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KDE 3.3 Release to Coincide with KDE Community World Summit

Posted by Anonymous on Monday 10/May/2004, @03:54
from the full-steam-ahead dept.
What an exciting KDE summer! Release dude Coolo is planning the KDE 3.3 release for just 3 days before "aKademy" starts: The release plan was published on Saturday for discussion! Developers should make sure to get the stuff listed they plan to have ready for 3.3 in the planned-features document as soon as possible. KDE 3.3 Alpha is prepared around May 23rd and June 1st will see the first freeze (excluding outstanding listed features and i18n strings) kicking in.

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XML error
by Lou on Monday 10/May/2004, @08:06

XML error on the planned features pages!

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Re: XML error by Andras Mantia on Monday 10/May/2004, @08:15

Re: XML error by TXLogic on Tuesday 18/May/2004, @05:59

Re: XML error by Nicolas Goutte on Tuesday 18/May/2004, @07:20

Re: XML error by Prast on Saturday 01/Jan/2005, @10:04

Quality Feedback Agent
by AC on Monday 10/May/2004, @09:10

Does anyone have more details on the Quality Feedback Agent? Will it be similar to mozilla's talkback?

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working pdf viewer in 3.3?
by Daniel Frein on Monday 10/May/2004, @10:24

I hope that there will be a working pdf viewer in kde-3.3. With kghostview I can't print about 80% of my pdfs (bug 61922 "null setpagesize", open since 2003-07-31). And kpdf is unusuable in most cases (some graphics are upside-down, troubles with included fonts, hyperlinks are drawn as huge black boxes, very slow,...). I haven't noticed any improvements in the last half year. Not everyone works with pdfs every day, but if you do, you still need acroread...

Daniel

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Re: working pdf viewer in 3.3? by chris on Monday 10/May/2004, @10:28
Re: working pdf viewer in 3.3? by Thomas on Monday 10/May/2004, @22:45

Re: working pdf viewer in 3.3? by Daniel Frein on Monday 10/May/2004, @23:38

Re: working pdf viewer in 3.3? by Asokan on Tuesday 11/May/2004, @00:08

Re: working pdf viewer in 3.3? by Nobody on Tuesday 11/May/2004, @04:05

Usability
by MandrakeUser on Monday 10/May/2004, @11:00

Dear Friends, I love KDE, it is my only DE. I think the internal architecture
(in part thank to Qt) is just outstanding. This is clear when you see how well the component model works (things like DCOP and all)

The 2 fronts where I think KDE can get stronger are Usability and Consolidation.

USABILITY: It would be great to prioritize the Usability project,really. Some things can be much more user friendly:

1) Config menues: add consistently (through the apps) an "advanced options" button, and just leave a few relevant options for the "regular user". As an example, take the config dialog in Konqueror, there are so many options that it is overwhelming. It takes me quite a bit of time to navigate through them and I am a nerd ;-)

2) File associations: they really are hard to set up if you don't know exactly what to do. There is no waay to fall back to "defaults" for instance. This is another functionality that should always be available I think: a "Defaults" button.

CONSOLIDATION: Some areas are nicely coordinated (Office, recently PIM, etc). But things like multimedia need some consolidation. There are several audio apps, some of them overlap, some of them are hardly useful, I think that some integration and consolidation is needed. There should be one killer Photo program (digikam for me ;-), one killer media player, etc. I end up using Noatun for some things, real player for some others, KMplayer for others ... it's all good but integration would be better :-)

Just my 2cts thinking of the future. And yes, I love KDE, and I find it better than any other GUI I ever used, including windows :-) (never tried MacOS)

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Re: Usability by JeroenV on Monday 10/May/2004, @11:58

Re: Usability by Ian Whiting on Tuesday 11/May/2004, @14:43

Re: Usability by Datschge on Wednesday 12/May/2004, @17:20

Re: Usability by Tom Chance on Monday 10/May/2004, @14:19
Re: Usability by Manfred Tremmel on Tuesday 11/May/2004, @10:06

no (ruby) bindings update?
by rb on Monday 10/May/2004, @12:41

I'm most interested in the ruby bindings. Won't it be released "officially" in the 3.3 packages?

Raph

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Re: no (ruby) bindings update? by David on Monday 10/May/2004, @14:42
Re: no (ruby) bindings update? by Richard Dale on Monday 10/May/2004, @22:03

Re: no (ruby) bindings update? by Christian Loose on Tuesday 11/May/2004, @00:48

Re: no (ruby) bindings update? by Richard Dale on Tuesday 11/May/2004, @01:55

Java bindings by Boudewijn Rempt on Tuesday 11/May/2004, @03:35

Re: Java bindings by Richard Dale on Tuesday 11/May/2004, @04:06

Re: Java bindings by Boudewijn Rempt on Tuesday 11/May/2004, @04:08

Re: Java bindings by Richard Dale on Tuesday 11/May/2004, @04:53
Re: Java bindings by Zoltan Bartko on Tuesday 11/May/2004, @10:04

Re: Java bindings by Richard Dale on Tuesday 11/May/2004, @10:31
Re: Java bindings by Boudewijn Rempt on Tuesday 11/May/2004, @11:27

Re: Java bindings by Roberto Alsina on Tuesday 11/May/2004, @10:25

Good!
by dizzl on Monday 10/May/2004, @13:46

I think shorter release cycles like this (6-9 months max) are very good to keep the developer and user communities active. Keep up the good work!

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Re: Good! by Richard Moore on Monday 10/May/2004, @16:20

Re: Good! by Annno v. Heimburg on Tuesday 11/May/2004, @00:26

Re: Good! by Tom Chance on Tuesday 11/May/2004, @03:21
Re: Good! by Richard Moore on Tuesday 11/May/2004, @04:56

Updates
by Erich Vinson on Monday 10/May/2004, @14:14

I am hoping for the new kde-pim release sooner than later. The promised features like Groupware integration, HTML mail editing, etc. will push KDE over the top.

I am also SO looking forward to the bugfixes like the kate bugs, the klipper freezing kicker, etc.

BTW I like the shorter release cycle. Keep up the good work!

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Re: Updates by David on Monday 10/May/2004, @14:43
Re: Updates by Kolbj�rn Barmen on Tuesday 11/May/2004, @00:41

Re: Updates by Anonymous on Tuesday 11/May/2004, @00:48

Qt Vs GTK look & feel
by zammi on Tuesday 11/May/2004, @03:51

I like to see future releases of KDE include patches to give both Qt & Gtk apps same look & feel. Sometime I feel odd to see different many look & feel within same desktop env.

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Re: Qt Vs GTK look & feel by Nobody on Tuesday 11/May/2004, @04:01

kdebase without X11-dependencies
by MM on Tuesday 11/May/2004, @04:02

"Make kdebase compile (and run) without dependencies on X11"

As far as I know, ksmserver needs X for session management functionality of KDE, and ksmserver is included in kdebase, I think.

Same for DCOP, which I assume is part of kdebase and also depends on X.

While I can imagine a KDE without session management, I can't in case of DCOP. Will DCOPs dependence on X be removed (by what=, or is DCOP replaced with DBUS in KDE 3.3? And how will the session management thing be handeled?

Or am I completely wrong with my assumptions?

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Re: kdebase without X11-dependencies by Thomas on Tuesday 11/May/2004, @08:15

Re: kdebase without X11-dependencies by Roberto Alsina on Tuesday 11/May/2004, @10:29

Re: kdebase without X11-dependencies by MM on Tuesday 11/May/2004, @10:47

Icons...
by Norberto Bensa on Tuesday 11/May/2004, @08:43

> NEW IN KDE: Import Noia Icontheme....

Oh C'mon!!! That's like 14MB more to kdeartwork tarball!

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Noia is great by Alex on Tuesday 11/May/2004, @19:15

Re: Noia is great by Norberto Bensa on Tuesday 11/May/2004, @19:36

Evolution Exchange connector
by geert on Tuesday 11/May/2004, @14:41

Will the open sourcing of the evolution EXchange connector impact on this?

Is this usefull vor kontakt?

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Re: Evolution Exchange connector by David on Tuesday 11/May/2004, @15:02

Connector for MS Exchange Server
by thesimplefix on Tuesday 11/May/2004, @15:52

I would like to see the newly GPL-ed 'Connector for MS Exchange Server' offered by Novell integrated into Kontact by Default. This would be sweet!

The source can be downloaded from:

http://ftp.ximian.com/pub/source/evolution/ximian-connector-1.4.7.tar.gz

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Re: Connector for MS Exchange Server by David on Wednesday 12/May/2004, @04:49

Re: Connector for MS Exchange Server by theboywho on Wednesday 12/May/2004, @07:49

Re: Connector for MS Exchange Server by Bob on Wednesday 30/Jun/2004, @23:28

Kicker drawer
by Zack Cerza on Wednesday 12/May/2004, @21:02

I know, I know, I should just file a wishlist bug. I'm whining instead.
The one and only thing I've been missing since I defected from GNOME a while back is the panel drawer. I really hope a kicker developer feels the same way and eventually clones it. If not... I'll get around to learning Qt eventually.

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Network applet
by Anders Jansson on Sunday 20/Jun/2004, @07:05

I't would be greate if you added a standard applet that shows the speed and etc for the network like in windows 2000 and XP, I think gnome has one of those applets.

Keep up the good work!

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