The KDE Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of KDE 3.3, the fourth major release of the award-winning KDE3 desktop platform. Over the past six months, hundreds of applications and desktop components have been enhanced by a community of developers, with a particular focus on integration of components.
Stephan Kulow, KDE Release Coordinator, said: "The desktop reached a quality
hard to top in previous releases. Nevertheless, KDE 3.3 is a great
improvement and will further strengthen KDE's position as the leading Free
desktop environment."
Building upon previous releases, noticeable improvements in usability,
stability and integration have been achieved, enhancing the desktop
experience. A range of new applications and features have also been
implemented, including KolourPaint (screenshots), an easy-to-use paint program. Over 7,000
bugs have been fixed, and 2,000 wishes fulfilled, with over 60,000 lines of
code and documentation being written in the past six months. KDE is now
available in 89 different languages, with recent additions including Farsi
(Iran) and Indic character support.
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I've been running 3.3(-rc) for a couple of days, and I haven't been moved to report a single bug yet. I think this is the first KDE release since I started using the first beta of 2.0 where the quality has been this good.
You can't be looking very hard ;) I've found five annoying bugs already! Still a great improvement on 3.2 though.
Been using it from CVS for a while now. It is much cleaner. Sounds like it's time for a cvs up.
Does anyone know if KDE 3.3 supports laptop sleep when I flip down my display. It does not work with 3.2
It's not KDE's responsiblity to handle power events, that's what apmd is for. Check your distro's power management handling configuration.
The new search field in KMail just rocks! Very cool feature! Thank you!
Hi!
I'm planning to update my SuSE 8.2 box running KDE 3.1.1 to KDE 3.3. When trying to update with previous versions, i frequently ran into rpm incompatibility issues (don't remember any details, though). I also once freaked up my system by trying to install the RPMs from within a running KDE, quite a blunder as i was forced to learn shortly later...
Some folks wrote that a simple rpm -Uvh -nodeps -force *.rpm while being in single user mode would do the job, but "-nodeps -force" has also been commented as "not for idiots", which (sort of) applies to me.
Did anyone try upgrading a system similar to mine to KDE 3.3? What is the best way to do it?
Thanks!
Hi, I actually did that move today.
I used apt4rpm. See the instructions on
http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/.
There are instructions for KDE 3.1 --> KDE 3.2, but these
instructions are still good.
For some reason Konqueror seems a bit slower than it was at connecting to website. It's almost as if there's a delay built in before attempting to connect to a new web-server, but once it has connected clicking on links within that server is pretty much instantaneous (something immediately appears in the status bar).
But a few times it doesn't do this, which makes it hard to know if it's not just in my head or because of my internet connection. I doubt it, though, because I noticed the different right after upgrading to 3.3.0 from 3.2.3 and it has been pretty constant since.
I guess that I don't have the ressources to test konq performances, but some konq developer should probably look into it and make sure that (especially on slower systems) there isn't something that causes a delay before konq tries to reach a server for the first time.
Aside from that, I quite like all the polish that Konq got for 3.3!
I have noticed that if I click twice in a row the delay before trying to reach the server disappears.
I have experienced similar slowdown with konqueror. Also simpy the loading of some pages takes longer. Some pages are faster than kde3.2.3 but others like http://www.luchtvaartnieuws.nl or http://www.standaard.be are up to 10 times slower... It takes a lot more time until the central text shows up. Firefox is faster so it's not because of my connection.
I'm using the debian unstable packages, maybe the reason is to be found there...?
Filip
>I'm using the debian unstable packages, maybe the reason is to be found there...?
I'm using Slackware so I doubt it.
Another change I've noticed is that if you open many tabs in a short amount of time, it won't open them two by two in order like it did before. It will try to load all of them at once, so if there are many of them, you'll have to wait longer for one of them to be completed.
I didn't find similar bug reports.. So I reported it.
It 's bug #87895
Filip
I'm not actually sure whether this is a regression or anything -- I have been messing about with the SuSE kde rpm's from the ftp.gwdg.de apt repository -- but since my last update this morning, the minicli 'remembers' the desktop it was first called up on, and refused to appear in other desktops. This is quite a nuisance...
Same is happening with me. I used the same rpms. Its kde bug or problem with rpms?
Same overhere,
This can be tackled through configuring the special setting under menuentry advanced in the popupmenu when right clicking on the window caption.
Please be a little more verbose. What exactly to choose in special setting dialog box?
well, my english is bad, and I'm using the Dutch version of kde, zo can't be too precise :)
rmb click on the caption of the window (any window. In the popup menu, you will see something like [Advanced->special window configurations]. This menu entry pops up one or two dialogs wich you can use to setup advanced stuff for your window.
For minicli, go to tab [geometry] and select the option [desktops -> on all desktops], or change the option in something else, that prefents minicli from remembering the previous desktop setting.
good luck
That's curious... I don't have any tabs in that dialog. I get 'information about selected window', and can't do much except select applicability to window class. Perhaps a kwin setting hidden in my .kde...
I had a lot of trouble with the SuSE RPMs. Several bugs I found in them aren't present in the Slackware packages I'm using now.
I've solved the problem by going back to my compiled version of KDE, but with SuSE's arts package, since I didn't manage to compile a version of arts that actually produced sounds.
Which unfortunately means that I've lost my image previews in konqueror. There must be some difference between the SuSE KDE rpm's and kde-from-cvs (KDE_3_3_BRANCH) that makes that difference because of a unknown configuration setting I've got set for user and not for another.
Posted too early... Apparently, it's not enough to select image previews in View/Preview, but you must also select the file: protocol in Settings/Configure Konqueror/Previews & Meta Data/Select Protocols. The local protocols appear to be disabled by default. You need to scroll down. because only remote protocols are shown in the treeview.
Weird, previews work fine over here without any additional setting.
The only thing that doesn't work on my suse 9.1, are the screensavers.
Also heard about Debian users with the same problem, so that is not SuSE specific
This is not the responsibility of the KDE team, of course, but I've got a problem with the SuSE 9.0 rpms for KDE 3.3
Konqueror consistently crashes on startup with "Signal 6, SIGABRT".
Not sure if anyone else is experiencing this?
I also expierienced this.
[New Thread 16384 (LWP 12501)]
[KCrash handler]
#4 0x4169fb71 in kill () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#5 0x41522cf1 in pthread_kill () from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0
#6 0x4152300b in raise () from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0
#7 0x4169f904 in raise () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#8 0x416a0e8c in abort () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#9 0x41698e84 in __assert_fail () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#10 0x401d3140 in KParts::Factory::createObject(QObject*, char const*, char const*, QStringList const&) (this=0x0, parent=0x82f9c48,
name=0x83368b0 "libkrpmview", classname=0x0, args=@0x0) at factory.cpp:81
#11 0x409abee1 in KLibFactory::create(QObject*, char const*, char const*, QStringList const&) (this=0x83375f0, parent=0x0, name=0x0, classname=0x0, args=@0x0)
at klibloader.cpp:86
#12 0x401d824d in createInstanceFromFactory (factory=0x0,
parent=0x0, name=0x0, args=@0x4152868c) at componentfactory.h:62
#13 0x401d819f in createInstanceFromLibrary (
libraryName=0x4152868c "\214å", parent=0x0, name=0x0, args=@0x0, error=0x0)
at componentfactory.h:144
#14 0x401c8b7a in KParts::Plugin::loadPlugin(QObject*, char const*) (
parent=0x0, libname=0x83368b0 "libkrpmview") at plugin.cpp:177
#15 0x401c9446 in KParts::Plugin::loadPlugins(QObject*, KXMLGUIClient*, KInstance*, bool) (parent=0x82f9c48, parentGUIClient=0x82f9ccc, instance=0x82fa260,
enableNewPluginsByDefault=true) at plugin.cpp:286
#16 0x401c4188 in KParts::PartBase::loadPlugins(QObject*, KXMLGUIClient*, KInstance*) (this=0x0, parent=0x0, parentGUIClient=0x0, instance=0x0) at part.cpp:125
#17 0x401c4137 in KParts::PartBase::setInstance(KInstance*, bool) (
this=0x82f9c70, inst=0x82fa260, bLoadPlugins=true) at part.cpp:119
#18 0x41c83bd9 in KHTMLPart (this=0x82f9c48, __vtt_parm=0x1, parentWidget=0x0,
widgetname=0x0, parent=0x0, name=0x0, prof=BrowserViewGUI)
at khtml_part.cpp:167
#19 0x421d27b1 in KonqAboutPage::KonqAboutPage(QWidget*, char const*, QObject*, char const*) () from /opt/kde3/lib/kde3/konq_aboutpage.so
#20 0x421cc919 in KonqAboutPageFactory::createPartObject(QWidget*, char const*, QObject*, char const*, char const*, QStringList const&) ()
from /opt/kde3/lib/kde3/konq_aboutpage.so
#21 0x401d2fcf in KParts::Factory::createPart(QWidget*, char const*, QObject*, char const*, char const*, QStringList const&) (this=0x82f9708,
parentWidget=0x0, widgetName=0x0, parent=0x0, name=0x0, classname=0x0,
args=@0x0) at factory.cpp:44
#22 0x400b7ef9 in KonqViewFactory::create(QWidget*, char const*, QObject*, char const*) () from /opt/kde3/lib/libkdeinit_konqueror.so
#23 0x400a8e4d in KonqFrame::attach(KonqViewFactory const&) ()
from /opt/kde3/lib/libkdeinit_konqueror.so
#24 0x40097496 in KonqView::switchView(KonqViewFactory&) ()
from /opt/kde3/lib/libkdeinit_konqueror.so
#25 0x40097ca1 in KonqView::changeViewMode(QString const&, QString const&, bool) () from /opt/kde3/lib/libkdeinit_konqueror.so
#26 0x400c22f5 in KonqMainWindow::openView(QString, KURL const&, KonqView*, KonqOpenURLRequest&) () from /opt/kde3/lib/libkdeinit_konqueror.so
#27 0x400a3785 in KonqViewManager::loadItem(KConfig&, KonqFrameContainerBase*, QString const&, KURL const&, bool) () from /opt/kde3/lib/libkdeinit_konqueror.so
#28 0x400a186d in KonqViewManager::loadViewProfile(KConfig&, QString const&, KURL const&, KonqOpenURLRequest const&, bool) ()
from /opt/kde3/lib/libkdeinit_konqueror.so
#29 0x400a5acf in KonqMisc::createBrowserWindowFromProfile(QString const&, QString const&, KURL const&, KParts::URLArgs const&, bool, QStringList) ()
from /opt/kde3/lib/libkdeinit_konqueror.so
#30 0x4008d2f0 in kdemain () from /opt/kde3/lib/libkdeinit_konqueror.so
#31 0x0804865b in main ()