KDE 3.3 Officially Released 492
scorp1us was one of several to note that KDE 3.3 has been released. You can also read the infopage and the requirements. Commence downloading. Features a new spell checking library, a new theme manager, and much more.
Kool (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Kool (Score:4, Funny)
Every time... (Score:5, Funny)
Kretin.
Yaay KDE! (Score:5, Interesting)
Guess I've got some downloading to do, eh? Which comes to a gripe - it's a real pain in the arse to download all the seperate files and install them. Sure would be nice if the KDE team wrote an "update" script that would check for updates and optionally download/install them. PS. Anyone want a gmail invite? mail me [mailto].. [only one left!]
Re:Yaay KDE! (Score:5, Informative)
*cough* [kde.org]
Re:Yaay KDE! Yay Debian! (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Yaay KDE! (Score:5, Informative)
Konstruct + BSD? (Score:2)
And if it does, will it hose up my package manager or is it pretty clean?
( id didnt see 3.3 having been committed to ports yet.. but i may just wait to be safe )
Re:Port isnt availble yet (Score:3, Informative)
In the meantime, the FreeBSD/KDE team is busily testing KDE 3.3 packages. They've been testing for almost a week now, and it looks like they're near done. They reason it seems like they're taking so long is because they are. Just like any Linux distro does (or should). There's also the snag of -CURRENT rolling out yet another backwardly incompatible GNU compiler.
Re:Yaay KDE! (Score:5, Funny)
*kough*
Re:Yaay KDE! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Yaay KDE! (Score:3, Funny)
THE RMS police say its pronounced gnu/Kough
Re:Yaay KDE! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Yaay KDE! (Score:3, Funny)
I'm gonna go fucking psychotic if OO.org announces a new update as well.
Re:Yaay KDE! (Score:5, Funny)
Oh... you're not per chance one of those people who likes to waste their time compiling things unnecessarily are you?
Re:Yaay KDE! (Score:3, Insightful)
So, how much time have I "wasted" compiling KDE? If you include the time it took to update the portage cache and enter the commands, about 5 minutes
Re:Yaay KDE! (Score:5, Informative)
See, the thing is, Debian tries to be this safe-as-milk Linux distribution. Packages are compiled (in most cases) in the most generic way possible. There are exceptions, such as kernel images, but other than that, on x86, it's i386 all the way. That cuts down on performance a little.
Having said that, now that I've bothered to configure my Debian system, I don't notice much of a difference at all in performance.
What did I do? I took a bit of what I had learned in the Gentoo world and applied it to Debian. I'm not running syslog/klog anymore; instead, I'm running metalog in async mode. I have all my partitions mounted with the noatime option, and the reiserfs partitions are mounted with notail. I made the root partition ext3; I formatted the partition to have sparse superblocks and to use btree hash directory structures. I've added local changes to tweak harddrive performance. Finally, I audited what services needed to be running and got rid of anything that wasn't necessary. I'm not done yet, either. Doing things like switching to faster, lighter getty alternatives help, and there are other speed improvements that can be made.
Much is made of custom CFLAGS in the land of Gentoo, but the real power (if you start at stage1) is being able to build a smarter, lighter Linux system from the beginning.
These are all things that some Linux-on-the-desktop distribution could do automagically, naturally, if you're thinking "yeah, buddy, sounds *reeeeal* easy har har har." Well, it wasn't that bad, and I relieved myself of the headache of devoting my main box to building KDE packages. Some joker with a blazing-fast P4 and several megatons of RAM can do that for me.
Re:Yaay KDE! (Score:3, Insightful)
All these years later and we're still waiting for something useful in GCC. *sigh* It would make a huge difference and would surely be an in
Re:Yaay KDE! (Score:3)
What kind of hardware did you have in this machine?
Re:Yaay KDE! (Score:5, Informative)
Been awhile since you've played with Linux in GUI-land? Just get a distro with good package management...
Gentoo: emerge kde
Debian: apt-get
I just sit back and let it go...
Re:Yaay KDE! (Score:3, Informative)
And there is a script to download and build all of kde for you, from cvs daily if you like. I'm too lazy to find it but it's on kde.org.
Re:Yaay KDE! (Score:5, Informative)
Yep. But now you can enable/disable through a button in the windowtitle (if you want to)
Re:Yaay KDE! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Yaay KDE! (Score:2, Insightful)
As in "apt-get update" "apt-get upgrade".
It works fine for me.
Re:Yaay KDE! (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Yaay KDE! (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Yaay KDE! (Score:3, Informative)
Also, while there are some very cryptic names, JuK and KWin are not. Ever heard of a jukbox? And KWin is fairly obviously the K Window manager?
The spell khekers broken (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The spell khekers broken (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:The spell khekers broken (Score:5, Funny)
Requirements (Score:5, Interesting)
would use that. (Of course, with apt-get and dpkg, it's not such a
concern, but.)
Maybe even nicer if they would produce an
write a tool to test the system against it - e.g. "you meet the
requirements," or "YOU FAIL IT, you need $PKG $VER."
Re:Requirements (Score:3)
I could be wrong, but this was my impression as I've fought with configure many times to install A and finding I need B version 3.2.1. Although the real fun begins when B version 3.2.1 tells me I need C 2.9! Who knows how far back it may go?
Re:Requirements (Score:2)
1) Required dependencies are discovered later and are a pain in the ass when you waste time to discover you need to backtrack
2) Optional dependencies you forget and want to make use of later.
I like gentoo, that's all I have to say about all that.
it happend (Score:2, Funny)
Re:it happend (Score:3, Interesting)
People are doing some fantastic things with KDE themes and especially Superkaramba. There are Os X themes, Lain themes and more. Superkaramba is a nice way of learning Python too. I'm looking forward to seeing what is new once the Slashdotting is over...
Re:it happend (Score:5, Funny)
my proud what?
Re:it happend (Score:3, Insightful)
Screenshots (Score:5, Informative)
Of course gentoo (Score:3, Informative)
My own personal experience with it is that it's even faster then before (Not quite blackbox speed but it is approching...). kmail has spam filtering built in. All of the multimedia mime things work in Konqueror (that I could see). Still can't get konqueror to run those java games at www.pogo.com so I have to use firefox for that.
Kdevelop is fantastic, along with plugins for valgrind, doxygen and debuggers it is a great development environment.
All in all an incremental change, nothing blindingly new, but a solid base to work from.
Re: Of course gentoo (Score:2, Interesting)
All of the multimedia mime things work in Konqueror (that I could see).
Yep, this is my favorite one! With KPlayer [sourceforge.net] installed, you can play nearly any online content, be it Windows Media, RealMedia, QuickTime or anything else, whether embedded in the page or given as link, even those stupid JavaScripts can't mess it up.
KPlayer right now I think is the only player that detects playlist files as opposed to direct links, so it starts MPlayer with the correct options, and it all just works!
slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
hey, everything slashdot's webpage needs
ironically, this is posted by the "founder"!
This might be nice... (Score:4, Insightful)
For the more cautious/paranoid folks out there, when can we expect the distros to package 3.3 officially?
As always, thanks to the KDE folks for continually updating and improving the software.
Re:This might be nice... (Score:2)
Re:This might be nice... (Score:5, Insightful)
But does it have... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:But does it have... (Score:2, Funny)
Site slashdotted... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Site slashdotted... (Score:5, Funny)
As I type emerge -uD kde (Score:2, Interesting)
I will no doubt be equally impressed with the results as they were.
KDE's UI has some really nice looking elements, but altogether it's just cluttered and ugly. I'm talking about them jamming too much stuff in the menus, redundant menus, etc. Gnome's so much lighter and cleaner looking. Though, I like the
Re:As I type emerge -uD kde (Score:5, Interesting)
I find GNOME, on the other hand, to be uncomfortably light and clean, with nothing in easy reach, kind of like a one-button mouse or a one-button walkman... so simple that it's hard to get anything you want done, because the functionality's either missing, or requires extra steps to access.
I'd be interested in seeing research that compares peoples' living spaces to peoples' PC desktops. I wonder if you have a very empty, Zen-like living space. I myself have an incredibly cluttered (but orderly) living space; books, equipment, tools, etc. all tend to be within view on umpteen shelves, hooks, stacks, etc... bus and train schedules are posted on the wall... everything is easy to access, and easy to put away, requiring only one step ("reach").
Re:As I type emerge -uD kde (Score:3, Insightful)
The problem is that MacOSX and Gnome is optimized for "usability studies", i.e. they put a beginner in front of the computer and test it for half an hour.
That way you get a desktop that's great for the first half-hour of use but sucks in day-to-day operation for the rest of your computer-using life.
KDE on the other hand offers defaults targetted at the beginner (which is good) but still allows the advanced user to configure (which is great).
Yes I've tried MacOSX, too. And yes, th
Spell Check? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Spell Check? (Score:3, Funny)
Of course, only CmdrTaco is that lazy/stupid. It would take, oh I don't know, seconds to proofread a 3 sentence article like that one.
Re:Spell Check? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Spell Check? (Score:3, Informative)
Ha ha! Good one. English is spoken over a huge area and regional pronunciation differences would make phonetic script written by someone from Aberdeen totally incomprehensible to someone who lives in Texas. (This topic is covered in every Linguistics 101 course. Linguistics is fascinating, so pick up a
Re:Spell Check? (Score:2)
Re:Spell Check? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Spell Check? (Score:4, Insightful)
unmount^H^H^H^H^H^Hmount
or in the best case
un^Hmount
Re:Spell Check? (Score:5, Funny)
#~> unmount
unmount: command not found
#~> which unmount
which: unmount not found
#~> man unmount
man: no entry for unmount(8)
#~>find / | grep *mount
#~>umount
umount: device busy
AND SO ON AND SO ON
YES! (Score:5, Funny)
No such luck; I use windowmaker (Score:5, Funny)
you insensitive clod...
Re:YES! (Score:3, Informative)
Besides, my athlon-XP kicks out QT and KDE overnight.
Re:YES! (Score:3, Funny)
languages (Score:5, Funny)
Will Kilngon be on their next release?
Re:languages (Score:5, Funny)
Today is a good day to compile!
Re:languages (Score:2)
Longest Journey (Score:5, Interesting)
Debian (Score:5, Interesting)
And yes, I am a Debian user.
Re:Debian (Score:2, Funny)
really?
Re:Debian (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Debian (Score:3, Interesting)
Well seeing as though Etch is going to be the first release to come after the major shake-ups of adding testing and creating debian-installer it will be interesting to see just how long Etch takes to release after Sarge. Once Sarge is released there should be no real reason for releases not to start being kicked out far more quickly, as even now Etch is forming in unstable ready to become testing/etch as soon as sarge is released.
Apart from the whole Free/non-free issue for documentation and firmware (or
Son of a bitch! (Score:5, Funny)
(note: this is not a troll, this really is happening, and I love Gentoo. I also hate my life.)
Re:Son of a bitch! (Score:4, Informative)
Set PORTAGE_NICENESS="15" in
# ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge kde
go about your normal business, it takes about ten hours to compile on my 1.4GHz Athlon. You can stiill use your system while it compiles, you know.
You'll still have KDE-3.3 months before most people can get it in thoer shrinkwrapped distros.
Re:Son of a bitch! (Score:2)
Re:Son of a bitch! (Score:3, Informative)
Do NOT use this. Instead, use
echo kde-base/kde >>
This topic has come up on Gentoo forums so many times that I'm not going to repeat it here, but using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS or emerging an ebuild directly is BAD. Read man portage and see what the files in
Re:Son of a bitch! (Score:4, Informative)
Crap, should have used preview. Of course, I mean
echo kde-base/kde ~arch >>
Posting as anon so not to karma whore.
great... (Score:4, Insightful)
PyKDE and PyQt on CVS ! (Score:5, Interesting)
I humbly think that KDE + KDevelop (or Qt + Designer) give a beautifull Rapid Development tool. Python fits very well with the Object Oriented KDE API. And most of the heavy work is done by Qt anyways, so I would expect that many. many usefull aplications could be written with PyKDE and PyQT, now that they are officially part of the family ;-)
Kudos and Thank You to everyone involved.
-- Don Inodoro
does it work with (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Is it smaller? Or faster? (Score:4, Insightful)
If all you need is a barebones window manager, then by all means stick with FluxBox. But some of us want applications to go with it...
Seriously, FluxBox is just a window manager. A window manager (KWin) is only one small part of KDE. You also have a panel which can hold a task manager, applets, systray, subpanels, etc. And a desktop (e.g., smart root window). And a file manager / webbrowser integrated into everything. Easy to edit menus with icons. Drag and drop from anywhere to anywhere. Complete network transparency and flexible IO protocols. Complete development toolkit for the hacker in you. Loads of eye candy. Etc, etc, etc.
That's without getting into the bundled applications. It may be more than you need, but you cannot claim that FluxBox fills the same ecological niche. That's like claiming Honda automobiles are too expensive and heavy so you're going to ride a Scwinn bycicle instead. There's nothing wrong with bicycles but don't pretend they serve the same purpose as cars.
BTW, you don't have to install all of KDE in order to use KDE. Just install kdelibs and kdebase and you'll still have the full desktop.
New Features (site is slashdotted) (Score:5, Informative)
Highlights At A Glance
Some of the highlights in KDE 3.3 are listed below.
For a more detailed list of improvements since the KDE 3.2 release, please refer to the KDE 3.3 Feature Plan [kde.org].
Re:New Features (site is slashdotted) (Score:3, Interesting)
A modern GNOME desktop is now build around the following components
Mailer: Evolution
Browser: Epiphany or Firefox
Office suite: Open Office
File manager: Nautilus
Music player: Rhythmbox
mirrors (Score:4, Informative)
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nVidia TwinView Working? (Score:3, Interesting)
I recently moved to Gentoo and did the full recompile of KDE 3.2 when I did it. I had moved from Fedora.
Imagine my surprise when the TwinView stuff suddenly quit working and all of my windows suddenly wanted to maximize across all of the monitors.
Has anybody had any luck with 3.3 and the TwinView extensions? It looks from the nVidia docs like TwinView responds to the Xinerama queries, but KDE didn't seem to respond to them correctly. It did work under Fedora, and Gnome has no problems with Xinerama at all.
éxpose, komposé, expocity (Score:5, Interesting)
Is it just me (Score:4, Interesting)
Did they fix the memory leaks too? (Score:4, Interesting)
It's an annoying problem that I've seen with different hardware and different kernel versions, so I know it's KDE. Mark this as troll or flamebait, but that won't make this any less true.
Re:Did they fix the memory leaks too? (Score:3, Interesting)
Why is this in the "linux" section? (Score:3, Interesting)
For all the complaining linux users do about Microsoft's monopoly and open standards, a lot of them are all too quick to disregard or put down the other Unix style OSes, and to write code that won't compile without sys/linux.h.
Fortunately the KDE people don't think that way.
Re:Kool! (Score:3, Insightful)
If they come up with something totally new, they get slammed for a steep learning curve. Reviewers go on tirades and whitepapers are written about how the TCO is too high because of the training necessary, etc.
Keeping an interface similar allows for an easier migration of people who've been using Windows for years (office people). Thus, less training is needed and the migration costs are lower.
Re:Kool! (Score:2, Insightful)
Lower than going through all the BS it takes to install these things? I don't think so.
"If they come up with something totally new, they get slammed for a steep learning curve. Reviewers go on tirades and whitepapers are written about how the TCO is too high because of the training necessary, etc."
These are very va
Re:Kool! (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Kool! (Score:3, Insightful)
Me.
I'll be the first to admit that I do really like some of KDE's flexibility
You like some of the flexibility, another user likes another part of the flexibility, another user thinks the parts you regard as flexibility is useless crap. This is just as stupid an argument as saying most users only need 10% of the features that MS Office has. True but obviously flawed since everyone uses a different set of features.
That said I'd have no problem moving s
Re:Kool! (Score:2)
KDE's kiosk mode and associated manager/wizards allow you to tune it to a degree not possible with Windows. If you find it overly complex, then fix it -- it is actually pretty simple to do with KDE.
No, they don't (Score:3, Insightful)
No, they don't. When something new and cool comes up, it's praised. That's pretty much describing the Linux kernel right there.
Reviewers go on tirades and whitepapers are written about how the TCO is too high because of the training necessary, etc.
That's a bit misleading. The TCO arguments have to do with server and network administration, not desktop Linux (i.e., KDE/GNOME).
As far as desktop reviewers, they go
Re:spell checking hmm... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:KDE vs. GNOME (Score:2, Informative)
Alas this is very FALSE. You can develop QT based apps and charge for them, as much as you what to charge, as long as you use the GPL as your license. As long as you make the source available per stated in the GPL License, etheir as a free download, or available on a CD for no more than the cost of media + shipping.
Re:KDE vs. GNOME (Score:5, Insightful)
[KDE] is not the best for developers since they cannot create commercial application for it without paying TrollTech. I wonder how tyrannical Microsoft would be if they would ask you to pay them for using Window Forms, Win32 API, WTL, MFC, or any other API they have. Not everyone wants to create GPL applications, nor do they want to pay the TrollTech tax.
Two things:
* You don't pay to use the various Windows APIs, you pay to use Windows. That's the product they sell. The APIs are the incentive to use it. Trolltech's product is QT. That's how they actually make that pesky money that lets them have the GPL version.
* If you're doing commercial software development, you expect to pay to do it. It's just like any other business. The cost of buying computers, dev tools, office chairs, etc. are trivial in comparison to big costs like salaries, office space and bandwidth, not to mention the income you expect to make from selling the product.
Re:KDE vs. GNOME (Score:3, Insightful)
So where lies the difference?