KDE 3.4 Beta 2 ('Keinstein') Released

Carewolf writes "Finally the KDE 3.4 beta 2 has been released (codename "Keinstein"). Besides being the latest and greatest, it also marks the KDE 3.4 feature freeze and will provide a good demonstration of the splendors that will be KDE 3.4. Feature and release plans can be found here, and the news is also covered on the dot. Download now and help hunt the last bugs for the next major release of KDE."

Comments

Re:change log...

[spencerogden]

Release Schedule in the KDE Developer's corner link to the Feature Plan, which give you a good idea at what is a planned feature, and what's alreay working. Its a long list, but worth a skim.

http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/kde- 3.4-features.html

Re:Make KDE faster?

[bluGill]

KDE is getting faster all the time. The core of KDE is generally faster now than in the 1.x timeframe. A few things are slower because they do more. Overall though KDE is fast. Effort is being made all the time to make things faster.

I use KDE 3.3 on a ppro-200 with 128Meg of ram and it works just fine.

That said, there are some things that will be much faster in KDE 4.x because qt4 is better in those areas.

Re:Make KDE faster?

[WMD_88]

Silly you. ;) 95 was never fast on 4mb. I've seen it used with 8mb, and it was still slow.

Re:Pretty Please

[Anonymous Coward]

> Look at the 3.3 screenshots and ad .1

It will have a different default style, window decoration and color scheme. For some people that are visible differences, other will perhaps not notice.

Re:Make KDE faster?

[Carewolf]

3.2 and 3.3 were both optimized heavily from the 3.1 release.

By amazing coincidence valgrind/cachegrind had just been released, and KDE made to run in it :)

Re:Quartz anyone?

[Anonymous Coward]

All OSX offloads to the GPU is compositing, which is why resizing windows is so choppy. X is getting that ability Real Soon Now(tm). (GPU-based compositing, I mean. It already has choppy window resizing.)

Re:Quartz anyone?

[Illissius]

KDE 3.4 already has preliminary support for X.org's Composite extension, meaning compositing can be handed off to hardware, true transparency, drop shadows, and all that. Unfortunately it's still rather buggy, which is only partly KDE's fault, and partly X.org's (it's still a fairly new development). I'd say it's pretty safe to say 4.0 will have full support for hardware acceleration and all kinds of iCandy... especially considering Qt4's Arthur.