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KDE 3.3 Officially Released
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.
Kan't wait to get my Komputer running KDE 3.3
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!]
feh. stuff.
It told has no C!
Wow, that's a really nice requirements chart. I wish more projects
.xml of it, and we could
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
write a tool to test the system against it - e.g. "you meet the
requirements," or "YOU FAIL IT, you need $PKG $VER."
feh. stuff.
KDE 3.3 Screenshots at the bottom of that page.
Of course gentoo has had it in beta for the last month.
My own personal experience with it is that it's even faster then before (Not quite blackbox speed but it is approching...). kmail has spam filtering built in. All of the multimedia mime things work in Konqueror (that I could see). Still can't get konqueror to run those java games at www.pogo.com so I have to use firefox for that.
Kdevelop is fantastic, along with plugins for valgrind, doxygen and debuggers it is a great development environment.
All in all an incremental change, nothing blindingly new, but a solid base to work from.
Bitch, bitch, bitch.
If they come up with something totally new, they get slammed for a steep learning curve. Reviewers go on tirades and whitepapers are written about how the TCO is too high because of the training necessary, etc.
Keeping an interface similar allows for an easier migration of people who've been using Windows for years (office people). Thus, less training is needed and the migration costs are lower.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
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ironically, this is posted by the "founder"!
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For the gentoo folks who emerge from source and all that fun stuff. How 'bout the not-so-cool people who use the other distros like RH or MDK? I figure they'll show up in contrib in a few days but I've been bitten before when I upgraded a RH9 to KDE 3.2 using repositories...locked up my machine badly and used that as an excuse to transition to mandrake 10CE (which had 3.2 by default). Haven't even gone to the 10 Official because I've adopted the "hey, if I don't NEED to upgrade, I won't" more religiously.
For the more cautious/paranoid folks out there, when can we expect the distros to package 3.3 officially?
As always, thanks to the KDE folks for continually updating and improving the software.
a cute animated paperKlip?
"I realise this is not a very popular opinion but it's the truth, and there for needs to be said" -Bill Hicks
mirror here.
-- "I'm not a religious man, but if you're up there, save me Superman..."
Two weeks without the Gentoo users! Life is great!
apt-get update apt-get -t unstable install kdebase
-- -pjk Perry Kundert perry@kundert.ca http://kundert.2y.net
Qt gained increased support for Indic languages, and languages as diverse as Farsi and Frisian were added
Will Kilngon be on their next release?
"Your honor, the two youts..."
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Aside from patches to 3.3, I don't think we'll see another major KDE release until Qt4 is finalized and we see KDE 4 creep up beside it. So for all of us who are reveling in a new release of our favourite desktop environment, just remember to hold onto that feeling, it could be another year before it happens again. :)
"It's here, but no one wants it." - The Sugar Speaker
from the get-yout-gui-on dept
Of course, only CmdrTaco is that lazy/stupid. It would take, oh I don't know, seconds to proofread a 3 sentence article like that one.
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.
I just installed Gentoo, and only finished compiling KDE 3.2.3 a few days ago! GOD FECKING DAMMIT!
(note: this is not a troll, this really is happening, and I love Gentoo. I also hate my life.)
By summer it was all gone...now shesmovedon. --
How about features like, "Increased performance by 60%, less memory leaks/bloat, and increased stability."
I humbly think that KDE + KDevelop (or Qt + Designer) give a beautifull Rapid Development tool. Python fits very well with the Object Oriented KDE API. And most of the heavy work is done by Qt anyways, so I would expect that many. many usefull aplications could be written with PyKDE and PyQT, now that they are officially part of the family ;-)
Kudos and Thank You to everyone involved.
-- Don Inodoro
windows xp sp2?
my proud what?
FreeBSD for the impatient.
My favorite is "umount". How much productivity is gained by not having to type that pesky extra "n"?
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
you insensitive clod...
All's true that is mistrusted
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Highlights At A Glance
Some of the highlights in KDE 3.3 are listed below.
For a more detailed list of improvements since the KDE 3.2 release, please refer to the KDE 3.3 Feature Plan.
* http://kde.pandmservices.com/
Location: Hartford, Conneticut
Provided by P & M Services, LLC
* http://kde.oregonstate.edu/
Location: Corvallis, Oregon
Provided by Oregon State University
* http://kde.intissite.com/
Location: New York
Provided by BITS inc
* http://kde.feratech.com/
Location: Boston
Provided by Feratech, Inc
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").
STOP . AMERICA . NOW
How do you do that ? How do you spell congratulations with a 'd' ? The 'd' is like an inch away from the 't' on my keyboard, man.
Not really as a lot of people who are hardly used to a commandline anymore will type:
unmount^H^H^H^H^H^Hmount
or in the best case
un^Hmount
Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!
It's getting tedious now. Every time anything KDE-related comes out, you guys make the same lame-assed 'k' jokes everywhere.
Kretin.
No, they'd type:
/mnt/cdrom
/sbin/supermount /sbin/mount /sbin/umount ... etc etc
/mnt/cdrom
#~> unmount
unmount: command not found
#~> which unmount
which: unmount not found
#~> man unmount
man: no entry for unmount(8)
#~>find / | grep *mount
#~>umount
umount: device busy
AND SO ON AND SO ON
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
[KDE] is not the best for developers since they cannot create commercial application for it without paying TrollTech. I wonder how tyrannical Microsoft would be if they would ask you to pay them for using Window Forms, Win32 API, WTL, MFC, or any other API they have. Not everyone wants to create GPL applications, nor do they want to pay the TrollTech tax.
Two things:
* You don't pay to use the various Windows APIs, you pay to use Windows. That's the product they sell. The APIs are the incentive to use it. Trolltech's product is QT. That's how they actually make that pesky money that lets them have the GPL version.
* If you're doing commercial software development, you expect to pay to do it. It's just like any other business. The cost of buying computers, dev tools, office chairs, etc. are trivial in comparison to big costs like salaries, office space and bandwidth, not to mention the income you expect to make from selling the product.
Java: the bastard demon spawn of C++ and Ada
it'll be interesting to see whether Komposé, aka éxpose clone will make it into the next version of KDE...
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At least this way I have strictly what I need.
If all you need is a barebones window manager, then by all means stick with FluxBox. But some of us want applications to go with it...
Seriously, FluxBox is just a window manager. A window manager (KWin) is only one small part of KDE. You also have a panel which can hold a task manager, applets, systray, subpanels, etc. And a desktop (e.g., smart root window). And a file manager / webbrowser integrated into everything. Easy to edit menus with icons. Drag and drop from anywhere to anywhere. Complete network transparency and flexible IO protocols. Complete development toolkit for the hacker in you. Loads of eye candy. Etc, etc, etc.
That's without getting into the bundled applications. It may be more than you need, but you cannot claim that FluxBox fills the same ecological niche. That's like claiming Honda automobiles are too expensive and heavy so you're going to ride a Scwinn bycicle instead. There's nothing wrong with bicycles but don't pretend they serve the same purpose as cars.
BTW, you don't have to install all of KDE in order to use KDE. Just install kdelibs and kdebase and you'll still have the full desktop.
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
...or does this seem a rather small list of changes for a point release? Not that I'm complaining, improvements are always nice.
Try staying logged in for awhile without eventually seeing all the memory eaten up. True, one can just log out, then log back in to reclaim the memory, but this is a kludge. If one has several windows open with specific tasks (that won't come up automatically on log in) it's a pain to get resituated.
It's an annoying problem that I've seen with different hardware and different kernel versions, so I know it's KDE. Mark this as troll or flamebait, but that won't make this any less true.