Contributed by Navindra
Umanee
More ORB talk. Torben Weis has been hard at
work on the ORB issue and the results of his efforts is tinymico,
a significantly slimmed down version of MICO that also takes much
less time to compile. Torben has been working closely with Kay
Romer of the MICO team so it is quite possible
that tinymico will be provided as a compile time option in the
official MICO distribution. There are a few remaining issues
before KDE is ported to tinimico.
On the subject of alternative ORBs, Phil Mesnier wrote in with
some
clarifications on the TAO ORB.
And in other CORBA news, Kurt Granroth has been surreptitiously
working on enabling plain applications written in bash, Python,
Perl or almost any other language to communicate with KDE
applications without directly using CORBA. Kurt will soon provide
us with more details on this exciting development.
KDE 1.1.2, week 4. It has been decided
that kdevelop, kdbg and possibly
kdoc, ksgml2html, ktranslator and a few other development-tools
will be added to the KDE 1.1.2 distribution. The aim is to provide
a nice and ready-to-go development environment for Unix developers
and potential Unix developers.
KDE 1.1.2 is expected to enter the code freeze stage soon.
KDE 2.0 Improvements. If you’re a developer and
you have been confused by the new KStandardDirs and locate() stuff,
Stephan Kulow has posted
a little HOWTO. The point of these changes is to allow KDE to
handle multiple directories more intelligently; the user will be
able to install applications in /usr/, /usr/local/, /opt/ or any
arbitrary set of directories and each application should be able to
obtain relevant files automagically.
Another issue that many KDE users have probably encountered is
the inability to modify a system kdelnk or system configuration
file and then save the changes transparently to the home directory.
Stephan Kulow is right
on the ball here as well.
KDE Linux Packaging Project. Ivan E. Moore II
is back
en force and with a brand new homepage to boot. It appears that the
project has now expanded to support new unofficial Red Hat packages
as well as debs. They have an impressive list of the currently
available packages.
The Debian/KDE page is here.
Corel on kde-devel? Corel now has a more
visible presence on the kde-devel mailing list. In the past few
days we’ve seen messages from 2-3 Corel employees, including this
somewhat controversial bug
report from Ming Poon as well as a few other messages from
Corel employees actively working on KDE improvements or simply
participating in the discussion. Nice to see them around.
KDE Quickies. Peter Harvey gave use this
brief
update on ODBC in KDE. Havoc Pennington reported an interesting
new development: Cooperation between the KDE and GNOME projects on
a future window manager specification. KDE’s own Matthias Ettrich
and Cristian Tibirna have joined the
fray.
An archive for these KDE devel bits is now available.