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KDE 3.3 Officially Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the get-yout-gui-on dept.

scorp1us was one of several to note that KDE 3.3 has been released. You can also read the infopage and the requirements. Commence downloading. Features a new spell checking library, a new theme manager, and much more.

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  1. Yaay KDE! by kmmatthews · · Score: 5, Interesting
    From the accountment page, KWin got a button for always on top, Juk can now burn audio CDs, and Kopete can transfer files. e.g. features that I've really been wishing for (amongst many more)...

    Guess I've got some downloading to do, eh? Which comes to a gripe - it's a real pain in the arse to download all the seperate files and install them. Sure would be nice if the KDE team wrote an "update" script that would check for updates and optionally download/install them. PS. Anyone want a gmail invite? mail me.. [only one left!]

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  2. Requirements by kmmatthews · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Wow, that's a really nice requirements chart. I wish more projects
    would use that. (Of course, with apt-get and dpkg, it's not such a
    concern, but.)

    Maybe even nicer if they would produce an .xml of it, and we could
    write a tool to test the system against it - e.g. "you meet the
    requirements," or "YOU FAIL IT, you need $PKG $VER."

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  3. Debian by debian4life · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In yet another sign that the apocolypse is upon us, Debian unstable actually had KDE 3.3 last week. I am glad they are finally pushing the edge with that repository rather than having unstable mean "not as stable as stable" and of couse stable meaning "running packages from 3 years ago". Those of us who choose to run unstable know what the word means and we are willing to chance it.

    And yes, I am a Debian user.

  4. Re:As I type emerge -uD kde by aussersterne · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's all about personal preferences. I find KDE's interface (once I've added a slave panel for a taskbar and made the main panel vertical, plus adding about ten additional menus to it) to be nice and usable, with everything in easy reach.

    I find GNOME, on the other hand, to be uncomfortably light and clean, with nothing in easy reach, kind of like a one-button mouse or a one-button walkman... so simple that it's hard to get anything you want done, because the functionality's either missing, or requires extra steps to access.

    I'd be interested in seeing research that compares peoples' living spaces to peoples' PC desktops. I wonder if you have a very empty, Zen-like living space. I myself have an incredibly cluttered (but orderly) living space; books, equipment, tools, etc. all tend to be within view on umpteen shelves, hooks, stacks, etc... bus and train schedules are posted on the wall... everything is easy to access, and easy to put away, requiring only one step ("reach").

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