KDE 3.1 Alpha1 is Here

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.

Comments

This kind of reminds me of something.....

[Gabreal]

Is it just me or is this remind any of you of MS Win XP! Sorry but IMHO this looks like Win XP where most of the stuff hasn't changed it just looks "Prettier" every body knows that XP was just a pretty GUI and it looks like this is too. Plus the way I see it is that the only real reason they put this out is b/c they want more money and the only way to get that is by putting out prettier versions with no real reason too... Just my $0.02

Kate == SciTe?

[N8F8]

I've been using SciTe editor for about two months now and I the new Kate sure looks a lot like Scite.

So basically

[RatFink100]

KDE now wants to look like a cross between XP and OSX.

Which is fine if you like that I guess.

KDE will be "breathtaking"...

[badfish2]

When most of its bugs are quashed. Until then, it's more of a pain in the ass than it is half the adjectives you used to describe it, and not worth the pain trying to install.

Re:More Eyecandy

[MaxVlast]

Um, I thought that eye candy was a waste of processor cycles. And alpha channels caused users to have to buy the biggest video cards around, and were evil because the guy with a ten year old machine under his desk would have to buy a seven year old machine.

Or is that just when the operating system that you can't have does it that's a waste and stupid?

no offence

[Ender Ryan]

I used KDE as my desktop before 1.0, up through 2.something. I switched to E when I got fed up with KDE's bugginess, and general lack of asthetic appeal. Then I switched to Gnome a while before 1.4, then when 1.4 came out I stuck with Gnome because of it's nice asthetic qualities, simplicity, and general stability, with only occasional annoyances, while KDE at the time had a few relatively severe crash bugs, and was still generally ugly looking. However, I like to stay up to date on things, and KDE, while 3.0 was pretty damn buggy, is a good desktop and I always download the latest major versions to check it out.

I never found the windowlist thing before, dunno why. Seems to work just fine though, so I at least got my answer ;)

Anyway, when 3.1 is released, or at least in beta, I'll give it a try again. FWIW, I do have KDE 3.0.x installed on my work machine, along with Gnome 2.0(which I find to be somewhat problematic, but has potential). I like to use my office machine to test stuff out on, no sense wasting my time at home ;)

KDE is looking better and better, so the reasons I stopped using it are getting fixed (at least IMO). However, one thing I dislike about KDE is that it's built on the QT widget set, which I have no interest in using at it's GPL, instead of LGPL like GTK. I want the freedom to be able to develop commercial software for my desktop of choice, but to be honest I have more interest in developing free(beer and open) software...

I'm rambling, I'll stop. FWIW, I wasn't complaining, just griping... or something.