Re: 4.8 release announcement

Carl Symons <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.events
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On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 2:03 AM, Martin Klapetek
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 10:06, Emil Sedgh <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > > I am in favor of the second, because I fear to use words like
>> > > "innovative", "future" or "pretty" near kde users... and I am NOT
>> > > joking.
>> >
>> > this is such a sad state of affairs .. the few troublemakers ought not
>> > be
>> > allowed to dictate to what the sensible do.
>
>
> Oh yeah, just check the trolling under the latest KDE Telepathy announcement
> on dot. That was crazy :))
>

Yes. The Trinity announcement too.

But look at "KDE Makes First 4.8 Release Candidate Available, Adds
Secret Service"
Surprise, surprise...comments that actually move things forward.


>>
>>
>> Lets see highlights of the 4.8 release:
>>
>> 1) A way more functional KDEPIM. Im sure it has become way better than 4.7
>> 2) Polishing and improvements all over KDE (Like overhauled proxy support
>> done
>> by Dawit)
>> 3) Fast Dolphin.
>> 4) Nepomuk's improvements and bugfixes and Trueg's successfull fundraiser.
>> 5) QtQuick components for Plasma.
>> 6) Am I missing something? Any of apps got major improvemets which Im
>> missing?
>
>
> Gwenview gained OpenGL awesomeness
> -- http://agateau.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/crossfade/
>
>>
>> Also, I dont like the fact that in release anouncements of RC, we totally
>> ignore Calligra, Amarok and other parts of KDE which arent included. So
>> maybe
>> we should also post about improvements in those areas?
>> Specially, the Telepathy-land which is the truly exciting. Its the most
>> user-
>> visible change currently going in KDE-land. We should mark that
>> Telepathy-KDE
>> 0.2 has been released and its being improved very fast. Maybe even a few
>> screenshots or something.
>

Agree completely. It's not just the new stuff that's newsworthy. We
should be tooting our horn way more.


>
> Actually we are about to release 0.3, which brings another huge improvements
> everywhere, the same day as KDE SC 4.8 ;)
>
> --
> Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer
>
>
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