Tuesday 08 August 2006 00:09, Wade wrote:
Exactly. We should certainly promote it as a milestone, and certainly
set realistic expectations about what it's for, and why it's being
made.
So we should call it the 'developer sneak peak' ? :)

Maybe this trhead in Gentoo Forums might be interesting for the KDE 4.0
Snapshot:

KDE 4 Diary

Well,
I've been compiling KDE 4 once a week for a while now and from this weekend I
decided to start a "diary" that hopefully will be updated every week on how
KDE 4 is shaping up. This is the first "entry"

2 September, 2006

Did svn update on qt-copy, kdelibs and kdebase and got buisy compiling. Doing
so is really a breeze thanks to cmake. As suggested on KDE wiki I added this
function log time ago to my bashrc
function cmakekde { cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HME/kde \
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debugfull $@ && make VERBSE=1 && make install
}
So now I can compile every package with one command. I also unmasked the hard
mask on dbus-0.9* (it works fine with kde 3 as well, after revdep-rebuild).
Everything was now compiled and it was time to start it up. So it wont
interfere with my current kdm, I use startx to start it up. I did it long
time ago, so I can't remember the details right now, but I just had to create
a session file for kde4 and edit Xsession I think.
Upon start up I was greeted with the usual KDE wizard, no new options there
for now. Then I remembered, how am I gonna take screen shots?! Could use
imagemagick, but thats not cool ;) So i checked out a copy of kdegraphics.
Another dilemma: I don't want all of it! After a minute of thinking, I looked
in CMakeLists.txt. Ah now we're talking! Commented out all the folder
includes except ksnapshot. Run the magic function, all good and working. So
here's the first one:

Now let's see what Konqueror looks like:

Exiting Konqueror I got this:

Seems kinit still has some problems
What I really liked is the new proggy KAppFinder. It finds non-kde apps and
creates menu entries for them:

Next I wanted to see what I can configure. Turns out nothing ;) Screen shot
is self explanatory:

course you'll be interested in Konsole:

There was another new app KMenuEditor I think, but it refused to start :(

Well thats it folks, see you next week.

Best wishes,
Arne

Am Dienstag 08 August 2006 10:30 schrieb Martijn Klingens:
Tuesday 08 August 2006 00:09, Wade wrote:
Exactly. We should certainly promote it as a milestone, and certainly
set realistic expectations about what it's for, and why it's being
made.

So we should call it the 'developer sneak peak' ? :)

Monday 04 September 2006 05:23, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
[]
Seems kinit still has some problems
What I really liked is the new proggy KAppFinder. It finds non-kde apps
and creates menu entries for them:
KAppFinder is not new, isn't it?
Cheers,
Kevin

Am Montag 04 September 2006 11:44 schrieb Kevin Krammer:
Monday 04 September 2006 05:23, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:

KAppFinder is not new, isn't it?

That's an answer you could also find in the thread :)

But I think it great, that we have someone testing and writing about KDE 4.
Even better that he uses the same distri as I do ;)

And maybe there will be information and idea in his blog/thread which will be
useful for promoting and/or testing.

Wishes,
Arne

Monday 04 September 2006 12:27, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
Am Montag 04 September 2006 11:44 schrieb Kevin Krammer:
Monday 04 September 2006 05:23, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:

KAppFinder is not new, isn't it?

That's an answer you could also find in the thread :)

I know that it's not new, however I wondered that someone who is curious
enough to try developer snapshots didn't know about it. :)

Cheers,
Kevin

Am Montag 04 September 2006 13:03 schrieb Kevin Krammer:
I know that it's not new, however I wondered that someone who is curious
enough to try developer snapshots didn't know about it. :)

Maybe he just wanted to show some nice features, and if you can't show a new
thing, why not showing, that an old one still works.

And besides that, I didn't know it, and now I just added some Apps to my
Startmenu, which I had to open via invoke command before(which is my natural
way of opening programs, so it doesn't hurt much ;) ).

And not all those who are interested in KDE 4 need to know KDE 2. I for
instance definitely don't, because I was a MacUser back then :)

Besides again: Anyone fixing the task-list?
should be copy it to a wiki (which would imo be the natural place for a
communit task list)?

Wishes,
Arne