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First Alpha of KDE 3.4 Released 26

Posted by michael from the be-the-first-one-on-your-block dept.
JRiddell writes "The KDE 3.4 release cycle has started with the first alpha release. 'Please test this out over the holidays and add your contributions. We welcome code patches, translations, documentation, great icons and detailed bug reports. A great way in to helping KDE is by joining one of the KDE Quality Teams. Get it from download.kde.org or try Konstruct.'"
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  • I'm a debian stable user, so I won't get this for a few years. Are there screenshots up somewhere for it?

    • Re:Screenshots? (Score:5, Funny)

      by DrMorris ( 156226 ) on Thursday December 09, 2004 @02:55PM (#11045286)
      They told that GNOME 2.6 would not get it into sarge. The release date for sarge was pushed further. And GNOME 2.6 made it into sarge.

      They told that GNOME 2.8 would not get it into sarge. The release date for sarge was pushed further. And GNOME 2.8 made it into sarge.

      They told that KDE 3.4 would not get it into sarge...
      • Of course, sarge isn't out yet and it's release date was, what, a couple months ago? I didn't mean to pick-on debian at all, I just want to see some screenshots!
      • First they included Gnome 2.6, and I did not speak up because I did not run Gnome 2.6 Then they included Gnome 2.8, and I did not speak up because I did not run Gnome 2.8 And when they included KDE 3.4, there was no one left to speak up for me.
      • In case you'd like to know, there are problems [debian.org] which the Debian KDE people are working to address [debian.org] so that KDE can migrate from the unstable repositories. Other distros throw just anything in without much QA but Debian has horrendously high standards =)
      • I'd bet you that MSIE version 12, the second one available for Win, Mac, Linux, QNX, FreeBSD, and AmigaOS, will make it into sarge, too.

    • Re:Screenshots? (Score:5, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 09, 2004 @03:53PM (#11045949)
      here ya go [greenhouse.gov.au]

    • Re:Screenshots? (Score:4, Informative)

      by FlipmodePlaya ( 719010 ) on Thursday December 09, 2004 @04:17PM (#11046174) Journal
      From what I understand, it wasn't a major graphical overhaul. You can find an official feature plan here [kde.org]. It looks like KHTML, the Kicker, and the PIM suite (plus Kopete) got the big additions.

      • KSVG.... (Score:3, Interesting)

        by oliverthered ( 187439 )
        Sadly missed will be support for Animations,CSS, Paths and Filters from ksvg..

        It would have been nice for them to drive to finish off core existing features

        Shouldn't it just be a 3.3.2 as the only major new feature I can see is XSL, xpath and editing support for khtml and a few async speed ups here an there (dbus anyone?)

      • It looks like KHTML, the Kicker, and the PIM suite (plus Kopete) got the big additions.

        Until now, KMail could not filter on IMAP accounts, it seems. Hope that the following does not imply that the IMAP server must support Sieve :

        Redesign filters to use Sieve internally. Allow editing of Sieve scripts on IMAP servers to get rid of the bug reports a la "KMail doesn't support IMAP folders for filtering" Marc Mutz

    • Re:Screenshots? (Score:3, Informative)

      by twener ( 603089 )
      It mostly looks like KDE 3.3 [kde.org] but with Plastik as default style and window decoration.
  • i cant want for kde 4 though, to include support for xorgs xserver level transparancy and the much improved qt4. apparently theyre dumping arts too but im not sure when for.

    The future is bright, the future is orange.

    • Re:YEAH!!! (Score:2, Funny)

      by jdowland ( 764773 )
      The future is bright, the future is orange.

      Surely that depends on what background you have underneath your transparent window - it could be a murky brown colour.
  • I have to rant on this because nobody is doing anything about it.

    Slashdot has repeatedly been announcing valueless releases of high profile projects, but releases that are actually useable go unannounced.

    While ./ editors are selecting e17 CVS (yes, just a lousy CVS tree without instructions), and now the first alpha of KDE (like you're going to use it...) Important releases like Afterstep 2.0, or 2.01... and Windowmaker go unnannounced. In the past XFCE got posted, and /. even posted Afterstep 2 beta1.
  • *yawns*.. When is kde 4 due? I remember looking for info on it awhile ago, but not much luck.

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