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KDE 1.91 Release Announcement

Wednesday, 14 June 2000


Second Beta Preview of Advanced Linux® Desktop June 14, 2000 (The Internet). The KDE Team today announced the release of KDE 1.91, codenamed "Kleopatra", the second beta preview of KDE's next-generation, powerful, modular desktop. Following on the heels of the release of KDE 1.90 (Konfucious) on May 11, 2000, Kleopatra is based on Qt 2.1 and will include the core libraries, the core desktop environment, the KOffice suite, as well as most of the other standard base KDE packages: kdeadmin, kdegames, kdegraphics, kdenetwork, kdemultimedia, kdetoys and kdeutils. Kleopatra is targeted at developers and interested users. For those compiling from source, please consult the compilation instructions. "Kleopatra fixes many of the bugs which helpful users reported in Konfucious, the previous release," stated David Faure, a core KDE developer. "The core libraries are now frozen except for critical changes, so developers of KDE 1 applications can now safely port to KDE 2 without fearing any major changes in the core libraries." For the developer, KDE 1.91 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 real time 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 and maximizing performance. Kleopatra 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).


 


 


 


 

For the interested user, KDE 1.91 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 Kleopatra to users are manifold and impressive. The principal benefits to users lie in the cutting-edge technologies provided by Konqueror, the KOffice suite, KDE's enhanced customizability, and full Unicode support.


 


 


 

WHERE TO DOWNLOAD SOURCE PACKAGES

Kleopatra source packages can be downloaded from: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/distribution/2.0Beta2/tar/src/

Or one of its mirror sites.

Kleopatra requires the recently released version 2.1.1 of the Qt toolkit.

The source package of Qt 2.1.1 is available at this location for your
convenience. Please note that this stable version of Qt has been officially released by Trolltech and is not part of the beta testing of KDE 1.91.

Kleopatra does NOT work with older Qt 1.x or Qt 2.0.

In case you have problems downloading the source packages you may have a look here.

If your compilation of the sources does fail at some point please have a look at the Compilation FAQ.

WHERE TO DOWNLOAD BINARY PACKAGES

Kleopatra binary packages will are available from:

ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/distribution/2.0Beta2/

Currently you can find there rpms for Caldera 2.4 and SuSE 6.4.

Or one of its mirror sites.

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.


Press Contacts:
United States:Kurt Granroth
granroth@kde.org
(1) 480 732 1752
Europe (French and English):David Faure
faure@kde.org
(44) 1225 471 300
Europe (German and English):Martin Konold
konold@kde.org
(49) 179 22 5 22 49