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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. GCC 3.0 by Spyffe · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I think it's important that this have support for compilation with the GCC 3.0 series. Otherwise it's not freeing my world from the iron grip of Enlightenment (haha!)

    Seriously, though, what work is being done on this?

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  2. Ripoff! by jonnythan · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Look at this screenshot.

    The print dialog is EXACTLY THE SAME AS WINDOWS'.

    The taskbar system is EXACTLY THE SAME AS WINDOWS'.

    Even the HELP SYSTEM is EXACTLY THE SAME AS WINDOWS'.

    The background *is* the default Mac OS X background.

    You're going to tell me that the round, bubbly blue title bars (whose construction are directly lifted from Windows'), were not directly inspired by the latest OS's from Apple and Microsoft?

    When is Linux going to stop aiming to be JUST LIKE WINDOWS! and do something "innovative" in the GUI area?

    Oh, that's right. THEY WON'T, simply because all those open source programmers are PROGRAMMERS and know nothing about UI design!

    There's a REASON you won't find any UI features in KDE that haven't already appeared in Windows or Mac OS. Microsoft and Apple pay people who deserve the money BIG BUCKS to design UI's and perform focus groups and make *advances* in the UI department.

  3. Re:This might be the straw... by plastercast · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Stick around for gnome2s nautilus. I hae for the first time been keeping up with CVS and, with out exageration, it SCREEMS

  4. Re:Screenshots by T3kno · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Actually I was one of those people that thought and still thinks that XP is nasty looking and feeling, and from the quick look that I took the crystal icon theme is about the same level of nastyness as XP is. I do like the feel of KDE though. I'll install the Crystal on my kids computer, I'll keep mine the way it is. You can go play with autohide on Windows 95.

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