[arch-dev-public] About the recent KDE release

Pierre Schmitz pierre at archlinux.de
Sat Sep 27 11:01:43 EDT 2008


Hi all,

I just updated KDE to 4.1.2. Among upstream bugfixes those packages should fix 
problems with missing icons of KDE apps in Gnome's menu and missing mim-types 
which results in non working java plugin for example. The archlinux-menu is 
shown in its own categorie now and most apps depend on kdebase-runtime now. 
This should solve the problems people had when using some kde apps from inside 
Gnome for example.

I also added a group of packages called kde-extragear containing the 
following:
	guidance-power-manager
	kcoloredit
	kfax
	kgrab
	kgraphviewer
	kiconedit
	kio_gopher
	kmldonkey
	konq-plugins
	kopete-cryptography
	kpovmodeler
	skanlite
Those packages are released with every KDE update but are (no more) part of 
the KDE core distribution.

The next KDE release will have an kde-l10n group which makes it easy to 
install all localizations.

A note for those who wonder why this release is not announced at kde.org:
KDE-4.1.2 was tagged in svn at Septembre 24th and source tarbals were 
available since 25th. The official announcement will be next week. The delay is 
used to give all the distros and other platform maintainers time to build 
those packages; and of course to find some last minute build problems. Or in 
other words: No that's no unoffical pre-release or RC etc.. 

However there might be a new release of kdegraphics due to doname bump which 
might not be wanted within a bugfix release. That change was made to be able to 
build digikam on KDE-4.1; so that change might be delayed till 4.2. Anyway: 
Most people are not affected by this.

Greetings,

Pierre

-- 

Pierre Schmitz


Clemens-August-Straße 76
53115 Bonn

Telefon		0228 9716608
Mobil		0160 95269831
Jabber		pierre at jabber.archlinux.de
WWW		http://www.archlinux.de




More information about the arch-dev-public mailing list