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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."
"It will certainly be the best KDE ever."
Better than the future releases? Woah, I must download that now.
So does hitting ctrl-alt-backspace automatically press the "Submit" button in your web browser?
Stick to Commodore 64, they haven't changed features in years, and are an exceedingly tight code-base. (fits in less than 64K,not meg, not gig, but K)
If you want a fast window manager combo, how about ratpoison+screen?
Open Source Java Web Forum with LDAP authentication
Here are a bunch of screenshots for your enjoyment while the current server is recovering...
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur
I wonder who at M$ was the one who decided to buy an ad for this story. Ah well, the sweet irony of clicking on an M$ ad in a KDE story thus generating additional revenue for /. :-).
I stole this Sig
> 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
For all the flaming Microsoft gets for copying stuff, it's amazing that KDE doesn't get the same. Just looking at the screenshots, its clearly evident that windows XP's style has definitely had influence on the KDE artists, in terms of icon style, colors, etc.
python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
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.
I have a gripe regarding the theme used in this screenshot:
UI developers: please stop using curves in widgets and window decorations unless use can use alpha blending to make the edges of the curve look smooth. I'm sorry but monitor resolution just isn't sharp enough to make curves look good without alpha blending and anti-aliasing.
Konqueror's integration is completely different from IE's integration. IE isn't just integrated into the desktop, but is wired deep into the bowels of the OS, using interfaces not available for other apps. Microsoft made the design as non-modular as they could on purpose, just to kill Netscape. They scrambled up IE DLL's with system DLL's, just to make it painful to remove IE.
Konqueror just uses the same classes that any other app can use. It has no privileged position. Furthermore, you can run Konqueror from a Gnome desktop.
Gnome to KDE: Mission Accomplished, Convert Thrilled
Because a GNU/Linux distribution consists of a huge number of independently developed components, there will always be some cool new upgrade to some important package that comes out just a bit too late to make the cut. In many cases, "too late" can mean "two months before ship date", or even more, for any distributor who bothers to do testing before shipping. Waiting doesn't help, because then someone else upgrades their package, and so on. GCC, XFree86, Gnome, KDE, Apache, mysql, etc. all have their own schedules.
In any case, if 3.1 has cool new stuff, you may want to wait until 3.1.1 for the bugs in the cool new stuff to be fixed. This is no shot at KDE, the same is true for all other big projects.
Kudos to this school for teaching its students the essential skills of the software industry: thinking you're smarter than everyone else, not interacting well with other people, and resolutely explaining technical minutia whenevery a situation is threatening.
I've been wanting another degree - where do I enroll?
KDE 3.2 will also feature the ability to use Vim as the mail composer
But will EMACS 21.3 feature the ability to use KDE as the window manager?