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KDE 3.5 Beta 1 Announced

Posted by Zonk on from the new-thing-thursday dept.

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."

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  1. Already running it! by Mishura · · Score: 4, Informative

    Its pretty cool. Hasn't crashed yet. If you are running Kubuntu, you can go to this site: http://kubuntu.org/kde-35beta1.php and get the hookup.

  2. Re:KDE NEEDS WYSIWYG PRINTING by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    it was one of the Google Summer of Code projects
    http://developer.kde.org/summerofcode/pagedmedia.h tml

    it is in trunk, will be in 4.0

  3. Konqueror succeeds at ACID2 and gets Adblock! by Einherjer · · Score: 5, Informative

    Konqueror (I suppose with the Apple patches in, thanks guys) now succeeds at rendering the ACID2 Webstandard-Tests (yes, we know that it's not an official standard. Firefox still can't do this.

    And best of all, its got AdBlock-like functionality integrated, that works like a charm. Even with the Filter G Set for Mozilla Adblock.

    That's one less user for Firefox, I'm sticking to Konqueror now as it is faster and not as memory-greedy.

    Check it out!

  4. Re:Old news again! by m50d · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's not OSNews, it's KDE Dot, the summary is identical. This happened with the Qt 4 release too, even though I'd submitted a better version. I think the way to get stories approved is to bribe the /. editors.

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  5. Website information by Shotgun · · Score: 5, Informative

    Why should I care?

    Really, in the best writing classes that I've ever taken, the instructed always made the point that a writer should always be first concerned with why would the reader care about the subject matter.

    I looked all over KDE's website. About all I could find was "Here's a new beta. Try it and tell us what you think." But, nowhere did it give me any reason to want to try it. I use KDE on a production basis, but there's no reason for me to go poking around and messing with stuff that ain't broken unless there is some benefit to realize.

    Hey, guys and gals. I know ya'll've been working on something. What have you fixed/upgraded/added?

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    1. Re:Website information by mkro · · Score: 5, Informative

      KDE 3.5 feature plan. Green is finished, yellow is in progress, red not started.
      Anyone tried the MSN and Yahoo webcam support in Kopete yet?

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  6. Re:3.6? by m50d · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's a target for 4.0, since Qt wasn't free on windows before V4. However, there's already a working cygwin version and partial pure native port at http://kde-cygwin.sf.net/

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  7. Re:Wha? by Nasarius · · Score: 4, Informative
    Kanzler? I thought Microsoft's beta naming conventions were goofy, but after Mandriva and now Kanzler, I think a torch has been passed.

    Like many of their other release names, it's German. And probably a reference to the current election mess in Germany (Kanzler = chancellor).

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