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KDE 3.0 Screenshots
Lawrence Teo writes: "The screenshots of the upcoming KDE 3.x are out! More treats for you screenshot-loving people and I-need-my-desktop-to-look-perfect types. :-)" Frankly, they look a lot like ... previous KDE desktops :) That by itself says a lot about how mature KDE has become.
KDE 3 provides a database-independent API for accessing SQL databases. It provides support for ODBC as well as direct support for Oracle, PostgreSQL and MySQL databases (custom drivers may be added as well). I am really looking forward to this feature, as I am a SQL junkie. If I could backend everything to a SQL database I would.
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Well, there's not much change.
But that was said beforehand, it won't be the big change like going from kde1 to kde2.
It's more an upgrade to Qt 3, which has as result that kde2 and kde3 are binary incompatible.
Maybe they are lucky (or not) that it is in about the same timeframe as going from gcc2 to gcc3. All c++ binaries will be broken with or without qt2/qt3 in most major distro's.
On kernel-cousin I read that a beta version should become available at the end of the month. Might be interesting.
I just hope that kde 3 will be ready to ship in the new distro's for next year, like Redhat 7.3/8.0 and Mandrake 8.2.
Well, don't worry about that. We can get you back before you leave. (Dr. Who)
We'll see how long this box can last...
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
http://www.uk.kde.org
Enjoy. Actually, it's not much to look at.
Yes, it may be that it will look a bit prettier. But the major change in KDE 3.0 will be the port of all the apps to Qt 3
That seems to be the last major change in the libs for a long time. I think they will try to keep a consistent API for a couple years (after 3.0 is released) to let programmers write apps for KDE. I undertand (from previous discussions in the dot ) that they decided to jump to (the apparently much improved) Qt 3 now, spend a few months in the ports and then provide a mature, solid API. I guess they made the right decision.
Many thanks to the KDE folks,
-- Don Inodoro
There are several linux distros that will happily coexist with Windows - i.e. boot off a disk image stored on a Windows partition.
ZipSlack/BigSlack are good examples of this type of thing (http://www.slackware.org)
Just install KDE on one of those and you're good to go.
You might also look at VMWare, which will also achieve the same thing, but will let you run 'KDE-in-a-Window-on-your-Windows-Desktop'.
I think VMWare Express is about $49US.
Hope that helps
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Maybe you're thinking of alpha blending? I hear QT 3 supports alpha blending everywhere using the RENDER extension, which should lead to such eyecandy as full PNG transparency support in Konqueror, alpha-blended icons everywhere (shadows), and cooler themes, among other things. I haven't seen this applied yet, though. You wouldn't see it in any screenshots you could make at this time.
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I used kde 2 for a while.
Right now I'm using last night's cvs of kde3 called kde 2.9.0.
Not much has changed as far as looks go. Here are some changes i've noticed as i have both cvs and 2.2.1 installed on the same machine:
Not a huge change as kde1 -> kde2 but enough of one that i always choose my kde3 session instead of kde2.
Liberty.
i have mirrored your mirror here
enjoy
Maybe they are lucky (or not) that it is in about the same timeframe as going from gcc2 to gcc3. All c++ binaries will be broken with or without qt2/qt3 in most major distro's.
No that's not luck. That was a major reason why the desicion was made to move to Qt3 so quickly. This was heavily discussed about 4 months back and finally decided to timeframe the release with g++ 3.1 (because the minor release of g++ will break BC again).
Don't put it pass the KDE team to coordinate efforts with other projects.
I'm sure with the slightest bit of coding skill and a bunch of patience, Qt and KDE would compile under the Cygwin/XFree86 environment.
:)
I tried the Cygwin/XFree86 thing on my girlfriend's Windows box, and was quickly up and running with a full-screen X Window session, so I could VPN to work and export my XEmacs client from my workstation to the Windows box's display.
I haven't tried compiling anything with it, but the UNIX compatibility headers are all there as well as GCC. All the X headers also seemed to come with the cygwin XFree86 distribution.
Check out this user's guide for an excellent step-by-step document (with pictures!) of how to get the Cygwin/XFree86 environment running. After that just try to run configure then make in the QT source tree and see what happens
Good luck!
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The screenshots presented for KDE 3 aren't the most visually stunning in the world, I agree.
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If you like OS X, you might like KDE's
Liquid widget theme
http://www.kde-look.org/content/preview.php?fil
http://www.kde-look.org/content/preview.php?fil
Also nice is the QNix widget style
http://www.kde-look.org/content/preview.php?fil
http://www.kde-look.org/content/preview.php?fil
... and kwin is already very themable. You can use any IceWM themes, and kbox (http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content
Very few people seem to be providing themes that mimic Gnome ones: perhaps people actually prefer KDE's icons over Gnome's (I know I do). The path is open for someone to create a Gnome icon theme for KDE, if they want to. There are people working to improve KDE's icons, however, as in the iKons theme:
http://www.kde-look.org/content/preview.php?fil
[pardon the spaces in the links -- ready mangled by Slashdot]
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The latest versions of Freetype remove a Apple patented method of hinting, which changes the shape of characters to better match the pixels they are displayed on (ensuring that the arms of your `m' character aren't pushed together, for example, despite that at very small resolutions they might render this way).
Most of the recent KDE2 packages are compiled against the newer freetype, whose output is of slightly inferior quality due to the removal of the code for patented hinting method.
>The /single/ thing that keeps me from running kde is that cruddy excuse for a WM they /force/ you to use.
:-).
/only/ advantage of GNOME is the
Not true, KDE's hints support come from NETWM, which is used by KDE 2.x and GNOME 1.4. Any NETWM complient window manager works with KDE 2.x and GNOME 1.4. So far, the only NETWM compliant window managers (that I know of) are kwin, sawfish, and blackbox. WindowMaker's next release should also add support.
> They (trolltech) hired the author of
blackbox, which is a good WM, and I hoped some of his wisdom might flow down to the KDE team... but alas, no sign of that yet.
Kwin is a minimal (like Blackbox), but very extensible window manager. I wrote kbox, which lets you use blackbox styles in kwin. I can tell you that in fact, much of the vector gradient code in Blackbox actually orignated in KDE. Also, some of Brad Hughes (author of Blackbox) "wisdom" would naturally flow down to KDE because he wrote the Qt3 style engine
> KDE developers, please
take note: The
fact that you can choose your own window manager.
Again, I say, you can use any NetWM compliant window manager with KDE 2.x. Kwin is to KDE as Sawfish is to GNOME. It's just the default.
Yeah, but GIF/PNG make huge screenshots.
The majority of Net users are still on 56k or below.
1. cursors with shadows
if you have an nvidia card, you can use it's drivers to do it.
2). thumbnail view
has for a long time
3). transparent menus
some themes, like liquid and megagradient have this
4). cutomize your login
kcmkdm (or whatver its called).
Totally changed in KDE 3.0 (now you can search your entire network with a "wizard" in Kcontrol in KDE 3.0)
Hetz (Heunique)
Back at my previous job, I was hired to work at a new start-up where all the workstations are Linux and all developers are ... Windows developers..
So, I decided to make a small test case - I took 8 machines, installed on 4 of them Ximian GNOME and on the other 4 - full KDE 2.2.1 and I asked the developers to play with those machines and decide which enviroment they want to use.
2 hours later I got the results from them - all 30 developers wanted KDE, none of them wanted GNOME, and those developers never touched Linux before...
Just goes to show you that KDE is much better suited for corporate use when your users have used Windows before.
Of course - the point where there is no MS Office is a PITA, but for that I installed them VMWare and win98+office
Hetz (Heunique)
Win'95 had (and 9x has) "region window" support. The power toys kit had a round clock included.e nts/WUToys/W95PwrToysSet/Default.asp
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http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/cont
says that you need OSR2, which was '95a with the plus pack and new IE. I don't have a '95a install to test with, though, so I can't be sure. Oh well.
Learn all about region windows in VB at http://www.vbcodemagician.dk/tips/forms_win32rgnw