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KDE 3.5.6 Released with New Features, Translations and Fixes

Posted by Sebastian Kügler on Thursday 25/Jan/2007, @07:28
from the haggis-neeps-and-tatties dept.
The KDE project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.5.6, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. Significant features include additional support for Compiz as a window manager with Kicker, session management for browser tabs in Akregator, templating for KMail messages, faster frame rates with video chat in Kopete and new summary menus for Kontact making it easier to work with your appointments and to-dos.

This release includes a number of bugfixes for KHTML, Kate, Kicker, KSysGuard and lots of other applications. Translations continue as well, with the most improved coverage coming from the Galician translation team. KDE now supports 65 languages, making it available to more people than most proprietary software and can be easily extended to support others by communities who wish to contribute to the open source project.

For a more detailed list of improvements since the KDE 3.5.5 release last October, please refer to the KDE 3.5.6 Changelog.

Packages are available for ArchLinux, Debian Experimental, Kubuntu, Pardus, openSUSE and several other distros. See the 3.5.6 info page for the source or use Konstruct to compile it yourself.

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Thanks!
by Mike on Thursday 25/Jan/2007, @09:40

Just want to say thank you for your good work. You make so many happy!

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Re: Thanks! by Samba on Thursday 25/Jan/2007, @10:14
Re: Thanks! by V. B. from Brazil on Friday 26/Jan/2007, @09:48

Fedora packages
by Christian on Thursday 25/Jan/2007, @10:13

KDE-RedHat (http://kde-redhat.sf.net) provides packages for Fedora, Red Hat and CentOS. In fact, this packages has been available since last week (!).

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Re: Fedora packages by Thiago Macieira on Thursday 25/Jan/2007, @14:04

Re: Fedora packages by Christian on Thursday 25/Jan/2007, @16:51

Re: Fedora packages by ac on Friday 26/Jan/2007, @19:04

Re: Fedora packages by Rex Dieter on Wednesday 31/Jan/2007, @10:56

Re: Fedora packages by Kevin Kofler on Tuesday 13/Feb/2007, @09:24

Compiz fix?
by Rocco on Thursday 25/Jan/2007, @10:19

Anyone knowing what the compiz fix is supposed to do, cause both pager and taskbar doesn't work as with kwin in 3.5.6 with Beryl.

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Re: Compiz fix? by Jacob Rideout on Thursday 25/Jan/2007, @11:48

Re: Compiz fix? by Jose on Thursday 25/Jan/2007, @23:33
Re: Compiz fix? by Ben Morris on Friday 26/Jan/2007, @02:07

A big thanks for KDE folks
by Ignacio Monge on Thursday 25/Jan/2007, @12:43

Thanks again for a good work. I enjoyed every release of KDE since its first steps.

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Kubuntu dapper packages, anyone?
by rg0now on Thursday 25/Jan/2007, @12:55

Has anyone built Kubuntu packages for dapper? I don't quite feel like upgrading to edgy for a while...

thanks,
rg0now

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Re: Kubuntu dapper packages, anyone? by Ljubomir on Thursday 25/Jan/2007, @23:18
Re: Kubuntu dapper packages, anyone? by Quique on Friday 26/Jan/2007, @03:54

Session Management / Konqueror
by Phase II on Thursday 25/Jan/2007, @13:38

Session Management for browser tabs in Akregator is nice, as Akregator still crashes for me under certain circumstances (certain sites; navigating back and forth..)

Now I only hope for session management in Konqueror (yes I know about profiles, but it's nowhere near a real session behaviour), this could also pave the way for recovering of closed tabs.

Since Konqueror got much faster with many tabs opened, it is on its way to be as usable as Opera for me.. only some finetuning on interface and handling is needed, technical foundation and integration with KDE is already at a high level.
Only the somewhat better mouse gestures, clicking on tabs to minimize it, and some other Opera niceties prevent me from using Konqueror as my main browser. A nice plugin interface could work wonders for Konqueror as a webbrowser and raise it's popularity, just like with KDE's servicemenus.

btw: Does anyone know a way to close tabs with the third mouse button? Couldn't find an option in the preferences.
Currently third mouse button drags tabs, while left mouse button copies the link from one tab to another (which is imho quite unexpected and not really often used).
I would propose to bind (pressed) left mouse button to dragging of tabs and to use the (clicked) third button to close the tab (right button is for the tab options). This is how it works in Opera and Firefox (by default? not sure). The usability should be much higher.

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Re: Session Management / Konqueror by Dgege on Thursday 25/Jan/2007, @15:05

Re: Session Management / Konqueror by chris on Thursday 25/Jan/2007, @22:16

Re: Session Management / Konqueror by superstoned on Friday 26/Jan/2007, @00:34

Re: Session Management / Konqueror by Phase II on Friday 26/Jan/2007, @16:37

Re: Session Management / Konqueror by Morty on Saturday 27/Jan/2007, @13:26

anchors in Konqueror
by tracer on Thursday 25/Jan/2007, @22:08

I just updated my kubuntu edgy with sources from:
deb http://kubuntu.org/packages/kde-356 edgy main

Now the konqi doesn't jump to a given anchor anymore, but always starts on top of the page.

Anybody else with the same problem?

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Re: anchors in Konqueror by cirehawk on Thursday 25/Jan/2007, @23:04

Re: anchors in Konqueror by tracer on Friday 26/Jan/2007, @03:37

Re: anchors in Konqueror by Leo Savernik on Monday 29/Jan/2007, @07:51

Re: anchors in Konqueror by tracer on Monday 29/Jan/2007, @10:38

Re: anchors in Konqueror by me too on Sunday 28/Jan/2007, @03:57

Thanks for mail templates
by Stefan on Friday 26/Jan/2007, @00:09

Thanks for mail templates. This is an incredibly time-saving feature. I write daily about 100-200 mails with the BAT, most of them in under 2 seconds. Thanks to what BAT calls "Quick Templates", for offers, standard answers or customer information.

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Yeeeeaaaahhhh by a.c. on Saturday 27/Jan/2007, @11:07
Re: Thanks for mail templates by cirehawk on Saturday 27/Jan/2007, @21:53

Kontact
by dan on Friday 26/Jan/2007, @03:58

I've recently been trying to use kontact has my personal information manager, and am unable to send e-mails using my gmail account, I've followed the instructions in gmail help site with all the correct port, username (with @gmail.com) TSL (or something called like that), but for some reason I never can send an email, only receive.

Thank you so much

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Re: Kontact by A/C on Friday 26/Jan/2007, @04:42
Re: Kontact by Adriaan de Groot on Friday 26/Jan/2007, @05:54
Re: Kontact by Hellblade on Sunday 28/Jan/2007, @12:19

Re: Kontact by dan on Thursday 01/Feb/2007, @23:02

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by martin on Friday 26/Jan/2007, @05:43

thank you! kde is great!

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Slackware packages
by JC on Friday 26/Jan/2007, @07:33

Sorry guys,I will not release packages for Slackware this time.
No time, and no computer.

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Great!
by Steve on Friday 26/Jan/2007, @10:41

Looking good. Everything seems a little snappier for me, but that may be just my enthusiasm. Mail templating is a good idea.

Now to really improve Konqueror one method is to go and browse Digg and find out what it is that slows my machine to a crawl whenever I'm on there. :)

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Re: Great! by dr on Saturday 27/Jan/2007, @10:35

signing Kmail messages
by chandra on Friday 26/Jan/2007, @22:00

well, I have been trying to sign my sending messages with Kmail but it never worked. WITHOUT asking for any password in order to use appropriate keys, it is always showing the message "wrong pass-phrase". I have both the pinentry and pinentry-qt installed. I am using FC-6.

Please suggest me if there is some workaround!
Thanks!!

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Re: signing Kmail messages by cm on Saturday 27/Jan/2007, @06:24

Re: signing Kmail messages by pacesie on Monday 05/Feb/2007, @16:17
Re: signing Kmail messages by pacesie on Monday 05/Feb/2007, @16:40

Re: signing Kmail messages by cm on Tuesday 06/Feb/2007, @01:58

And KDevelop?
by Alessandro on Saturday 27/Jan/2007, @06:14

Why there are no references to KDevelop?
This news, the KDE announcement and the KDE changelog, all does not mention KDevelop. Why?
It should have been upgraded from 3.3.x releases to 3.4.x, with _a lot_ of new features and bug fixes.

The main ones are:
- much better code-completion
- better debugger support
- improved support for Qt4
- much enhanced support for qmake projects
- improved C++, Ruby and PHP support
- changed default User Interface
For a better list, see http://www.kdevelop.org/index.html?filename=3.4/features.html

It's a very big change!
Why it was forgot?
Probably there is a reason fot this, does someone knows it?

By the way, also KDevelop main page (www.kdevelop.org) does not mention the new release, only the changelog page has been updated (www.kdevelop.org/index.html?filename=3.4/changes.html).

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Re: And KDevelop? by cm on Saturday 27/Jan/2007, @06:31

Re: And KDevelop? by Alessandro on Saturday 27/Jan/2007, @06:51

Re: And KDevelop? by cm on Saturday 27/Jan/2007, @07:47

Re: And KDevelop? by Alessandro on Saturday 27/Jan/2007, @08:45

Re: And KDevelop? by Alessandro on Saturday 27/Jan/2007, @06:55

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