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LinuxPlanet Reviews KDE 3.0

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the can't-wait-for-debs dept.

fabiolrs writes "LinuxPlanet has a cool review on KDE 3.0. You can also view a changelog of version 3.0 here." Still no debs, but I'm looking forward to checking this thing out. I'm hoping that some of the rough edges on Kmail have been smoothed out. Update: 04/09 16:58 GMT by M : EWeek also has their own review.

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  1. KDE's appearance by Ween · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have had people tell me that KDE3 looks just like KDE2. Well, they werent paying much attention. KDE3 makes great strides in the little things visually that make this one very slick looking desktop. I even showed it in a lecture at my school about linux and many people were impressed and came up to me afterwards asking what that was.

    Good job KDE Team.

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    1. Re:KDE's appearance by Khalid · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Alas IT IS! and this is something that most geeks fail to understand. For the better or the worse. For many people this is the first contact they will have with a software, and this first impression has a major impact about the acceptation of a software by a PHB, like or not !!

      I remember while at the university, students were fighting to do graphic or visual projects because experience has showed them that these were the projects which were rated better !!!!

      This is something that the open source community is at last beginning to understand, to reach the masses, projects have got to be "pretty", with the recent integration of true type fonts, alpha blending, transparency, anti-aliasing, new good looking themes and so on.

      It's just marketing ! this is what Apple and M$ have understood long time age.

  2. Didn't even check out the links eh? by swagr · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm hoping that some of the rough edges on Kmail have been smoothed out.

    I guess you didn't even look at the links. Sign of a true professional.

    KMail: Maildir support
    KMail: Distribution lists and aliases
    KMail: SMTP authentication
    KMail: SMTP over SSL/TLS
    KMail: Pipelining for POP3 (faster mail download on slow responding networks)
    KMail: On demand downloading or deleting without downloading of big mails on a POP3 server
    KMail: Various improvements for IMAP
    KMail: Permanent header caching
    KMail: Header fetching is much faster
    KMail: Creating/removing of folders
    KMail: Drats/sent-mail/trash folders on the server
    KMail: Mail checking in all folders
    KMail: Automatic configuration of the POP3/IMAP/ SMTP security features
    KMail: Automatic encoding selection for outgoing mails
    KMail: DIGEST-MD5 authentication
    KMail: Identity based sent-mail and drafts folders
    KMail: Expiry of old messages
    KMail: Hotkey to temporary switch to fixed width fonts
    KMail: UTF-7 support
    KMail: Enhanced status reports for encrypted/signed messages

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  3. What I'd really like to see in a review by ChrisWong · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Too many reviews focus on installation. This review contains less info than the KDE press release. How about a little hands-on insight? How does KDE 3 compare to its predecessor in terms of startup time (with/without prelink/objprelink)? Runtime performance? Memory footprint? Can we see some numbers? It's a pity that reviews geared towards techies are often lacking in quantitative information.