Re: 4.7 Release Notes

On Tuesday 19 Jul 2011 23:03:59 Markus Slopianka wrote:
> > Ok, I've poked it again. Remaining questions:
> > - Is Phonon part of the SC or otherwise suitable for pimping in the
> > release announcement (it is featured at the moment). I always thought it
> > lived in Qt
> 
> Phonon is kdesupport and no longer maintained in Qt (it was always
> maintained in our repo anyway).
> As kdesupport, it is as much SC as Oxygen icons. Considering we once
> featured the WebKit KPart, which isn't even kdesupport but Extragear, we
> should mention it.

Hehe, yeah that's a good point. Cool, that can stay in.

> > - Is there anything coming from Plasma Active in 4.7? It was mentioned
> > in the original notes and is newsworthy if so, but my assumption is that
> > there's nothing release-ready (or even tech-preview ready) yet.
> 
> According to recent posts on the Active mailing list the first release will
> be built on top of 4.7 code. However there was no word about when it'll be
> released which makes me believe that it's not around the corner but
> focusing on 4.7 as base for a release suggests that it'll be done before
> the release of 4.8 -- hence later _this_ year. It could be written as 4.7
> contains work that paves the way for future Active releases but that's
> about it.

Ok, hat's also alright in the current draft. So we're kinda there - or it's as 
good as it's likely to get anyway, unless someone has some last minute 
inspiration...

We need more screenshots, but I can bump one of my machines onto an RC to get 
those if necessary.

Cheers,
Stu

-- 
Stuart Jarvis
KDE Marketing Working Group, Promotion Team and KDE.News

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