KDE 3.0 Beta 2 is out

Subject says all - the next beta of KDE 3.0 is out, after a short delay. You can find the downloads at this announcement. Click below to read more details about this version.

One of the most important things that the Konqueror teams wants from people are test cases of your regulary visited pages, where Konqueror either fails to render or render things incorrectly, and submit it using KDE's Bug Tracking system. URL's will not be helpful as it takes lots of time to strip a page from all the HTML code in order to find the actual problematic part of the web page.

Just to save the search for some people: Mandrake, SuSE, Slackware and Tru-64 binary packages are available now. Others will be available soon. Source code is of course available also.

I demand to see the source!

[Anonymous Coward]

I want proof that Konqueror cannot be removed from KDE without causing severe damage to the OS!

hmm

[nomadic]

Only on slashdot would the third pre-release of a software package be considered front page news.

No, I'm not complaining, I just think it's funny...

As CmdrTaco says...

[Anonymous Coward]

"You get what you pay for after all."

-Rob Malda [slashdot.org]

How useful can KDE be?

Re:I demand to see the source!

[reflexreaction]

And I want to be charged $20 less for KDE when and if Konquerer can be removed.

_constructive_

[immanis]

enlist volunteers to help find elusive and platform-specific bugs, and to provide constructive feedback through the KDE bugs database prior to the developer meeting later this month

At first glance, I missed why this even needed inclusion in the announcement. Most users are more than willing to provide feedback when Konqueror or KDE doesn't work right. Then I re-read the word "constructive."

So, for further edification, constructive feedback doesn't typically contain the words "suckers" "bastards" "morons" or "jerks." That kills 99% of the feedback they would be getting.

Re:what about FreeBSD binaries?

[Henry V .009]

I get a nice, warm, fuzzy feeling knowing that everything on my computer was built from source by my computer.

Where did you get your compiler? It could be putting in a trojan every time you compile. Have you checked your binaries?

Re:Tips for SuSE users

[Anonymous Coward]

- Greek keyboard setting is giving me Russian characters instead for some reason. (this may or may not be a bug)

You are partially correct, it is not a bug. The characters are not Cyrllic, they are Turkish.

Re:Tips for SuSE users

[psocccer]

Make sure you install the mesaglut-devel package. It's needed.

Good to see they've finally included one of the most-needed functions ever for a geek, the megaslut package. I know I've been asking for it for a long time, I can't wait to see what kind of development stuff is in the devel- package...

looks again

Crap... Oh, mesaglut... well, I guess it's back to autopr0n [autopr0on.com]...

Re:As CmdrTaco says...

[Sj0]

Slightly more useful than a pirated copy of windows, aparantly... :)

Aw heck

[jhughes]

I just checked my KDE 2.2 download, half way done. Hit refresh on my browser and I see "KDE 3.0 out".

Man, talk about timing...

Re:UI Design

[neema]

"A vague bell is going off in the back of my head, warning, "Troll! Troll!" but I'll ignore it and give you the benefit of the doubt."

The Spider-Sense for geeks.

Re:Screenshot

[Rob Kaper]

I originally wanted to update them a bit before linking and announcing them. The link is no longer secret, it is now linked from the main screenshots page.

Damn, it's harder to keep a secret in KDE CVS / Dot / Slashdot than in a high school full of giggling Olsen twins.