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| KDE @ LinuxWorldConference & Expo 2001 |
 Posted by Dre on Thursday 25/Oct/2001, @12:25
from the see-ya-there dept.
The KDE Project today revealed its plans
for the LinuxWorldConference and
Expo, a European B2B summit for the Open Source community.
Last year, in the conference's debut, over 11,000 trade visitors and
100 exhibitors attended. The conference will take place from
October 30 - November 1, 2001, at the
Frankfurt
Fairgrounds, Frankfurt, Germany.
We invite everybody to meet KDE developers, KDE enthusiasts and, of course, our
mascot Konqi, at the
KDE booth. Some details about the planned events, demonstrations and
presentations, courtesy of
Kurt Pfeifle and
Torsten "Tackat" Rahn, follow.
KDE at LinuxWorldConference and
Expo 2001
General. As usual, KDE will staff a
booth where KDE users can see the latest stable (2.2.1) and development
(3.0.0alpha) KDE releases, ask questions, and socialize with KDE
developers.
KDE Printing Demonstration. Kurt Pfeifle
will be demonstrating the latest
KDEPrint capabilities using
the high-quality CUPS and
Gimp-Print drivers.
The KDE booth will feature two printers:
- an Epsontm
Stylus Photo 895, which with the aforementioned drivers produces
superior photo quality output; and
- a 21-page-per-minute, full-color, full-featured Danka
IC 2100 laser printer, which will be used to generate personalized
output for booth visitors
(including, if you want, a nicely constructed KDE pamphlet, with the
option of including a freshly taken digital photo of the visitor at
the booth or with KDE developers).
User/Developer Presentations. KDE developers will also offer
two presentations, targeted at developers and
users, respectively, through the LWE Conference Program:
Thanks.
The KDE Project would like to thank the KDE
League Inc., Epson and Danka for supporting KDE
at the LinuxWorldConference & Expo 2001.
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how about few nice KDE 3.0 screen shots
by Asif Ali Rizwaan on Friday 26/Oct/2001, @04:08
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I am very excited about KDE 3, I wish I could see some nice screenshots!
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Re: how about few nice KDE 3.0 screen shots
by Terry on Friday 26/Oct/2001, @04:39
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I don't think there is much to see yet. It is my understanding that the alpha of KDE3 was just a straight port of KDE2.2 to QT3.
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Re: how about few nice KDE 3.0 screen shots
by Ralf Nolden on Friday 26/Oct/2001, @05:28
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Well, there is the one or the other new thingy in there like the side graphics in the K menu (which can be turned on or off) and the new spashscreen :) But basically, it's improvements that are now implemented. I'd like to mention that KOffice and KHTML seem to be the place with the most activity :)
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Re: how about few nice KDE 3.0 screen shots
by julo on Friday 26/Oct/2001, @05:42
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KOffice is active ? Where can I have some news about the current development ? The koffice.org seems freezed for months.
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Re: how about few nice KDE 3.0 screen shots
by emmanuel on Friday 26/Oct/2001, @12:07
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koffice is DEFINITELY active!
check out lists.kde.org/?l=koffice
and
lists.kde.org/?l=koffice-devel
for mailing list archives.
of course, few more developers would still help, it's amazing how much they did considering the little number of them...
btw, writing my dissertation (about 45 pages for now) on kword from koffice 1.1 :o))
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Re: how about few nice KDE 3.0 screen shots
by ac on Saturday 27/Oct/2001, @08:57
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How do you make you citations endnotes, footnotes ?
Is there support for this in KWord?
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Re: how about few nice KDE 3.0 screen shots
by FO on Saturday 27/Oct/2001, @14:39
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in cvs yes
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Re: how about few nice KDE 3.0 screen shots
by Richard Moore on Friday 26/Oct/2001, @05:59
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There're also lots of nice improvements to the DCOP scripting facilities.
Rich.
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Re: how about few nice KDE 3.0 screen shots
by me on Friday 26/Oct/2001, @08:57
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I'm running then alpha version (2.91 CVS >= 20011012) and it seems to be alot faster then
kde 2.2.1. There is also a very cool window deco named Glow where as the name says glows when the mouse is over one of it's buttons. Very very Kool
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Re: how about few nice KDE 3.0 screen shots
by Navindra Umanee on Friday 26/Oct/2001, @09:11
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Really? Faster than KDE 2.2.1? Well, that's a relief and very good to hear. (unfortunately, I can't check for myself as I'm on vacation and the downloads are just impractical at this point...)
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Re: how about few nice KDE 3.0 screen shots
by Rakko on Friday 26/Oct/2001, @12:56
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I've also found it to be faster, when starting up the desktop and when launching new konq windows. Unfortunately, kcontrol and konq keep krashing, but what do I expect with an alpha? :)
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Re: how about few nice KDE 3.0 screen shots
by julo on Monday 29/Oct/2001, @07:41
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so !?
Where are the screenshots everybody is waiting for ? :))
Please make us happy !
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Re: how about few nice KDE 3.0 screen shots
by me on Monday 29/Oct/2001, @12:16
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well... it looks/feels like kde-2.2.1 on steroids (=faster)
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Re: how about few nice KDE 3.0 screen shots
by not me on Monday 29/Oct/2001, @13:18
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There really are very few user-visible changes. Everything looks exactly the same except for the side K-menu graphic, the startup spash screen, and the fact that applet handles on Kicker have little menu popup buttons. Also, there is a bug preventing anti-aliased fonts from being used so my desktop doesn't look as cool as it used to. There are a lot of bugs, in fact. The splash screen is available at www.kde-look.org if you want to take a look.
A lot of work is going on "behind the scenes" right now, and I think the user-visible changes (like new styles/icons/etc) won't happen until later.
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Stuffed Konqi
by Mastenson on Friday 26/Oct/2001, @10:04
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Is it possible to buy a stuffed Konqi? If not you might considering selling them online. I would buy one to support Kde development and give it so my son.
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Re: Stuffed Konqi
by TT on Friday 26/Oct/2001, @11:31
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I can second that, except that it would be for my girl friend :)
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Re: Stuffed Konqi
by jj on Friday 26/Oct/2001, @12:04
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Here is a web page for information on stuffed konqis. However, it looks like the vendor has only a web page in German.
http://www.kde.org/kde-stuff.html
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Re: Stuffed Konqi
by Justin on Friday 26/Oct/2001, @12:12
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If you click in the right spots you'll find an english version I believe. I'm from the USA, and I got my stuffed Konqi from them without problems.
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Re: Stuffed Konqi
by Inuchan on Tuesday 10/Jun/2008, @09:49
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Where did you click? I was looking all over. I used altavista.com to translate it and it still could not be found. They also want you to register with them to shop unless there is another way.
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(OFFTOPIC) more mosfet.org drama
by Anonymous on Sunday 28/Oct/2001, @12:37
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Mosfet.org is back, but maybe not for long.
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Re: (OFFTOPIC) more mosfet.org drama
by reihal on Monday 29/Oct/2001, @00:45
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Looks like it is for long.
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KMenu - graphics
by Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno] on Monday 29/Oct/2001, @00:03
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Could somebody please post a picture of the kmenu with the side graphics?
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Screenshot
by not me on Monday 29/Oct/2001, @10:32
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Here it is. I don't like it and I turned it off right away. Luckily it is easy to do as you can see in the screenshot.
snapshot1.png
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Re: Screenshot
by Jérôme Loisel on Tuesday 30/Oct/2001, @15:53
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Doesn't look very nice, IMHO. Pitch-black is probably not ideal. And a gradient would definitely look nicer. Oh well... as you say, it looks like I can easily turn it off.
Thanks for the screenshot.
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Re: Screenshot
by not me on Tuesday 30/Oct/2001, @17:08
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Well, what I don't like about it is that it gets in the way. You have to move the mouse sideways to get around it before you can use the menu. I have nothing against the actual graphic. I suppose I could get used to it but I still think it is a step backwards.
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