GNOME 2.3 Snapshot, KDE 3.1.2 Released

BSD Forums writes "The GNOME Development Series Snapshot 2.3.1 "Daddy Walrus", is now available. FreeBSD's Joe Marcus Clarke has ported this release (2.3) on FreeBSD and is looking for your testing help. Also, the KDE Project announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.1.2, a maintenance release for the third generation of this UNIX desktop."

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I have to say I'm psyched! And I just can't wait

[Bold Marauder]

for 2005 to come around, when I can pull them out of debian stable. ;)

Re:Woohoo! More Format Wars!

[sisukapalli1]

Buddy... If you have to explain whether some "computer system" has a "standard for a freaking UI" to *FRIENDS AND FAMILY*, you probably have more to worry about than the format wars.

S

Re:Woohoo! More Format Wars!

[Anonymous Coward]

Isn't it fun to explain to how windows has no choice for a freaking UI to your friends and family?

Re:why gnome/kde

[joeldg]

and I use deoderant and brush my teeth!

A heritage desktop for Linux?

[Anonymous Coward]

What's a desktop user to do if you're interested in American heritage and morality? It seems like the major choices for Linux desktop environments are between a European product (KDE and the underlying Qt library) and a Mexican product (Miguel's GNOME environment.) For those of us who are concerned about what kind of statement we make by using products from certain parts of the world, where does that leave us? Both Europe and Mexico basically told us to go eff ourselves during the recent liberation of Iraq. The UK was on our side, but the UK has never been heavily involved with the development of Qt/KDE.

Personally, I still find myself using FVWM. It's fast, lightweight, and (as far as I know) it's homegrown. However, it's old, and FVWM users such as myself are missing out on some of the newer Linux technology. Are there any plans for an American desktop environment? And do all Americans who are serious about boycotting products from states of concern really realize where KDE and GNOME come from? I think a lot of people might be unpleasantly surprised if they found out some of the things that they're supporting by using some of these foreign environments.

Re:A heritage desktop for Linux?

[Anonymous Coward]

This isn't really an issue for most Linux users, because most Linux users are dirty communist hippies anyway.

Real, patriotic Americans, stimulate the economy by purchasing new Dell PCs, which come pre-loaded with a genuine copy of Microsoft Windows XP Professional.

Socialism, Communism, and Linux are for backwards European countries and for jealous nations like Canada--a country that silently ignores the fact that 90% of its population live within 250 miles of its border with the United States.

How Much Longer

[Anonymous Coward]

What is the expected release date of the much anticipated KDE 3.11 for Workgroups?

I assume that will be followed by KDE 95....

Re:How Much Longer

[hal200]

I'm just waiting for KDE Pi (3.1.4.....)

So when

[linuxislandsucks]

So when is the SCO Group lawsuits against Gnome an dKDe suppoed to be filed?

It seem SCO Group only considers suing the best..

Re:So when

[mindriot]

It seem SCO Group only considers suing the best...

Oh, cool! We'll finally get the answer to the long GNOME-or-KDE religious battle... just wait and see who gets sued by SCO first...

;->

Re:So when

[Grishnakh]

See, KDE and GNOME are like bicycles, whereas the far superior and more mature CDE desktop environment is like a race car. KDE and GNOME obviously must have copied code from CDE to have advanced features like multiple workspaces, alt-tab, and a clock, since there's no way they could have devised those on their own.

Re:Don't bother to install Gnome 2.3.1

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't bother to install Gnome 2.3.1, according to Apple. OS X is better.

Uggh, released already?

[Anonymous Coward]

Geez, and I'm still trying to compile kde 3.1.1 on
my ancient Sun box. And now I need to stop that and
install kde 3.1.2? Probably by the time I'm finished with
that the kde folks will be up to 3.1.3

Well, the good thing about GNOME is it won't compile
at all on my Sun box, so no need to even bother.

Larry the cow says.

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Larry the cow says.

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow, judging by Larry the Cow's spelling, he is a regular slashdotter...

Re:why gnome/kde

[joeldg]

work, you mean play solitaire in between reboots? ;)

I run Windowmaker...

[weeboo0104]

...YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!!!

My vision of "the perfect desktop"

[Saint Stephen]

*Fluxbox not KDE or Metacity. Eyecandy in the WM is pointless. Desktop wheeling, tabbed windows useful!
*Konq is the file manager. The rest of KDE is useless.
*GTK is the widget library. The rest of Gnome is useless.
*GTK AA-text and font-prefs work without launching gnome-control-center when not running Gnome.
*MozFirebird is the browser, with proper native GTK widgets. (XULGlade Theme?)
*OpenOffice document engine & rendering engine with Gnumeric or Abiword interface.
*QT becomes a theming engine ontop of GTK.
*Abandon all dockapps, panels, kickers: replace it with Karamba + OpenGL to compete with Longhorn & OSX.
*PDF viewer: rendering engine of Acrobat, UI functionality of KGhostview, using GTK widgets.

That's all I can think of for now. I hope you can see it in your mind now.

SYN!

[Ilan Volow]

KDE would never implement Clippy.

The would implement Klippy.