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  KDE 3.4 is Out
KDE Official News Posted by Jonathan Riddell on Wednesday 16/Mar/2005, @15:33
from the coolo-went-to-bed dept.
KDE 3.4 has been released today. "After more than a half year of development the KDE Project is happy to be able to announce a new major release of the award-winning K Desktop Environment. Among the many new features that have been incorporated, the improvements in accessibility are most remarkable." Read the full announcement for an overview of the many changes. You can download source and binary packages from download.kde.org or use the Konstruct automatic build tool.

Lars Stetten from the accessibility user group Linaccess said about the release: "The new accessibility features in KDE 3.4 are an important step for the future, to enable disabled people to get to know the KDE desktop and to join its community."

As well as the new accessiblity features major improvements have been made to KPDF, groupware server support for Kontact and Kopete, HAL support for detection of removable media and the inclusion of Akregator RSS feed reader. In total 6,500 bugs have been fixed and more than 1,700 wishlist items fulfilled.

Many thanks to all of KDE's hard working developers, translators and helpers.



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Live-CD
by Berkz on Wednesday 16/Mar/2005, @16:18
Any news of a Live-CD?
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Cheers!
by Eike Hein on Wednesday 16/Mar/2005, @16:34
It's a great day for free software.
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XComposite extension support
by Johnny on Wednesday 16/Mar/2005, @17:11
Reading through the KDE 3.4 features list, I noticed this under Base/KWin:

"Support for the XComposite extension through managing a fork of xcompmgr. Including windows translucency depending on window state, configurable window shadows and fading effects on window mapping"

But I don't see anything in the highlights section about this...

Seems to me that if 3.4 introduced true alpha blending & real drop shadows, that would be quite a highlight. I'm guessing that the underlying support is now in place, but other aspects of the system still need to be updated?

Anyone know any details about this?

So, I guess my question is, how close are we to a 3D accelerated KDE with all the eye candy?
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QT4
by ch on Wednesday 16/Mar/2005, @17:15
YEAH Lets go for KDE 4 with QT4 and work with trolltech to make the initial qt4 a nice release and perfect fitted for kde.
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The secret KDE 4.0 feature plan ;)
by kdt on Wednesday 16/Mar/2005, @17:25
http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/kde-4.0-features.html
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Fedora Core 3 RPMS
by desau on Wednesday 16/Mar/2005, @17:33
Does anyone know who built the Fedora Core 3 RPMS?
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Congratulations!
by Al on Wednesday 16/Mar/2005, @17:47
This is a fantastic release, and when people will use it, they will be blown away. Or maybe before that with the Flash demo.

Also, it's kind of bad timing for linspire, they released Five-O with KDE 3.3.2 a day before KDE 3.4 was out.
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Cool!
by Matt on Wednesday 16/Mar/2005, @17:51
Way to go KDE!!!

I can hardly wait till my distro ships it.

But, I am confused, is 3.5 next or 4.0. And please don't tell me it's being developed in parallel because that is insane!
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KDE & OpenLDAP
by José Costa on Wednesday 16/Mar/2005, @18:00
is there any project porting the config files of KDE to LDAP?

it would be wonderfull if i could configure many kde desktops with openldap.
using openldap + kiosk would be excelent and easy to administer like windows 2000 Active Directory.
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I am building it using konstruct
by idlecat on Wednesday 16/Mar/2005, @19:30
Next step, it will be packaged into rpms and be used by all my colleague.
Can not wait:)
I bet there must be many people downloading. So slowwwww
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Debian
by ac on Wednesday 16/Mar/2005, @23:27
uhm, does anyone know a source of debian/unstable packages...?
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Emerging now....
by Anonymous on Thursday 17/Mar/2005, @00:31
I just want to say thank you!
If it's as good as RC1, and I'm sure it will, it just rocks!
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Feature Guide?
by ac on Thursday 17/Mar/2005, @01:02
There was talk about a feature guide with flash movies (http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-promo&m=110752276523698&w=2). Is this still coming?

A more visual "what's new" like the GNOME guys did for 2.10 (http://www.gnome.org/start/2.10/notes/rnwhatsnew.html) would be really nice. Instead of just linking to the very incomplete, former 3.4 feature plan.

Where are all the non-developer contributors who would like to help KDE when you need them? ;)
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OT question
by Ted on Thursday 17/Mar/2005, @01:39
Just installed KDE 3.4 from Suse RPMs. When I use Konqueror for web browsing there is this very annoying animation when I try to use the mouse scrollwheel. Weirdly, it's not there in file management mode! Anyone knows how to switch it off?

Thanks.
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no delete button in konqueror file browser??
by Tom on Thursday 17/Mar/2005, @03:15
only move to trash? Bug or feature?
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Binaries for slack ?
by Douglas on Thursday 17/Mar/2005, @03:46
Are there binaries for slackware ?
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SuSE 8.2 support
by John SUSE Freak on Thursday 17/Mar/2005, @04:19
First of all, I think the guys at SUSE are doing a wonderful job. They released binaries for the betas and RCs, and up until now I've been able to keep my old SUSE 8.2 pretty up to date, KDE included. It's really great to see a distro supporting their users for free for such a long time, right now they're handling 8.2, 9.0, 9.1, and 9.2!!

That said, take some care if you're upgrading SUSE 8.2 as there are some minor problems. One of them is that not all the rpms are provided, for instance kdebase is still 3.3.2 as well as the graphics packages. I hope it's just a matter of time. Still I'm already using many kde 3.4 packages like kdelibs, and other base libs like qt and arts, as well as multimedia, networking, and game packages. All works fine and I even noticed a speed increase. Everything feels smoother.

Now another problem is the libspeex dependency in kdemultimedia3. It's pretty weird, it asks for something like libspeex-0.99.so. It should in fact look for libspeex.so.1. It think they've mess that up. I've installed the rpm for SUSE 9.0 instead and all worked fine, so you might want to try that. That ended up leave me wondering if installing other 9.0 packages that I'm still missing in 8.2 would work too :) But for now I decided to wait.

Good luck!
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Do I need to do "yum "update" for Core 3 RPMs?
by Mike on Thursday 17/Mar/2005, @05:13
I tried the Core 3 RPMs but it complained about a number of dependencies. Do I need to do "yum "update" before installing these RPMs?
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kicker doesn't work
by slavka on Thursday 17/Mar/2005, @09:29
Hi! I've just installed 3.4 from SUSE rpms.
Kicker now looks much better, but I can't drop anything on panel, right-clicking it brings only Help menu.
What's this?
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Thank you guys!
by Roumen Semov on Thursday 17/Mar/2005, @10:46
Guys,
Thank you for all the development efforts you have put into this. KDE is my favorite project out there.
Congratulations!
Roumen Semov
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Congrats to all the developers!
by Anonymous on Thursday 17/Mar/2005, @11:23
Thanks for bringing us the most exciting DE ever!

There was a nice collection of interviews with the developers some years ago... what about a new round?? I'm really curious to virtually meet the people behind KDE :)
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Konstruct Komment
by Robert Knight on Thursday 17/Mar/2005, @11:42
Konstruct is a handy build utility, but it failed first time through because I had a space in my Konstruct install path.

Congratulations to the KDE team on another excellent release.

Long may KDE prosper!
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KDE for Solaris
by Mathi on Thursday 17/Mar/2005, @11:44
I've been using KDE on Solaris10... I'm using KDE 3.3 'cos only 3.3 binaries are available for solaris10. But I find KDE 3.4 Solaris 9 binaries under "3.4/contrib/Solaris/GCC/9"
Will that work on solaris 10?
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3.4 RC1
by Pilaf on Thursday 17/Mar/2005, @12:59
Since there was no RC2, how is this different from RC1? Judging by the size of the packages this obviously isn't RC1, but where can RC1 users learn about the differences or at least get a figure of how much this changed since?

By the way, I am in great debt with the KDE team, I absolutely love this project! Thanks so much!
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The announcement has one minior Issue...
by PJ on Thursday 17/Mar/2005, @13:09
In my opinion a little thing is missing in the Announcement:
A list of all programs that ship with the release.
This should be mentioned on the info page IMHO.

Nevertheless: Congratulations to the KDE-Team!

Peter
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Compilation errors, please help.
by ac on Thursday 17/Mar/2005, @14:00
I'm building it with konstruct. But I'm getting this compilation error in the kdepim component:

In file included from conduit_notepad_la.all_cc.cc:2:
notepad-conduit.cc: In member function `int
NotepadActionThread::unpackNotePad(NotePad*, unsigned char*, int)':
notepad-conduit.cc:235: `struct body_t' has no member named `dataType'
make[6]: *** [conduit_notepad_la.all_cc.lo] Error 1
make[6]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/kde/kde3.4/konstruct/kde/kdepim/work/kdepim-3.4.0/kpilot/conduits/notepadconduit'
make[5]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

Can anyone help? I'm using Redhat 9.0 with gcc 3.2.2.

Another thing I noticed is that konstruct is missing a Makefile under konstruct/apps, how do I build the apps then, without doing make in each individual app?
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KPDF and fonts
by KDE User on Thursday 17/Mar/2005, @15:55
Is it just me, or does kpdf handle fonts significantly worse than xpdf (and acrobat reader)?

I've attached a snapshot of both kpdf and xpdf rendering the same PDF file. The top is kpdf, the bottom xpdf. Both are at 100%.

Anyone else seeing such a discrepancy?
Click to download attachment kpdf.png
7KB (7679 bytes)
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Trouble with KMail
by charles on Thursday 17/Mar/2005, @16:42
I have had trouble with KMail since the rc1 release,and I thought it was just something that would be ironed out. Somehow, I cannot send email at all! At the release of the 3.4, the same problem is still present., even after telline KMail to check what my ISP's server supports! I googled and came across advice that I should install everything cyrus-sasl*. This I did and I am now able to send email. Question is: Why don't the developers somehow get this cyrus* stuff bundled in such a way that it gets installed?
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Konq slow to open onto a directory
by Mike on Thursday 17/Mar/2005, @17:24
I still find Konq to be too slow in opening a directory onto my drive. I have a SATA 200Gb drive hooked up to 1Gb of memory and an AMD64 3200.
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arts Issue
by IronMan on Thursday 17/Mar/2005, @18:32
I upgraded Suse 9.1 to KDE 3.4 via Yast. Everything went well; but as with the last upgrade to 3.3.2 (...and the version or two before, if I remember right), I found that system sounds did not work at all. Previously, I found it was because of the arts build. At that time, someone else built arts on their end from the source and posted it, which fixed my problem (...and that of many others with the same issue). Not sure of why this seems to be the norm or if it can be fixed by KDE or Suse this time around. Other than that, so far I'm VERY happy with the upgrade. Thanks go out to the KDE Team - Your efforts are very much appreciated.
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KDesktop crashes after update (SUSE 9.2)
by MK on Thursday 17/Mar/2005, @22:55
Hi,

i get following error after i upgraded Suse 9.2 to KDE 3.4:

Could not start process Unable to create io-slave: klauncher said: Unknownn protocol 'file'.

Also i dont have any shortcuts on panel and i have empty main panel menu.

Did anyone experienced this?

Regards,

Marek
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Kopete can not handle proxy very well
by idlecat on Thursday 17/Mar/2005, @23:24
Just hang there with no response in my case.
Anyone else experience this?
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KMail Composer
by Flitcraft on Thursday 17/Mar/2005, @23:26
Excellent release!

There's just one thing I want to know: how can the multiple To: lines in KMail's composer window be disabled?
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The settings window in KMail is empty
by Mike on Friday 18/Mar/2005, @05:04
I installed KDE 3.4 onto Core 3 from sources, but the settings window in KMail is empty. Must track that down and see what's wrong.
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OT: Suse 9.2 and OpenOffice.Org-kde
by Anonymous Bastard on Friday 18/Mar/2005, @05:32
This is offtopic and I know that the Suse 9.2 builds aren't Suse supported.
However, ever since I upgraded to Kde 3.4, the KFilePicker crashes in OO.o.

For instance if I choose to open anything it crashes, same if I try to save.

Anyone have any workaround?

/ab
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Customized KDE 3.4 Demo Video Clips
by Anonymous on Friday 18/Mar/2005, @10:07
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=21947
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Speed Boost
by Robert Knight on Friday 18/Mar/2005, @14:20
I have spent a few hours playing around with the new release now - it seems noticeably faster in quite a few areas, logon and Konqueror launching in particular.

Well done guys :)
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Kopete Cannot Check MSN Mail
by IronMan on Friday 18/Mar/2005, @16:17
Before KDE 3.4, Kopete would tell me that I had MSN Mail (Hotmail) waiting and when I clicked on it it would take me to view it in Konqueror. Now when I click on it I get an Konqueror opens and I get an error message that the tmp file cannot be found. Anyone else....?
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Kontact Annoyance
by cirehawk on Sunday 20/Mar/2005, @00:22
I'm having a minor issue with Kontact in this release that I will try to describe. I have an IMAP account that I access with Kmail/Kontact. When I start up Kontact, it contacts my IMAP server and I'm prompted for my password. However, at this point I get a busy cursor and cannot type anything into the password field. In the background, I can see the Kontact startup screen that says "Loading Kontact". All I can do is click the close box to close the dialog box. Once I close the dialog box, Kontact continues loading and I get the dialog box a second time prompting me for my password. At this point I can enter my password and then can access my IMAP account.

Any ideas as to why this is happening? By the way, if I load KMail standalone, this does not happen. It also did not happen in previous versions of Kontact.

Paul.....
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New System Icon
by cirehawk on Sunday 20/Mar/2005, @00:43
On some of the screenshots of KDE3.4 that I have seen, there is a system icon on the desktop, which when opened shows system information (ie Home Folder, Network Folders, Applications, etc.). The rpm's for my distro don't seem to have this configured to show on my desktop. How do I go about setting that up?

Paul.....
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