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KDE 3.2 beta 2 Released

Posted by timothy on from the breaker-breaker-beta-2 dept.

KentoNET writes "The KDE dot is reporting that KDE 3.2 beta 2 has been released. 'Dobra Voda,' as the release is named, still has some rough edges, but developers are urging users to test and report bugs in the new beta. Binaries are available for SuSE, Fedora and Slackware. Also released was another beta of Gideon, KDE's in-development IDE."

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  1. I'm using it, and lovin' it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Its so good, it kicks the shit out of Windows, Thrashes OSX and obliterates Gnome. I predict Gnome is going to lose market share in droves when the Final version of KDE 3.2 comes out.

    First of all, the GUI has been made so much more consistent, simplified and cleaned up, but WITHOUT removing features and hiding them in a registry editor like gnome did. I can still have all my favourite features with click and point configuaration, yet they don't get in the way.

    Secondly, it has some of the best eye candy I ever seen. The new Crystal SVG theme has been radically redesigned and updates for a new level of design. The KDE artwork package contains a whole load of good stuff. I'm using the Plastik window border, the Galaxy style and crytal icons and its just perfect.

    Its also VERY fast. I have an Athlon XP 2000+ with 768 MB of ram and it is flicker free, programs launch almost instanly. Even big monoliths like OpenOffice.org launch in just 3 seconds. Compile with

    export CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -mcpu=athlon-xp"

    to get even more crazy speed.

    L10N and I18N have been improved too. I live in the United Kingdom, and KDE adjusts to my local needs, For example the weather applet display, clock applet, printer settings etc, Gnome FORCES me to use a US style date format on its clock Applet.

    Finally, the BEST feature about KDE 3.2 is the new KwinIII, which is one of the best Window Managers ever made. It has lots of themes, lots of cool features (Features is a swear word to the metacity developers) such as mouse wheeling, horizontal and vertical only maximization for windows and the abillity to create Borderless windows (Just perfect for stuff like mplayer and the gimp).

    In conclusion, KDE 3.2 is the BEST desktop ever made, and I never want to use gNOme, CrapOS X or Windoze XP ever again (not even expose can save CrapOS X from its firey fate.)

    Before the Gnome fan boys come out, yes I did try Gnome 2.5, and it still can come nowhere near KDE 2.2 (which is still used a lot by stable distros such as Debian, Lycoris and Xandros). It looked like someone took the best of Windows 95, and the Worst of OSX and combined them with a hint of CDE. I felt physically ill when I seen a "Computer" icon on the desktop, it was such an obvious clone of "My Computer". Until the Gnome developers realize the the "HIG" is a farce and destroy gconf-editor and force developers to make ALL options avalible from the GUI and bring metacity up to 2003-era Window Mangement standards then KDE will thrash it.