Some KDE Apps Are Slowly Progressing

KDE four has followed Trolltech's development of QT from version three to four, and has lead to the need for developers to implement the new APIs in their applications that have been written with integration in the KDE desktop as a design goal. Although, KDE 4 has had many design changes and programming API changes as well. So, this broken applications are not surprising, but has lead me to wonder how developers could be better informed.

For some good news, kaudiocreator has been tested with KDE 4 and has recently reached version 1.2.81 after which version 1.2.81 was ported to KDE 4(http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=107645). Also, Gentoo has added version 1.2.81 to the portage tree( developer ssuominen ). The KDE application Kooka has not been well ported to KDE 4(http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Kooka), but there are reported alternatives. Such as the work to integrate scanning into koffice and kolourpaint via libkscan. K3b has been ported to KDE 4. Although, it is still considered beta. Thus there are features that have not been fully implemented nor tested in k3b beta. An IDE for KDE 4 has also not been completed(www.kdevelop.org). The kdevelop suite is currently in beta testing for KDE 4. The micro blogging KDE 4 application Choqok(choqok.gnufolks.org)supports Twitter, Identi.ca, self-hosted Laconica, but does not have support for some popular sites microblogging-like status feature, e.g. facebook.com . The Web-development centric KDE application Quanta Plus has not been ported to KDE 4, and the note-taking centric KDE application has also not been ported. The basket Web-site( http://basket.kde.org/roadmap.php ) has reported likely support in the 2.0 release. The Web-site( http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2830 ) also is reporting support in the 1.1.3 release of kexi scheduled to be released with koffice 2.0 .  KBibTex is currently being ported as reported at( http://home.gna.org/kbibtex/ ). KMyMoney, a personal accounting applicaition or personal finance manager that was presented at Akademy 2008 by Thomas Baumgart( http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html ) may one day be ported to KDE 4. Even still, I can't complain about the overall progress of KDE version 4. And for an OFFICIAL matrix try looking at http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/Application_Porting_Status.

Thanx to all that love and help KDE development and extras.