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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. The big changes aren't visible by LMCBoy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Keep in mind, there isn't much new screen candy in KDE 3.0; a lot of the changes are in the libraries. The biggest change is the port to Qt 3.0, which provides database-aware widgets, improved Qt Designer, bi-di text support, a new regexp class, among other things.

    There are also many new applications being added to KDE.

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  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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  3. 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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