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KDE 3.4 Beta 2 ('Keinstein') Released

Posted by timothy on from the very-large-thank-you dept.

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."

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  1. What on earth does this have to do with BSD? by IBeatUpNerds · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Doesn't this belong under Linux, or a new section called Apps or something... I remember this happening a few months ago with a GNOME release. I subscribe to the BSD stuff because I care about BSD.

    1. Re:What on earth does this have to do with BSD? by Brandybuck · · Score: 2, Insightful

      It IS unser Linux. It's also under BSD (Free, Open, Net, et al). Why? Because KDE is a OS neutral desktop. Which means it runs just fine under BSD. Ditto for GNOME. Ditto for XFCE. Ditto for every other desktop and window manager.

      Nothing is forcing you to click on the story if you're not interested in it, even it if happens to be incuded in the BSD section.

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  2. Keinstein? by kentyman · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Do they know that translates to "No Stone" in German?

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    1. Re:Keinstein? by Murphy+Murph · · Score: 2, Funny
      Keinstein?
      Do they know that translates to "No Stone" in German?

      As in "No Stone Left Unturned" I assume.
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    2. Re:Keinstein? by polyp2000 · · Score: 2, Funny

      "No Stone Left Unturned"

      I prefer the term no turn left unstoned

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    3. Re:Keinstein? by Nasarius · · Score: 4, Insightful
      Do they know that translates to "No Stone" in German?

      Given that many of the developers are German, I think that's a safe bet.

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  3. change log... by jungd · · Score: 3, Insightful

    anyone?
    (I wasted enough time trying to find what was different already)

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    1. Re:change log... by spencerogden · · Score: 2, Informative

      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

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  4. Re:Why KDE? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I developer cross platform *GPL* applications with QT. How exactly does QT prevent me from doing anything I want to do?

    IT IS UNDER THE GPL!

  5. Make KDE faster? by WMD_88 · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Perhaps 4.0 is a better target for this...but how about making the thing faster and/or less of a memory hog? Starting with the 3 series (especially 3.1), KDE is even slower than Windows XP!

    I miss the old days, where KDE 1.1 ran fast on a P133. :(

    There's still a chance for 3.4...no new features. I'm sure they could crunch the code at least a little bit!

    1. Re:Make KDE faster? by bluGill · · Score: 4, Informative

      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.

    2. Re:Make KDE faster? by WMD_88 · · Score: 2, Informative

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

    3. Re:Make KDE faster? by Carewolf · · Score: 2, Informative

      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 :)

  6. or ... by vlad_petric · · Score: 2, Funny

    K Einstein :)

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  7. Re:Pretty Please by archen · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Look at the 3.3 screenshots and ad .1

    Not to troll, but this is an incramental upgrade - you're not going to see a night and day difference. Although I'm always quite happy with the usability changes and added features, they aren't the sort of things you see from screenshots of someones desktop with a different wallpaper (usually). Seems sort of silly to slashdot KDE.org for each beta over screens that are more or less the same

  8. Why BSD? by menace3society · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is this posted with the BSD daemon because KDE is so hellish to use?

  9. Quartz anyone? by NEOtaku17 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My only question is when is it going to have the ability to offload some of its graphical heavy lifting to the GPU so we can get a good speed increase. That is one area OSX really does very strongly in, that KDE is extremely weak.

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    1. Re:Quartz anyone? by Illissius · · Score: 3, Informative

      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.

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