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KDE 3.5 RC 1 Released

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the happy-days-and-jubilation dept.

HatofPig writes "The KDE Project has released the first release candidate for KDE 3.5, the last of the 3.x versions. There are many added features and bugfixes such as easier Kicker configuration and many UI tweaks. Get the source, Suse packages, or packages for Kubuntu and start filing bug reports today!"

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  1. What use... by markild · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...is this without a screenshot of some sort!!

    --
    Scully: Should we arrest David Copperfield?
    Mulder: Yes we should, but not for this.
    1. Re:What use... by Homology · · Score: 4, Insightful
      ...is this without a screenshot of some sort!!

      Why don't you read about the added features and bugfixes ? There is much more to KDE than just eye candy.

      For me, it's very useful to read that client side IMAP filtering is at last beeing added (but still in progress, though), and thus I can use KMail and ditch Thunderbird. However, I've no need to see a screenshot of a dialog box for IMAP filtering rules.

  2. Re:Links for source, Suse, a screenshot by molnarcs · · Score: 3, Insightful
    That is just silly. His screenshot is awful, but not because that is how KDE looks like. It is awful because you (or me for that matter) would not feel confortable using it. But that is how he configured it, that is what probably fits his way of doing things.

    Essentially, you compared your preferred way of organizing the desktop with his preferred way of organizing the desktop, and concluded that GNOME is better. Congrats.

    You can pretty much configure anything in KDE. You can make it plain and simple (by default, it is pretty plain and simple) - you can even lock it down with kiosk and associated tools (read why the Dutch Record Shop Chain Migrated 1000 desktops to KDE to limit it's functionality to accessing one page on the internet and 4 apps if you wish to. And configuring it is rather easy via kcontrol. When I switched to linux 5 years ago, the first thing I really felt comfortable with was kcontrol. I knew that I can't screw up anything with a desktop config utility, and playing with it for a week or so got me accustomed to using it (of course I tried a few apps as well, but the inevitable "now what" question that comes up after installing a new and different operating system is best answered by providing harmless customization tools. At least, that's a good way for noobs to get confortable. Since than, I spend ~10-30 minutes (depending on the amount of new features) with configuration when a major release happens, and I am really glad that I can customize the hell out of it. I won't use something like parent's desktop, but I'm also glad for his ability to use KDE the way he wants without the need to edit obscure values in the registry or download 3rd party apps to do that more easily ;)

  3. I'm glad by vga_init · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It makes me a bit happy to see KDE growing strong.

    Throughout the time that I used open source on the desktop, there were often various times where I felt one of the desktops was lacking (sometimes KDE, sometimes GNOME). At times I would clearly prefer one, and sometimes I would prefer neither.

    Lately, however, I have found both desktops only getting stronger and more pleasurable to use. Right now I am using KDE, but I will continue to switch back and forth between the two simply because I honestly can't tell which is better.

    Everyone has their favorites, and these two are pet projects for a lot of people, but I definitely take it as a good sign that I can no longer have a definite favorite (especially after I was once so sure that I could never prefer one to the other).

    Bravo, KDE team, and cheers for all lovers of Free software.

    /warmfuzzies

  4. Re:Acid2 here I come by MrHanky · · Score: 2, Insightful
    There are some problems, namely the default configuration does a poor job of selling KDE to new-comers. Memory use is a bit out of hand. I tried to start 3.4 on a laptop with 192 MB, but gave up after 30 minutes of watching it load.
    Which distro's KDE was that? I've started KDE on a slow laptop (266 Mhz) with only 64 MB RAM (but with quite a bit of swap), and although it was too slow to be usable, it certainly didn't take 30 minutes to start. (Gnome on the same computer was nearly usable, though a bit painful, but a light WindowMaker desktop was best for my use.) This was Debian's KDE 3.2.x last year, BTW.

    Although I agree KDE uses far too much RAM, it's still a bit better than OS X, and a bit worse than Windows XP.