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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?
#include <sig.h>
...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".
-Charles
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
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...
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
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.
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?
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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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?