KDE 3.5 Beta 1 Announced

christchurch writes "The KDE Project has announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.5 Beta 1, dubbed "Kanzler". This will be the last major release in the KDE 3 series. Qt 3.3.5 was released too late to adapt to it and it shows some fundamental compilation problems. We had a preview of KDE 3.5 two months ago."

Comments

uninspiring

[Anonymous Coward]

Seriously KDE has never been as uninspiring. It used to be a Kool desKtop but now it just sucKs. Kan't they just maKe the whole experience easier on everyday people? What bugs me about them is that they Kopy windows and do a bad job at it.

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[Microlith]

That's nice.

Get back to me when Konqueror runs on Windows.

KDE still has a long way to go!

[hvatum]

KDE gets in my way in all the same ways Windows does. This is a Bad
Thing. This has nothing to do with what theme or wm I'm using in KDE,
KDE just seems to be overly grandious about providing a freaking
desktop environment. The KDE menu is also organized very bizarrely
(for someone coming from straight-out AfterStep).

I've been using computers since I was 8, and I started on a VAX where
my father was the sysadmin. I, of all people, should not be
overwhelmed by KDE. Simplify it, folks! KDE is so baroque, it
wouldn't surprise me if it pisses off Windows users, and you've seen
what kind of interfacial abuse they subject themselves to.

There is very little I can't change in gnome in more than five
mouse clicks.

However, one thing that tweaks me about both DEs, still, is that they
go out and clone xterm. Uuh, why? And why make it as ugly and only
slightly more useful than Windows Telnet? I realise that DE's are
supposed to be most helpful for newbies, but *jeeze*, I have to wonder
if anybody stopped for a moment and thought that maybe unleashing
something as garish and stubborn as Windows Telnet on the Linux
community isn't the right thing to do.

It's too bad that this new release of KDE won't address any of these
problems.