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  KDE 3.5.3 Released
KDE Official News Posted by Adriaan de Groot on Wednesday 31/May/2006, @14:58
from the just-in-time-for-june dept.
The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.5.3, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. Unusually for a maintenance release, new features were implemented due to the long release cycle of the eagerly-awaited KDE 4. Stability and speed were also improved, along with increasingly complete translations in 65 languages. The complete release announcement is available from the KDE website. Significant enhancements include an improved startup time, over 800 minor issues fixed thanks to code checking by Coverity and small new features in Akregator, KMail and KAlarm. Finally, new translations have been added for Vietnamese and Kazakh. Packages are available for Archlinux, Kubuntu, Fedora and SUSE Linux or compile with Konstruct.


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Great!
by 138 on Wednesday 31/May/2006, @15:35
Thanks!
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Awesome
by Forrest on Wednesday 31/May/2006, @16:47
I just love it how each release has a faster startup speed :)

I think it was a good idea letting some new features come in.

Forrest
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12000 KDE Desktops in lower saxony's government.
by AC on Wednesday 31/May/2006, @17:14
Heise reports that lower saxony (germany) has set up 12000 KDE Desktops in their government.

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/73711
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KMail Quick Filing Feature
by Allen on Wednesday 31/May/2006, @18:23
Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure that the KMail "Quick Filing Feature" was removed a few days before 3.5.3 was tagged. I believe the plan is to have it back and operational for the 3.5.4 release.
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6.6?
by Evan "JabberWokky" E. on Wednesday 31/May/2006, @18:33
Cool. That gives packagers a few hours to prep for the "uber-stable" Kubuntu. ;)

(Just kidding, it's just amusing timing.)
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Cheers!
by fast_rizwaan on Wednesday 31/May/2006, @21:18
To KDE developers! Good job guys!
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Historical ?
by Ookaze on Wednesday 31/May/2006, @21:59
Unbelievable !
KDE and Gnome actually launched an update on the very same day (even if Gnome still have not announced it), as Gnome 2.14.2 was available on the 31st too !!
Was this concerted ? Is this a first ?
Anyway, that's joy for me for both projects :))
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Just out of interest:
by Martin on Thursday 01/Jun/2006, @00:26
Does the VPL stuff in Quanta already do anything useful?
Or is this still in development?
This is no trolling.
I'm using Quanta for quite some time now for normal editing purposes and
it's working mostly OK.

I just tried out VPL for the first time and found it so extremely buggy that I couldnt do anything useful with it.
What I did:
1) I started Quanta
2) I pressed F9 for Split View (VPL+Code)
3) I could not click in the VPL part (Cursor did not blink or focus)
so I clicked in the Code between the body tags
4) Now I called the table assistant and created a 2x2 table
5) All the cells were very small. I could not click or enter text in a
cell in VPL. So I clicked between the TD tags in the code and entered text.
In some cells the text did appear in VPL, in some others not. At least not
at first. When I entered text in further cells, the missing cells suddely
appeared. Now I double-clicked a cell in VPL and the text inside was highlighted. Now I tried to enter a new text inside the cell directly in VPL. The current text disappeared but I couldnt enter new text.
6) I created a second tab to repeat my steps. Now Quanta crashed.

I dont think I did anything special. Arent this just the absolute basics of
a HTML editor? Did I do anything completely wrong? Or is VPL not at a
stage where it's usable yet? Or did I get the purpose of this VPL thing
completely wrong?
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VPL Stuff
by Forrest on Thursday 01/Jun/2006, @01:16
What is VPL?
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Auto bug detecting
by KDe User on Thursday 01/Jun/2006, @01:26
> Over 800 minor issues fixed thanks to Coverity

Wow, an automatic bug-detector...
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KDE 3.5.3
by Graham Solomon on Thursday 01/Jun/2006, @02:12
Keep up the good work, the bootup is ALOT quicker n1! :)
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Better Konqueror usability
by martin on Thursday 01/Jun/2006, @05:52
And for the new KDE it's time to update to Konqueror-Pro:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=39419&vote=good&tan=19069237
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Is this behavious normal?
by Richard Van Den Boom on Thursday 01/Jun/2006, @07:10
I've had a strange issue since I upgraded to 3.5.X versions of KDE : before, I could select a file in Konqueror, copy it then paste it in the same directory. Konqueror would prompt me at this point for a new name. Now, it just tells me that the file exists and that it can't copy a file on itself. I have to copy the file to another directory, change its name and move it back.
Is this a decision to change the behaviour or is this a bug that hopefully will have been fixed in 3.5.3?
Or maybe my setup is juste strangely broken.....

Best regards,
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Also in Ark Linux
by KDE User on Thursday 01/Jun/2006, @10:25
"Ark Linux 2006.1-rc2 and Ark Linux Live 2006.1-rc2 released"
"Highlights include KDE 3.5.3"
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Debian
by sundher on Thursday 01/Jun/2006, @12:29
It's worth mentioning that 3.5.3 hit Debian unstable today and 3.5.2 is now in testing. w00t! The Debian KDE packagers have always been rather good about keeping up-to-date though.
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katepart - php indenting
by Mariano Guezuraga on Thursday 01/Jun/2006, @20:24
Is auto-indenting working ok for php files (like java, c++ does)?
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surprised on space requirement
by me on Friday 02/Jun/2006, @10:13
Managed to upgrade 3.5.2 -> 3.5.3, using packages from opensuse
repository (http://ftp-1.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/KDE:).
Have to say I'm surprised that the upgrade increases KDE's space
usage by 150-200MB :).

This is on an old laptop with 20GB HDD; space is premium and
I allocated only 3GB for my root partition (tmp and var are
on the same partition). Before the upgrade, I had >300MB free
space. Now, I have about 150MB.

Too bad I can't downgrad to 3.5.2, the rpms has been removed
from suse's supplementary.
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User
by gf on Sunday 04/Jun/2006, @18:09
Perfect programme
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