KDE 4 status update

After not-so-short time of silence about KDE 4 development progress from KDE devs, I decided to write an email to Aaron Seigo and Torsten Rahn asking about the reasons of recent silence and current progress.

Aaron responded that after initial buzz they focused on porting libraries from KDE3 (QT3) to KDE4 (QT4[\.1]?) and until they’re done, there’s nothing to write about since not so many are interested in long stories about which libraries are already ported and which are not.

I also wrote that in my opinion, KDE has the ultimate chance to use the energy of many volunteers since it’s the first time ever when the new GUI is developed almost from the scratch basing on very modern library and with a strong group of users. It means that it’s easier than ever to influence it’s feature set and UI and to share your ideas.
He responded that they don’t feel to be ready to use non-development energy yet, but they want to prepare for this and spend a few months on community brainstorm once they have basic tools and resources to use for those volunteers who are interested in participating. I hope to be able to help there and first I want to select from the melted sea of ideas (a’ka Kollaboration forums) the pure genius ones and describe them well so KDE devs could easly read what’s on the deck and choose what they want.

So, if you have any, really, any idea about GUI, and you want to share this idea and throw it into brainstorm powerfield to shape it into something brillant, go on. Just post it on Kollaboration forum and I’ll try to make sure it won’t be forgotten 🙂