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KDE 3.4 goes Beta
wikinerd writes "KDE 3.4 has reached its beta testing phase. The KDE 3.4beta1 is codenamed 'Krokodile' and pre-compiled packages are already available for Slackware, but if you need to compile it by yourself first check its compilation requirements."
It's not that bad on Gentoo. I mean, I have a mid-range P4 system that will spend roughly 6 hours compiling a full KDE install even with all the crap that I could forgo but don't bother to. As long as I'm not trying to play a 3D game or anything I can still get work done without any hassles. :)
Hey, I bet all the guys who have Athlon-64's will chime in now about how they get done compiling before they even have the packages downloaded
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
plastik as the default style
SVG wallpapers now possible
kicker refactored and with a new cool animation
kdm now themeable
experimental traslucency windows
HAL support
little polishing on the menus
ability to download and install new themes directly from the desktop
trash applet in kicker and trash, media, settings kioslaves
kpdf almost completely rewritten
emoticons in kmail
systemtray icon hiding in kicker
still, too many icons on the konqueror toolbar. luckily it doesn't take too much time to remove them. but it should be the default..
anyway, 3.4 is gonna be one of the best kde releases ever.
..what exactly there is a "seperate technical issue"?
the guy didn't make the stuff up even, just copied from gentoo zealots.
the stuff is so silly that it IS funny.
(gentoo is a great distro but it sure does a crappy job of discouraging idiots who don't know what they're doing from thinking that they know what they're doing)
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Er... yes it does. HAL puts hardware events onto DBUS where an app can spot the removal / addition and handle mounting / unmounting, just like gnome-volume-manager.
If you're wondering, here is a feature plan for 4.0.
Actually, if you have a supported graphic card, AA fonts can be quite fast. The dri supported radeons (meaning everything from original radeon 7000 up to 9250 and all radeon igp except the brand-new of the xpress 200 chipset) for instance have render acceleration, which can speed up aa font rendering up by a factor of 10 or more.
This particular driver doesn't support (accelerated) subpixel hinting, though.
KDE changes major number when they break binary backwards compatibility.
The major change will be the move to QT4. KDE major release numbers match QT major release numbers.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
Well, that's hardly a complete list. Most developers aren't thinking about KDE 4.0 yet, because they're working on KDE 3.4. Once 3.4 is released, and all the stuff from the 3.4 feature plan that couldn't be completed is pushed to the 4.0 plan, and everyone makes their new forecasts for 4.0, you can then comment on the amount of new features.
KDE 4.0 will be based off of Qt 4.0, so that's already a major jump right there, and it means that things like pluggable rendering backends including an OpenGL backend will be included, at some point at least. KDE 4.0 will have significant differences from 3.x.
I've come for the woman, and your head.
So you really have no basis to make this claim? Saying that GTK is "great" seems like you really dont know what the differences are in the rendering methodology of the two.
If you knew the frameworks that drive these to graphics engines, you would know that Qt is far more advanced. Qt Faster? probably but its apples and oranges. GTK more usable? Sure is but that comes at a price.
Are you intolerant of intolerant people?
Huh? I use KDE on FreeBSD, and I can unmount a USB drive in about a tenth of a second with one mouse click. Under Windows (XP) it usually takes me ten or more seconds and four mouse clicks. Sometimes, maybe one in twenty, it takes up to a couple of minutes to unmount with the entire system frozen in the meantime. And this is the system everyone says Unix should emulate? No fscking way!
p.s. DBUS may or may not be a good idea, I haven't looked into it closely. But I'm not expecting any performance increases from it, because that's not what it is. If you have problem with DCOP, then blame your distro for shoddy integration.
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!