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KDE 3.3: A Milestone For Linux On The Desktop
comforteagle writes "O'Reilly's OSDir has published the first of a new bi-weekly column called "KDE: From the Source" from which KDE developer and unofficial North American spokesperson George Staikos will be regularly writing on issues and happenings from the KDE camp. Naturally, his first piece focuses on KDE 3.3 and its implications for Linux on the desktop."
The only thing I'm missing at this point is the lovely font unification that Gnome has. (At least under 2.6.0-2 and XOrg, I didn't have to do any configuration to get pretty, aliased, unified fonts.
I have never ever had to do anything special to get anti-aliased fonts, but I use Gentoo and thus my QT and KDE is always built from source. This is probably a packaging problem with you distro.
The real test will be when I want to make sure that Firefox is the default URL handler so I don't have to deal with that damn Konqueror opening if I don't want to
Couldn't be easier. KControl -> KDE Components -> Component Chooser. Here you can set your default web browser, IM client, EMail client, etc.
I don't mean to offend anyone, but I always find it odd when I see things on how important KDE is to 'open source' because I exclusively run Free operating systems (mostly Debian) and don't have a single KDE library or app installed on any computer.
:) - This isn't meant as an insult to KDE, its really I guess an homage to Free Software (Imagine finding a windows user that does have IE, or Explorer installed!)
Sometimes I just forget it exists
*cough* source distros like Gentoo don't have these issues *cough*
You're right, I wouldn't steal a car. But if it were possible, I sure as hell would download one!
Right. So why exactly does Gentoo's portagre tree consistently have more up to date software with less problems? I used Debian for an entire year before I got tired of missing packages, outdated packages, and broken packages. What good is a binary distro when none of the binaries work?
You're right, I wouldn't steal a car. But if it were possible, I sure as hell would download one!