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KDE 3.1 Released
Ashcrow writes "KDE 3.1 was released early this morning and boasts new usability enhancements, VNC-compatible desktop sharing, tabbed browsing, and a new download manager, among other enhancements.
You can read the release anouncement here and start downloading from the closest mirror. Kudos to the KDE Team!"
... the new drop down shadows for the menu's!
And a hefty decrease in startup and rendering time for konqueror, and a limit to the gif-animations allowed per second.
And a brand new splash screen!
Much compliments to the KDE-team!
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Don't know how the lameness filter got involved, but here's what I'm doing about it.
Don't think that a small group of dedicated individuals can't change the world. it's the only thing that ever has.
Well, VNC has supported X for ages. What this does is provides a KDE-based VNC viewing program as well as a very Windows-XP like application to send an invitation to someone else using KDE or VNC to allow them to connect to your desktop.
That's what the big news is. That, and if you're running OpenSLP, and you enable it, you can allow your shared desktop to be part of a browseable pool of desktops or you can browse through the pool and see desktops that are available from the SLP.
Here . It's amazing... Some people are complaining that they didn't use AA fonts for the screenshots, and that's a bad PR decision. More on Osnews
DVD Ripping, Divx, VCD, SVCD under Linux
Here's the thing (about Ctrl+T).
See, KDE 2.0 had support for embedding a Konsole frame into the Konqueror window. As I'm sure you noticed, if you hit Ctrl+T, 3.1 still embeds a Konsole frame in the Konqueror window.
Fact of the matter is that we had a binding for Ctrl+T first... and changing around things that our users are used to as far as keybindings go is obviously a no-no. (Believe it or not there are people who use the embedded Konsole stuff. And it is pretty nifty.)
However, if you go to Settings->Configure Keybindings, you can alter it to change it from Ctrl+Shift+N to Ctrl+T or add Ctrl+T so you can use both. KDE has really good keybinding support, and it's very configurable.
Hope this helps.
Well, if you know how, CVS has most of the Safari patches merged in, and the Safari guys are also integrating stuff from our branch into theirs. We're gradually moving towards a unified source tree for both projects (originally, they took a snapshot from the KDE 3.0.2 version of KHTML) but we're not quite there yet.
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(I'm using CVS HEAD and let me tell you, Konq is faster than ever. It's actually faster than Mozilla on my machine.)
I wonder if the 'save this process' trick is in 3.1. I've been using CVS for so long that I sort of forget which features make it into release and which don't.
(The 'save this process' trick is a way to have a set number of Konqueror processes stay alive after you quit the last Konqueror window. This way, the next time you click on the Konqueror icon, it re-uses the last process that was open, which is a nice little hack that makes Konq appear to launch faster when it's not actually launching at all.)
Do not worry about finding a list of mirrors. download.kde.org will automatically forward you to an open mirror.
For a direct link to the packages, here are:
Note that you need a version of Qt >= 3.1.0. There are additional requirementsfor 3.1 you may want to know.
My main fear is that KMail and Konquerer won't be good Evolution/Galeon replacements.
Why do you have to replace Evolution/Galeon? They work normally in KDE. There is nothing that forces you to choose KDE version of each and every application.
Save your wrists today - switch to Dvorak
> 4. a real GUI for everything
That one still needs a bit more elaboration.
Basically it frees you of having to read a manual and to remember command line options... and it offers 'profiles' for different network environments, so you do not need to know all the VNC codecs to have optimal settings(did you know that a -encodings "copyrect hextile" results in dramatically better latency values on local LANs than the default TightVNC settings?). And you can switch modes (fullscreen, scaled) while you are connected.
Also... This is an application, OK? Does it really require a desktop upgrade?
Not really, it is more about convenience for both user and developer. The newer KDE and Qt version fix a number of bugs that caused problems though. I do not have the time tomaintain backports, I rather work on improvements. You are, of course, free to provide backports for older KDE versions.
Editorial comments aside, you can expect kde-3.1 packages (currently, for rh73 only) to appear soon at kde-redhat.sourceforge.net.
I don't see that at all.
It seems to me that I use virtually all of these features on a regular basis. Yes, some of them have been done before. Yes, a lot of the features are available via third party software in Windows. But this doesn't mean that KDE is copying Windows. It means that people using KDE and people using Windows need a lot of the same features.
There have been a number of interoperability improvements, for instance palm and exchange compatibility, but this isn't the same as copying windows. It simply means that KDE is trying to be as compatible with your other systems as possible.
There is a feature guide that details a lot of this.
What a nice thing to do. Konsider it for your new kpolicy!
Wah!