From kde-core-devel  Tue Jan 24 21:35:53 2006
From: Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:35:53 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Proposal to plan for "Milestone Releases" on the way to KDE4
Message-Id: <200601242235.57093.boud () valdyas ! org>
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Good stuff and well thought-out... Especially the recognition that app=20
developers are not lib developers, which makes all the difference.

But since I have already entered the public discussion, I'm going to going =
to=20
reiterate my two cents here.

* While it's certainly still possible to do cool stuff with Qt 3, that's no=
=20
argument. It's still possible to do cool stuff with Motif, too. For some=20
problems Qt3 doesn't cut it, and I happen to be very interested in some of=
=20
these problems.

* KDE-the-Desktop and KDE-the-development framework are two different beast=
s.=20
A Qt4-based development framework can be very useful withouth Plasma and al=
l=20
the other wonderful kennings we've been coining for the past year.

* A quick release of the development framework followed by a later release =
of=20
the desktop would fit my personal agenda very well. If there are one or two=
=20
releases of KDE application sets for 3.5 in between, fine. But KOffice isn'=
t=20
going to be among them, as far as I have any say in the matter.

My ideal roadmap (excluding application and desktop environment releases)=20
would be:

* usable kdelibs4 by mid-March. KOffice porting starts. We'll do the text=20
layout thing and fix embedding.

* I don't care about having to do some keeping-up during the KOffice portin=
g=20
effort.

* September/October: kdelibs4 is sufficiently stable that it is possible to=
=20
release a beta of KOffice that depends on it. This beta will run just fine =
in=20
a KDE 3.5 desktop, perhaps with some limitations like no dcop or so.=20

* November/December KOffice 2.0 is released, based on kdelibs4 and availabl=
e=20
on X11, Windows and OS X.


However: I'm horribly afraid of a late release of KDE-the-desktop, though.=
=20
It's going to cost us whatever mind and marketshare we have left if=20
KDE4-the-desktop will take two years, even if we do a kde-apps-are-cool=20
release. This year is going to be really interesting.

=2D-=20
Boudewijn Rempt=20
http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi

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