KDE 3.2.1 Released

TheSurfer writes "The KDE project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.2.1, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. KDE 3.2.1 ships with lot of bug fixes since KDE 3.2 and is available in 49 languages (now including Bengali, Icelandic, Japanese, Lithuanian, Low Saxon, Latin Serbian and Tajik). Sources and contributed packages are linked on the KDE 3.2.1 info page."

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another link

[Anonymous Coward]

another lews link with coverage here

Debian has it already

[Gandalfar]

And most of it is already in unstable branch. Great work KDE and Debian KDE team! :)

Re:Low Saxon

[kfg]

For the record, Low Saxon is an extant language used every day in parts of Germany and the Netherlands.

It may be a somewhat obscure language, in the sense that Icelandic is an obscure language, but just as is the case for Icelandlic it is not an obscure, dead language.

KFG

Re:The Mandrake curse?

[Simon]

Except for the fact that 10.0 has heavily patched KDE 3.2.0 packages which are almost 3.2.1. My KDE here is at package version 3.2-70mdk, 70 meaning that it is the *70th* version of this package. i.e. it has been patched and rebuild roughly *70 times.

Try:

rpm -q -changelog libkdebase4 | less

Oh, Mandrake hasn't gone gold either. The boxed version will go gold in May as I understand it.

Mandrake's luck isn't _that_ bad. :) They're even coming out of Chapter 11 too.

--
Simon

bug flood

[Marco Krohn]

And with this new release a new flood of bugs coming in

KDE weekly bug report summary

Please double check when reporting a bug that it really isn't a duplicate. Also be sure to send in backtraces only if you have compiled with debug information. Every bad bug report just costs the developers valueable time which is badly needed for all the features coming with 3.3:

KDE 3.3 features
KDEPIM 3.3 features

If you want to help with an even better 3.3 your help in the KDE Quality team is welcome!

KDE, rock on :-)

Re:Most advanced and powerful?

[mst76]

In a recent interview, Jef Raskin remarked that he thinks the one-button designe of the original Mac was a mistake.

As for the one-button mouse, I'd observed at Xerox Parc which had a 3-button mouse, that people were very confused as to its use and when I was designing the software for the Macintosh, in designing the interface, I figured that if there was only one button, there would never be any question on what you have to press the number of ways of using a one-button mouse. I think this was probably a mistake, in fact there is an appendix in my book which discusses why I think this was a mistake and what I think I should have done. One of the reasons I made the mistake is that there is a certain school of industrial design dating back to the Bauhaus which says that designs have to be simple, uncluttered, and clean. In particular, don't put writing on it except for brand names or logos. If we had had a multiple-button mouse with two keys, labeled something like "select" and "activate," it would have been much easier to use, but the idea of putting writing on keys did not occur to anybody, including me. So if I was designing one today, it would have two buttons and they would be labeled.

Motivate KDE developers!

[Marco Krohn]

Except helping in KDE Quality Team or supporting it in various other ways there is a simple thing you can do within a couple of minuts which really help: write an email!

Start one of the many good KDE applications, go to the "help menu" and click on the "about box"->"authors". Pick one or two of them and write them a short email telling them how much you like their application and that you really appreciate what they are doing for us, the open source community.

It's easy and makes them very happy to hear from satisfied users--normally they just hear about it when something is wrong and sending some nice words really keeps them motivated. Thanks.