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KDE 3.1 Released

Posted by timothy on from the good-things-take-time dept.

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!"

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  1. Screenshots From Site by TheRIAAMustDie · · Score: 5, Informative

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    Don't know how the lameness filter got involved, but here's what I'm doing about it.

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  2. Re: vnc ? by tjansen · · Score: 5, Informative
    What does it do that vncviewer doesn't do?

    1. A real fullscreen mode that you can switch to while you are connected
    2. Scale the content of the remote side to fit into your window
    3. browse desktop sharing servers in the network
    4. a real GUI for everything
  3. Re:superb desktop, always top notch from the KDE t by nitehorse · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  4. Re:But what I am rellay looking forward to... by nitehorse · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

    (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.)

  5. Where to Go; What You Need by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  6. Re:Longtime GNOMEr Ready to Try by ultrabot · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  7. Re:Is KDE trying to be Windows? by JimDabell · · Score: 5, Informative
    A quick scan through the new features is almost like reading about the new features introduced in a previous version of Windows.

    I don't see that at all.

    • Internet Explorer doesn't have a download manager.
    • Windows doesn't have anything even close to quanta.
    • Windows doesn't come with a large selection of games or educational tools.
    • Windows doesn't come with an advanced editor like kate.
    • Internet Explorer doesn't have tabbed browsing.
    • Explorer doesn't transparently browse remote filesystems over ssh.
    • Explorer doesn't let you edit meta-data in things like jpeg files.
    • Windows still doesn't have support for multiple desktops
    • Windows still doesn't have a taskbar as functional as KDE's
    • Windows still doesn't have decent scripting of gui applications.

    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.