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KDE 3.1 Alpha1 is Here

Posted by timothy on from the one-excellent-branch-of-reality dept.

navindra writes: "A brand new alpha of the breath-taking KDE 3.1 development branch has been announced. This release sports everything from wonderful new eye candy to tons of popular new features including new and exciting "easter eggs" (aka bugs) just waiting to be discovered. Remember, this is not a stable release -- those of you concerned with stability should use KDE 3.0.2, whereas those of you who want to help KDE 3.1 be the best KDE ever should use this alpha. Kudos to Dre for writing the announcement and to the tireless Dirk Mueller for coordinating this release. Party!" On a related note, pAlpha writes: "Over the past years a large amount of myths has built up around KDE. Recently Aaron J. Seigo released a page about the KDE myths and facts." Good for convincing the boss.

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  1. clip board popup by dciman · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Anyone else get violently upset witht he clipboard program in KDE. Who was the person who though it to be a good idea for that little option bar to popup when I selected an internat address?? So that everytime I select all in the url box of my web browser it comes up, takes focus away from the app I am using and asks when I want to do..... I KNOW WHAT I WANT TO DO!!!! ;-) There is most likely a way to alter its behavior... but I thought it was a silly thing to have by default. But what do I care?? I use Blackbox anyhow!

  2. WinXP looking by DaveV1.0 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Is it just me, or is KDE looking a lot like WinXP?

    Personally, I think it's ugly.

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  3. I believe you have been mislead. by Prof+Hugh · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Even I, with my superior intelect, was able to spot the obvious "troll" conotations inherent within your previous postings to this esteemed "Slashdot".

    Also, I have just shat my pants. Would you have some tissue upon your person, purchance? Its quite uncomfortable!

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  4. The Plan by The+Bungi · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    1.- Make Linux desktop look like Microsoft Windows
    2.- ???
    3.- Profit!!!

    I'm not trolling, but I find it sad that everyone has to copy Windows (Microsoft copied Apple, which copied Xerox, blah, blah). Why can't someone come up with a new UI paradigm that works better? If anything, Open Source has the best chance to do this without spending $$$ in "focus groups" and so on. KDE and GNOME look so much like Windows I'm not even inclined to install the latest versions anymore. Not to put down the effort required to code this things, which is of course enormous. I just think the innovation is not there anymore.

    The taskbar-desktop-menu thing should be thrown out. So what if it's a huge change? Most of us will adapt.