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.

Comments

Desperately hoping for non-Linux support

[devphil]

Great. I'm very glad to see that KDE is making headway. (Now if they'd just fix the minor security hole in their screensavers...) I'll be upgrading my Linux desktop for 2.2 pretty soon.

I just wish installing KDE on Solaris was as simple. Non-Linux situations just don't receive as much attention as they need to if KDE is really going to live up to its cross-platform promise. I've converted some of my Solaris users to KDE on the strength of the 1.1.2 release alone; if I can give them 2.2 on the SPARCs as soon as it appears on the x86s, I'll have won them over, I think. :-)

(They really like browsing the contents of a tar file in Konqueror. But they still laugh when the "system information" screen complains that it can't find the IRQs in use, or the game controllers, or any of the other all-the-world's-a-PC things. Enh, it's a start...)

Re:Desperately hoping for non-Linux support

[AaronW]

I have been installing KDE on Solaris for a couple of years now. I've added patches for features like audio support for Solaris and I tracked down a nasty konsole bug that would cause it to constantly crash on Solaris.
KDE 2.1.1 compiles and installs with a little bit of work on Solaris. You first must download and install the latest Solaris patches due to some bugs in X. There arn't too many add on packages required for Solaris, unlike Gnome.
You need GCC, some libraries like libjpeg, and QT, of course.

It would be nice if a standard package were available for Solaris, though.

I havn't tried 2.2 yet.

-Aaron

I'm a disappointed GNOME user...

[erroneus]

I really really am. I use GNOME and have virtually ignored KDE with extreme prejudice. I know it is rather small-minded of me but at least I admit it.

I love the progress that KDE has been making. It has been steady and strong. I love the sane orderly and approach that KDE has taken from the beginning.

Originally, I hated KDE because of the non GPL issue. Now that is resolved. Next I hated it because it lacked nice eye candy. There have been terrific improvements in the theming department though there is more to go before it wins me over. I still don't like the lack of choice in window managers but I'm having second thoughts on that position since by only having one WM, more uniform configurability is possible.

I still hate that seemingly everything has an inappropriate use of "K" in there somewhere. Of course GNOME stuff is prone to the same problem, but you have to understand, I'm in the U.S. and it reminds us of K-Mart... bleah... white trash... too much associative crap associated with "K" words.

Just the other day I was wishing KDE and GNOME would just merge.

And where is GNOME's promised 2.0 release!?!? I'm getting seriously disillusioned. I think when I install this RedHat 7.2(beta) I'll give KDE a try... nothing new for me to see with the GNOME 1.4 there anyway.

Damnit Miguel?!?! What happened to the enthusiasm and momentum?! Put your marketting hat on!

Quick release

[chill]

This sort of short update schedule, etc. is great. I've always like that about OpenBSD (new version every 6 months) and if I remember correctly, Linus had made comments about trying to get the Kernel on that type of track as well.

Fewer "massive" changes that take 2 years to complete and more "evolutionary" style.

Whatever happened to that idea? (Officially)

Screenshot links?

[Matt2000]

I can't find any. Can someone relpy with some links for all?

Thanks.

Re:KDE 2s2 feature depth is astounding

[Anthony Boyd]

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.

Holy crap, that's great. Just my luck, my posts are typically so full of sarcasm, that no one will think I'm serious here, but I am. People do the "double-click... double-click again" thing all the time. I've been using computers for a couple decades now, and I still do it on occasion, because there isn't any feedback. KDE just solved a long, long time problem. I hope other Operating Systems steal this idea and improve upon it. Unfortunately, Microsoft won't on principle: they'll say the "idea" is "infected" with the GPL (argh, there's that sarcasm again, I've got to get rid of it).

I wonder if gcc/g++ 3.0 will make kde3.0 faster

[Billly Gates]

I like c++ alot. I just think the fsf version of it really sucks. I love tail-recursion and the way c++ does handles. I believe oop can really make gui development faster and more bug-free if its done right. I hate gnome's c++ like hack written in c.

Anyway the orignally arguement why c was the defacto standard in gnome and not c++ was that g++ was mediocre and sucked really bad on anything non-intel. The other one was that comprises in the core QT libraries had to be made so it could compile under g++. This slowed kde down quite alot. I know alot of c die hards like to blame c++ on this but I believe its due to limitation in the g++ compiler. I noticed some code really runs fast on Visual c++ and runs slower and is more bloated on linux with gcc. Anyway I would love to see faster load times on kde3.0.

Do any of you know if the new compiler can help make kde3.0 run better?

Re:fud.

[HeUnique]

Umm, not exactly a FUD...

Here is an example - at my previous work I had to install them some sort of developer enviroment for the developers - and since I use personally KDE all the time - I thought, what the heck - and installed KDE 2.1 and KDevelop...

All the developers loved it. Just the CEO asked me where did I get a version of Visual Studio for Linux and do we have license for this. Guess what my answer was... ;)

I've seen it on lots of cases, talking to commercial companies who develop some Linux solutions. Most of them use KDevelop even for developing kernel modules!...