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."

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New features

[NamShubCMX]

Kopete is now usable

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 :)

Re:KDE Methods

[mini me]

Konqueror is not a web browser and file viewer. It's a framework for applications to embed themselves into. It just so happens the file viewer and KHTML are the most commonly used applications in it, but it doesn't have to stop there.

KDE is really the only GUI system I'm familiar with that does try to follow the UNIX philosophy. It's a shame that the underlying system of KDE isn't better understood because the misinformation about it gives KDE a bad name.

Re:Popularity and Entanglement

[JabberWokky]

I like my file manager as a file manger, my browser as a browser.

Then use Konqueror. That's what it is.

If you do a 'ps |grep konq', you can see that it is actually totally different processes and programs running when you're using it as a file manager and as a browser. KDE uses the Unix philosophy of "small applications that can be chained". Konqueror is like the tty - it provides a framework for output. That's why you can run KOffice apps directly inside Konqueror or view images, or edit using kvim, etc.

FTP support ina file manager isn't a bad idea though, as long as you use your file manager for managing files

Konqueror doesn't have FTP support - KDE does. Again, "small applications that are chained". kio slaves such as kio_file, kio_ftp, and others that access digital cameras, printers, audio cds (presenting virtual wav, ogg and mp3 directories named from freedb), and many others allow every application to treat any protocol as a local disk. You can fire up ANY app and open a file on a remote system, hit save and it saves out to that system. There is no need for an 'ftp' program, because every KDE app supports ftp (and sftp and digital cameras and...) natively.

Small applications, easy chaining.

Run KDE, and then, from the commandline, run 'dcop'. You can even bash script KDE apps. Or use perl... or python... or anything else you want.

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Evan