14 DAY TRIAL // The KDE team has released the third development snapshot of KDE 4: "This snapshot is meant as a reference for developers who want to play with parts of the new technology KDE 4 will provide, those who want to start porting their applications to the new KDE 4 platform and for those that want to start to develop applications based on KDE 4. This snapshot is not for end users, there is no guarantee that it will be stable, and the interfaces are subject to changes at any time."
Highlights of this release:
￭ Sonnet which has previously been covered on Linux.com; ￭ Solid, KDE 4's unified layer to deal with hardware and network resources; ￭ Vastly-improved support for the Windows and Mac OS platforms by cleaning up the source code from dependencies on X11. See kdelibs.com for more information; ￭ The recently added filemanager Dolphin which will be the default filemanager for KDE. Konqueror will still be available and share much code with Dolphin.
Build instructions for this release are here.
This release contains the following KDE packages:
￭ kdeaccessibility-3.80.3 ￭ kdeaddons-3.80.3 ￭ kdeadmin-3.80.3 ￭ kdeartwork-3.80.3 ￭ kdebase-3.80.3 ￭ kdeedu-3.80.3 ￭ kdegames-3.80.3 ￭ kdegraphics-3.80.3 ￭ kdelibs-3.80.3 ￭ kdemultimedia-3.80.3 ￭ kdenetwork-3.80.3 ￭ kdepim-3.80.3 ￭ kdepimlibs-3.80.3 ￭ kdesdk-3.80.3 ￭ kdetoys-3.80.3 ￭ kdeutils-3.80.3 ￭ kdevelop-3.80.3 ￭ kdewebdev-3.80.3
KDevelop is the newly added package to the list, and please remember that this is still a minimal release and the final version of KDE 4.0 will contain the full list of KDE modules like you're used to from previous releases.
About KDE
KDE is a powerful Free Software graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix workstations. It combines ease of use, contemporary functionality, and outstanding graphical design with the technological superiority of the Unix operating system. KDE is a network transparent contemporary desktop environment for UNIX workstations. KDE seeks to fill the need for an easy to use desktop for Unix workstations, similar to the desktop environments found under the Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows.
You can download this latest snapshot from here.