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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?

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

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

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