[ Thanks to Pete
Sheehan for this link. ]
“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.”