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KDE 3.0 Beta 2 is out
Subject says all - the next beta of KDE 3.0 is out, after a short delay. You can find the downloads at this announcement. Click below to read more details about this version.
One of the most important things that the Konqueror teams wants from people are test cases of your regulary visited pages, where Konqueror either fails to render or render things incorrectly, and submit it using KDE's Bug Tracking system. URL's will not be helpful as it takes lots of time to strip a page from all the HTML code in order to find the actual problematic part of the web page.
Just to save the search for some people: Mandrake, SuSE, Slackware and Tru-64 binary packages are available now. Others will be available soon. Source code is of course available also.
Ive tried the KDE Beta 2. And I must say... Its a very very very stable pre-release. Hats off to the KDE developres.
The only problem is that some of the older KDE apps wont run correctly with the new KDE and they must be upgraded to work with the new QT packages.
Everyone should D/L it and check it out.
Hurrah, they've provided slakpacks!
Ive been using it today, its very nice. I wasnt a fan of KDE2, and at first glance this is just kde2 with bells and whistles. However, there are subtle changes and integrations that make it much nicer to work with on a daily basis.
Konquerer is a little buggy though (crashes every time i press the Back button)
Cant wait for the final release!
I was pretty happy with KDE 1 and remain happy with KDE 2.0
I'm sure to get Troll -1'd into oblivion for this, but
"Provided by the management for your protection."
Anywho, the feature that I've been most looking forward to is tabbed browsing in Konqueror, due to appear in KDE 3.1. Galeon is the one constantly used app that isn't a part of KDE, and I use it because a.) it has tabbed support and b.) a smart bookmarks toolbar. Plus, it's a web browser. Nothing more, nothing less. Konqueror has various view settings (such as "file manager", "web browser", and whatnot, but in my experience, the different view settings don't always play nice. But since tabs are at the top of my wishlist, I will definitely reconsider Konqueror in the near future.
So, what are all you other KDE fans looking forward to?
Actually what I would like is clear simply instructions on how to have the kde call openBrowser(url) open in something other then Konq. This is one of the major reasons why Kinkatta (kinkatta.sourceforge.net) isn't in KDE. Kinkatta gives the user the option to select what browser to use because I can't answer the e-mails on how to have openBrowser(url) use Galian or Mozzila, Opera, etc. I have many non-kde users that use Kinkatta, but giving users options is "not the kde way" acording to *someone* in kde.
Do you changes clothes while making the "chee-chee-cha-cha-choh" transformation sound?
Sad sad, they never had redhat packages, even beta 1 *still* doesn't have them... oh well, (the reason i am not installing the tarballs is because its beta, i dont want to clutter my FS if it doesnt work right. anyways, thats my 2 cents =)
I SURVIVED THE GREAT SLASHDOT BLACKOUT OF 2002!
Just curious how much human factors goes into the development of open source desktop packages? Are there members of the KDE or QT or Gnome teams whose sole job/interest is to further the usability of the interfaces? Or are the developers just happening to "place this here" or "place this there? Are the beta testers assuming the role of Usability testing?
-Webwiz.....
I'm really looking forward to KDE 3.
No, not because of the move to QT3.
No, not because of the improvements in Konq, KFM, or any of those - not even the multi-key shortcuts.
I just want to be able to use KMail for my Maildir mailboxes. I know there are hacks, workarounds, all that - but I don't want those. I just want to be able to plug in and go. Right now I use Mutt, but sometime in the future I'd like to be able to do some of the things it doesn't - like inline HTML viewing. KMail won't be for regular use, I guarantee it, but it will certainly be a nice complement to mutt.
A very close second is the switching of desktops when dragging a window - that's on the "KDE 3 List" and it's definitely something I miss from E. I don't know if it's going to be in 3, but I also really miss the ability to "walk off the edges" of the desktop and switch to a different virtual desktop. I've got the keyboard shortcuts set up, but it just isn't the same.
I haven't had any luck getting the 2.x family of KDE to build on an OpenBSD box, whether the hardware was x86 or PPC. Which sucks, because I really want to use Konq, and Mozilla won't build at all under Open.
Urg.
Anyhow, has anyone managed to build one of the 3.0 betas under OpenBSD?
--saint
Shame there's no tabbed browsing in Konqueror. Also I was quite surprised at the number of changes listed for console! That made me chuckle; it's like saying this is the program that most people use so it's the most important. :P
As a side note, how much obsolete and legacy code is in KDE right now? I mean, Windows contains lots of legacy code for DOS support. Any thoughts?
Well actually I was quite impressed with the civility of most the people so far. The Gnome people compliment the KDE team for being speedy and, KDE people stay on topic, and the E,WM, ICEWM, Black Box and other people have kept real quiet. Now this is the way slashdot should be.
On an more OT note, I can't wait until they release 3.0Final, I am sure It will be more stable then some past stable Linux kernels *COUGH*2.4.15*COUGH*
I'll Sig you!
You can't compare with dos - it's a completely different OS (well, program launcher) than win2k, heck even win9x and winNT/win2k are completely different OSes. Linux has always been Linux.
an ancient dos tool *might* wont run on win2000 but that's usually because it's hitting the metal - which I find is a *very* good reasong for win2k not to let it run. dos runs on old 8088/8086 CPU's, Linux wont run on anything less than a 386.
True though you can run old KDE apps with th eold libs - mind you aint that fussed about upgrading - since all apps I got are free anyway it wont cost me a penny, plus it gives me a good excuse to sit down and tinker with my boxen!
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