From kde-devel Thu Jul 01 20:09:25 1999 From: Torsten Rahn Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 20:09:25 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: KDE 1.2 - some additions X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=93085984305446 Yes, you read right! One thought that came up on the Linuxtag was that it would be better to rename KDE 1.1.2 to KDE 1.2 for the following reasons: - Because of KDevelop and KThememgr being added you have additional features -- so this is no bugfix-release anymore only! (But in spite of this we won't include any further apps!) - we would return to the preferred "even version-numbers=stable release" - naming-scheme! (Why the hell was KDE 1.1 named 1.1? I still don't understand that!) - This release is definitely worth some PR! And who cares on bugfix-releases? Another thing that was discussed: I'll try hard to get 32x32 HiColor-Icons into the package by default instead of those 40color-versions (Yepp, that breaks my heart!). The simple reason: Most people already own a graphics-adapter that is capable to show more than 256 colors. If you don't own one -- well: wake up! it costs not much more than 40,- DM in these days ... Ooops, who said: "But I'm sitting in front of an old Sparc!" -- Hmm, I think that most people who use it, are using it at the university (like me!). These people use these computers to get their non-graphic-related work done! (Otherwise I assume that the university would replace these machines to give you the ability to design some art ..). That's why I believe that these people won't care too much about the fact that the icons are being dithered down from now on! Oooops no. 2: You still think that you need 40 color-icons? Well, we also plan to provide an additional tarball (?)/theme(?)/ package of low-color-icons for these people (But only if you cry now! ;-). Hopefully this package will be avaiable at the same time as KDE 1.1.^H^H2. Concerning tarball/release-date: I think that we will finish the large-icons in about one week! We will commit them on the following weekend and hopefully somebody creates a tarball then. The next aim should be to get the Release-candidate KDE1.2 out on August 1st! If nobody will find any bugs within the following 14 days we should rename this package to the final version of KDE 1.2. Otherwise we will have a delay of course! Soon after KDE 1.2 will be released (which should read: within 14 days) we should make an 'internal binary-alpha-release for artists' to give our great artist-team (assume that most are not programmers and not able to compile the HEAD-branch themselves!) the chance to take part on the current KDE 2.0 -development immediately after KDE 1.2 is finished. This release is just meant to give the artists a thought how the current apps look and what problems/ chances exist. It's not meant to be -stable -avaiable for every platform -distributed by any linux-distribution -announced officially anywhere but on kde-artists/kde-devel mailing-list. - anything that should make people loosing their hair (To those who have already seen me: Yepp, you're right: I won't loose too much hair regardless what happens!!! HAHAHA!) Regards, the artist currently known as ... Torsten Rahn