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.
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