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Test KDE 3.3's Public Release Candidate
HulkProtector1 writes "The latest version of KDE beta 3.3 has been released.
This version has already received a lot of feedback and has been deemed stable enough for a public release candidate. The KDE team requests that all testers try and break this release as soon as possible, as the bug reports are invaluable to the developers.
Please note that binary packages will not be available for this version. Then source code can be downloaded from download.kde.org (or alternately use the excellent Konstruct build tool).
For a list of new features skim over the KDE 3.3 Feature Plan."
Hi, the beta 2 is working perfectly but for some non-show stopping bugs. I use it for dayly work at home. Kmail for email, the Addressbook and and callendar. The visuals have once again got even better! I love the IM Kopete. I use it with ICQ, MSN and Yahoo without any problems. Konqueror filebrowsing is great. Is it better than 3.2... not realy, just nicer. more like how 98 was nicer than 95 (I mean the GUI) but everything works just like before. My PC is a Duron 800 with 256 Megs and kde 3.3 beta2 works fairly fast. When I disable most of the animations (which I used to do on Win2k too) it is extremely usable. By the way, my wife uses the same PC and never complains, but for the spellchecking, which does not detect the language she is writing in, which makes it useless. Themes are nicer now. Hope this helps. Any specific questions?
There are two clipboards. There's the X-style one, where selecting text automatically copies it, and the Windows-style one, where you press Ctrl-C to copy and Ctrl-V to paste. They each have their own storage.
Is this so difficult to understand? Windows users will never notice the X clipboard, X users will never notice the Windows clipboard. Or so you'd think.
If you're confused about this, I'm sorry, but it's really not that difficult to understand. The system works fine for any 'normal' user, who will simply be oblivious to the 'other' clipboard. It also works fine for the user who knows there are two clipboards and whose brain can cope with the rather simple concept that the two are separate.
Try running Klipper (under Utilities in the K menu). If you tell it to it will keep the clipboards synchronized.
It also has lots of other handy things, like clipboard history.
Has anybody figured out how to turn off antialiasing of fonts in Konsole? It slows things down to the point that I now use Multi-Aterm because programs compile in half the time. I don't have any other antialiasing turned on in KDE, and for the life of me I can't find out how to turn that crap off.
:( Don't think it's enough for a minor version upgrade, if you're using the 3.2 line then you're not missing too much. Have fallen in love with the "Start in the system tray" option for starting programs, now I can put my konsole, etc into the system tray to save space when I'm compiling or whatnot. I'd consider that my "killer feature that has forced me to upgrade".
Other than that KDE3.3 is decent, although I think they should spend a lot more time than they have planned on bugfixing and optimization. It's starting to get bloated again.
I will repeat that I think it's insane that they want to release this so quickly. It needs a lot of polishing, and there's no way in hell anyone can get it feeling all crisp and clean again before the scheduled release date. Otherwise, it's KDE. I'm in love anyways.
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Hey, I help on the KDE-project (one app is 99% my code). Believe me: The code is pretty good. Comparing Afterstep to a full Desktop Environment is a little unfair. Btw: I am using Fluxbox because I also love the speed of it. But my favorite browser is firefox, my fav. EMailapp is KMail and I love JuK, the Jukebox kdemultimedia provides.
Don't call KDE bloatware only because you don't need a DE.