1. Red Hat & KDE revisited Red Hat Jaroslav Řezník

2. Agenda KDE in RHEL 5.3 KDE dependencies KDE 4.2 quick overview Fedora 11 status Upstream schedules @RH KDE people Customers survey

3. KDE in RHEL 5.3 RHEL 5.3 ● KDE 3.5.4 included

4. KDE for RHEL 6 scenarios Ship KDE 3.5.10 ● Qt 3 and KDE 3 are EOL! ● Fedora is KDE 4 based from Fedora 9, only with KDE 3 compatibility libraries KDE 4 in RHEL ● KDE should be distributed with Qt in one repository ● Qt is part of LSB Desktop KDE 4 in EPEL ● Community support Drop KDE support in RHEL/EPEL ● Compatibility libraries?

5. KDE and Qt dependencies in RHEL Qt dependencies ● KDE;-) ● Avahi-qt3, oprofile-gui, scim-qtimm, scribus, unixODBC-kde, wpa_supplicant-gui KDE 3 dependencies ● Kdbg (Workstation) – KDE 3 only ● K3b (Client) – KDE 3 only ● Kdnsd-avahi (Client) ● Taskjuggler (Client) – KDE 3 only

6. KDE 4.2 quick overview Ported to Qt 4 ● Currently Qt 4.4 New features ● Plasma desktop ● Compiz like desktop effects ● Solid – hardware abstraction layer ● Phonon – multimedia framework ● Akonadi – PIM storage service ● Power Devil – power management ● Nepomuk – index service ● Available for Linux, BSD, Solaris, Apple OS X, Microsoft Windows

7. Switching from 3.5 to 4.2 For developers ● Qt 3 to Qt 4 ● KDE 3 compatibility libraries Users ● KDE 3.5.4 ~ KDE 4.2.0 (features, stability) ● New desktop/panel + Plasma applets (it's possible to have icons on desktop now) ● File management – Dolphin ● Desktop effects ● Application menu (it's possible to revert to old style one) ● Some applications not ported to KDE/Qt 4 yet ● Gtk-Qt/Qt-Gtk engines

8. Advantages for RHEL 6 Architecture ● Framework for application development ● Competitive desktop solution PIM ● Akonadi services (Evolution) ● Kontact (KMail, KOrganizer, Akregator) Look ● Branding possibilities ● Gtk-Qt/Qt-Gtk engines

9. Fedora 11 status Fedora 11 alpha ● 4.2.0 ready for F11 alpha Features ● http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KDE42 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KDE42 ● PolicyKit-KDE (upstream) – already packaged, PolKit 1? ● Network Manager Plasma applet (upstream) ● PowerDevil (power management) (upstream) ● Faster startup (Than Ngo) ● Branding (Jaroslav Řezník) Schedule ● 4.2.1 in time of Beta freeze ?

10. Upstream KDE schedules KDE 4.2.0 ● Released on 27 th of January 2009 ● Minor (bugfix) releases – expected ~ monthly basis KDE 4.3.0 (all dates given here are subject to revision) ● Qt 4.5 based – under LGPL license ● May 5 th 2009 – Beta 1 tag ● June 2 nd 2009 – Beta 2 tag ● June 23 rd 2009 – RC1 tag ● July 21 st 2009 – 4.3.0 tag (and release for packagers) ● July 28 th 2009 – 4.3.0 release

11. RHEL 6 plan KDE version ● 4.2.3 with possible 4.3 backports

12. @RH KDE people Red Hat – Base OS people ● Than Ngo (project lead) – full time ● Lukáš Tinkl (developer) – full time ● Jaroslav Řezník (developer) – part time, s-c-* tools Red Hat – other teams ● TODO: qa, translation, support? Fedora community members (active) ● Kevin Kofler ● Rex Dieter ● Sebastian Vahl (live CD)

13. KDE jobs Fedora ● Prepared in community with @RH help Red Hat

14. Customers survey

15. Conclusion