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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."
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.
If you're wondering, here is a feature plan for 4.0.
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.
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!