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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."
(Check the evolution of Kontact, for example, or Konqueror, which is not so big if you would only load the KHTML part)
Just like you can pipe grep with awk with sed... but graphically somehow :P
We've always been at war with Eurasia.
kde is a "pretty" and well functional desktop, while Gnome is a beast for developers to use, for end user usability (ok/cancel buttons on the wrong side?), and over all eyesore. i don't understand why gnome has won in the korporate world (sun/eclipse, etc) perhaps it is due to less restrictive licenscing (lgpl .vs. gpl)? i dunno. personally, i wish at least the SWT would be kde based.
So, KDE is built with small parts and tools, they're just very nicely intergrated.
However, I'm supprised that no really bad security holes in konqueror have been discovered yet. Browser and file manager intergrated is very nice, but also very scary...
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I couldn't agree more. It sounds as though they're marketing this towards children! I'm sorry, but I just don't want my desktop to be fulled with very bad puns -- get enough of those right here at /.
That and various other reasons keep me with Gnome. At least it's a bit harder to make a Good pun with g's. Or is it? Maybe it's time for fluxbox...
"An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program."
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.
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.
Classroom = "Klassenzimmer" or "Klassenraum", not "Klassroom"
Academy = "Akademie" not "Akademy"
Highschool = "Hochschule", "Realschule", or "Gymnasium"
ad nauseum. Sure, some apps like Konsole get it right. And a bunch of apps like Konstruct, Kommander, aKregator, and Kasablanca get it wrong.
Keeping this in mind, Konsole is probably the exception, not the rule.
Contrary to your claim, I find Gnome much better with regards to usability.
KDE is 'better', technologically, but each time I've tried to switch I've been put off by the clutter and garish icons and themes. Some Gnome's buttons might be switched around (not that I've ever noticed), but as long as it's consistent, it doesn't really matter.
I reckon Gnome has won the corporate heart through it's simplicity. If you compare a screenshot of KDE against one of Gnome, it's obvious that Gnome is less in-your-face than KDE. Gnome sort of blends into the background. Sort of like the difference between a Ferrari and an Aston Matrin.
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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 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.
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