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  KDE 3.1 RC2: Ready For A Hammering
KDE Official News Posted by Dirk Mueller on Monday 04/Nov/2002, @18:25
from the you-better-download-it-dept dept.
The KDE Project today released KDE 3.1 RC2, probably the last release candidate for KDE 3.1. A good number of showstoppers in RC1 have been fixed, and the new default Crystal-SVG icon set has been polished based on the valuable feedback received. Nevertheless, please give this RC2 another round of thorough testing to make sure all the major wrinkles have been ironed out. Please note that the kdebindings package still suffers from compilation problems in large parts, but this will be fixed by the final release. Thanks to the community for the feedback so far, let's keep it up and make the 3.1 release everything that is expected!


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Great !!
by GaRaGeD on Monday 04/Nov/2002, @20:13
Too bad i'm over cvs right now, i got desperated and started to dl cvs a couple hours ago, i hope i can get some of those mentioned bugs on kdebindings corrected :-)

Great work KDE team !
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kdebindings
by Adam Treat on Monday 04/Nov/2002, @20:24
I know that Marcus was working on QtC and QtJava just a few days ago. Marcus and David were also working to fix a compilation problem with smoke. Nick, is also working to integrate the latest Qt# into cvs before the release.
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Noatun fixes
by Rayiner Hashem on Monday 04/Nov/2002, @21:10
Currently, Noatun is pretty horribly borked. No other KDE app gives me as much trouble as Noatun. When it isn't segfaulting, it's choking on ShoutCast playlists. And it's still horribly slow to start and very fragile (try loading several thousand songs into a playlist). Anybody working on this for 3.2?
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Binary Packages ?
by _deadfish on Monday 04/Nov/2002, @21:54
Is there going to be a binary package release for this version ?
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Couple of Requests for Future KDE Releases
by Rimmer on Tuesday 05/Nov/2002, @00:15
One thing I really like about Nautilus are the smooth, rounded boxes around the name of an icon when it has been highlighted. It gives Nautilus a very polished, pleasing look. The boxes in Konqeror just don't look as good. The worst part is that icon names (in Konqueror) are NEVER centered in the "highlight" box.

I was also wondering if the kasbar could have an option to look more like a standard taskbar. By this I mean the icons for minimized windows would be longer and thinner (allowing more of the name of the window to be shown). I really (and I mean really) love the thumbnail of minimized windows that pop up from the kasbar. However, the kasbar won't be adequate replacement for a standard taskbar (for me at least) unless you have a better idea what each icon is BEFORE moving the mouse to bring up the thumbnail. Maybe it's just me?
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Recent screenshots anywhere?
by Janne on Tuesday 05/Nov/2002, @01:37
nt
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Funny rendering of web page
by Mita on Tuesday 05/Nov/2002, @02:03
I'm using head instead of the KDE 3.1 branch. Does this page render funny in the branch too:
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1012&message=3701394

When setting the Browser Identification to IE you are suppose to be able to click the image to have it expanded and the menus to the left doesn't work at all for certain items and they are horrible slow...

Regards, Mita
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the changes in Crystal look good!
by dvirsky on Tuesday 05/Nov/2002, @03:16
liked the new back and forward arrows in Crystal. much better than the old green arrows.

however, the icons in kicker and on toolbars (not only when using Crystal) in general suffer from a strange thing: whenever an icon has an antialiased border, the border seems to render withour partial transparency, resulting in pixelated ugly icons.

could this be due to the fact that i couldn't compile qt with Xft support on my RH8.0? which reminds me - has anyone managed to do so on RH8.0?
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no jpeg on thumbnails and Desktop
by Jesús Antonio on Tuesday 05/Nov/2002, @08:14
Hi, i'm unable to display jpeg images on Desktop, and thumbnails are not being
display with that format (rc1 and rc2). And yes, I did compile qt with the suggested option
(-system-libjpeg, -system-libpng, etc). Does anyone have the same problem?

Thanks
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screenshots
by Matjaz Horvat on Tuesday 05/Nov/2002, @08:24
Hi!

Please, show us some screenshots. Thanks in advance!

Bye,
mathjazz
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SVG support?
by Craig Williamson on Tuesday 05/Nov/2002, @11:49
The planned SVG graphics format has been quiet for the last few months. Does/will KDE3.1 have full SVG support or will that come in KDE 3.2?
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Mandrake
by isNaN on Tuesday 05/Nov/2002, @12:01
Binarys in cooker now!!

WOHOO!!
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What about qt 3.1?
by Shamyl Zakariya on Tuesday 05/Nov/2002, @12:06
I'm curious about qt3.1 which will be used in KDE 3.1. What's different? Have the fontconfig and xft2 patches been applied and tested?

I'll find out when I get home from work, as I set it all to build before I went to sleep last night (and it was still churning when I left for this morning ;)

Nonetheless, I'm curious about changes in qt 3.1

Anybody care to enlighten me? The trolltech pages weren't as detailed as I'd hope.
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KDE & Prelinking?
by Janne on Wednesday 06/Nov/2002, @04:16
Is any work being done to make KDE work with prelinking? It seems to be that one of the biggest gripes people have with KDE is the slow startup of apps. Prelinking would eliminate that problems. The problem is that KDE doesn't work with prelinking.
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3.1 Final ... when ?
by NewMandrakeUser on Wednesday 06/Nov/2002, @11:47
Will someone please post here when a release date is decided for 3.1 final ?. Thanks !
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/usr/bin/meinproc segmentation fault
by Nocturno on Wednesday 06/Nov/2002, @12:42
Hi,

When I compile kmess 0.9.7 with kde3.1 the /usr/bin/meinproc --check --cache index.cache.bz2 ./index.docbook gives me segfault. Anyone knows why (bug?)? (with kde 3.0.3 this not happen)

Thanks,
./noc
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great release
by Kohn on Wednesday 06/Nov/2002, @14:22
This is a great release. Thank you :)
It feels real stable and polished.
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Is a 500 mhz machine with 128 megs RAM enough?
by Curious Windows user on Wednesday 06/Nov/2002, @19:27
I upgraded this system to Win2K and was pleasantly surprised at how muc hbetter it worked that with win98 (despite low memory). It seems to have *much* improved algorithms for swapping and memory use etc. Whne I tried gentoo with all the whistles (preemptive kernel patch etc.) I was very disappointed with KDE3.0.2's speed. Very unsnappy.

Are there any improvements in this situation eminent?
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Licq
by Paul PARENA van Erk on Wednesday 06/Nov/2002, @23:09
I'm using the Mandrake Cooker RPM's and Licq is acting up. VERY weird. If I set myself away (or N/A or anything else, but online/offline) it gives me the automatic reply dialog, but when I click OK, it won't go away. I have to exit Licq to get rid of it. Also, instead of pressing <CTRL>-<ENTER> once, I have to press it twice to send a msg... ???
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Showstopper! Kde 3.1 RC2 lost its mind :)
by Giovanni on Thursday 07/Nov/2002, @05:35
Check the attached file...
By the way, clicking on 'Yes' didn't produce satisfactory results :)

Ciao,
Giovanni
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Release candidate with known problems?
by Jim Dabell on Thursday 07/Nov/2002, @06:22
What on earth is the point of saying something like "don't worry about bug x or y, they'll be fixed in the final release"? This is a *release candidate* ffs! Any known bugs should be fixed before making it available, unless it's been decided that they will be put off until the next version.

A release candidate isn't a reminder to fix the showstoppers before final release - that's what alphas and betas are for. A release candidate is what you put out because you think it's ready, and just want to make sure.
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./configure misses things
by Jim Philips on Friday 08/Nov/2002, @06:54
In compiling kdebase, configure gave me a warning that I needed libart and libxslt. I downloaded those things and tried a clean configure again. It still said they weren't there. I never did figure out how to make it see them.

And in trying to build kdegraphics, make errored out on libkscan because I didn't have Xsane installed. Fine, I thought, I don't need that program. So, I went back and ran:

./configure --without-kamera --without-kooka --without-libkscan

I could see that, as it configured, it completely ignored these flags. So, when I tried to build again, it errored out. Apparently, there is no way to tell configure that I don't want these packages, despite what ./configure --help says.
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Is clearing the history bug in konqueror fixed?
by David on Friday 08/Nov/2002, @06:57
Unfortunately I don't have the time to compile the binaries myself to check this out, but I was told this bug was fixed in the cvs code back when 3.0.2 was out. Has it made it into the build yet? The bug is selecting empty contents on the konqueror location bar does indeed remove the history completions, but exiting konqueror and restarting it restores the history (as if the changes aren't being saved). This of course is highly dangerous because anyone using your browser can see exactly what sites you've been to and there is no way to remove them.
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MAKE IT FASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by Anonymous on Monday 11/Nov/2002, @08:28
Make it faster, KDE IS SLOW, not as much as OS/X but it's slow. That's way I'm still using Gnome1.4+GMC

Anyway, I don't know why, but Gnome2 still looks "more professional" than KDE3. Maybe it's that Windowish feeling KDE has, thate makes as if it was a copy of windows.
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I am here to say thank you:)
by From China on Tuesday 12/Nov/2002, @01:08
Very Great Work! I've just finish compiling a fresh LFS4.0 and KDE3.1rc2. The speed of kde3.1 is impressive. And I love the icons:)
Thank you guys for this wonderful work. I am looking forward the final release.
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