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First Alpha of KDE 3.4 Released

Posted by michael on from the be-the-first-one-on-your-block dept.

JRiddell writes "The KDE 3.4 release cycle has started with the first alpha release. 'Please test this out over the holidays and add your contributions. We welcome code patches, translations, documentation, great icons and detailed bug reports. A great way in to helping KDE is by joining one of the KDE Quality Teams. Get it from download.kde.org or try Konstruct.'"

26 comments

  1. Screenshots? by Reducer2001 · · Score: 1

    I'm a debian stable user, so I won't get this for a few years. Are there screenshots up somewhere for it?

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    1. Re:Screenshots? by DrMorris · · Score: 5, Funny

      They told that GNOME 2.6 would not get it into sarge. The release date for sarge was pushed further. And GNOME 2.6 made it into sarge.

      They told that GNOME 2.8 would not get it into sarge. The release date for sarge was pushed further. And GNOME 2.8 made it into sarge.

      They told that KDE 3.4 would not get it into sarge...

    2. Re:Screenshots? by Reducer2001 · · Score: 1

      Of course, sarge isn't out yet and it's release date was, what, a couple months ago? I didn't mean to pick-on debian at all, I just want to see some screenshots!

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    3. Re:Screenshots? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      here ya go

    4. Re:Screenshots? by FlipmodePlaya · · Score: 3, Informative

      From what I understand, it wasn't a major graphical overhaul. You can find an official feature plan here. It looks like KHTML, the Kicker, and the PIM suite (plus Kopete) got the big additions.

    5. Re:Screenshots? by twener · · Score: 2, Informative

      It mostly looks like KDE 3.3 but with Plastik as default style and window decoration.

    6. Re:Screenshots? by Superfluid+Blob · · Score: 1

      First they included Gnome 2.6, and I did not speak up because I did not run Gnome 2.6 Then they included Gnome 2.8, and I did not speak up because I did not run Gnome 2.8 And when they included KDE 3.4, there was no one left to speak up for me.

    7. Re:Screenshots? by pebs · · Score: 1

      Dude... that version of Eudora kicked ass!

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    8. Re:Screenshots? by Homology · · Score: 1
      It looks like KHTML, the Kicker, and the PIM suite (plus Kopete) got the big additions.

      Until now, KMail could not filter on IMAP accounts, it seems. Hope that the following does not imply that the IMAP server must support Sieve :

      Redesign filters to use Sieve internally. Allow editing of Sieve scripts on IMAP servers to get rid of the bug reports a la "KMail doesn't support IMAP folders for filtering" Marc Mutz
    9. Re:Screenshots? by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 1

      I'd bet you that MSIE version 12, the second one available for Win, Mac, Linux, QNX, FreeBSD, and AmigaOS, will make it into sarge, too.

  2. KSVG.... by oliverthered · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sadly missed will be support for Animations,CSS, Paths and Filters from ksvg..

    It would have been nice for them to drive to finish off core existing features

    Shouldn't it just be a 3.3.2 as the only major new feature I can see is XSL, xpath and editing support for khtml and a few async speed ups here an there (dbus anyone?)

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  3. YEAH!!! by mattyrobinson69 · · Score: 1

    i cant want for kde 4 though, to include support for xorgs xserver level transparancy and the much improved qt4. apparently theyre dumping arts too but im not sure when for.

    The future is bright, the future is orange.

    1. Re:YEAH!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      aRts will be in kde 3.4. They'll most probably dump it for 4.0.

    2. Re:YEAH!!! by Chineseyes · · Score: 0

      arts is being dumped for gstreamer as I understand it someone correct me if I am wrong

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    3. Re:YEAH!!! by mattyrobinson69 · · Score: 1

      gstremer as one that was suggested, but nothing (apart from arts being dumped) is definate

    4. Re:YEAH!!! by MsGeek · · Score: 1

      It will be so cool when Artsd is out of our misery.

      KDE should go for a canonical ALSA solution, rather than playing Lone Ranger and building their own system. ALSA+Jack is good stuff. Way better than Arts. Arts only serves to hog the ALSA output and send you to the console to killall artsd.

      One of the few places KDE sucks is with its audio architecture. They should consider killing noatun as well...lousy.

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    5. Re:YEAH!!! by Brandybuck · · Score: 1

      KDE should go for a canonical ALSA solution

      Except that would be a major bitch for anyone on a non-Linux platform, as well as the multitudes on Linux platforms with sound cards that ALSA doesn't support yet.

      Just code to proper platform-independent audio API. Which is of course what KDE is going to do. That way the audio will work on whatever platform you use, even ALSA.

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    6. Re:YEAH!!! by CommandNotFound · · Score: 2, Interesting

      ALSA+Jack is good stuff. Way better than Arts. Arts only serves to hog the ALSA output and send you to the console to killall artsd.

      Is ALSA+Jack network transparent like artsd & esd? There needs to be a way to get audio when running KDE remote over a LAN.

    7. Re:YEAH!!! by jdowland · · Score: 2, Funny

      The future is bright, the future is orange.

      Surely that depends on what background you have underneath your transparent window - it could be a murky brown colour.

    8. Re:YEAH!!! by extra+the+woos · · Score: 1

      I think noatun is kinda dead for audio stuff right??? The new one is amaroK which is THE BEST MP3 PLAYER I'VE EVER USED... Someone needs to port that sucker to windows, i'd never touch winamp or quint. player again!

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  4. Lack of legit release topics by Penguinoflight · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I have to rant on this because nobody is doing anything about it.

    Slashdot has repeatedly been announcing valueless releases of high profile projects, but releases that are actually useable go unannounced.

    While ./ editors are selecting e17 CVS (yes, just a lousy CVS tree without instructions), and now the first alpha of KDE (like you're going to use it...) Important releases like Afterstep 2.0, or 2.01... and Windowmaker go unnannounced. In the past XFCE got posted, and /. even posted Afterstep 2 beta1.

    Its time to get more consistant about what gets published here, and this doesn't belong. KDE has plenty of active developers and anyone who could contribute almost certainly must be aware of this release.

    Lets refine some of slashdot, and publish small project releases that could use devel help. A great place to start is learning and documenting a project.

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    1. Re:Lack of legit release topics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You forget that KDE = King of Desktop Envirnoment

  5. KDE 4 by Daedius · · Score: 1

    *yawns*.. When is kde 4 due? I remember looking for info on it awhile ago, but not much luck.

  6. KDE in debian links by mr_tenor · · Score: 1

    In case you'd like to know, there are problems which the Debian KDE people are working to address so that KDE can migrate from the unstable repositories. Other distros throw just anything in without much QA but Debian has horrendously high standards =)

    1. Re:KDE in debian links by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Other distros throw just anything in without much QA but Debian has horrendously high standards =)

      And when will KDE accomplish them as well as Gnome? =)