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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."
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.
Can whoever it is that reads osnews.com stop posting copies to Slashdot 4 days later?
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...is it Merkel or Schröder?
Does anyone think we can port KDE to Windows? It will be really cool if instead of explorer we boot up into KDE. Just an interesting possibility. I know something like this has been done before but its not as good as having complete KDE or Gnome!
it was one of the Google Summer of Code projectsh tml
http://developer.kde.org/summerofcode/pagedmedia.
it is in trunk, will be in 4.0
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!
Does anyone think we can port KDE to Windows?
I seem to remember reading somewhere that Qt4 would make this a distinct possibility, or at least make it easier to contemplate doing it. I don't know if there would be any interest in doing such a thing, but time will tell.
I have not had a problem with printing from KWord using CUPS as the printing service and the standard KDE interface to it. The print preview looks just like the output, as does what is on the screen in KWord.
I haven't tried it in Konqueror or KMail, but if you're having a problem it is probably something to do with KHTML's interpretation. That is a known issue and being actively worked on. It was part of Google's "Summer of Code".
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Oh Krap!
The days of the digital watch are numbered.
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?
Aah, change is good. -- Rafiki
Yeah, but it ain't easy. -- Simba
What I'd LOVE to see is someone porting the full KDE system to run natively on Windows, then write a layer that'll handle Windows GUI calls and DirectX through KDE. A screenshot of that would freak out so many people...
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A dialog box pops up where you can select the printer that you want to use under Name:. so wtf r u talking about?
Perhaps if you spent more time reading standard English and less time using "cute" messaging baby-talk, you'd understand. The OP didn't say he has a problem selecting a printer. He said he has a problem printing the current selection. That is, the currently selected text.
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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/
I am trolling
Yes, since the release of Qt 4, Qt has been GPL on win32 as well as unix and Mac. Plans to change the way KDE is split up were discussed at akademy that should make a win32 version easier, as will the move away from autoconf/automake to a new build system. Some parts of KDE such as kjs can already be built on win32, but there are many other parts that would need quite substantial work to port. That said, there is already a cygwin port of KDE that can be used right now.
Kanzler? I thought Microsoft's beta naming conventions were goofy, but after Mandriva and now Kanzler, I think a torch has been passed.
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HTML isn't WYSIWYG. Browsers can and do render pages differently for display vs. printing. If a separate style sheet is supplied for printing, the difference can be drastic.
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kiolucene doesn't search the content of files, so comparing it to beagle is a very stupid attempt a trolling at best.
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However, there also is kio_beagle, wich let's you use beagle from within konqueror.
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=
And while we are at it, there is of course kat, which is roughly the kde equivalent to beagle right now. Kat will see a major redisign in the next version according to the developers and will work together with kiolucene.
Erm, that's what KDE 4 is.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
KDE 4 has been underway for a little while now, and all of the software is being ported over to Qt 4. If you read this little article, then maybe it will help you see what they're doing.
KDE's WAF an KidAF scores are pretty high in my household. Maybe you need to upgrade your W?
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
<feed object="troll">For starters, because xterm doesn't have tabs. Second, because most people don't want to edit .Xdefaults to change their console font. Those two alone are enough for me.</feed>
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
What might be good is a Windows-alike that doesn't do the XP-bloat thing.
;)
For some folks, at least. As for me, while I still use a lot of KDE apps (including Konqueror for my file manager), I switched to WindowMaker for my desktop about a month ago and immediately noticed a performance boost. (2.8 GHZ Pentium with 1GB RAM that's less than a year old, so it's not exactly ancient hardware I'm using here.) Starting a wterm takes about a fifth as long as it does to fire up Konsole, for instance, and switching desktops is also much faster. Running WM on my new laptop has proven a bit tricky with the touchpad (wayyy too sensitive and there doesn't seem to be any easy means of adjusting it), so I blew a big 20 bucks on a mini-mouse and now it's golden.
I find that I'm heaps more productive since I made the change.
On the eye-candy end of things, WM themes are so easy to make that my mom could probably do it.
The only thing I miss from KDE is the Kalendar popup taskbar applet, and I have yet to find a WM equivalent.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
I used to do this for the longest time. I ran Afterstep with a kde session running in the background. Then, at work, I ran WindowMaker using the same setup.
Eventually, I found that KWin can be configured to work almost exactly like AfterStep (which was my ideal WM for a long time), and that it isn't in fact any slower.
Now I'm simply running a full KDE desktop. It looks a lot like AfterStep, and nothing like a regular KDE default, but i find it works just as well as AS/WM and it saves me some trouble.
Similarly, I learned to love Konsole, although I used to be an aterm diehard.
With time, KDE caught up with my special requirements, while getting more stable, featureful and faster.
I am running on a 1.7 GHz laptop right now, and it takes less than one second to start up Konsole:Did you actually time the startup of the shell? Even if you did, do you really notice the 0.5 seconds of difference? For myself, KDE's "bloat" actually increases my efficiency, because I can create a new tab in Konsole rather than opening a new shell.
As for the desktop switching... the desktops switch faster than I can click - I tried to use the hotkeys to outrun the system (Ctrl-F1, Ctrl-F2,
KDE is not inherently slow.