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."

Comments

Heh

[ahsile]

An interesting release name. Are we going to have HighsKool next?

Re:Heh

[th1ckasabr1ck]

Followed by Kollege?

Re:Heh

[garethwi]

Then Kareer, before it ends up in a Krate

Re:Heh

[Jon Evans]

You forgot the mid-life Krisis.

Re:Heh

[Mantorp]

Koffin or Kremation?

Re:Heh

[JabberWokky]

I don't know - is it called Highskool in German? Since that's where all the names come from - and they are spelled correctly with no extra 'k's inserted.

People make fun of names like Konsole, unaware that that is the correct spelling... in Germany, which is where the app was originally written. Several of the apps that originate in English speaking countries have a 'K' sound but do not start with a gratuitous 'K' (like Quanta), or they add a K- prefix (KPDF, kPlayer) the same way Microsoft adds a MS prefix (MS Office, MS Money, etc) or Apple adds an i or Power prefix (iBook, PowerBook, iMac, PowerMac). Very few app names are mangled with an extra K where a C should be.

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Evan

Re:Heh

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

In other news...

[nacturation]

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."

Re:For the conspiracy theorists...

[vxvxvxvx]

I don't know, but I'm sure hungry for some Krispy Kreme now.

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:question

[mark_lybarger]

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.

MOD PARENT UP!!

[Anonymous Coward]

HAHAHA MOD Parent UP!! ! ! He used a lot of K's! ! HAHAHAH!!!

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

Very interesting.

[FreeLinux]

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?