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KDE 3.0 is Out

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the congrats-to-the-hackers dept.

Emilio Hansen noted that KDE 3.0 is on their site. There is no official announcement yet, but this looks like the real deal. No debian packages yet, but you can snag RPMs from various distros or src for the do it yourself. Updated by HeUnique:Here is the announcement, enjoy.

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  1. Re:KDE 3.0 Scoop by cscx · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    People who are trying to prove the unthinkable... like, say, for instance, that KDE "is not a Windows copycat, although all the graphics and widgets and common controls seem to indicate that..."

  2. Re:Your "o p i n i o n" but I'll reply anyway... by mark_lybarger · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    i think the "war" was started when:

    1. RMS decided KDE's licensing issues were'nt sufficent enough for his GNU system.
    2. the KDE group was unwilling to call it GNU/KDE.

    whey you come out slinging mud like this some people can call it a war. they (gnu zelots) could have been more mature about it, saying they were going to make a different desktop environment based on different technologies (.NET), but no, they start it all off with license issue mud slinging "we don't like your license so we're going to build our own replacement". childish.

  3. Re:KDE 3.0 Scoop by jfedor · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Spaces are valid in /. usernames. That is SO stupid.

    Reading Ender's Game, eh? :)

    -jfedor

  4. Re:Looks like Gnome won the desktop war. by cloudmaster · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And no, I'm not kidding. I'm using Gnome right now... This pretty much puts the final nail in the coffin for KDE.

    Of course my opinion's more important than yours. :)

  5. Re:Your "o p i n i o n" but I'll reply anyway... by Flower · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Not childish at all. At the time KDE was first created the Qt license wasn't Free software and it was restricive enough that it wasn't even close to being Free software. If I felt like being pedantic about it, which I don't, I would argue that it still isn't Free software.

    Note, in the above I never once said OSS. RMS had every right to call for development of a Free alternative to KDE. Just because some people took him up on it wasn't a bad thing whether you agree with RMS' politics or not. IMO, the competition has been a good thing and will continue to be a good thing.

    Oh, btw, the different technology was CORBA at the time not .Net.

    --
    I don't want knowledge. I want certainty. - Law, David Bowie
  6. Re:Give them a chance... by boarderboy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The oft-heard cry of the noisiest KDE advocates. No explanation is given, the reader is expected to simply grok the wholesomeness of KDE and the lack of this mystical quality in GNOME. It is nonsense of course. Neither desktop is particularly "integrated" compared to Windows XP, and certainly not compared any version of the Apple Mac. Whatever "integrated" actually means.

    I didn't read the rest of your post, but this is one of the most thoughtless, idiodic comments that I have read in a while. You bash people for saying KDE is integrated, then say that it isn't, then you say that XP and MacOS X are more integrated, then you reveal that you don't know what integrated means. How can you say that XP and MacOS X are more integrated when you admit that you have no basis to measure integration. It's simply ridiculous.

    By the way, the reason people think that KDE is more integrated, is because there is more sharing of standardized components. For example, the open file dialog has many options on the way it displays files, and after customizing it, it will look the same when used from any KDE application. Gnome doesn't even have an open file dialog that is worth a damn.