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  KDE 3: All About the Apps (Part 4)
Applications Posted by Carsten Niehaus on Sunday 30/Jul/2006, @06:46
from the amazing-what's-out-there dept.
This is part four of the the successful series All About the Apps, reminding us that while KDE 4 development may be fun, to watch to find great apps working today KDE 3 beats them all. This time we report on the Linux equivalent of Cubase - Rosengarden, the great Basket, KPhotoAlbum and the next version of KDevelop.

Basket

You know Klipper, the advanced KDE-clipboard? You have a large notes.txt-file on your home-directory? Your monitor is full of yellow notes? If only one anwser was yes you should have a look at Basket!

The author is currently working on the next version, 0.6, which makes it easier to handle a lot more data and has a range of usability improvements while looking much better.

KPhotoAlbum

KPhotoAlbum is the new name of the famous KimDaBa. It is a very powerful photomanager with a very strong tagging-system. In early May 2006, version 2.2 was released featuring many long awaited features. Currently, there is a Summer of Code project for KPhotoAlbum which will switch its backend from XML to a much more performant SQL table. Learn more about this great app by watching Flash videos of it.

Rosegarden

If you're into music composition, Rosegarden may be of interest. It's a MIDI sequencer and notation editor, which also has basic audio capabilities (recording and playback). Connecting with Jack, LADSPA and DSSI plugins, featuring a powerful notation editor, Rosegarden should fit nicely into your home studio. If classical notation doesn't fit your needs it also offers a "piano roll" editor along with a percussion editor. The next version should feature lots of improvement in notation handling, along with other modes like guitar tablature for instance.

KDevelop

After more than seven months of hot development the KDevelop-developers are going into the beta-stage for 3.4. On the 6th of July they released 3.4beta1 including an incredible list of new features! The list is by far too long to post here, it ranges from user interface improvements to a lot of C++ improvements, a better Ruby-parser and Qt 4 support.

The Future

With all those exiting applications you should not forget about KDE itself, KDE 3.5.4 will be released very soon! Stay tuned to The Dot.



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Lmms
by funbar on Sunday 30/Jul/2006, @12:08
Rosegarden is nice but Lmms is a really powerfull tool. However, still Band in Box shows how software looks like which really serves the interests of the amateurs.
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Not everything is good as promised on the website
by anonymous on Sunday 30/Jul/2006, @14:40
SuperKaramba: "super"slow and not "smooth" (no double buffer) = useless for me
Kaffeine: DVB support is a joke, buggy and slow. They take 100% CPU after 30-up minutes watching DVB-TV
KDE: is there a way to show bigger image/pdf/video thumbnails on the desktop like in a Konqueror window?

All in all, KDE 3.5.x is great and I really hope that Qt4/KDE4 feels a lot better with double buffer everywhere.
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  • Re: Not everything is good as promised on the website
    by anonymous on Sunday 30/Jul/2006, @15:25
    > KDE: is there a way to show bigger image/pdf/video thumbnails on the desktop like in a Konqueror window?

    A "BoostSize=true" setting for the desktop!???
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  • Re: Not everything is good as promised on the website
    by anonymous on Sunday 30/Jul/2006, @16:29
    > Kaffeine: DVB support is a joke, ...

    addon to Kaffeine: on watching DVB-TV, the sound jumps if my CPU calcs anything...
    VDR can do this A LOT better with sound, NOTHING jumps...
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Trying BasKet?
by Evan "JabberWokky" E. on Sunday 30/Jul/2006, @16:50
If you're trying out BasKet, you really should go with the 0.6.x betas. They are very usable and much much better than the 0.5 series. It's now titled BasKet Note Pads for some reason.

Excellent software.
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Try these in Konqueror
by Leon Brooks on Sunday 30/Jul/2006, @20:06
fish://username@serverhostname

rsync://serverhostname/

webdav://dav.web.server

audiocd:/

...yes, there are many more. Try matching this with a "mere" web browser. (-:
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  • Re: Try these in Konqueror
    by Robert on Tuesday 01/Aug/2006, @10:20
    Don't for get sftp://Serverhostname and smb://serverhostname.
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    • Re: Try these in Konqueror
      by superstoned on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @14:01
      svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/KDE/ :D
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Rosegarden / Jack
by Mike on Monday 31/Jul/2006, @04:23
I'd love to try Rosegarden but setting up Jack is a pain. I've had minimal success - the one time I managed to get it working the sound quality was awful.
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  • Re: Rosegarden / Jack
    by Dave M on Monday 31/Jul/2006, @12:17
    As of about kernel-2.6.12 jack should be pretty easy to setup. Certainly with most recent distros it just works out of the box. With My delta 1010lt jack just run perfectly. I for one would recommend it especially with the likes of rosegarden (although you dont need jack for this to work) ardour and jamin etc, linux audio is pretty damn good.

    Dave
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Blogging
by hill on Monday 31/Jul/2006, @04:29
Basket remind me of blogging. Are there offline blogging tools planned for kontakt?
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kimdaba
by kim on Monday 31/Jul/2006, @08:44
KimDaBa is a great name! KPhotoAlbum is... ugh.
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KimDaBa v. Digikam?
by anonymous on Monday 31/Jul/2006, @18:30
So how to KimDaBa and Digikam compare? I'm quite happy with the latter; it supports multi-level tagging, is moderately fast, uses a simple SQL structure (so I can write external programs), and talks to my camera. Oh, and it supports other metadata formats (like XMP).

I don't see what features KimDaBa (or whatever) has that aren't already in Digikam. I'm probably missing an obvious document somewhere; anyone know where?
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  • Re: KimDaBa v. Digikam?
    by jmfayard on Tuesday 01/Aug/2006, @14:08
    Both are great.
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    • Re: KimDaBa v. Digikam?
      by niko on Friday 20/Apr/2007, @15:52
      New KPhotoalbum 3.0 turns out to be unusuable, at least on my machine,
      (which shouldbe powerfull enough though: 2GB RAM, AMD 64, 500 GB disk space under Gentoo).
      More precisely, it gets stuck when trying to read in new images, i.e. the process takes 4 days for 3800 pics, and the overall speed of reactions to user queries is anyway below an acceptable level. (Also there is still no mysql support.)

      What a pitty. Started as a very promising project and seems to be in the state
      of a useless toy now. A staement which meanwhile applies unfortunately to 50% of all KDE tools.

      ---Niko
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