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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. Meh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Kall me when there's a release kandidate.

  3. Excited about KDE 3.4 by green+pizza · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

    1. 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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  4. oh crap... by myowntrueself · · Score: 4, Funny

    just when you thought debian sarge was going to go stable some time this year...

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  5. KDE 4.0... by Jameth · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm actually most excited because this means that, in not too long, people will start really working on KDE 4.0. That's the release I want. 3.4 is a finalization of the 3's, really. It's got some nice cleanup of what's there and will run a little better, but almost all the features that were ever going into the 3's are already there.

    But 4.0...oh, I can hardly wait...

    1. Re:KDE 4.0... by Galahad2 · · Score: 5, Informative

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

    2. Re:KDE 4.0... by chill · · Score: 4, Informative

      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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  6. Masive i18n by Forge · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Notice how the translations are larger than everything else combined ?

    That I partially reflects the share number of languages available. It also shows how modular KDE's design is. I.e. You can strip out everything language dependent into a separate package without breaking the rest. (Yes, it compiles in English without the i18n package).

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  7. Re:Screenshots? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  8. 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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  9. You hadn't heard? by jd · · Score: 4, Funny

    Debian's auto-release script is hard-wired to a Brownian Motion Vector Plotter and a realy hot cup of tea. The release after next will be out sometime last year.

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  10. Re:Obligatory "K" thread. by Bingo+Foo · · Score: 4, Funny
    The next 17000 versions will be named:
    perl -ne "print if s/^c(.*)/k\1/;" < /usr/share/dict/words
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