I am passionate supporter of KDE, and Qt programmer since 2002. But recently the project has come in sight in difficult times.

First, Ubuntu is for these years and brought Gnome DE competitors first. Then

Second, Nokia has bought Qt. Nokia recently announced that Qt is a framework, which is focused, primarily on the mobile platform. But recently sold part of general business KDE. In other words, Qt - alive, but its future is very questionable.

Third. The project began strange delay and instability. first by not stable releases and even the raw Linus refused to use KDE. Second, more than half a year delayed production of the new Kontact which has not yet reached a stable release. And my Kontact which came in 4.6.1 stopped working (but the latter is subjective)

And of course after all told not think something is unclear what the official site of KDE still listed the latest news release 4.6.0 and somehow have not written about 4.6.1.

What will be the next?

b0noI wrote:I am passionate supporter of KDE, and Qt programmer since 2002. But recently the project has come in sight in difficult times.

First, Ubuntu is for these years and brought Gnome DE competitors first. Then

This is not necessarly something new. Ubuntu always used Gnome as default desktop. Notice though, Kubuntu still exists.

b0noI wrote:Second, Nokia has bought Qt. Nokia recently announced that Qt is a framework, which is focused, primarily on the mobile platform. But recently sold part of general business KDE. In other words, Qt - alive, but its future is very questionable.

Not really true. Nokia focuses on mobile platforms, Qt itself is much more than just that. And the latest sell of the commercial license section also doesn't necessarily mean a bad thing, maybe even the opposite. So the future of Qt itself is unlikely questionable.

b0noI wrote:Third. The project began strange delay and instability. first by not stable releases and even the raw Linus refused to use KDE. Second, more than half a year delayed production of the new Kontact which has not yet reached a stable release. And my Kontact which came in 4.6.1 stopped working (but the latter is subjective)

That is indeed a sad thing. It is a mixture of stability issues which shouldn't be published to the wider audience and a lack of manpower. Afterall, we are talking about sensible personal data.

b0noI wrote:And of course after all told not think something is unclear what the official site of KDE still listed the latest news release 4.6.0 and somehow have not written about 4.6.1.

What will be the next?

That was a mistake and is fixed now. The announcement was already online, just not linked to the frontpage.

b0noI wrote:.....................................

And of course after all told not think something is unclear what the official site of KDE still listed the latest news release 4.6.0 and somehow have not written about 4.6.1.

What will be the next?

http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.6.1.php