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KDE 3.4 Released
andy753421 links to today's announcement of the official release of KDE 3.4, and writes "Several KDE 3.4 based distributions such as ArkLinux and Kubuntu are soon to follow. Features in the release include built in Text to Speech, a revamped trash system, enhanced PDF support and PC to PC synchronization, as well as a new theme. KDE 3.4 weights in at 6,500+ bug fixes, 1,700+ enhancements, and a grand total of 80,000+ contributions." Reader gotr00t adds a link to the KDE download mirror page . Update: 03/16 20:58 GMT by T : mrevell points out an interview with KDE hacker Aaron Seigo in the latest LugRadio, in which Seigo "dispels various myths about KDE and talks about the desktop environment's future."
Let's not forget Mepis. Another KDE based distro as well and getting much press as of late.
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http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=m
http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.4.php
Highlights at a glance
* Text-to-speech system with support built into Konqueror, Kate, KPDF and the standalone application KSayIt
* Support for text to speech synthesis is integrated with the desktop
* Completely redesigned, more flexible trash system
* Kicker with improved look and feel
* KPDF now enables you to select, copy & paste text and images from PDFs, along with many other improvements
* Kontact supports now various groupware servers, including eGroupware, GroupWise, Kolab, OpenGroupware.org and SLOX
* Kopete supports Novell Groupwise and Lotus Sametime and gets integrated into Kontact
* DBUS/HAL support allows to keep dynamic device icons in media:/ and on the desktop in sync with the state of all devices
* KHTML has improved standard support and now close to full support for CSS 2.1 and the CSS 3 Selectors module
* Better synchronization between 2 PCs
* A new high contrast style and a complete monochrome icon set
* An icon effect to paint all icons in two chosen colors, converting third party application icons into high contrast monochrome icons
* Akregator allows you to read news from your favourite RSS-enabled websites in one application
* Juk has now an album cover management via Google Image Search
* KMail now stores passwords securely with KWallet
* SVG files can now be used as wallpapers
* KHTML plug-ins are now configurable, so the user can selectively disable ones that are not used. This does not include Netscape-style plug-ins. Netscape plug-in in CPU usage can be manually lowered, and plug-ins are more stable.
* more than 6,500 bugs have been fixed
* more than 1,700 wishes have been fullfilled
* more than 80,000 contributions with several million lines of code and documentation added or changed
creation science book
Well, it's based on Ubuntu Linux...Ubuntu means something like "Humanity to others" (the ubuntu.com page will explain this much better than I can) The distro is GNOME based...so the natural thing to do is to slap a K in front of it and it's now KDE-based! Thus Kubuntu. :)
I've got an Ubuntu installation, btw, and it's pretty cool. Hardware detection was great, runs fairly well on my old 400MHZ PII, and the whole synaptic thing makes for very easy updating. I may eventually try the Kubuntu as I'm looking for that Debian-based KDE-using distro. Currently looking at Mepis but haven't tried it yet.
Thats just untrue. KDE 3.2 (with eyecandy turned off) ran as well at windows 98 on my girlfriends pentium-MMX 233 in slackware.
just install the essentials, leave out kde-multimedia, kde-network, kde-graphics, kde-utilities, kde-admin, koffice... KDE is modular, i can get a workable KDE desktop with just arts, kde-base,kde-libs, kde-artwork, & QT... if you already have mozilla/firefox & thunderbird, OpenOffice, then why install redundant apps, KDE is nice but too many people forget it is modular and can be made leaner, but if you want the whole kitchen sink slam all the packages in
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
KDE? Yes http://kde-cygwin.sf.net/. Newer versions should start being released once QT & KDE 4.0 are out.
I could have told you yesterday after I finished emerging 3.4 what it what it was like. 99% like the rc1, stable as ever, and very fast and light on memory usage. It just sucks to have a distro and desktop manager that just works and is always the latest and greatest.
The screenshot gallery linked by the parent comment features KDE 3.4 Release Candidate, not the final version.
(Yes, I realize it's probably very similar, but I went through a few screens thinking "well, seems like it hasn't changed a bit from the RC I'm running here" until I noticed the gallery title.)
The filesystem is the package manager
It's stable and it's wonderful:
Kubuntu with default transparency and shadow options
Pretty eh?
transmission_err
I think it's even worse when you end up replacing C with K throughout the entire environment. How am I supposed to take it seriously when it seems to be written by a script kiddy? Oh wait...
Heh, yeah. But surely the complete translation of the GUI into British English, along with sizeable portions of the GUI translated into Welsh and Irish Gaelic, there's plenty of opportunity for usage this side of the pond.
KDE Documentation Team: http://i18n.kde.org/doc
At some point will users have to manually unmerge all of KDE and manually re-merge each package?
Doubtful; you can unmerge all of KDE 3.3 with a one-liner today, search the Gentoo forum/docs for it.
Dunno what you mean by "manually" re-merging the package; KDE major releases are slotted so you can run two versions at once - so you aren't going to get 3.4 magically turn into 4.0 when you run emerge -u world. This is normal and by design.
Still putting icons on the desktop? That's one of my favorite things about most Linux desktop launchers is I can categorize stuff into seperate launch menus a-la CDE. I never have to put anything on the desktop except maybe some desklets or something.
You can do it with any window manager. You just need to enable composite (assuming you use xorg).
Buckethead
A couple more versions, and they'll probably have caught up to/surpassed what you get with a Mac or XP system. GUI-wise, anyway. Underneath it's already better.
Although the beauty of the WM/DE is completely subjective I have found kde-look.org to be a great source of beautifying KDE. If you look through there you can find people that have their desktop looking alot like or exactly like Mac OS X or Windows XP (if you're into that sort of thing).
Why does it bother you??? You're like my brother when I was a kid, getting your trousers in a twist just because you have to share mom and dad with another sibling.
Seriously, KDE is a desktop for BOTH Linux and BSD (and SysV). So you will find this same story under both sections.
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
It will probably be in the cooker soon. Just add a cooker mirror to your urpmi sources, then you can "urpmi kdebase," or something similar to get it. But beware: the cooker is not guaranteed to be stable by any means. If you are itchin' to dive in, Fedora goes for the more cutting edge releases than Mandrake. Mandrake aims more for stability than current releases (as you can tell by their 'outdated' Firefox, Gaim, and other apps on their mirrors).
I usually just alt-F2 and write the app name, way quicker :)
Slashdot anagrams to "Sad Sloth"
This guy ("Thac") has it built already. Here are his Mandrake 10.1 RPMs:
http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS/kde-3.4.0/
programs would find themselves quite confused
/bin (and same for other respective dirs, you get the idea) /bin is statically linked so that it is usable in the event of a catastrophic failure, where as /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin binaries are often only usable if the system comes up.
./configure --prefix=/Applications --sysconfigdir=/Settings --libdir=/Librarys
so I really don't know why usr/bin is not linked to
Because the binaries they hold serve different purposes. Often the stuff in
you never know what lib is really used
ldd `somebinary`
OS X is UNIX-based kernel
Mach kernel
it does not have too messy filesystem organisation
With some work your linux could have the same layout
"I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
It sure looks a lot like Plastik to me...
The Farewell Tour II
It could be quite a wait for it to be uploaded to unstable. However, the Debian KDE team already has some quality packages available:
http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/docs/install.html