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KDE 3.5.4 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the some-kinda-winder-manger-or-somethin' dept.

Carewolf writes "While KDE4 is pushing ahead the stable KDE 3.5 branch is also seeing quite some development and new features. Today KDE 3.5.4 was released, with improved removable device support, speed optimization and many bug fixes. Among the bug fixes is of course a fix to layout the new slashdot sidebar properly in Konqueror. The story is also carried on The Dot."

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  1. What will make KDE the perfect desktop... by halivar · · Score: 2, Interesting

    KDE will be the perfect desktop for me when I don't have to include all the extra cruft. I love the UI and basic apps, and I like select apps from each package, but the vast majority of it is a waste of space for me.

    That said, I'm still emerging it today.

    1. Re:What will make KDE the perfect desktop... by wetelectric · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Well... I don't think this is KDE's fault. It's the fault of your particular Linux distro. KDE is very modular so you can go to their site install say three or four modules (kdebase,kdelibs etc) and be done with it. So, for example when i am installing it via SuSe (my O.S of choice) the 'minimal KDE system' includes many unnecessary modules. I'd blame suse for this.

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      Most people have no idea what they are doing, and are silently panicking on the inside.
  2. Re:Wow, they're actually _doing_ something by Rob+Kaper · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Konqueror's CSS support annoys me maybe 1% of the time I am serving. Firefox's lack of desktop integration annoys me constantly.

    Seriously. Once you get used to directly dropping files from an obex:/ Bluetooth folder to an sftp:/ folder, or from an audiocd:/ Compact Disc to a Samba share.. you'll never want to go back. Ever.

  3. Re:Wow, they're actually _doing_ something by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    KHTML along with WebCore which is based off of it, both pass the ACID2 test and have for a while now while Firefox 2.0 still doesn't.

  4. Re:Wow, they're actually _doing_ something by N7DR · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Konqueror's CSS support annoys me maybe 1% of the time I am serving. Firefox's lack of desktop integration annoys me constantly.

    Seriously. Once you get used to directly dropping files from an obex:/ Bluetooth folder to an sftp:/ folder, or from an audiocd:/ Compact Disc to a Samba share.. you'll never want to go back. Ever.

    Yep. Also, the lack of KWallet support is highly irritating (to me, anyway). What good is a centralized secure password storage system if the application that most frequently needs to access it doesn't know how to? (Having said that, I admit to having seen a few sites that hint that it's possible to use kwallet with FF, but none of them actually provides any details.)

    Actually, I see no way to avoid the unhappy conclusion that KDE users really need to use two browsers. FF's extension system is so great that it really is pretty unimaginable to use Konq as my main browser. On the other hand, as the parent points out, Konq's integration with the desktop and its ability to use KIO slaves is really something quite marvellous. It's one of those things (like tabbed browsing, I guess) that seems to leave people very unimpressed until they actually use it.

  5. Re:A GNOME user converts. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    RedHat (or FC) has never had a good reputation about the quality of its KDE packages; some say their poor KDE support was a conscious politics-driven decision. I don't know about that, but it's true that you don't seem to read KDE success stories from FC users. If you want to try KDE, why not pick a KDE-friendly distribution such as Kubuntu, as the OP did.