From kde-devel  Mon May 24 20:37:37 1999
From: Rik Hemsley <rik () rikkus ! demon ! co ! uk>
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 20:37:37 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: K abiword port
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On 24-May-99 Alex Zepeda wrote:
> On Sun, 23 May 1999, Andreas Pour wrote:
> 
>> The problem here is not marketing but the development model:  there has no
>> "stable"/beta release of KOffice AFAIK.
> 
> FWIW, Linux and Gtk+ both are constantly moving targets and have been
> reasonably successful.  It is mainly IMO a question of marketing, not
> stable releases.

... and while Qt 2 is not yet finished, and KDE 2 libraries are not meant to be
ready for a long while yet, Empath is moving swiftly towards being usable and
stable. A few bits of code say 'FIXME: Change this when Kxxx uses QStringList'
and suchlike, but the only bugs with Qt and KDE libraries that actually affect
Empath right now are that png loading gives weird colours, and that
QWidget::setEnabled(false) doesn't work.

Last year I reckoned on 2nd quarter this year for Empath to be stable, and it
looks like it will be. I don't know what to do about a release though, as I
can't really say to freshmeat readers 'download and compile Qt and KDE
snapshots from this date'

Cheers,
Rik


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