KDE 3.0RC3: Prepare to Fall in Love

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."

Comments

GCC 3.0

[Spyffe]

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?

Re:Screenshots

[T3kno]

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.