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What To Expect From KDE 3.1
Moritz Moeller - Her writes "As most of you desktop users already know, the KDE Project recently released KDE 3.1beta2, which will be the final development release before KDE 3.1. The good news is, KDE 3.1 is scheduled for release in just a few weeks. The following page gives a nice overview about what is coming with many screenshots. It will certainly be the best KDE ever."
> Did they finally fix all of the bugs from the 3.0 release?
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They fixed thousands of bugs. Especially usability bugs, those are hard to fix.
Check out an overview here
http://bugs.kde.org/reports.cgi?product=-All-&out
The data is incomplete due to the recent switch to bugzilla.
> Have they made 3.x a little more backwards compatible from 2.x?
Who is still using KDE-2.x? KDE-3.0 was released months ago. Many of the old settings have no equivalent anymore, e.g. the filter format in kmail changed.
> ESPECIALLY the documentation ) is half-assed at best
That is true. Go ahead and write some, it will be included.
> Set up the KDE so that when the many, many programs that core dump do their usual crash I'm
> able to automatically send that to the KDE people without having to run a 20-minute wizard.
Huh? This is already done ATM. backtracing without debugging symbols is senseless anyways.
> Write your fucking desktop program so that people upgrading can do so seamlessly and painlessly
Why don't you stop insulting the people donating software to you? Shut your mouth or help the project.
Moritz
Yea, I keep wanting to like KDE (and Gnome) and always try out the newest versions, but somehow I always seem to end up back with Window Maker. It's fast, clean, stays out of my way, does what I need. I'm not knocking KDE, it's an impresive piece of work, but that's the great thing about Linux (or BSD) isn't it? You get to use what you want and not what Bill or Steve think you should use.