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KDE 3.5.4 Released With New Features

Posted by Sebastian Kügler on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @05:21
from the fun-and-free dept.
The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.5.4, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. Even while KDE 4 is being prepared, improvements to KDE 3.5 have been made and this release makes them available. The new features were subject to rigorous quality testing so that KDE 3.5.4 is as stable as the maintenance releases that precede it.

Significant enhancements include improved support for removable devices (users can now mount all devices supported by FreeDesktop's HAL and control how it will be done). Multiple holidays can now start on the same date in KOrganizer. Lots of fixes have been applied to Konqueror's HTML engine, KHTML. The dialog for sending client-side SSL certificates is now more usable, the StartCom SSL certificate was added and KNetworkConf now supports Fedora Core 5 and handles WEP keys better.

Packages are available for ArkLinux, Fedora, Kubuntu, Pardus Linux, SuSE Linux, Slamd64, amongst others. You can also download the source or have it built for you with Konstruct.

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Help spread the news
by Jure Repinc on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @05:41

I've also submitted the news to digg.com:
http://digg.com/linux_unix/KDE_3_5_4_is_released
Digg it and help spread the word about KDE.

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Re: Help spread the news by Wade Olson on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @08:13
Awww yeah. by Praxxus on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @11:06
Re: Help spread the news by gnulinuxman on Saturday 05/Aug/2006, @13:29

Thank you
by JB on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @07:42

As always, big thanks to all involved in making the best desktop that exists today possible.

Great work guys!

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I really hope KDE4 will rock
by morphado on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @09:23

I really hope KDE4 will be an outstanding GDE, because IMHO, gnome is becoming more mature, and as the main distro (RED HAT, NOVELL, UBUNTU)has standarized in a way or another on gnome,

so really hope plasma will the next revolution in desktop computing otherwise, I fear kde will be dommed

ps; thanks for kde3.5.4

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Re: I really hope KDE4 will rock by Chase Venters on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @09:57

Re: I really hope KDE4 will rock by Vlad Blanton on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @17:48

Re: I really hope KDE4 will rock by Jakob Petsovits on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @10:07
Re: I really hope KDE4 will rock by Derek R. on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @10:18

Re: I really hope KDE4 will rock by chris on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @12:07

Re: I really hope KDE4 will rock by Derek R. on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @14:04

Re: I really hope KDE4 will rock by Segedunum on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @13:02

Re: I really hope KDE4 will rock by Thomas on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @22:50

Re: I really hope KDE4 will rock by witchdoctor on Monday 15/Oct/2007, @13:47

focus on usability
by Harry on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @12:12

Now KDE is coming this far I really hope that usability becomes nr. 1 on the priority list.

We need more applications with an interface like Amarok.

For example, why can't I configure a GoogleTalk account in Kopete? As a software guy I know that GoogleTalk uses the Jabber protocol, but my wife for sure doesn't know....

These kind of 'too-technical-for-the-average-user' stuff must be resolved if KDE wants to compete with OS X for example.

My 2 cents...

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Re: focus on usability by Coolo on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @14:15

Re: focus on usability by Jakob Petsovits on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @16:07

Re: focus on usability by rinse on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @03:05

Re: focus on usability by rinse on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @03:00
Re: focus on usability by Jon Orn Arnarson on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @04:22
Re: focus on usability by Evan "JabberWokky" E. on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @06:04

Re: focus on usability by Evan "JabberWokky" E. on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @06:08

Re: focus on usability by Jim on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @09:44

Re: focus on usability by Evan "JabberWokky" E. on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @10:24
Re: focus on usability by AC on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @16:19

Re: focus on usability by gnulinuxman on Saturday 05/Aug/2006, @13:41

Re: focus on usability by Evan "JabberWokky" E. on Sunday 06/Aug/2006, @10:05

Re: focus on usability by Quique on Saturday 05/Aug/2006, @00:41
Re: focus on usability by gnulinuxman on Saturday 05/Aug/2006, @13:38

KMail Still Broken?
by Alistair John Strachan on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @12:15

Sorry to keep drumming this up, but KMail's been in a sorry state for the whole of the KDE 3.5 series. It's basically unusable as a primary mailer; it crashes too much with IMAP and dIMAP, problems that didn't exist in the previous major version.

If anybody else here has problems with KMail regularly crashing when doing, well, nothing, on a fairly large IMAP or dIMAP account, please file a bug report. This seems to be one of the biggest recent problems:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126715

Please, don't make me use Thunderbird!

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Re: KMail Still Broken? by Harry on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @12:16

Re: KMail Still Broken? by Carsten Niehaus on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @12:59

Re: KMail Still Broken? by Harry on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @13:04

Re: KMail Still Broken? by Carsten Niehaus on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @13:43

Re: KMail Still Broken? by birthday child :P on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @15:45

Re: KMail Still Broken? by Alistair John Strachan on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @03:09

Re: KMail Still Broken? by Gralbe on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @17:20

Re: KMail Still Broken? by Alistair John Strachan on Friday 04/Aug/2006, @15:13

Re: KMail Still Broken? by parena on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @03:28
Re: KMail Still Broken? by Lee on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @03:30

Re: KMail Still Broken? by Alistair John Strachan on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @15:23

Re: KMail Still Broken? by gnulinuxman on Saturday 05/Aug/2006, @13:45

open source - open ...
by birthday child :P on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @15:14

thank you so much for this nice birthday present on 02.Aug.2006 :)
linux, and KDE is so geil, there are uncountable great applications, hope there will be more people get infected by OpenSource ! after some years of mysterious other operating system series, i just need Linux, forever.

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Konqueror Improvements
by Eric on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @17:22

I happened to see a link on Digg for testing Javascript speed right as my KDE compile was finishing, so I thought I would compare Konqueror's Javascript between 3.5.3 and 3.5.4. 3.5.4 is almost 30% faster than 3.5.3 and about 45% faster than Firefox at the test. I then decided to check my Gmail, and the pages load noticeably faster.

So thank you for all the hard work and heres to hoping KDE4 is even better!

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Re: Konqueror Improvements by Someone on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @02:42

Re: Konqueror Improvements by dAniel on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @06:47

Re: Konqueror Improvements by SadEagle on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @08:32

Odd bug
by Mike Young on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @17:25

I am currently using 3.5.4 in Kubuntu. Odd thing happening with Konqueror, the location bar and pulldown menu seem to go missing. I installed 3.5.4, restarted KDE, and no location bar. After a couple of restarts, it came back. Then konqueror crashed, and now its missing again. Is anyone seeing this?

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Re: Odd bug by Anonymous on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @22:34

KDE 3.5.X
by Tarsier on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @20:22

Congratulations for KDE 3.5.4.

I'm using KDE 3.5.3 on Tomahawk Desktop and did not try the latest version of KDE yet. I have following queries regarding that:

1. You get MP3 and Ogg settings under Control Center->Sound & Multimedia->Audio CDs. Where the settings for FLAC? If this is not available for KDE users who intend to convert their CDs to FLAC, is there any plan to include into KDE 3.5.X or KDE 4.X?

2. Can the KDE convert 24bit 96kHz CDs into FLAC at the same rate? I have converted one such CD (www.orangemusicnet.com, Montana Skies) into FLAC, but it turn out to be 16bit 44.1kHz! I worry may be the CD is not recorded into 24bit 96kHz in first place even though its printed on the CD cover. Can others convert 24bit 96kHz CDs at the correct rate? How about converting even higher, such as 24bit 170kHz CDs (Reference Recordings, etc)?

3. Currently the Tomahawk Desktop is based on X.org 6.8.2. If I upgrade the Xorg server to 7.1 and the KDE to 3.5.4, can I get the latest desktop features sports in SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10? Eg. Desktop previews, desktops in a cube, etc. Please see http://www.novell.com/video/bs_06/monday_press_demo.ogg if not sure what I mean.

4. Is there a Screen capture program for KDE which can capture live desktop sessions at high definition resolution, 1280x800, 1280x720 or DVD quality?

Tarsier

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Re: KDE 3.5.X by Carewolf on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @01:10

Re: KDE 3.5.X by Nick on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @09:44

Re: KDE 3.5.X by Justin on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @13:44

Re: KDE 3.5.X by AC on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @16:27

Re: KDE 3.5.X by gnulinuxman on Saturday 05/Aug/2006, @13:53

Re: KDE 3.5.X by Tarsier on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @20:43

Re: KDE 3.5.X by Carewolf on Sunday 06/Aug/2006, @03:23

maintenance release? sureee
by Steve Warsnap on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @22:43

funny how they call this a 'Maintenance Release' and still include so many new features. I thought the whole idea of a Maintenance Release was bug and security fixes.

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Re: maintenance release? sureee by Carsten Niehaus on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @01:01

Re: maintenance release? sureee by shev on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @04:24

Re: maintenance release? sureee by Louis on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @10:07

Re: maintenance release? sureee by tfry on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @13:16

KDE 4.0 info portal
by Sagara on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @21:08

Thanks for those contributed to the KDE 3.5.4 and I would like to take this opportunity to make a suggestion to KDE project.

We are now heading for much anticipated KDE 4.0 and since it has serious architectural changes and incorporating new technologies, why not we have a separate page dedicated for the development of KDE 4.0. So that potential developers, users, artists, other contributers, media, distros, etc. could easily follow the developments of the KDE 4.0.

It seems currently users, media and others are completely kept in the dark of the developments of KDE 4.0.

Sagara Wijetunga
Tomahawk Computers

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Re: KDE 4.0 info portal by Paul Eggleton on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @21:45

Improvements, Stability, New Features
by James Richard Tyrer on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @22:31

I am not having a good day and this is my rant:

My objective assessment is that things are not improving.

We have the kicker problems (child panels vs. icons, and vertical external taskbar size) which haven't been fixed.

It would be nice to be able to have icons on the DeskTop without having them rearranged everytime KDE starts up.

The DeskTop device icons are seriously broken. The CD doesn't work the same as the floppies. My CD ROM drive is only recognized as a CD Writer and there seems to be some confusion between a drive and a disk. The CD only shows on the DeskTop if it has a disk in it (empty drive would be a good option). But the floppies are there all the time (they are drives not disks). I have a 3.5 and a 5.25 floppy. The Control Center makes a distinction between them although for some reason a 3.5 floppy is just a floppy. Doesn't work on the DeskTop -- they both have the same icon again (used to work once I put the correct devices in fstab).

The configuration for the DeskTop devices doesn't work correctly (again).

Suddenly Konqueror quit working on some on-line banking and credit card sites. I found a non-banking site with the same error -- what is "Error 500"?

I think that all of these issues are regressions. This stuff used to work from last week to a few versions ago.

And then tonight, Ark crashed and lost the archive with all my on-line banking passwords. I have also noticed more random crashes of Konqueror in the last two months.

So, I see the new KDE release as pretty much broken, and I can't help wondering why developers would release stuff before they got it to work correctly. Do the developers actually use the current release of KDE?

I am also concerned that KDE now relies on DBus and HAL which are not really ready for general release yet and seem to be poorly documented -- are there up to date HOWTOs on these and UDEV anywhere? My Zip drive mounts fine (I do wonder why it doesn't have an "eject") but I get an error message with the CD or the conventional floppies. I wonder if I can go back to the old methods that worked perfectly. It is real cool for the system to detect that I inserted a new CD and ask me what to do with it, but it would be nicer if I could click on the icon and it would mount correctly.

So, I have to think that I accidentally installed the development release rather than the stable release. If this was the development release, this would be fine because if this stuff is fixed so that it works correctly it will be really nice. But, I couldn't recommend the current KDE release to anyone and I am wondering what my options are since I can't use something this broken.

Boudewijn appears to be correct that developers can not properly evaluate their own work. If this is true, there is no hope that TQM can help solve the problem.

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Re: Improvements, Stability, New Features by AC on Friday 04/Aug/2006, @02:11

Re: Improvements, Stability, New Features by James Richard Tyrer on Friday 04/Aug/2006, @13:23

Re: Improvements, Stability, New Features by gnulinuxman on Saturday 05/Aug/2006, @13:58

Re: Improvements, Stability, New Features by James Richard Tyrer on Monday 07/Aug/2006, @21:58
Re: Improvements, Stability, New Features by 2cents on Monday 14/Aug/2006, @01:20

Kubuntu has a working version now.
by JVz on Saturday 05/Aug/2006, @22:47

You can nab it via adding "deb http://kubuntu.org/packages/kde-latest dapper main" to your /etc/apt/sources.list file and running "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade". They fixed the remaining issues they had, so now you can actually upgrade and not get screwed with a bad install.

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