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KDE 3.3 Beta "Klassroom" Released
twener writes "The KDE team has announced the Beta 1 development version of the upcoming KDE 3.3 release. This release is named 'Klassroom' following the 'Kindergarten' Alpha; the goal is to make this child visit the "aKademy" KDE World Summit in August. Most planned features are there, next week starts the feature freeze. Source and provided binary packages are listed on the KDE 3.3 Beta 1 Info Page next to the KDE 3.3 Requirements List."
An interesting release name. Are we going to have HighsKool next?
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kmail with html mail, and hopefully full kolab groupware. kde3.3 is gonne rock!
Eh! The actual release would be Kollege ??
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"..."Klassroom" following the "Kindergarten" Alpha, the goal is to make this child visit the "aKademy" KDE World Summit in August..."
Hmmm... Klassroom, Kindergarten, aKademy.... does this strike anyone else as a bit dubious?
-The Libra
"Please be patient--The future will begin momentarily."
Why does every incremental release and beta of KDE get mentioned here? But when Gnome releases, nary a word.
This konvention of knaming everytking witk a K is starting to annoy the krap out of me.
I can't see the Mysterious Future either! Thought my subscription had run out or something. Glad to know it's not just me....
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I kan't wait to download it.
I'm not sure, I'm kinda of weary of the way that KDE goes around and does things. I was always under the impression that Linux was built up of smaller tools to make a useable operation system, yet KDE seems intent on combining many programs into larger ones to manage the system. I'm not saying that this approach is wrong, it's just something that I don't really think is beneficial. Something that really pops out at me is the fact that the browser and filesystem viewer are combined into one. Sounds a little familiar, and we all know what happened with the other one..
would be Kareer.
It's one thing to bloat KDE with questionably useful features, it's quite another to bloat KDE with features of this sort. I just hope the default is not HTML.
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KDE announced they were acquiring the rights to the Knoppix distribution. A source at KDE who wished to remain anonymous said, "For some reason, we just liked the name."
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I wish KDE would get over its annoying obsession with the letter K. I love KDE, but honestly, naming a theme "Keramic" is just stupid. It makes me want to switch to CDE just to get that stupid letter out of my head.
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They'd be perfect as thin clients for a K12LTSP server. For that you need one decent machine to use as a server. It's a LOT easier than administering 20 stand-alone boxes.
In theory, practice and theory are the same. In practice, they're not.
Major Kontact improvements all-around
Amarok, a new audio player that will hopefulyl replace the awful Noatun/Kaboodle
KolourPaint - which was needed
My wish: integrate Konversation, and get rid of Keramik :)
We've always been at war with Eurasia.
Well, you can still use them as thin clients. that way you'll probably still be able to run kde6.0 on them. (if the Xserver guys don't make to many wars) seriously though, we can't always stay in the past. linux needs to have a full blown desktop availible if it wants to reach the desktop market. geeks like you and I can still use windowmaker of something else incredibily basic. kde is a great desktop for end users, and it becomes better every release.
Well, you don't have to use KDE as the window manager. There others like Fluxbox, WindowMaker and IceWM that could suit your needs and aren't full of bloat.
Kudos to KDE for Kuality Komputing!!! Koding and Kompiling have never been Kuicker! Konsole kreates a kompelling kommand-line-interface.
Such a kollection of kompatible kontraptions kan only be konceived by a konglomeration of kompassionate koders kontributing to a valiant kause.
KDE is kosher as far as I'm koncerned.
Windows XP is THE best desktop on the planet!
Jeez. You can't come up with anything to do with those? You realize that there was a whole world before GHz; a world many people still happily inhabit.
"The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want." - F Scott Fitzgerald
Kardiac arrest
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
The last time i restarted X was when i installed KDE 3.2 almost 2 months back... am waiting for KDE 3.3 to restart X again... KDE rocks !!
fifteen jugglers, five believers
HAHAHA MOD Parent UP!! ! ! He used a lot of K's! ! HAHAHAH!!!
klease knsert kou kenis knto k kans knus knd kuit kosting kere....
Wow, they're quick. Isn't this like half the time between KDE 3.1 and KDE 3.2?
That said, *drool*. My main interests in KDE 3.3 is full groupware support in Kontact, a working Kopete, and hopefully some stability cleanups. I look forward to every KDE release, as each one blows me away with how well done it is from an overall design perspective.
--GrouchoMarx
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I wish I had mod points - this is hilarious
Well they require an X server, but theyre recommending XFree86, isnt that odd considering everybody has just blatenly ditched Xfree86 for the most part for X.org?
The default system menu that ships with Fedora Core 2 is a more ideal way to set up a menu, where the name of each program explains WHAT IT DOES, rather than trying to shoehorn some cute name into something that starts with K (or G for you Gnome fans). For example:
Instead of saying GAIM it says "Internet Messenger"
Instead of Mozilla, it says "Web Browser"
Ugh, I know what that's like. My school was filled with old Dell Pentium IIs. Just before this last school year, however, they bought about 32 new Dells, 2.5ghz systems with WinXP. They're pretty good, but 1) they're intel, and 2) they're windows. And what's worse: we still have some slowass iMacs in the science lab, and some of the teachers even have older PowerPCs!
So, is there any chance we could discuss KDE in this thread? As opposed to just an endless stream of unfunny "K" jokes, GNOME vs KDE flamewars, and Windows vs Linux flamewars?
Ohh sorry, I forgot for a sec... this is slashdot.
Here is the google cache for the features
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
I had always been afraid of "unstable" versions, but had to try a Conectiva "snapshot" to get my notebook working with 3D acceleration. It has been several weeks now in KDE 3.2.3, with no problems at all, except that every time I do an apt-get dist-upgrade, about once a week, I get over 100Mb of downloads. If that's the price to pay for something that's still under development, I'll gladly pay.
Is there any knews of this being faster? I've been annoyed that kde is slower than windows. Yeah, it looks nice, but most of those visual enhancements are from nice 2D graphics. I like kde because it has more basic programs than light WM's like fluxbox, but it's still kinda slow. They seem to be taking the microsoft route. Add features before making it faster and more stable. It's ironic where this is headed.
Linux will run very well on those old Dell 266's you got at school- particularly if you use something like it comes with some of the liter window managers.
I was always under the impression that Linux was built up of smaller tools to make a useable operation system, yet KDE seems intent on combining many programs into larger ones to manage the system. I'm kinda of weary of the way that KDE goes around and does things. Something that really pops out at me is the fact that the browser and filesystem viewer are combined into one. Sounds a little familiar, and we all know what happened with the other one. I'm not saying that this approach is wrong, it's just something that I don't really think is beneficial.
I see all these new things, but I am a visual person, and I need pictures man, I need pictures!
Does anyone have any screenshots of the new features or pictures of why I should bother trying this new version over the version that I have installed but don't use now anyway?
DFossmeister
No Not Again! Its whats for dinner.
and that hasn't caused any problems.
lets just say that KDE becomes everybodies favorite desktop, and all the computer neophytes embrace it over windows, then i'll have the joy of reading all teh slashdot rants about 'how stupid it is that konqueror is built into the system. it's an invitation for viruses and exploits.' Now i know that 'the most popular browser in the world' is a virus whore for reasons other then just being popular, but having it integrated so deeply into your system gives you a great single point of failure for people to attack. Sooner or later you'll have remote widgets opening up in everything. No thank you.
I like my file manager as a file manger, my browser as a browser. I'm not saying no to interoperability (it is nice) but i don't think they should be the same program. (FTP support ina file manager isn't a bad idea though, as long as you use your file manager for managing files)
Also, I think that IE is the most prolific browser in the world, not the most popular. Opera and Firefox have borderline cult followings. Many IE users don't even realise that they are using a browser and not the internet (this is not to say people who use IE are stupid, but stupid people have easy access to IE, where stupid = not in the know). Basically, if you lookde for people proclaiming their undieing affection for their browser of choice, i don't think (despite the steep market lead), IE wins
The Neo-Bohemian Techno-Socialist
Shit man, I'll take them. YOu live in GA?
KDE is not Linux. KDE does not require Linux. Thanks for playing.
In my day we had old McIntoshs.
couldn't do much but play lemmings on them though...
Use XFCE 4.
Stop it with the K Krap.
Konqueror: Added option to activate previous active tab if closing the current one
I'm there...
...or naming an integer variable "value".
I never even noticed the "backwards buttons." What I HAVE noticed is that every single machine I have installed kde on I end up with a seriously ugly desktop unless I'm willing to spend quite some time trying to figure out why all the fonts are so big, why they don't scale in rpoportion to the fonts in the workspace areas, how to make fix everything from looking like some windows noob's uglified XP desktop stuck at 800x600 resolution...
Seiously. Even the very pretty Suse looks ten times better with the plain jane default gnome desktop than the default kde desktop, and Suse has always been a designed-for kde distro.
this is the part of the thread to discuss THINGS, not make bad jokes. get lost.
It's also easier to pick the app you want via the command line when you can just k...
"A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us w
Linux will run just fine. KDE won't run as fine.
Sorry, I forgot to strip it
into the Krypt.
I wish Apple would get over its annoying obsession with the letter i. I love the company, but honestly, naming an MP3 player "iPod" is just stupid. It makes me want to switch to OS/2 just to get that stupid letter out of my head.
and if the mods in their infinite wisdom chose to mod it funny again, I'm going to [insert word starting with K here]
Kevorkian.
When I saw the title, I was really hoping that the KDE team had developed some kind of groupware application, something akin to Netmeeting, that could be used for distance learning. God, and anybody in academia knows that no such decent (and free) application exists.
Instead, I just find out that it's a code word for a new release.
Krap.
May I suggest some humor? Perhaps the Krusty Komedy Klassic?
Ok, the ^-name convention is wildly spread and all but can get extremely annoying. Why does every last bloody package have to start with a freaking ^?
It's about winning the "HEARTS and minds" of the wider (i.e. non-geek) world.
OMG, take a look at the linked article's list of new features in KDE:
how far down that list would a non-geek have to go, to find three consecutive items which are both useful AND INTELLIGIBLE to a non-geek?
Can you imagine how much differently that list would be worded, if KDE were a commercial product?
[1] no K in "natural death", "euthanasia", "old age"...
Or, it could simply go Kaput.
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The most interesting thing about this article is that, as you stated, the vast majority of posts is in reference to KDE naming. Noticeably absent are posts deriding KDE for technical problems, design issues and or performance issues.
It would suggest, anecdotally anyway, that users have no major issues with KDE which is something that cannot be said about almost any other Linux desktop. Observe other Slashdot articles about Gnome, xFCE or others and you will see lots of comments complaining about bugs, design issues, performance, lack of features and more. There are very few posts of this nature with this article and that alone speaks volumes for KDE.
Could it be that despite the flame wars, KDE is indeed the best/preferred desktop for Linux?
You are right. The name could be better.
Whatever you say. Gimp RulZ anyway
If its used properly it lets you immediately recognize an application is KDE compliant..
---- Booth was a patriot ----
I'm an English-speaking person, not a German-speaking person. I don't care if it's spelled "Konsole" in Germany. What's the point of translation if you're not going to use English words?
I know it's an annoying cliche now to bitch about the absolutely stupid K-prefix naming scheme, but to be honest the scheme itself is an annoying cliche so that's why it keeps coming up. It will keep coming up until the developers' cheesy sense of humor goes away. It's hard to take the names seriously, and it's hard for newbies to keep track of all these arcane K puns. It's bad enough they're having to deal with things called "grep" and "xine." Now we've got JuK, Konsole, Kroupware, Kougar, etc.
Haha..."Klassroom"...yeah, that's so cute. Disagree with all this if you want, but a lot of people don't like this dumb naming scheme.
Geez, talk about bias. Gnome users might say all that you said, but against KDE. Give me a break, the OK/Cancel combination is such a trivial issue that you get used to after five minutes (hey, ever used OS X?).
You basically illustrated the very prejudgmental bias the grandparent was asking about. Personally, I can't stand KDE's big giant foot--I like having a seperate Programs menu and a seperate Actions menu. KDE has an unholy beast of a start menu, completely with braindead pointless redundancies ("Control Center", "Settings", "System", etc.) as well as pointless "More Programs" subgroups. It's hell for a user.
Now, that I have my transparent kicker and I can be l33t in front of all my friends, I could care less about any more KDE 3.3 releases....well, unless they have transparent everything. Thats what I need.
Gnome is the one who had that godawful big giant foot. Thank god they replaced it.
Of the two desktops, I consider Gnome the least bad.
I don't care how it's written in another country. Again, what's the point of translations if we're just supposed to accept misspellings because they happen to be correct spellings for another language?
Prefixing things with K doesn't differentiate a thing. Like you need a K to do that. Just give them functional names, developers. You know, like Winzip or Microsoft Office. Not "Kroupware."
Well, personally I don't mind since ... my wife's name is Kristine and my daughters' names are Kari and Kristelle. So hey, it works for me!
Besides the MS is optional in parlance. Most people would know what you were talking about if you said, XP, IE, IIS, Exchange & SQL Server.
The same could not be said if you started talking about onqueror, Eye of, IMP, onsole, lade, opete, etc
No ordinary user gives a damn what their program is implemented with as long as it works - apps should compete on their merits and would run anywhere if they (and the host WM) conform to open desktop guidelines.
The use of K & G just makes a mess of the start menu with cryptic sounding apps and introduces redundancy, confusion and partisanship that a Linux desktop could well do without.
Quack, quack.
I actually like naming scheme myself, but if we had to have another name, then what about just using "K" as a seperate word?
- K Browser
- K Mail
- K Messenger
- etc.
The "K" should show that the app not only works with KDE, but has been made with the libraries & APIs, etc.Seriously, what do you recommend?
testing out my trending skills
I'm running mandrake 10 on a dell inspiron 8200 laptop. It's running a 1.8 ghz p4 with 512 mb of ram. Simply launching konqueror takes a few seconds and a good amount of hard drive thrashing as it loads. Sometimes it's so slow I see each icon as it loads up. Now I've heard mandrake is slow and I am planning on switching to gentoo. I installed gentoo from stage 1 on an older machine and it was pretty easy so I intend on making the switch soon enough on my main computer that I use everyday. So responses might just say to make the switch and you'll see lightning speed. I'm hoping for that, but I'm a little skeptical. So there's the example with as much information I feel is needed.
Hrm let's think...
...and that's just from browsing my menu. And I don't even use Gnome as a primary desktop.
GConf, Gimp, Glade, GnuCash, Galeon, Gabby, Gabber, Gaim, GFax, GFontView, Ghemical, GSmartCard, GSwitchIt
You can now see a user's online status inside KMail and inside KAddressbook, if you have Kopete running. You can also click on an address to IM them, from inside either of these applications.
To me this is a killer feature. Gnome still has a bounty out on it ( http://www.gnome.org/bounties/IM.html
I really like KDE. However I love Gnome Terminal. It allows me to *really* make a it a fullscreen app. No sliding bars or menus there to distract me and take away precious screen space. I couldn't get Konsole to do this. Also I tried using Gnome Terminal under KDE and it had a few problems. It has been a while and I forget exactly what those problems were.
Once Konsole is as good as Gnome Terminal, I am making the switch to KDE full-time.
I'm still waiting for KDE 3.2.3 binary packages ..D ME
.. and this reschelude thing is happening on a daily basis , its like 3rd time in this month .. GREAT !
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.2.3/Debian/REA
"The current schedule is that the Debian backports will be rescheduled for July 6th, 2004."
well great, but its 8th now
I guess its time to get back to SuSE, they pay developers real money so they deliver on time.
Go grab those torrents.
What is this obsession with the K? It's completely pointless. It's not necessary.
Naming scheme? How about one where the developers actually come up with names that are functional and describe their product? Why is it so hard to just come up with a nice name? Final Draft is a screenplay-formatting application. Microsoft Word is a word-processing application. Winzip is a compression application. They're just nice, easy-to-remember names.
YOu may be surprised, I run KDE over MAndrake Linux 10.0 on a 450MHz PC with 320M memory, and an old 32M NVidia TNT video card. I have menu transparency, shadowing, and icon zooming all turned on and it runs just fine. I even manage to run Quake 2 and 3 using OpenGL under KDE with this box, although I usually switch to IceWM when gaming for better performance.
I'm also using it on a 550MHz crappy Packard Bell box with Intel on board graphics (hey it was a freeby) using FreeBSD. Again even with the Intel graphics, it runs transparent menus, icon zooming and shadows with no trouble. About the only thing I had to turn off was full window moving (works better with outline window moving), and it doesn't do OpenGL, but it performs well enough in 2D.
Yeah I know, all this stuff is old, time I upgraded etc. etc.
I suspect that, if they have enough memory (>128M)and decent video cards(anything that will run full colour accelerated sould, those old Dells could run KDE better than you think. Otherwise, use IceWM or Windowmaker.
If my call is important, why am I talking to a recording?
People make fun of Windows XP for a "Fisher Price" interface than use something called "KDE" with a "Konsole," "Kougar," "Kroupware," "Konquerer," etc. naming scheme.
After all, if we're criticizing maturity here...
I am a member of the KKK and all I have to say is that some of the higher ups in the organization are planing on suing these bastards over the extensive use of the letter 'K'. Total krap.
In other news...Microsoft patents the computer chair.
Why did you repost this?
Kan you repeat that aGain?
Aw k'mon kwit komplainin Gnow Geez
I've come to really appreciate the simplicity of Eterm. Here's the command I use to run it:
Eterm -x --shade 50 --double-buffer -O -0 --color12 lightblue -f white --buttonbar=0 --scrollbar=0
This combined with screen makes my console work pretty easy.
Besides, what would that make Apple?
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
I can't wait for KitchenSync personally. I'm surprised that it isn't getting integrated with Kontact, and it's a little disappointing that Qtopia is like the only supported sync device, but at least its existence in KDE should provide some motivation for people owning other devices to hack stuff up. (Personally I'm hoping for Symbian bluetooth syncing support, ideally which works by pressing a button on Kontact. Sweeeeeeet.)
Karma: It's all a bunch of tree-huggin' hippy crap!
Can anyone else understand why some anonymous cowardly speed-reading clumsy-fingered moron modded this post "redundant"?= 113744&cid=963 5577
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid
It wasn't duplicative of any comment made previously, nor of any comment made since then.
(The original post essentially opined that the KDE release-notice makes no effort to be interesting to non-geeks.)
Now I can play Amarok on Amarok!
I love keramik and crystal from the day they first came out. I'm sick of the grey ugly desktops most linux traditionalists want. Go use your stinkin motif themes or bluesteel or steelcurve or gnome-ugly themes. keramik is stylish and colourful without being overly animated and excessive. If people with taste hate Keramik so much why is there so much effort to make keramik themes for gnome (geramik) and open office crystal themes? If you don't like it, use something else, but your console loving fluxbox using opinions arent needed when it comes to convincing the masses to use kde.
Plastik is too boring. Its a step backwards. As is that version of Keramik thats called Keramik-lite. Keramik screenshots made me ditch the console for kde. (that and Konsoles tabs.. tabs are the greatest invention ever!)
scite would beat notepad and take the throne itself and you know it.
I would consider myself a fairly knowledgable user, although im a convert from windows (a few years ago), but to be honest i would not know what widget set a programme uses. I use the programme for how good it is, not because of some irrational allegiance to a particular WM.
Somebody mentioned before about how naming programmes beginning with K or G doesn't matter because the main menu groups applications according to their genre; yes that is true, but if you're doing text based things from the command line, things can get very confusing, so it would be nice if not half of your bins or watever aren't beginning with K or G.
The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive Ass Slippers
I use KDE on a P1 233Mhz 96MB RAM PC. It is a little
slow to boot - but that happens about 1/month.
It is fine for:
Browsing (firefox)
Email (Evoloution)
PDF
Printing
I tried KDE 3.1 but 3.2 is faster. Gnome works but seems to be slower. IceWM works but not much speed diff. between that and KDE.
Don't make your problems my problems!
The K and G before the app can sometimes be annoying, but for people looking for a desktop that (visually) rivals Windows surely unified looks is a big thing.
Some apps have more than one client depending on what widget set you want to use, This perhaps should be done within one executable (perhaps an argument should be automatically passed saying the widget set preference, or something).
I'm a KDE user, so I know that if I install a k* or qt* app it should fit in with the whole look of KDE. likewise, a Gnome user will know that G*, Gnome* and (to a lesser extent) Gnu* apps will look the same as every other Gnome app.
I admit, other forms of standardisation should settled on, but what would you prefer... eg. Kpat and Gpat, or one named pat and one named patience? which would be which?
And how many users will find kill in their menu to run?
They will see a bunch of things that say K-something ( notice the capitalization too ) and they can pretty much assume its a K-app.
Admins already have enough knowledge to know what is what, since they installed the damned thing....
Use a bit of common sense and think before you react.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
get gentoo and save your binary packages :)
Amen! Keramik rules! Especially with the animated progress bar patch.