Plasma Workspaces to go into feature freeze with version 4.11
Plasma Workspaces 4.11 is to receive two years of stabilisation updates from its release, under a long-term support (LTS) scheme. KDE applications are not affected by the freeze and more feature releases of the desktop are expected
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Plasmate SDK for Plasma Workspaces hits 1.0
KDE developers can now use Plasmate 1.0 to develop QML and JavaScript add-ons for Plasma Workspaces. The tool integrates the entire development and deployment cycle into one application
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KDE 4.10 Released, the Fastest KDE Ever
sfcrazy writes "The KDE team has announced the 4.10 releases of KDE Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Development Platform. It brings many improvements, features and polishes the UI even further, which already is one of the most polished, stable and mature desktop environments. With 4.10 KDE users can experience a much more sane global-menu like implementation without interrupting their workflow. A list of improvements is available here." This release makes major steps toward further Qt Quick/QML integration (more plasmoids are written using QML, you can create animated desktops using QML, etc.). KWin's configuration applet also supports fetching extensions from KDE Look. Perhaps the best improvement is a new indexer for Nepomuk, with claims that the semantic desktop is finally usably fast (after suffering through a multi-week indexing on my laptop, I have to say Nepomuk is really cool, but having an unusable system for that long is not so I for one welcome our new indexing overlords). ...
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KDE 4.10 gets a QML refresh
The KDE developers have released the latest update to their desktop environment and its associated application suite. Plasma Workspaces have received updates with the expanded use of Qt Quick in many components
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The Road To KDE Frameworks 5 and Plasma 2
jrepin wrote in with a link to an article about the steps being taken toward a Qt5 based KDE 5 and Plasma Workspaces 2. From the article: "KDE's Next Generation user interfaces will run on top of Qt5. On Linux, they will run atop Wayland or Xorg as display server. The user interfaces move away from widget-based X11 rendering to OpenGL. Monolithic libraries are being split up, inter-dependencies removed, and portability and dependencies cut by stronger modularization. For users, this means higher quality graphics, more organic user interfaces and availability of applications on a wider range of devices. Developers will find an extensive archive of high-quality, libraries and solutions on top of Qt."
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