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KDE 2.2 Tagged
ByTor-2112 writes "According to dot.kde.org, KDE 2.2 has been tagged out. Awesome." Plans were originally to release 2.2 today, but scheduled release is now next Monday, to allow some time for more stability/speed work. 2.2 rocks my world. Excellent work on the part of all the KDE developers. Other dates mentioned are 2.2.1 in September, and opening work up on 3.0, which will hopefully come out at the beginning of 2002.
You simply must spend time diggin through all that 2.2 offers before offering an opinion on it. The depth of available features are astounding.
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For example, I *love* how finegrained Konqueror's support for cookie and javascript is. You can specify particular sites that allowed to run javascript, to the exculsion of all others.
Kasbar, the newly spiffed up task switcher, pop up a scaled down screenshot of the app whose icon your mouse is hovering over. This makes it WAY easier to pick the web browser windows you REALLY meant.
Konqueror's support for file-data-as-the-icon has truly matured. It renders text, html, pics, postscript and pdf, alphablending in the normal icon underneath the data. Sweet and really effective for me.
KMail gives surprising good control of mail. Some of the options make procmail unecessary, except for really advanced stuff. ANd it supports IMAP now.
Konsole may be a bit bulky for a shell, but I love having a menu listing all my nachines on the network, giving me one click ssh to them, all in one manageable window.
How many times have you seen a newbie click the icon to launch a program, get tired of waiting for it to come up, and click it again? Of course, two copies get launched, confusing the user. Well, KDE now "attaches" the 16x16 icon of th program you asked to launch to the mouse cursor, throbbing gently until the app comes up. this gives *useful* feedback to the user. Not only does it tell them that something is happening(which an hourglass can do), but it tells them what is being launched, boosting their confidence.
The kicker can now take up less than the full screen. The default is not to have a handle on the left, making good use of Fitt's law; slam the mouse to the lower left and you are *sure* to get the Start Menu when you click.
KDE is full of wonderful touches. Keep digging, you'll be pleasantly surprised, constantly
Huh? Do you even remotely keep a watch of the GNOME community? A couple months ago the GNOME 2.0 schedule was released and things are moving along pretty much as planned. A 2.0 API freeze just occured, activity on the lists and in CVS is dramatically rising. We've had recent releases of the new Control Center, a brand new AbiWord, second Beta of Evolution, new releases of development tools gIDE (screenshot) and DevHelp (screenshot), a new file selection dialog, etc...I could go on. I suggest you at least read the GNOME Summaries or check out Gnotices every now and then.
Celebrate the finer things in life
real screenshots here - not goatse, i swear!
Well, like, that's just your opinion, man :) could you elaborate on which parts (in gcc 3.0?)
I noticed some code really runs fast on Visual c++ and runs slower and is more bloated on linux with gcc.
gcc's prime advantage over compilers like vc++ is retargetability/portability and (nowadays) standards compliance, not speed (tho it tries).
Anyway I would love to see faster load times on kde3.0.
That's actually a run-time linker (not compiler) issue. (read the dot or the kde mailing lists for more) .. "kdeinit" is at least partly a hack to get the load times down. They're still working for more improvements on the kde end, but the last word will be when the binutils guys get their linker more optimized for c++ code.
Do any of you know if the new compiler can help make kde3.0 run better?
Not yet. gcc3.0 has some bugs (again, they're working on it) that causes it to miscompile parts of kde. These issues ought to be resolved by kde3.0 time.