ANNOUNCE: KDE-2.0 Beta1 + Preklad KDE-2.0 do cestiny
Miroslav Flídr
flidr na kky.zcu.cz
Pátek Květen 12 15:12:47 CEST 2000
Ahoj!
Dovoluji si vas upozornit, ze byla zverejnena prvni beta
verze prostredi KDE-2.0. Oficialni oznameni je na konci tohoto mailu.
Zaroven s timto bych chtel pozadat pripadne zajemce
o pomoc pri prekladu aplikaci a dokumentace nove verze KDE
do cestiny. Pro potreby pripadnych zajemcu byl na SourceForge
zrijen projekt pro preklad KDE, ktery naleznete na URL
http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=2197 s domovkymi strankami
na http://kde-czech.sourceforge.net/. Kazdy zajemce muze pomoci
podle svych schopnosti a moznosti. Muzete pomoci uz treba tim,
ze upozornite na chyby, nesrovnalosti, nekonzistenci atd.
v prekladech aplikaci.
Sve pripominky k prekladum muzete zverejnit ve verejnych
forech na http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=2197 nebo je
zaslat primo clenum tymu. Chyby v prekladech je mozne hlasit
v bug tracking systemu na http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=2197.
Za tym prekladatelu KDE do cestiny
Miroslav Flidr <flidr na kky.zcu.cz>
Lukas Tinkl <Lukas.Tinkl na merlin.cz>
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DATELINE MAY 12, 2000
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
KDE DESKTOP AVAILABLE FOR LINUX®
Beta Preview of Advanced Linux® Desktop
May 11, 2000 (internet, world). The KDE Team (http://www.kde.org)
today announced the release of KDE 1.90, codenamed "Konfucious", a beta
preview of KDE's next-generation, powerful, modular desktop. Following
on the heels of the release of KDE 1.89 (Krash) in December 1999,
Konfucious is based on Qt 2.1 (http://www.trolltech.com) and will include
the core libraries, the core desktop environment, the KOffice suite, as
well as most of the other standard base KDE packages: kdegames, kdenetwork,
kdetoys and kdeutils. Konfucious is targeted at developers and interested
users. For those compiling from source, please consult the compilation
instructions at http://www.kde.org/compilationfaq.html.
"With KDE 2.0, Linux will be ready to tackle the corporate and consumer
desktop," predicted Waldo Bastian, a core KDE developer. "This release
presents a great opportunity for developers to prepare for the KDE 2.0
release and for users to preview and contribute to one of the most
anticipated Open Source releases," added Kurt Granroth, KDE core developer
and evangelist.
FOR THE DEVELOPER, KDE 1.90 provides a stable API which will enable
developers to commence serious development of their application so they may
time the release of their software to coincide with the release of KDE 2.0,
scheduled for September 2000. It is anticipated that with the exception of
aRts, the budding KDE 2.0 multimedia engine, and the KDE style engine, there
will be few binary incompatible and fewer, if any, source incompatible
changes in the core libraries through the 2.0 release. Further development
will focus on finalizing aRts, fixing bugs, complying with the KDE Standards
and Style Guides (http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standards/) and
maximizing performance, as well as completing testing of the other KDE base
packages (kdenetwork, kdegames, etc.).
Konfucious offers a large number of major technological improvements to
developers compared to the critically acclaimed KDE 1.x series. Chief among
these are the Desktop COmmunication Protocol (DCOP), the i/o libraries
(KIO), the component object model (KParts), an XML-based GUI class, and the
standards-compliant HTML rendering engine (KHTML).
* DCOP is a client-to-client communications protocol intermediated by a
server. The protocol supports both message passing and remote procedure
calls. The technology is used in KDE 1.90, for example, to direct
application requests to instances of the application which are already
running, thereby preventing multiple occurrences of the same
application from running concurrently.
* KIO implements i/o in a separate process to permit a non-blocking GUI.
The class is network transparent and hence can be used seamlessly to
access HTTP, FTP, Gopher, POP, IMAP, NFS, SMB, LDAP and local files.
Moreover, its modular and extensible design permits developers to "drop
in" additional protocols, such as WebDAV, which will then automatically
be available to all KDE applications. KIO also implements a trader
which can locate handlers for specified mimetypes; these handlers can
then be embedded within the requesting application using the KParts
technology (described below).
* KParts, the KDE component object model, allows one process to embed
another within itself. The technology handles all aspects of the
embedding, such as positioning toolbars and inserting the proper menus
when the embedded component is activated or deactivated. KParts can
also interface with the KIO trader to locate available handlers for
specific mimetypes or services/protocols. This technology is used
extensively by the KOffice suite (http://koffice.kde.org) and Konqueror
(http://www.konqueror.org).
* The XML GUI employs XML to create and position menus, toolbars and
possibly other aspects of the GUI. This technology offers developers
and users the advantage of simplified configurability of these user
interface elements across applications and automatic compliance with
the KDE Standards and Style Guide irrespective of modifications to the
standards.
* KHTML is an HTML 4.0 compliant rendering and drawing engine. The class
will support the full gamut of current Internet technologies, including
JavaScriptTM, Java®, HTML 4.0, CSS-2 (Cascading Style Sheets), SSL
(Secure Socket Layer for secure communications) and Netscape
Communicator® plugins (for viewing FlashTM, RealAudioTM, RealVideoTM
and similar technologies). The KHTML class can easily be used by an
application as either a widget (using normal X Window parenting) or as
a component (using the KParts technology). KHTML, in turn, has the
capacity to embed components within itself using the KParts technology.
FOR THE INTERESTED USER, KDE 1.90 offers a fairly stable desktop suitable
for a non-critical environment. Users who would like the opportunity to
contribute to the further development of KDE can use this release as a basis
for offering suggestions and bug reports, or those who are curious can
evaluate the new frontier of the *nix desktop.
The attractions of Konfucious to users are manifold and impressive. The
principal benefits to users lie in KDE's enhanced customizability, the
KOffice suite, the cutting-edge technologies provided by Konqueror, and full
Unicode support.
* KDE's customizability touches every aspect of this next-generation
desktop. Konfucious benefits from Qt's style engine, which permits
developers and artists to create their own widget designs down to the
precise appearance of a scrollbar, a button, a menu and more, combined
with development tools which will largely automate the creation of
these widget sets (note that the configuration files for the style
engine will change in an incompatible way prior to the next KDE release
scheduled for June 2000). Just to mention a few of the legion
configuration options, users can choose among: numerous types of menu
effects; a menu bar atop the display (Macintosh®-style) or atop each
individual window (Windows-style); icon styles; system sounds; key
bindings; languages; toolbar and menu composition; and much much more.
* The KOffice suite, long ago heralded as a "killer app", is one of the
most-anticipated Open Source projects. The suite consists of a
spreadsheet application (KSpread), a vector drawing application
(KIllustrator), a bitmap drawing application (KImageShop), a
frame-based word-processing application (KWord), a chart and diagram
application (KChart), a formula editor (KFormula) and a simple image
viewer (KImage). Native file formats will use XML, and work on filters
for proprietary binary file formats is progressing. Combined with a
powerful scripting language and the ability to embed individuals
components within each other using the KParts technology, the KOffice
suite will provide all the necessary functionality to all but the most
demanding power users, at an unbeatable price -- free.
* Konqueror stands tall as the next-generation web browser, file manager
and document viewer for KDE 2.0. Widely acclaimed as a technological
break-through for the Linux desktop, Konqueror has a component-based
architecture which combines the features and functionality of Internet
Explorer®/Netscape Communicator® and Windows Explorer®. Konqueror
supports all major Internet technologies supported by KHTML. In
addition, Konqueror's network transparency offers seamless support for
browsing Linux® NFS shares, Windows® SMB shares, HTTP pages, FTP
directories as well as any other protocol for which a KIO plug-in is
available.
* KDE 2.0 will support Unicode at its very core, the outstanding Qt
toolkit. In addition, KHTML support includes bidirectional scripts,
such as Arabic and Hebrew, and Far Eastern languages
(Chinese/Japanese/Korean). Combined with the 21 separate teams actively
translating KDE into other languages, KDE 2.0 will truly be an
international desktop.
ABOUT KDE
KDE is a collaborative project by hundreds of developers worldwide to create
a sophisticated, customizable and stable desktop environment employing a
network-transparent, intuitive user interface. Currently development is
focused on KDE 2, which will for the first time offer a free, Open Source,
fully-featured office suite and which promises to make the Linux desktop as
easy to use as Windows® and the Macintosh® while remaining loyal to open
standards and empowering developers and users with Open Source software. KDE
is working proof of how the Open Source software development model can
create technologies on par with and superior to even the most complex
commercial software.
For more information about KDE, please visit KDE's web site at
http:/www.kde.org/whatiskde/.
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(1) 480 732 1752
Europe: David Faure
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(44) 1225 471 300
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(German and English) konold na kde.org
(49) 177 74 73 202
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