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KDE 3.5 Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'm-up-to-my-neck-in-gui-gui-code dept.

WhiteFoxBR writes ""The KDE Project is happy to announce a new major release of the award-winning K Desktop Environment. Many features have been added or refined, making KDE the most complete, stable and integrated free desktop environment available." Here a Visual Guide to new features, including build-in ad-block for Konqueror and support for MSN and Yahoo! webcams in Kopete. "

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  1. Lopete link by Cougem · · Score: 5, Informative

    The link to Kopete actually links to Konqy. You want this.

  2. Webcam - yes! by Zoidmann · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The missing ability to use a webcam easily under KDE, is actually an argument for some people I know to stick with Windows. So this is great news - now I might convince them into actually trying this "Linux-thing", so I can stop supporting their infected Windows XP Home machines (yes, then I would have to support them with Linux, but with a little help from CrossOver they can keep using most of the software they are dependant upon).

    I haven't got a webcam myself at the moment, so I have no idea how it works in Kopete. If you have tested it, and can recommend a webcam that is working nicely under Linux, I would like to hear about it. Are there webcams out for Linux that actually support face-tracking?

  3. Re:Let's just have one Linux desktop by Gulthek · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You speak as though Linux developers want to make it easy. Some do. Some don't. Some don't care. You can't really talk as though Linux is a cohesive business, for it is neither.

  4. Cool! by Omicron32 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Congratulations KDE team!

    Now, knowing Gentoo this will be in the tree in the next 5 minutes. Woo, emerge is gonna be hot tonight, and tomorrow, and the day after, and probably some time after that too.... ;)

    (Disclaimer: I use Gentoo, it doesn't actually take that long with kdeenablefinal flag on!)

  5. Re:Let's just have one Linux desktop by Ngwenya · · Score: 5, Informative

    The problem is that Qt is proprietary and this upsets some people. Also, we should have some sort of Open Source widget toolkit that we can fall back to when trolltech goes by the wayside, though they will probably just release Qt as Open Source

    Qt was released under the GPL a long while ago. You can license it for non-GPL applications, but then you have to pay TrollTech money. The "Qt is not free" myth is covered in the KDE Myths section: here

    --Ng
  6. Re:What I didn't see by aesiamun · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes because KDE was designed with you and only you in mind. No one else prints...NEVER! How can the KDE people be so thoughtless as to include something as useless as a printer button.

    I hate KDE! Damn them for making useful stuff. :(

  7. Google Maps and Blogger by p0z3r · · Score: 5, Informative

    Two things.. if you want google maps to work, you have to add a user agent for maps.google.com/local.google.com to Konqueror as Safari.
    If you want blogger.com to not post blank blog entries, add a user agent for www.blogger.com to Konqueror as Firefox.

    Now email google to fix both of them so we don't have to do these silly workarounds.

  8. You don't like it. DON'T INSTALL IT. Simple, non ? by Chaffar · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Obviously, if you don't like it, don't install it... that's the beauty of Open source... CHOICE... Something 'Doze users wouldn't know about.

    "Call me a troll"

    Consider it done...

  9. Notable changes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    • Konqueror is the second major web browser to pass the Acid2 CSS test, ahead of Firefox and Internet Explorer
    • Konqueror can also free webpages from adverts with its new ad-block feature
    • SuperKaramba is included in KDE, providing well-integrated and easy-to-install widgets for the user's desktop
    • Kopete has support for MSN and Yahoo! webcams
    • The edutainment module has three new applications (KGeography, Kanagram and blinKen), and has seen huge improvements in Kalzium
  10. Re:Now we just need... by Klivian · · Score: 5, Informative

    I know under the hood Gnome is supposed to be better

    That's rather the strangest thing I have heard all day, KDE is generally thought to be cleaner and better than Gnome under the hood. With the better underlying technology and architecture.

    Gnome seems to have the API right but the desktop wrong and KDE has the desktop but not the API.

    Seems like you have got that one backwards, the API are the one thing people usually praise with KDE. The complaints are about the "cluttered" desktop, indication that they think Gnomes is better.

    but quite frankly as long as it works I don't really care.

    Agreed, and there's the point where KDE wins out in the end. It got the applications and features making it possible to get the things you want done.

    The other main argument against KDE is that it is too much of a Windows clone.

    Anyone who have actually used KDE know it's not true, as KDE is much more. Funny thing is, set KDE up with a non-blue color scheme and those complaints dissapear.

  11. Re:Kool! by naelurec · · Score: 5, Informative

    What does using a third party (rdesktop, vnc, etc) or built-in (ssh, telnet) app to work on remote servers have to do with an environment manager?

    Hmm.. he is talking about ioslaves .. its very cool -- you should check it out.. it allows KDE apps to utilize network resources (via smb, nfs, ssh, ftp and a LOT more..) as if they are local files (ie via save/open dialogs, drag and drop, etc..). Once you start using it, you REALLY miss it when working on other platforms.