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KDE 3.4 goes Beta

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the new-and-improved dept.

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."

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  1. Anti-aliased fonts by Lindsay+Lohan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Re: the KDE 3.4 Compilation Requirements...

    I would categorize the X Render Extension as recommended as opposed to optional. Aren't anti-aliased fonts a basic feature of any modern desktop environment?

    1. Re:Anti-aliased fonts by green+pizza · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Aren't anti-aliased fonts a basic feature of any modern desktop environment?
      If you have the CPU power, sure. But there are those of us that want to run the latest software on older existing hardware. I generally forgo AA on everything except for my semi-modern main PC at home. The machines at work, at the church, and my older PCs suffer too much of a hit when I use AA.

  2. KDE by TechnologyX · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Say what you want about KDE, but after playing with 3.3, I finally made the switch from GNOME to KDE. I especially like the level of integration in between apps, the transparency settings for menus and applications, and KDevelop. Gnome is awesome too, especially 2.8, but KDE just seems to have more polish to it.

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    1. Re:KDE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Gnome is awesome too, especially 2.8, but KDE just seems to have more polish to it.

      I'm the exact opposite towards KDE. When I tried KDE (3.2.3) a while ago, I found it counter-intuitive in some places, unpolished, and generally a configurative mess when it came to doing things. I didn't like it. Likewise, I tried it again on my OTHER Linux box (Gentoo) and found that almost nothing from 3.2.3 to 3.3.2 had changed, aside from a few internal bugfixes. It looked the same.
      Lets just say that if it weren't for GNOME 2.6 and now 2.8, I'd probably be using an infamous OS made in Redmond. GNOME just feels better to use. But thats the beauty of open source - choices, and the ability to use multiple environments which cater to your tastes.

  3. Re:If you need to Kompile it yourself... by Stevyn · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh okay, I gotcha. Sorry for the gentoo rant then.

    They probably do it because the people using are testers and this way they can find more bugs.

  4. Nonsense. by brunes69 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I can start a compile of kdelibs, kdebase, kdenetwork, kdepim, kdegraphics, and kdeoffice, on my modest XP 1800, let it run overnight, and I have a new desktop in the morning.

    It is called *multitasking*. You can do other things with the computer while it is compiling you know.

  5. Re:Compile it? Yeah, right. by Mark_MF-WN · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Ironically, Debian doesn't really use RPM, it uses deb packages.

    I don't even want to know what Gentoo zealots things of Fedora and Mandrake users (by which I mean those us with better things to do than compile packages all day).

  6. Re:Compile it? Yeah, right. by IdleTime · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As a Gentoo user of nearly 3 years, I have no special thoughts about Debian, RedHat, Mandrake or other distro's users. I'm sure they are all fine people and enjoy their distributions just as much as I enjoy Gentoo.

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  7. Re:Compile it? Yeah, right. by Mark_MF-WN · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well you see, that right there is what makes you NOT a Gentoo zealot. It relegates to the much more sensible ranks of fan, advocate, or promoter.

  8. Re:Excited about KDE 3.4 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sorry, no. If every GTK+ application on my system has a noticable delay even opening a menu, yet all the Qt applications are fine, that's a problem with the toolkit.

    I think it's pretty arrogant for you to call somebody "confused" for observing that GTK+ 2.0 is quite slow. Even fans of that toolkit admit that 2.0 is quite a bit slower than 1.x.

  9. Re:Excited about KDE 3.4 by tpgp · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm looking forward to giving 3.4 a try. Why? Because on my modest hardware it seems like Qt has gotten faster over the past 2 years while GTK2 has gotten slower.

    Why has this piece of flamebait been modded informative?

    Try and say something about KDE 3.4, the story, or KDE's speed in general.

    A post comparing old versions of KDE to old versions of GTK is a troll. A pathetic one at that.

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  10. Re:Screenshots? by ballwall · · Score: 2, Insightful

    With every project I've worked on it work, I've slowly learned that regardless of how sophisticated a piece of software is, or how elegant the design is, or how reliable, the response from the PHB is always one of two things:

    "Wow, that looks great"
    or
    "Oh, ok."

    If it doesn't look clean or cool or have little moving clickable things people just aren't impressed.