KDE 2.2 Released

Well, we had covered it being tagged last week, and now, after a hardware problem with one of the main download servers, KDE is ready for download. Except that you'll probably want to go to the mirrors to actually get it. You can get more about it about it from Dre's dot.kde post, or you can read the KDE announcement - and have a good time!

Comments

Re:Site-specific popup policy

[swright]

yeah, I'd kill for that functionality too! I'm thinking this could be scaled up to a per-site profiling system where the useragent, javascript and other options are all defined for each site. That way it could be more easily extended to handle other often abused features that are so handy to turn off (javascript alert() calls, Flash, etc)

Site-specific popup policy

[kdgarris]

Konqueror already has the ability to allow or not allow Javascript on a per-site basis,a nd also has an option to disable the Javascript window.open function globally, but what I'd really like to see is the ability to disable window.open on a site-specific basis as well.

Popup windows are annoying on some (okay, most) sites, but a few require them in order to make use of the site.

-Karl

Mosfets Icon themes manual no longer online

[kaltan]

It is possible to use icon themes in KDE, but the online manual for creating them is no longer online :-(
It used to be on http://www.mosfet.org/themeapi

But Mosfet removed that page...in some moment of rage

Mosfet's Liquid Style Engine

[kdgarris]

For a great visual effect, check out the Liquid style engine which was designed for this version of KDE. I'm running it now, and it looks beautiful:

http://www.mosfet.org/liquid.html

-Karl

make 'find' for Konsole as it is in OpenStep

[Pegasus]

I think it's also a good time for you - the reader/user to post what do you want to be changed in KDE? what do u hate about KDE? what do you like? What do you think should be improved? What do you think should be removed? most of the KDE developers read slashdot - so maybe your request will be fullfilled - you never know...

What we at our company are almost YELLING about at some places ... we're all used to OpenSTEP and some of us are still using it just because of the Terminal.app. When you have some process or script that outputs tons of stuff, you just press Ctrl+F, you get a find panel, you enter your search keyword and it moves the terminal buffer to the right place and highlights what you've searched for. I think OS X has something simmiliar.
If such functionallity would be added to KDE, there'll be no reasons for us to keep OpenStep anymore, expect for sentimentallity. :) Such feature greatly simplifies the daily job of the sysadmin.

KDE and Ximian Gnome Can't Get Along?

[idonotexist]

Apt-getting kde, noticed kde removes gdm. I thought --- well, I'll install kde 2.2 and then reinstall gdm. After installing kde, apparently an install of gdm is not possible without removing kdm and kde.

While I enjoy using gnome more than kde, I like to occassionally use kde by selecting kde in gdm. However, with kde 2.2, this no longer seems possible. Does someone have any suggestions to allow gdm with kde 2.2?

Here's what I'd like to see

[dmelomed]

Less bloat. More optimizations. You shouldn't neet lots of resources to move windows around and copy and paste. 1.x release was actually bearable on a 64 or 128 MB machine, can't say the same about the new release. I know this is asking for impossible, but maybe people who moderated my previous post a troll can prove me wrong, and have a large C++ project have a memory foot print/resource usage that these kinds of binaries could have (C instead).

Ok, user friendly with no installer?

[joshv]

Such a major project with an emphasis on usability and user friendliness and the package has no installer. Sure different distros can wrap it up in whatever package manager they use, but this is still a pain. Why can't they have something like mozilla's binary installer so end users (who may not know their distro) can download it and just go.

-josh

Re:Ok, user friendly with no installer?

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe the phrase "hate-hate relationship" should have provided a clue about the implicit sarcasm, no of course Redhat is not "evil(TM)", but they do treat KDE as a second-class citizen like you also pointed out. Other distributions maybe more pro-KDE by making KDE the default desktop, but they are not actually contra-GNOME, but present both DEs in their best possible configuration. Unfortunately Redhat treats KDE as a second-class citizen instead of an on-par alternative to GNOME.

Re:Bloat

[Anonymous Coward]

Also compare GNOME core distribution ( mostly C) and KDE core distribution sizes. Granted GNOME doesn't offer as many features, but the difference is quite apparent.

GNOME uses more memory on my system. You obviously are not a programmer, so don't try to blame the programming language.

Re:KDE vs Gnome

[Anonymous Coward]

Personally I really like KDE because of it's professionalism.

Nice clean desktop, nice clean API. I think gnome has more hacks and messy API.

Re:Backwards compatibility

[HeUnique]

Well - this point was very crucial in the decision to move to developing KDE 3.0

Most of KDE will stay the same, and QT is around 90% source compatible (not binary compatible)..

So basically - moving an application from KDE 2 to KDE 3 shouldn't take more then a few tweaks.

Lars from TrollTech has been playing for fun in ported the entire KDE libraries from QT 2.X to 3.0 beta in a few hours - so if few hours takes to move something this big - then it shouldn't take for an avrage programmer more then an hour or so..

You should also remember - by the time that KDE 3.0 will be out - most of the distributions will move from GCC 2.9X to 3.0.X or 3.1 (if everything goes according to the GCC team) - so the developers will have to do some work - regardless of KDE or Gnome applications...