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KDE 3.2 'Rudi' Beta Released
An anonymous reader writes "The beta of the next version of KDE, billed as 'the premiere Open Source desktop', has been released. Read the announcement at KDE.org. Notable features include a big clean up of the interface and menus, Improvements to KHTML from Apple, better accessibility and hardware support. There are also new applications such as JuK (a music player similar to iTunes), KDevelop (a graphical IDE), Kontact (an integrated communications package like Outlook) and more. Download it here and since this is a beta, report any problems or bugs you have." Also, nukem996 points out "The counter-terrorism unit on TV series '24' went KDE this season, too."
For the record KDevelop is not a new application. Maybe the submitter was referring to the newest beta version being included in the KDE 3.2 beta?
Mandrake users can download RPMS here:
http://www.n9nu.net/linux/kde.php
I have been using them since Friday and they work great!
No, i don't like sigs...
This is another site that talks about 24 using KDE, since the link in the article seems to be /.'ed, or just dead to begin with. I didn't notice this on 24... how cool is that?
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
It's not ready. Not even it's backing developers are suggesting inclusion in KDE yet, so it is not up for discussion.
.*karamba war for KDE 4.0.
I am smugly waiting for the kicker vs slicker vs
Site response is already slow here...
Mirror from 13:15 GMT -7
-- Bill "Houdini" Weiss
Not much at all. The applications in Kontact are not really integrated, they just live in the same window, sort of like tabs in konqueror and mozilla.
The main improvement with Kontact have been to make the application behave somewhat consistently. The groupware functionality with exchange and kolab plugins will not be completed until after KDE 3.2.
Just hold option (alt) and click the 'New Playlist' button. You'll notice the icon change to a gear and all is well and good.
...spike
Ewwwwww, coconut...
You heard wrong. Apple kept the development of Safari secret, so the improvement to KHTML was not integrated right away, but when they announced Safari, they sent a rather large patch to KDE that took too long to integrate to make it for KDE 3.1. Since then it has apparently worked smoothly (I am not a khtml-developer though).
http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.2beta1 .php
Come on, look at these JuK screen shots and compare to iTunes screen shots.
How the hell can you determine "user experience" based on screenshots!?! I've never used iTunes, but I can guarantee you that it's outward visual appearance is completely irrelevant to its usability. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it's very usable. But usability is not related to appearance. My Dodge Neon is every bit as usable as my neighbor's Plymouth PT Cruiser. Which should come as no surprise since the everything's the same between those vehicles except for the styling.
JuK is very usable, despite its lackluster appearance. It's probably the most usable multimedia application I've every used. It's just not pretty.
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
See my newsgroup thread (KDE seen in Alias episode 11 (A Higher Echelon)) from January 2003.
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
Hey, for what it's worth, I'm the guy who started writing the core code for slicker; except when I started it back on the gentoo forums I called it CardDesk ( no puns, no excess Ks ).
h ig hlight=slicker
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=29746&
(Sorry, the screenshots are long gone.)
I was really excited at first, because what I really wanted to do was to implement MacOS 9 Folder tabs for KDE. Then, everybody and their uncle wanted in on it. I just wanted to write code. So I let them have it, and I continued to develop the core for a while. I suspect 75% of them gave up when they realized XFree just won't do true transparency (yet).
The thing is, 2 things happened. First, I started it in the first place simply because I wanted folder tabs, and a quick break from my real work. Second... I got a mac, and ported my real work over, and haven't looked back since.
Oh well!
I hope the guys who took the helm are treating my little baby well. I'm sure I wouldn't even recognize 90% of the code at this point.
lorem ipsum, dolor sit amet
Jack (and the good guys at CTU) have Macs.
You need Mythtv setup with at least Mythmusic (screenshot). It's perfect for this and it was designed to be easily used with a remote and a television monitor.
It will play/rip/visualize/navigate your music collection and if your using Debian or Mandrake is just a quick apt/urpmi away (for Mandrake configure urpmi to use Thacs RPM's first, as described on the site).
Quack, quack.
This is wishful thinking at best and outright deceptive at worst. The only versions of Qt that you can legally develop with without paying for are licensed with either the GPL or QPL. Both the GPL and QPL require that your application be Open Source. If your application is closed source, then it cannot use a GPLed or QPLed Qt and thus, you must pay for the developer license.
I wrote the following back in the KDE 2.0 days and it still holds true today:
KDE Licensing Issues
Check out this extension. You just highlight the text, right click it, and select "Open Link in New Tab" (or new window). No its an extra click or two from Mozilla, but I prefer having my middle mouse button open for scrolling the way Firebird does it.
And I really wish more KDE/Linux applications used the middle mouse button as a scroll wheel without any fancy configuring, such as Konqueror or OpenOffice.
[SIG] It's like putting a moose in the blender -- a recipe for disaster!
Use Konstruct to easily install KDE (including betas).
http://www.kubuntu.org/
http://www.kontact.org/
Its looking pretty nice to me, like another poster said, its more of a shell for the different aplications to create their window in.