Re: Fwd: KDE in 2012

Hi Stu,

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Stuart Jarvis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Mayank,
>
> On Thursday 27 Oct 2011 16:06:53 Mayank Sharma wrote:
>> I had sent this note to Aaron almost a week back. I'd appreciate if
>> someone can pick it up and get back.
>
> I'm not sure if you got any other replies yet, but here are mine:
>
Thanks for these. I also have Aaron's. Together, you both have covered
all I need for this feature.

Cheerio!

>> I am working on the cover feature for Linux Format's Christmas issue
>> which looks at what the major Open Source projects will be focusing on
>> in 2012. Could you please spare some time to briefly mention the
>> things KDE will be working on in the coming year? A couple of things I
>> hear about are oneCloud and Plasma Active One.
>
> First, you're spot on with your suggestions:
>
> Plasma Active (which will eventually of course have a Plasma Active Two and so
> on...). There will be a lot of work to further stabilise and polish this and
> get more of our apps 'Active' - that is make touch friendly versions of our
> existing apps and of course some new ones too. There will also, I'm sure, be a
> push to target more hardware and to talk to hardware vendors about possible
> collaborations.
>
> ownCloud - rather than oneCloud ;-) - is another KDE project that is getting
> to a really exciting time. Development has accelerated greatly over the last
> six months or so and it increasingly becomes a viable solution for all your
> personal online storage needs.
>
> There are a few others too...
>
> Perhaps the biggest, though not so visible to end users, is KDE Frameworks 5.
> This is the next generation of the libraries and support applications that our
> developers use to make the desktop shells and applications. The big change for
> Frameworks 5 is modularisation, with splitting up of large libraries in to
> much smaller ones. This serves a couple of purposes, first enabling developers
> to make smaller KDE applications by only including the specific libraries they
> need - particularly useful for mobile targets and platforms like Windows where
> it might be desriable to ship a monolithic binary. It also makes it much
> easier for Qt developers to include KDE tech in their apps without having to
> depend on a whole lot of KDe technology. We want to blur the line between Qt
> and KDE apps.
>
> Other than that, we will of course be unveiling two new major versions of our
> workspaces and apps (4.8 and, I assume, 4.9). After KDE Frameworks 5 is
> released, we will of course start to see some of its benefits and innovations
> taken up in the KDE workspaces and apps.
>
> You can expect to see more QML and scripting in use, particularly as some of
> the things we worked on with Plasma Active also find their way into our more
> traditional workspaces.
>
>> Also what's your *personal* "wishlist" for 2012 -- things that you
>> would like from other projects that'll help you do your job better.
>> This can be as wacky and off-topic as you like. We'll use this to
>> engage our readers.
>
> - A proper package management system in Windows ;-)
> - On a more serious note, we'd love to see better collaboration between
> ourselves, GNOME and the other free software players. It's daft to have
> different standards for desktop notifications, password storage, etc etc.
> There's been some great work on this recently, such as the work around
> telepathy, but there's plenty more to do
> - Better accelerated graphics drivers from all vendors. We want less changes
> in the Intel drivers from release to release as these sometimes make breaks in
> KWin's compositing. NVidia collaborating on nouveau would also be great
>
> There's probably plenty others, but those are a few to get you started. If you
> need to talk to specific people on individual topics, just let me know and I'll
> try and get you in touch with the right people.
>
> Cheers,
> Stu
>
>
> --
> Stuart Jarvis
> KDE Marketing Working Group, Promotion Team and KDE.News
>
> Experience Freedom with KDE
> http://www.kde.org/
>

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