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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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  3. 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.

  4. 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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