The KDE developers are pleased to announce the release of KDE 3.5.5. This release includes plenty of bug fixes and updated translations for 65 languages but also features improvements such as version 0.12.3 of Kopete, sudo in kdesu, CUPS 1.2 support and speed improvements in KHTML. See the changelog for everything new. Grab the source from the info page, compile with Konstruct or get the packages for Archlinux, Debian Sid, Kubuntu, Pardus or openSUSE.
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No, I use Kubuntu packages -- those work. I don't know whether Kubuntu changed things in KDE or CUPS or somewhere else... LFS, even more than Gentoo, basically means you're your own distribution maker, so you're responsible for your own integration between the components of your system. In other words: if you use LFS and have a problem, the onus is on you to prove you didn't create the problem yourself, not on the KDE developers.
So Kubuntu has solved it for you :) Btw, what's the version of the CUPS in your system?
That's why I use Kubuntu -- it saves me time for working on Krita (or cleaning out the cellar). My version of cups is 1.2.2. A curious thing is that since KDE 3.5.4 kpdf autmatically prints double-sided on my printer. I didn't know it could do that.
IC, this may be the issue. I use cups-1.1.23. KDE upgraded its support for cups-1.2. So KDE 3.5.5 may be working without any issue with cups 1.2.2. Looks like they did not test with cups-1.1.X. So, I'll try with Cups 1.2.2. Sorry abt your issue, I'm infact upgrading from KDE 3.5.3 to 3.5.5. I did not experience any such problem here. Thank you.
works on gentoo here
The KDE quality team is baddly named. The goal is not testing (though that is very important), but to direct new help to the place where they are needed. Note that I said help. They help programmers, translators, writers, testers, artists, and anyone else with a talent that wants to help KDE - but as direction of where to go.
Most of the answers you get from the quality team will be "Ask your question [some other place]".
An artist who is interested in kids game would find KDEgames uninteresting (as those games are aimed at an older crowd for the most part), but (parts of) kde-edu interesting - but if you are just getting into KDE you may skip that package completely. KDE-quality will point you in the right direction.
Of course people who want to test KDE are important. That is why beta and release canidates are released - to get people to test KDE before the general release. Not enough people test Beta and RC releases in general. KDE quality will direct you to the kde bugs database, and perhaps the developer to talk to about any bugs you find, but they do not direct testing itself.
I'm using KDE 3.5.5 with CUPS 1.1.23 on Linux.
K-Button->Control Center->Peripherals->Printers works.
What is broken is Print System applet on the panel->Print Manager.
Those who do not experience this issue, could you please display the first few lines of this file: /usr/share/applications/kde/printers.desktop
This is how its looks like in mine:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=kcmshell printers
Icon=printmgr
Type=Application
DocPath=kdeprint/index.html
MimeType=print/manager
X-KDE-ModuleType=Library
X-KDE-Library=printmgr
X-KDE-RootOnly=true
X-KDE-HasReadOnlyMode=true
Name=Printers
Name[af]=Drukkers
:
:
Categories=Qt;KDE;X-KDE-settings-hardware;Settings;
It's identical.
I use kubuntu dapper, and since I got the 3.5.5 packages from kubuntu.org it
feels like screen repaints overally got slower, e.g. when scrolling in
konqueror, or switching from one desktop to another.
Tab switching in konqueror is supposed to be faster in 3.5.5 but for me it
feels slower.
Anyone else ?
i'd say another thing is the culprit. painting is mostly done by qt, and qt isn't updated or changed. there haven't been any changes which would affect painting everywhere. it sounds like "renderaccel" "true" got removed from your xorg.conf or something...