Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 13:47:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Matthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel To: Matthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel , Navindra Umanee , kde@kde.org, kde-artists@kde.org Subject: ANNOUNCE: Heading for KDE 1.1.2 release (Week 10) Status: 1. Start of release Week 1 2. Application Freeze 4 ==> 3. Translations 6+x 4. Source release 8+x 5. Final release 9+x Current estimate: x ~= 4 weeks ;-( TODO: Finish the icons and themes Please consider the KDE_1_1_BRANCH to be frozen! This means that changes to the code are only allowed if - they fix critical bugs - they have been approved by at least two developers Changes that do not match these criteria will be reverted. Exceptions from this rule are only translations, documentations and additions by the artists team. TODO: Test the KDE_1_1_BRANCH Now that the code is frozen, please check it out and test it on as many machines and OSes as possible to ensure everything is working. Coolo made tarballs of the current KDE_1_1_BRANCH availabe via ftp.kde.org, so everybody is encouraged to get the stuff and give it a try. CRITICAL: - Output of the artist team The kde-artist-team presents a new screenshot featuring some of the new hicolor-icons which will be part of the upcoming KDE-release: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/Incoming/eyecandy.png a JPG-version of much inferior quality is available, too : ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/Incoming/eyecandy.jpg (425KB) For further information on these screenshots have a look at: http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-devel&m=93307455516489&w=2 Current state: -90-95% of the 48x48pixel-hicolor-icons are done. -25 % of the 32x32pixel-hicolor-icons are done (These take *much* less time than the large icons) -30 % of the themes are done. The following modules already contain a full set of HiColor-Icons: -kdegraphics -korganizer The icons for kdebase will be ready for download next monday. As we also want to provide an optional set of 40-color-icons we are still searching for well-experienced artists who would like to help us by converting some of the hicolor icons down to 40 colors (Note: Converting does *not* mean that you should dither them down. -- We would ask you to repaint the icons that were redesigned using the kde-40-color palette .) - Theme manager In addition we are searching for someone who could implement a 'save option' into kthememgr that backups the current state of the desktop-properties. Unfortunately the original maintainer currently doesn't have the time to implement it himself. If you can help out, please contact hoelzer@kde.org. FOR NON-ARTISTS: We will follow the release plan as closely as possible nevertheless. As the icons will not need code changes, we can add them after all translations are done etc. So please proceed as planned. Starting ext week the translations should be brought uptodate, if this is necessary. Bye, Matthias. ================================================================ Matthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel hoelzer@kde.org mhk@caldera.de ----------------------------------------------------------------