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KDE 3.0 Screenshots

Posted by timothy on from the need-wackier-screenies dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Got there... Excited by furiousgeorge · · Score: 4, Informative

    >>KDE 3 provides a database-independent API for
    >>accessing SQL databases.

    This isn't coming from the KDE gang..... it's coming from v3.0 of the Qt toolkit. The latest Qt is seriously kick ass....

  2. Mirrored by _xeno_ · · Score: 5, Informative
    Try here (that's http://cstrike.res.wpi.net/offtopic/kde/kde3shots. html for those who don't trust me).

    We'll see how long this box can last...

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    You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
  3. KDE mirror by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.uk.kde.org

    Enjoy. Actually, it's not much to look at.

  4. Mostly a switch to Qt 3 by InodoroPereyra · · Score: 4, Informative

    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

  5. current state from a user's perspective: by 7-Vodka · · Score: 5, Informative
    I've been using the kde development versions from cvs since before kde2 was released.

    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:

    • Konqueror : slightly different buttons, renders a lot more web pages correctly, deals with POST much better than b4, javascript much improved, slightly different menu workings. Oh, and better filebrowsing look and improved filebrowsing sidebar with more options.
    • Koffice: better .doc support.
    • Kmail: nifty visual improvements, better imap support, loads faster.
    • kdemultimedia: noatun (kde media player) actually works as opposed to 2.2, kaboodle a new useless (for now) little embedded multimedia player mostly works
    • Overall: slight performance increase, slight loading time decrease, better general feel, K menu has a win2k style bar on the left side of it, start splash screen has new spiffy graphics with dragon, pull down menus etc work a little better but look a little larger, slight improvements in konsole, taskbar is different but don't know how, kwin works a little better (not sure whats changed tho)

    Not a huge change as kde1 -> kde2 but enough of one that i always choose my kde3 session instead of kde2.

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    Liberty.