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  KDE 3.5 Released
KDE Official News Posted by Tom Chance on Tuesday 29/Nov/2005, @05:25
from the just-in-time-for-cheese-and-crackers dept.
The KDE Project is happy to announce a new major release of the award-winning K Desktop Environment. Many features have been added or refined, making KDE 3.5 the most complete, stable and integrated free desktop environment available. For a quick look at some of the new features see the visual guide to KDE 3.5. Packages are available now for ArchLinux, Kubuntu, Slackware and SuSE or try Konstruct to build it yourself.

Notable changes include:

  • Konqueror is the second major web browser to pass the Acid2 CSS test, ahead of Firefox and Internet Explorer
  • Konqueror can also free webpages from adverts with its new ad-block feature
  • SuperKaramba is included in KDE, providing well-integrated and easy-to-install widgets for the user's desktop
  • Kopete has support for MSN and Yahoo! webcams
  • The edutainment module has three new applications (KGeography, Kanagram and blinKen), and has seen huge improvements in Kalzium

Stephan Kulow, KDE Release Coordinator, said: "The improvements made in the past year show how mature the KDE Project is. KDE is the most powerful desktop environment and development platform in the market. With huge changes expected in KDE 4, our next release, KDE 3.5 should provide users with the perfect productivity platform for the next couple of years."



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Great release
by JC on Tuesday 29/Nov/2005, @05:38
One big improvement for me is Kopete :)

Thanks KDE Team
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Food for the Marketing Workgroup
by Inge Wallin on Tuesday 29/Nov/2005, @05:53
Nice work, everybody. It will be very interesting to see if the new marketing workgroup will be able to make this release an even bigger splash than 3.4 was.

Go MWG!! Make headlines! Capture users!
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kudos
by eol on Tuesday 29/Nov/2005, @05:56
the way konqui reports about new media (cd / dvd /usb) is great. many big-time
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Couple of years?
by ac on Tuesday 29/Nov/2005, @06:01
Do you really think that with no significant upgrades for two years the KDE project could stay alive without a loss in mindshare, if not users? Do you think that KDE 3.5 will serve users' needs for the next two long years without no major upgrades (apart bugfixes release)?
I hope to see one or two "interim" stable release before the drastic changes with KDE 4. Maybe call it KDE 3.9.
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Happy Birthday to Me!
by Praxxus on Tuesday 29/Nov/2005, @06:07
Yay!

I forget --and haven't looked it up-- is this the update that finally fixes the "why won't those damn desktop icons stay put!" bug?
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Congrats!
by Dennie on Tuesday 29/Nov/2005, @06:32
Congratulations to the complete KDE team for their good work and hard efforts to get this done. KDE is and will be the best desktop out there. Keep up the good work!
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Arch Packages
by oggb4mp3 on Tuesday 29/Nov/2005, @06:35
The Arch packages haven't been moved out of testing yet, so if you follow the link you will only see 3.4.3 still. But I've been running 3.5 on Arch testing for two weeks and it is sweet.
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Kopete compatibility with Gtalk/Jabber?
by Wolfger on Tuesday 29/Nov/2005, @06:59
I love Kopete, but I had to switch back to GAIM in order to chat with friends who are on Google's Gtalk (or whatever they call it). I would love to switch back to Kopete. Can I do so with 3.5?
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fix bugs before adding new features
by richie on Tuesday 29/Nov/2005, @07:10
I would prefer, that developers concentrate on fixing bugs than adding new features.

The same goes for Firefox :-(

I would love a stable system in favour of a system that has all the bells and whistles. I can't count how many times konqueror has crashed when broswing or working locally as a filemanager.

Don't follow microsoft in that way.

BTW: I will continue to use KDE 3.3.2 und will perhaps upgrade to release 3.4. I don't think that the new features justify to install KDE 3.5.
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Mandriva ?
by MandrakeUser on Tuesday 29/Nov/2005, @07:48
Anyone know is Mandriva is gonna package 3.5 ? (Conectiva used to, and now they merged ... I really hope so)

Thanks in advance. Cheers!
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KDE 3.5 is fast
by JC on Tuesday 29/Nov/2005, @08:45
...really fast.

I just upgrade from 3.4.3 to 3.5 on my laptop and most of the big apps load faster. I love it.
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Konqueror passes Acid2 - sort of
by Ian Christie on Tuesday 29/Nov/2005, @09:41
So far, 3.5 seems to be faster and apps seem to load faster. My only disappointment is with Konqueror and the Acid2 Test. It almost successfully passes the test, everything is fine when you run the test, the smiley face shows fine, but then if you scroll, it breaks a tiny bit. I have 3.5 installed on Ubuntu Breezy.

Got pics posted here:

http://www.ianchristie.info/

The first is after scrolling, the second is when you just run the test and don't scroll.

Still excellent work. I think it might have just stollen my desktop from XFCE.
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Thanks everyone!
by Joergen Ramskov on Tuesday 29/Nov/2005, @10:52
I've just upgraded my Kubuntu install from the latest RC to the final release and it is a nice upgrade from earlier releases.

Thanks a lot to everyone in the KDE community for creating such a great desktop environment!

Go get a nice beer or two and then get that KDE4 release finished :p
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Changes since RC2...
by Joe on Tuesday 29/Nov/2005, @12:04
md5sums are ONLY different on:
kdelibs
kdebase
kdemultimedia
kdeutils
kdebindings
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Google Maps
by Sander on Tuesday 29/Nov/2005, @13:43
I was really hoping that Konqueror 3.5 would address the problems with Gmail and Google Maps, but they still don't work. :/ That said I find that I can still use Konqueror as my main browser when in KDE and still not suffer.
Other than that, it looks like another refinement on the solid foundation of 3.x, I think I can live with that for a while. :)
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Regression on yahoo! mail?
by Patcito on Tuesday 29/Nov/2005, @14:29
Combobox to reply and forward mail doesn't work. I tried chenging my user agent to firefox, safari and ie but it still didn't work. I was forced to use firefox to reply to a yahoo mail :(
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Congratulations!!!
by Alex on Tuesday 29/Nov/2005, @18:26
I'm sure this will be a great, stable, fast and easy to use release. I can't wait until SLAX packages it. :)
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Flash & Konqueror
by Flasher on Wednesday 30/Nov/2005, @00:52
Hi

Konqueror and flash webpages works 3.5 well ? Or make high cpu load ?
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What happened to Kate?
by m0ns00n on Wednesday 30/Nov/2005, @03:47
Ok, I know I'm in the minority group who still misses the Tabbed Pages mode in Kate, selectable from the now extinct User Interface/Environment setting which still is in KDevelop. But why remove Projects? Are the Kate developers bent on changing everything about how we work with Kate in every release?
Kate will soon be useless..

As for KDevelop - you still cannot save the User Interface setup. All toolviews, from valgrind to konsole come up each time the app is launched.

This is amateur work! Please, fix bugs before adding features.. :-(
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Cairo and glitz dependencies in kde3.5
by Dragen on Wednesday 30/Nov/2005, @04:49
If libpoppler are going to have dependencies on cairo and glitz should we look for other options ?
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Konqueror and Google
by AC on Thursday 01/Dec/2005, @07:32
This is very frustrating;

Konqueror/khtml renders the Google-sites fine, but due to some incomplete check for useragent Konqueror users get a stripped html-site.

Changing useragent isn't trivial for a lot of users (they even don't know what it is) so the "out of the box experience" on Google-sites is lame.

There are so many Konqueror-users and quite a lot of them have send Google a request to add Konqueror to the useragent-check, but they even get no response or a bot autoreplying on the mail.

What the *beep* can we do to make Google listen?!? The Konqueror-developers have contact with Safari-developers. Maybe they have some sort of entrance in the almighty Google-organization.
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Konqueror Crash On NFL Site
by cirehawk on Thursday 01/Dec/2005, @10:00
Konqueror crashes when I access the nfl.com site. Also, if I go to a site that streams live radio (www.xtrasportsradio.com and www.hot92jamz.comm, the stream works, but once I try to surf to another page Konqueror will crash. I use PCLinuxOS, but I mentioned this on their site and someone tried it using Kubuntu and it crashed as well. So it's not a distro problem. Actually, I think this bug creeped in with the 3.4.3 release but I'm not sure. I need to make a bug report about it, so what is the best way to capture some helpful info about the problem to pass on to the developers? This is a pretty annoying issue since I'm a big sports guy. :) Other than that though, things are looking great!
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Thanks!!
by Milan Svoboda on Thursday 01/Dec/2005, @12:25
KDE 3.5 is very good and the most important - it is fast. Really fast!
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Very well done!
by Nassos Kourentas on Thursday 01/Dec/2005, @22:08
This is indeed the best version of KDE out in the wild so far!

Congratulations to all that have contributed one way or another!

Judging from the level of quality of this brand new version, one can only be rather optimistic about the future!

Thank you very much once again!

Nassos
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thanks
by infosrama on Sunday 04/Dec/2005, @17:16
Thanks
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Where do i find rpm packages for redhat?
by Mathias on Sunday 04/Dec/2005, @22:58
especially for redhat enterprise products, like AS3 and/or ES4?

and no, konstruct is NOT an option. not on my office pc that i use for my daily work.
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Back to Konq
by Apollo Creed on Monday 05/Dec/2005, @08:36
I'm giving in! I switched from Konq to Firefox somewhere around KDE 3.3, but Konqueror is again ahead of Firefox. I'm switching back, the heated hound can say what he wants.
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Slow startup for kopete
by Nisse on Saturday 10/Dec/2005, @04:38
Why does it take so long for kopete to startup? For me it takes several minutes before i can start use it. It plopp up as an icon directly.
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KDE 3.5 on Qt/Mac!
by Khaitu on Wednesday 14/Dec/2005, @06:32
With this release, it is finally simple enough to install a pretty much working version of kdelibs and kdebase on a Mac without having to use the X11 server! This is a great accomplishment as now I can finally replace Finder with Konqueror retaining such things as Drag & Drop support and fonts that work.
Thanks to the KDE people.
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when can i find Debian packages ?
by plazzmex on Thursday 15/Dec/2005, @06:55
I have a KDE 3.3.2 in Debian linux (sarge,stable)
where can i find the kde 3.5 packages for debian sarge ??
thanks for advance!
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