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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.
KDE/GNOME blows ass. Any fuckwads using KDE/GNOME should switch over to GNOME/KDE. Why do they even bother developing KDE/GNOME anymore anyway?
Why bother.
Absolutely nothing. It still isn't better than Windows XP home edition.
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not a troll here. just read a little more.
i never liked kde 1. when kde 2 came out, i was very impressed. but after using it for 2 months, i've gone back to ximian gnome.
you know what? it's not kde that is blah, it is QT that makes kde blah. kde is a very well put together framework of a desktop, but building it on top of QT just ruined it.
this reminds me of the amiga days. i found it hard to go from the soft, warm looking amiga desktop to the cold, filmy ibm win 3.1 desktop.
i also find it hard to go from a colorful, crispy gnome desktop to a boring, blah kde desktop (i know about kde-look.org, been there, downloaded all kinds of icons, brackgrounds, etc.)
BUT IT'S NOT KDE THAT IS MY PROBLEM, IT IS QT!
qt, well, just sucks.
Some KDE Myths.
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o ut h-metatheme.jpeg Its a
...Gnome/GTK
..and some other I missed out, its not
KDE Myth: Koffice owns, Kspread, Kword..they own, Gnome-office sucks.
Truth:
o Gnumeric has made some huge steps in the last 6 months, with the
semi-intergration of Guppi (graphing)...its a very stable Spreadsheet
application, offers many features that kspread dreams of. More Functions,
more file filters,.. Kspread is more like a budget/cutdown version of
Gnumeric.
To put it blutantly KDE toolbars and general gui design are/have always
been a mess.
o Abiword also offers similar benefits of Gnumeric (features and File
Filters) hey does Kword have a good import/exprt RTF?! alpha-quality? wtf?
How long has Kword been in-existence? and they still cant properly render
RTF still? Even the list of known filters (export and import) available
looks very sad. http://www.koffice.org/filters/status.phtml
Considering Abiword is also being developed for many other platforms, its
done pretty well so far. Can you say WYSIWYG?
o Kivio doesnt offer everything you would want, and if you want specific
stencils, you have to fork out for them...Is this where FreeSoftware is
going? We get cutdown versions of a product,... DIA isnt bound to a
company hard bent in making a profit. So when DIA starts employing some of
these Stencils, what happens then? you spent $$$ for nothing?
http://www.thekompany.com/products/kivio/stenci
KDE Myth: Konq ownz mozilla, netscape etc...
Truth: Mozilla is truely more standards complient, as of late 0.9.4+
series, The Mozilla engine is really starting to shine now, Konq has
always had a hard time rendering any DHTML/Javascript, even with some
webpages the fonts are screwed.
Mozilla isnt Perfect, but hey, everything renders properly. Konq trys to
hard to be "Internet Explorer" on the linux desktop, Its time to
completely drop the KHTML shit, If theres a better, more mature
engine...use it. KHTML was once needed, now its not.. And if you want to
Compare Gnome Galeon,..I dare you.
Nautalus was once critised as being a slow, dog, rah rah.. well it was,
yeah it was slow,...but it has improved, but it seems kde users still like
to think that. Well if it makes you happy. Nautalus is very themeable
http://jimmac.musichall.cz/screenshots/ximian-s
welcome change away from the Windows File Manager look.
KDE Myth: GTK+ is just damn ugly
So you havent tried the abundance of GTK+ themes? cleanice? eazel?
thinice? pixmap?
Yeah, Gtk themes that have been around longer than kde2... and with the
upcoming release of GTK2, themes are getting better and faster. Themes
under KDE just dont look "pretty". Even Gnome icons are better. So
customising Gnome to look differently isnt that hard..however KDE just
looks like that, Mosfet just looks tacky.
KDE Myth: We have all the cool appz. QT/KDE rulesss!
Oh really? So lets now count Evolution, GIMP, Red Carpet, Xchat, XMMS,
Galeon, Balsa, Gnumeric, Pan, Abiword, mplayer, Glade, Anjuta
has plently of cool apps.
KDE Myth: Gnome is loosing, its dead, just use KDE.
Well considering most new distros have KDE preinstalled as default, ie,
Mandrake, Lindows, Caldera, Corel, Suse
surprising Gnome is losing *some* support, But with Ximian and Redhat
Gnome/GTK will keep on living. QT is hardly community developed, GTK+ has always been community developed...and thus we as the linux community we _should_ support it.