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  KDE 3.5 Release Candidate 1
KDE Official News Posted by binner on Friday 11/Nov/2005, @14:23
from the finally dept.
KDE 3.5 is almost finished, so we have prepared a first release candidate. We want to have it tested as much as possible, so please give it a show. You can download the sources from download.kde.org. To compile them you can use the Konstruct build script . In the short time frame since tarball creation only binary packages for SUSE Linux got finished, Kubuntu are uploading theirs. Thanks for your help in reporting bugs and giving feedback so far. Update: There is now also a Klax Live-CD for this release available.


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I'd like to help out
by This time I want to help out... on Friday 11/Nov/2005, @15:24
This time I want to help out but I'd like to know whether I can get back to my good old KDE 3.4.3 when things do not work out with the KDE 3.5 rc1. I have 1 machine and a single hard disk. I am running Kubuntu Breezy and have done lots of customizations done. If this is not possible, what can I do to mitigate the mess I might find myself in, in case I take the plunge?
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Live ISO
by Alessandro on Friday 11/Nov/2005, @16:16
There will be the Live Klax ISO to test it?

If yes, is there a (possibly simple) way to boot an ISO from HD, without burning it to CD/DVD?

Thanks!
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Not Ready.
by PT on Friday 11/Nov/2005, @17:36
As long as slave forwarding doesnt work.

Try opening a .tar.bz2 in media:/whatever. It doesnt work.

Or is it planned for KDE4 only?
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kdelibs3-arts rpm not available for SUSE 9.3
by Bill on Friday 11/Nov/2005, @17:49
can't find it anywhere (though it's available for Suse 10.0) and kdelibs3-devel-3.5.0-2 is dependent on it.

Any ideas? Anyone else experiencing same?
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KDE 3.5 beta is rock solid
by Me on Friday 11/Nov/2005, @19:34
I've been using KDE 3.5beta1 and beta2 as soon as they were out and to me they are just as rock solid as KDE 3.4.2 the last 3.4 I've been using. I think 3.5rc1 must be even more polished, and must have some other niceties worth upgrading.
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klik:/ packages?
by bsander on Saturday 12/Nov/2005, @00:26
If any klik:/ packages would be made available for testting that would probably make it very easy for a lot of people to give it a shot while not affecting their current desktop.
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Suse 10.0
by Med on Saturday 12/Nov/2005, @00:39
Is there a standard way to install kde 3.5 RC1 on Suse ? I'd prefer to add a source to Yast and then update rather than playing directly with rpm. Thanks.
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konstruct + svn up
by Tmor on Saturday 12/Nov/2005, @03:45
Hi,

I used konstruct last week to build and test KDE 3.5b2.

Among other things, I was obliged to update akode to "akode-2.0b3.tar.gz", (instead of beta 2), to add directly forward declarations into some tarballs downloaded by konstruct (because of gcc 4.0.2 delivered into my mandriva), and so on ...

now "svn up" refuses to update my "konstruct" directory. I do not want to rebuild everything, but only tarball that have been updated between beta2 and RC1.

Do you have a tip to handle this simply (other than having to restore everything manually) ?

Thanks!
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debian
by Nick on Saturday 12/Nov/2005, @04:17
i'm just dreaming of downloading 3.5.0 from official debian unstable repository after no more than a weak since the release...

hope that there wont be any more abi transitions or release freezes...
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cool... great...
by barosl on Saturday 12/Nov/2005, @08:34
cool... great...

i'm looking forward to really seeing KDE 3.5!
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Error compiling kdeutils
by regis on Saturday 12/Nov/2005, @13:56
Hello,
I just tried to compile KDE 3.5 rc1 from source but I get an error with kdeutils:
make[3]: Entering directory `/multimedia2/src/kdeutils-3.5.0/superkaramba/src'
if g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I/usr/local/kde/include -I/usr/lib/qt/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/xmms -I/usr/include/gtk-1.2 -I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include/python2.4 -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_REENTRANT -Wno-long-long -Wundef -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -O2 -Wformat-security -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -fno-common -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -DQT_NO_ASCII_CAST -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_NO_COMPAT -DQT_NO_TRANSLATION -MT meter_python.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/meter_python.Tpo" -c -o meter_python.o meter_python.cpp; \
then mv -f ".deps/meter_python.Tpo" ".deps/meter_python.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/meter_python.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
meter_python.cpp: Dans function « PyObject* QString2PyString(QString) »:
meter_python.cpp:129: error: cannot convert `Py_UNICODE*' to `const wchar_t*'
for argument `1' to `PyObject* PyUnicodeUCS2_FromWideChar(const wchar_t*,
int)'
make[3]: *** [meter_python.o] Erreur 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/multimedia2/src/kdeutils-3.5.0/superkaramba/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/multimedia2/src/kdeutils-3.5.0/superkaramba'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/multimedia2/src/kdeutils-3.5.0'
make: *** [all] Erreur 2
regis@REGIS:/multimedia2/src/kdeutils-3.5.0$

I've searched in kde bug tracking system and found nothing, maybe I've done something wrong, or maybe should I add a bug report, but I want to be sure, can someone tell me what to do? :)
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qt-3.3.5
by wynn on Saturday 12/Nov/2005, @23:53
hi, sorry for being ignorant here, but is the KDE 3.5-rc1 and indeed KDE 3.5 itself compatible with qt-3.3.5? I recall reading a compile issue with KDE 3.5-beta1, and am wondering whether it's been fixed.
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Exchange support in 3.5?
by mitya on Sunday 13/Nov/2005, @01:39
Hi, everyone!

KDE 3.5 RC1 is definitely great news.

I do have a question though. Does anyone knows what happened to MS Exchange support in Kontact? It was on KDE 3.5 features plan about a month ago and than it strangely dissappeared from there. I am pretty sure there are a lot of people like me out there, who require not only KOrganizer Exchange support(which is great, of course) but KMail Exchange support as well. Having full email support, will bring KDE one huge step closer to corporate desktop world, which currently dominated by Gnome, largely because of Evolution and its' support for MS Exchange.
Me, I am forced to keep Evolution and everything it requires (a LOT of Gnome-specific libraries!), due to lack of that Exchange support in Kontact.

P.S. Yes I know about the IMAP option, and no, the IT Manager will not open it just so I can use Kontact with it. Frankly, I wouldn't do that either, if I was him. That only adds more headache to the busy work schedule. :)

Thanks in advance for any useful info!
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IMAP IO Slave
by Michi on Sunday 13/Nov/2005, @02:11
I cant't use IMAP(S) with Kontact on my laptop after suspend (to RAM or to disk). After restarting Kontact it works again. This problem is not new in 3.5, I have it since I have a laptop (since 3.4.2). Can someone point me to a bug-report? I tried to find one but i'm not famillar with bugzilla...
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First impression
by Diederik van der Boor on Sunday 13/Nov/2005, @06:18
I had some high expectations for KDE 3.5, but after browsing the Klax live-cd I'm a bit disappointed. My first impression: it's quite unpolished. That's a pity.

I'm talking about things like:
* Options in KDevelop are grayed-out when they shouldn't;
* The "New" dialog in KWord doesn't give a reasonably default. I opened "Page layout" by accident, couldn't type text (appearently you need a textframe for that). It took me a while before I found the "A4 page" option.
* The "Document settings" of KWord tab has a messy layout,
* The default "Insert" toolbar in KWord is sitting in the way, and isn't exactly a must-have for text writing.
* Not being able to see the selection in Krita for empty images.
* The properties Tab occupies all space in Kexi.
* The current layout of KGeography (but the idea of the application is really cool though!)

I know these are just minor problems, and maybe I shouldn't nag about it. But these small things give a bad first impression. I get the idea everyone has put a lot of work in KDE, but the final touch is missing.. :-(

Some things are really cool, like:
* Adblock support in konqueror
* SDI support in KOffice
* having Kexi/Krita in KOffice :-)
* all Kicker improvements
* better grouping of menu items.
* the GUI of blinken.. awesome!

I also find KWin/Kicker quite appealing with the latest Plastik version. :-)
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changelog?
by hannes hauswedell on Tuesday 22/Nov/2005, @15:58
am i blind or is it simply impossible to find a changelog anywhere on kde.org?
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