Final release, showing Dolphin, System Settings and Kickoff

KDE 4. 1

Development of the 4. 1 release, which is expected to be available in July 2008, is in progress. [2][24] KDE 4. 1 will include a shared emoticon theming system which is used in PIM and Kopete, and DXS, a service that lets applications download and install data from the Internet with one click. [25] Also introduced are GStreamer, QuickTime 7, and DirectShow 9 Phonon backends. GStreamer is a pipeline based Multimedia framework written in the C programming language with the type system based on GObject. QuickTime is a Multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc, capable of handling various formats of Digital video, Media clips sound text DirectShow (sometimes abbreviated as DS or DShow) codename Quartz, is a Multimedia framework and API produced by Microsoft Phonon is the multimedia API for KDE 4. Phonon was created to allow KDE 4 to be independent of any single multimedia framework such as GStreamer or [25] Plasma improvements include support for Qt widgets and WebKit integration – allowing many Apple Dashboard widgets to be displayed. Qt (pronounced "cute" by its creators is a Cross-platform application development framework widely used for the development of GUI programs (in which WebKit is an Open source Application framework that provides a foundation upon which to build a Web browser. Dashboard is an application for Apple 's Mac OS X operating systems used for hosting mini-applications known as widgets. [25] There will also be ports of some applications to Windows and Mac OS X. Mac OS X (mæk oʊ ɛs tɛn is a line of computer Operating systems developed marketed and sold by Apple Inc, the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently [25]

New applications include:[25]

krunner in KDE 4. Dragon Player is a simple media player for the KDE Desktop environment. KDE PIM is a package of the KDE desktop environment that contains Personal information management tools Akonadi is a Personal information management (PIM framework for KDE 4 Bejeweled is a Puzzle game by PopCap Games, first developed for the browser in 2001. 1 Beta 1.

New panel configuration interface in Beta 1.

Kontact in Beta 1.

"CoverSwitch" effect.


Release schedule

Date Event
4. 0[26]
April 2, 2007 Subsystem Freeze
From this date forward, no new KDE subsystem or major changes can be committed to kdelibs. Events 68 - Galba, Governor of Hispania, names himself legatus senatus populique Romani, breaking the line of Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
May 1, 2007 kdelibs soft API Freeze
The kdelibs API is "soft-frozen", meaning that changes can be made with the consent of the core developers. Events 305 - Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
May 11, 2007 Alpha 1
June 1, 2007 trunk/KDE is module frozen
Trunk is frozen for new or resurrected applications. Events 330 - Byzantium is renamed ''Nova Roma'' during a dedication ceremony but is more popularly referred to as Constantinople Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. A software release is the distribution whether public or private of an initial or new and upgraded version of a Computer software product Events 193 - Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is Assassinated 987 - Hugh Capet is elected Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
July 4, 2007 Alpha 2
Initially due to be called Beta 1, it was decided to retain the alpha designation because this release wasn’t judged to be beta quality. Events 836 - Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
July 24, 2007 Core Library API Freeze
August 2, 2007 Beta 1
September 6, 2007 Beta 2
Trunk is frozen for feature commits. Events 1132 - Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 338 BC - A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. A software release is the distribution whether public or private of an initial or new and upgraded version of a Computer software product Events 3114 BC - According to the Proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
October 18, 2007 Beta 3
October 24, 2007 KDE 4 Release Freeze
Source and binary compatibility until KDE 5, hard freeze Platform & soft freeze Desktop. Events 1009 - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 69 - Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus the commander of the Danube armies loyal to Vespasian, defeat Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
October 30, 2007 Beta 4
November 20, 2007 Release candidate 1
KDE Development Platform released
December 11, 2007 Release candidate 2
Only regressions or serious bugs can be fixed. Events 637 - Antioch surrenders to the Muslim forces under Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of Iron bridge. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 284 - Diocletian was chosen as Roman Emperor. 762 - Bögü Khan of the Uyghurs, Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. A software release is the distribution whether public or private of an initial or new and upgraded version of a Computer software product Events 359 - Honoratus, the first known Prefect of the City of Constantinople, takes office Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
January 11, 2008 KDE 4. Events 1055 - Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common 0 released
February 5, 2008 4. Events 1576 - Henry of Navarre converts to Roman Catholicism in order to ensure his right to the throne of France. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common 0. 1 Maintenance release.
March 5, 2008 4. Events 363 - Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common 0. 2 Maintenance release.
April 2, 2008 4. Events 68 - Galba, Governor of Hispania, names himself legatus senatus populique Romani, breaking the line of 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common 0. 3 Maintenance release.
May 7, 2008 4. Events 558 - In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common 0. 4 Maintenance release.
June 4, 2008 4. Events 781 BC - The first historic Solar eclipse is recorded in China. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common 0. 5 Maintenance release.
4. 1[24]
April 20, 2008 Soft Feature Freeze
Features must be finished or listed in the planned features document. Events 1303 - The University of Rome La Sapienza is instituted by Pope Boniface VIII. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common
April 29, 2008 Alpha 1
May 19, 2008 Hard Feature Freeze
Trunk is frozen for all feature commits. Events 1429 - Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1535 - French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships 110 men and 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Hereafter, only bug fixes are allowed.
May 27, 2008 Beta 1
June 24, 2008 Beta 2
July 15, 2008 Release candidate 1
Additional release candidates will be created as needed. Events 927 - Simeon the Great, Tsar of Bulgaria, dies 1120 - Richard III of Capua is anointed 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 972 - Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces takes place 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1099 - First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common
July 29, 2008 Release KDE 4. Events 1014 - Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars: Battle of Kleidion: Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common 1
Expected release date of KDE 4. 1
All future dates are provisional.

External links

References

  1. ^ KDE 4.0 Release Announcement.
  2. ^ a b c KDE 4.1 - release team aims at July 2008.
  3. ^ Google Code - Summer of Code - Application Information
  4. ^ commit-digest.org - 22nd July 2007
  5. ^ Oxygen Team Unveils Wallpaper Collection for KDE 4.0
  6. ^ Trolltech Hosting Phonon Backends in KDE Subversion Repository
  7. ^ The Road to KDE 4: Strigi and File Information Extraction
  8. ^ KDE Commit-Digest – 9th December 2007
  9. ^ The Road to KDE 4: CMake, a New Build System for KDE
  10. ^ GHNS Project - Get Hot New Stuff!
  11. ^ aKademy 2006: Akonadi – The KDE 4.0 PIM Framework
  12. ^ KDE 4.0 Alpha 1 announcement
  13. ^ KDE 4.0 Alpha 2 announcement
  14. ^ KDE 4.0 Beta 1 announcement
  15. ^ KDE 4.0 Beta 2 announcement
  16. ^ KDE 4.0 Beta 3 Release Announcement
  17. ^ KDE 4.0 Beta 4 Release Announcement
  18. ^ Schedules/KDE4/4.0 Release Beta Goals - KDE TechBase
  19. ^ KDE 4.0 Platform Release Candidate 1 announcement
  20. ^ KDE 4.0 Release Candidate Announcement
  21. ^ KDE 4.0 Release Candidate 2 Announcement
  22. ^ aseigo: talking bluntly
  23. ^ KDE 4.0 released: rough, but ready for action
  24. ^ a b KDE 4.1 Release Schedule.
  25. ^ a b c d e KDE 4.1 Release Goals.
  26. ^ KDE 4.0 Release Schedule.
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