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On August 30, 2009, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Many people will want to start using the new animation API. The performan=
ce
> improvements are going to benefit KDE, obviously.

to add to this:

* we have a GSoC branch of libplasma that relies on the animation API alrea=
dy

* some of the performance improvements require work in our code (e.g. QPoin=
ter=20
=2D> QWeakPointer)

* there are deployments that will be going with KDE 4.4's release that coul=
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greatly benefit from 4.6, in some cases rather dramatically.

* distros are likely to ship Qt 4.6 anyways; pragmatically, we can either t=
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our stuff heavily against Qt 4.6 or we can turn a blind eye to it and hope =
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works out. when Qt 4.5 was released it didn't work out at all: several cras=
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and misbehaviors in plasma-desktop were the result and hit our users direct=
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and first. some fixes required changes in Qt which left more people high an=
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dry for longer.

if it's a matter of our release schedule and Qt's being 2 weeks mis-aligned=
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this time around, i'd personally sooner see us add 2 weeks to our own sched=
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and get a combined Qt 4.6 + KDE 4.4 out there in Jan/Feb 2010.

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Aaron J. Seigo
humru othro a kohnu se
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