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KDE 3.0RC3: Prepare to Fall in Love

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the get-your-compile-on dept.

Dre writes "As announced on dotsy, the first day of the Season of Love (for us Northerners, anyway) brings us the KDE 3.0 final release candidate, KDE 3.0RC3. Besides fixes for any remaining crashes and grave bugs, this release will become KDE 3.0, scheduled to free the world in early April. Having benefitted from a week-long hacking session early this month, I can report that this release is very solid and, best of all, much snappier than prior releases, particularly Konqueror. Downloads are available through KDE's load-balancing mirror system. Since this is principally a show-stopper release, things are on an expedited schedule; more binary packages will appear in the next few days, and shortly thereafter KDE 3.0 will be tagged."

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  1. Reason why KDE isn't more widely accepted by NaCh0 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Is the look. Many of the more old-fashined hardcore linux users (like me) want a desktop with small icons, small window decorations, narrow scrollbars, and dark colors. I simply can't find anything like that for KDE. Yes, I've been to kdelook.org. All of the popular "looks" are aqua/liquidish ripoffs. They make a pretty screen shot, but are horrible to use for hours on end.

    To give you an idea, I like using the blueheart enlightenment theme. Imagine that screen shot with a dark tiled background (blech, not WHITE!) and you'll be in business.

  2. "Prepare to fall in love"? by Wakko+Warner · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    How does one do that? Stop off at 7-11 after work for a box of Trojans and some Astroglide before visiting kde.org?

    - A.P.

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  3. Re:Screenshots by DrSkwid · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    they are fucking hideous

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  4. Re:Ripoff! by jonnythan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm *not* just talking about the theme.

    The print dialog system. The taskbar system. The title bar system. The help system. All these things (and more!) are, as you may notice, lifted directly from Windows. I just saw that link in another comment saying how wonderful the future is going to be.. why? Because it's just like the horribly candy coated Windows XP?