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  KDE 2.1 Has Landed At a Server Near You
KDE Official News Posted by Dre on Monday 26/Feb/2001, @14:46
from the keeps-getting-better dept.
KDE 2.1 is officially out! This is a solid release with major improvements to Konqueror and KMail, the addition of the excellent IDE KDevelop, as well as the modular new multimedia player noatun. It has a whole slew of improvements over 2.0; you can find the change log here. The full press release is attached. Enjoy -- I already installed it and it rules!

DATELINE FEBRUARY 26, 2001

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

New KDE Desktop Ready for the Enterprise

KDE Ships Leading Desktop with Advanced Web Browser for Linux and Other UNIXes

February 26, 2001 (The INTERNET). The KDE Project today announced the release of KDE 2.1, a powerful and easy-to-use Internet-enabled desktop for Linux. KDE features Konqueror, a state-of-the-art web browser, as an integrated component of its user-friendly desktop environment, as well as KDevelop, an advanced IDE, as a central component of KDE's powerful development environment. This release marks a leap forward in Linux desktop stability, usability and maturity and is suitable for enterprise deployment. The KDE Project strongly encourages all users to upgrade to KDE 2.1.

KDE and all its components are available for free under Open Source licenses from the KDE server and its mirrors and can also be obtained on CD-ROM. KDE 2.1 is available in 33 languages and ships with the core KDE libraries, the core desktop environment (including Konqueror), developer packages (including KDevelop), as well as the over 100 applications from the other standard base KDE packages (administration, games, graphics, multimedia, network, PIM and utilities).

"This second major release of the KDE 2 series is a real improvement in terms of stability, performance and features," said David Faure, release manager for KDE 2.1 and KDE Representative at Mandrakesoft. "KDE 2 has now matured into a solid, intuitive and complete desktop for daily use. Konqueror is a full-featured and robust web browser and important applications like the mail client (KMail) have greatly improved. The multimedia architecture has made great strides and this release inaugurates the new media player noatun, which has a modular, plugin design for playing the latest audio and video formats. For development, KDE 2.1 for the first time is bundled with KDevelop, an outstanding IDE/RAD which will be comfortably familiar to developers with Windows development backgrounds. In short, KDE 2.1 is a state-of-the-art desktop and development environment, and positions Linux/Unix to make significant inroads in the home and enterprise."

"KDE 2.1 opens the door to widespread adoption of the Linux desktop and will help provide the success on the desktop that Linux already enjoys in the server space," added Dirk Hohndel, CTO of Suse AG. "With its intuitive interface, code maturity and excellent development tools and environment, I am confident that enterprises and third party developers will realize the enormous potential KDE offers and will migrate their workstations and applications to Linux/KDE."

"KDE boasts an outstanding graphical design and robust functionality," said Sheila Harnett, Senior Technical Staff Member for IBM's Linux Technology Center. "KDE 2.1 significantly raises the bar for Linux desktop functionality, usability and quality in virtually every aspect of the desktop."

KDE 2: The K Desktop Environment. Konqueror is KDE 2's next-generation web browser, file manager and document viewer. The standards-compliant Konqueror has a component-based architecture which combines the features and functionality of Internet Explorer/Netscape Communicator and Windows Explorer. Konqueror supports the full gamut of current Internet technologies, including JavaScript, Java, XML, HTML 4.0, CSS-1 and -2 (Cascading Style Sheets), SSL (Secure Socket Layer for secure communications) and Netscape Communicator plug-ins (for Flash, RealAudio, RealVideo and similar technologies).

In addition, KDE offers seamless network transparency for accessing or browsing files on Linux, NFS shares, MS Windows SMB shares, HTTP pages, FTP directories, LDAP directories and audio CDs. The modular, plug-in nature of KDE's file architecture makes it simple to add additional protocols (such as IPX, WebDAV or digital cameras) to KDE, which would then automatically be available to all KDE applications.

KDE's configurability and customizability touches every aspect of the desktop. KDE offers a unique cascading customization feature where customization settings are inherited through different layers, from global to per-user, permitting enterprise-wide and group-based configurations. KDE's sophisticated theme support starts with Qt's style engine, which permits developers and artists to create their own widget designs. KDE 2.1 ships with over 14 of these styles, some of which emulate the look of various operating systems. Additionally KDE includes a new theme manager and does an excellent job of importing themes from GTK and GNOME. Moreover, KDE 2 fully supports Unicode and KHTML is the only free HTML rendering engine on Linux/X11 that features nascent support for BiDi scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew.

KDE 2 features an advanced, network-transparent multimedia architecture based on aRts, the Analog Realtime Synthesizer. ARts is a full-featured sound system which includes a number of effects and filters, a modular analog synthesizer and a mixer. The aRts sound server provides network transparent sound support for both input and output using MCOP, a CORBA-like network design, enabling applications running on remote computers to output sound and receive input from the local workstation. This architecture provides a much-needed complement to the network transparency provided by X and for the first time permits users to run their applications remotely with sound enabled. Moreover, aRts enables multiple applications (local or remote) to output sound and/or video concurrently. Video support is available for MPEG versions 1, 2 and 4 (experimental), as well as the AVI and DivX formats. Using the aRts component technology, it is very easy to develop multimedia applications.

Besides the exceptional compliance with Internet and file-sharing standards mentioned above, KDE 2 is a leader in compliance with the available Linux desktop standards. KWin, KDE's new re-engineered window manager, complies to the new Window Manager Specification. Konqueror and KDE comply with the Desktop Entry Standard. Konqueror uses the XBEL standard for its bookmarks. KDE 2 largely complies with the X Drag-and-Drop (XDND) protocol as well as with the X11R6 session management protocol (XSMP).

KDE 2: The K Development Environment. KDE 2.1 offers developers a sophisticated IDE as well as a rich set of major technological improvements over the critically acclaimed KDE 1 series. Chief among the technologies are the Desktop COmmunication Protocol (DCOP), the I/O libraries (KIO), the component object model (KParts), an XML-based GUI class, and a standards-compliant HTML rendering engine (KHTML).

KDevelop is a leading Linux IDE with numerous features for rapid application development, including a GUI dialog builder, integrated debugging, project management, documentation and translation facilities, built-in concurrent development support, and much more.

KParts, KDE 2's proven component object model, handles all aspects of application embedding, such as positioning toolbars and insertingthe proper menus when the embedded component is activated or deactivated. KParts can also interface with the KIO trader to locate available handlers for specific mimetypes or services/protocols. This technology is used extensively by the KOffice suite and Konqueror.

KIO implements application I/O in a separate process to enable a non-blocking GUI without the use of threads. The class is network and protocol transparent and hence can be used seamlessly to access HTTP, FTP, POP, IMAP, NFS, SMB, LDAP and local files. Moreover, its modular and extensible design permits developers to "drop in" additional protocols, such as WebDAV, which will then automatically be available to all KDE applications. KIO also implements a trader which can locate handlers for specified mimetypes; these handlers can then be embedded within the requesting application using the KParts technology.

The XML GUI employs XML to create and position menus, toolbars and possibly other aspects of the GUI. This technology offers developers and users the advantage of simplified configurability of these user interface elements across applications and automatic compliance with the KDE Standards and Style Guide irrespective of modifications to the standards.

DCOP is a client-to-client communications protocol intermediated by a server over the standard X11 ICE library. The protocol supports both message passing and remote procedure calls using an XML-RPC to DCOP "gateway". Bindings for C, C++ and Python, as well as experimental Java bindings, are available.

KHTML is an HTML 4.0 compliant rendering and drawing engine. The class will support the full gamut of current Internet technologies, including JavaScript, Java, HTML 4.0, CSS-2 (Cascading Style Sheets), SSL (Secure Socket Layer for secure communications) and Netscape Communicator plugins (for viewing Flash, RealAudio, RealVideo and similar technologies). The KHTML class can easily be used by an application as either a widget (using normal window parenting) or as a component (using the KParts technology). KHTML, in turn, has the capacity to embed components within itself using the KParts technology.

Downloading and Compiling KDE 2.1

The source packages for KDE 2.1 are available for free download at http://ftp.kde.org/stable/2.1/distribution/tar/generic/src/ or in the equivalent directory at one of the many KDE ftp server mirrors. KDE 2.1 requires qt-2.2.4, which is available in source code from Trolltech as qt-x11-2.2.4.tar.gz. KDE 2.1 should work with Qt-2.2.3 but Qt-2.2.4 is recommended.

For further instructions on compiling and installing KDE 2.1, please consult the installation instructions and, if you encounter problems, the compilation FAQ.

Installing Binary Packages

Some distributors choose to provide binary packages of KDE for certain versions of their distribution. Some of these binary packages for KDE 2.1 will be available for free download under http://ftp.kde.org/stable/2.1/distribution/ or under the equivalent directory at one of the many KDE ftp server mirrors. Please note that the KDE team is not responsible for these packages as they are provided by third parties -- typically, but not always, the distributor of the relevant distribution.

KDE 2.1 requires qt-2.2.4, the free version of which is available from the above locations usually under the name qt-x11-2.2.4. KDE 2.1 should work with Qt-2.2.3 but Qt-2.2.4 is recommended.

At the time of this release, pre-compiled packages are available for:

  • Caldera eDesktop 2.4: i386
  • Debian GNU/Linux:
    • Potato (2.2): i386, Sparc and PPC; please also check the main directory for common files
    • Stable (2.3): i386, Sparc and PPC; please also check the main directory for common files
  • Linux-Mandrake 7.2: i586
  • RedHat Linux:
    • Wolverine: i386; please also check the common directory for common files
    • 7.0: i386 and Alpha; please also check the common directory for common files
    • 6.x: i386, Alpha and Sparc; please also check the common directory for common files
  • SuSE Linux:
  • Tru64 Systems
  • FreeBSD

Please check the servers periodically for pre-compiled packages for other distributions. More binary packages will become available over the coming days and weeks.

What Others Are Saying

KDE 2.1 has already earned accolades from industry leaders worldwide. A sampling of comments follows.

"We welcome the release of KDE 2.1," stated Dr. Markus Draeger, Senior Manager for Partner Relations at Fujitsu Siemens Computers. "The release introduces several important new components, like KDevelop and the media player noatun, and overall is a major step forward for this leading GUI on Linux."

"We are very excited about the enhancements in KDE 2.1 and we are pleased to be able to contribute to the project," said Rene Schmidt, Corel's Executive Vice-President, Linux Products. "KDE continues to improve with each release, and these enhancements will make our easy-to-use Linux distribution for the desktop even better."

"A greater number and availability of Linux applications is an important factor that will determine if Linux permeates the enterprise desktop," said Drew Spencer, Chief Technology Officer for Caldera Systems, Inc. "KDE 2.1 addresses this issue with the integration of the Konqueror browser and KDevelop, a tool that allows developers to create applications in C++ for all kinds of environments. Together with the existing tools available for KDE, KDevelop is a one-stop solution for developers."

"With the 2.1 release, KDE again demonstrates its capacity to offer rich software and provide a complete and stable environment for everyday use", added Gaël Duval, co-founder of Mandrakesoft. "This latest release has paved the way for KDE on user's desktops in the enterprise as well as at home. From the full-featured web browser to the friendly configuration center, it provides all the common facilities many computers users need to abandon Windows entirely."

About KDE

KDE is an independent, collaborative project by hundreds of developers worldwide to create a sophisticated, customizable and stable desktop environmentemploying a component-based, network-transparent architecture. KDE is working proof of the power of the Open Source "Bazaar-style" software development model to create first-rate technologies on par with and superior to even the most complex commercial software.

For more information about KDE, please visit KDE's web site. More information about KDE 2 is available in two (1, 2) slideshow presentations and on KDE's web site, including an evolving FAQ to answer questions about migrating to KDE 2.1 from KDE 1.x, a number of screenshots, developer information and a developer's KDE 1 - KDE 2 porting guide.

Trademarks Notices. KDE and K Desktop Environment are trademarks of KDE e.V. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Unix is a registered trademark of The Open Group. Trolltech and Qt are trademarks of Trolltech AS. MS Windows, Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Netscape and Netscape Communicator are trademarks or registered trademarks of Netscape Communications Corporation in the United States and other countries and JavaScript is a trademark of Netscape Communications Corporation. Java is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Flash is a trademark or registered trademark of Macromedia, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. RealAudio and RealVideo are trademarks or registered trademarks of RealNetworks, Inc. All other trademarks and copyrights referred to in this announcement are the property of their respective owners.
Press Contacts:
United States: Kurt Granroth
granroth@kde.org
(1) 480 732 1752
 
Andreas Pour
pour@kde.org
(1) 718 456 1165
Europe (French and English): David Faure
faure@kde.org
(44) 1225 837409
Europe (English and German): Martin Konold
konold@kde.org
(49) 179 2252249

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Re: KDE 2.1 Has Landed -- At a Server Near You
by Rob Kaper on Monday 26/Feb/2001, @15:01
Of course, kudos to the developers, artists, beta testers and everyone else who contributed! Fortunately I am installing Linux for a friend tomorrow so I can actually celebrate the release, it's not a real milestone for CVS users. ;-)

By the way, small typo on The Dot:

It has a whole slew of improvements over 2.1

Should be 2.0, right?
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Re: KDE 2.1 Has Landed -- At a Server Near You
by reihal on Monday 26/Feb/2001, @15:03
Great! Again! Thanks to all of you!
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YeeeHaw!
by _shad on Monday 26/Feb/2001, @15:03
Propz out to Njaard, tronical, gis, dfaure.. the rest of you :)
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Re: KDE 2.1 Has Landed -- At a Server Near You
by Baracuda on Monday 26/Feb/2001, @15:09
Mandrake packages are missing. I checked also Mandrake mirros, the result is: totally emptiness.
Regards,
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hunh?
by Jim on Monday 26/Feb/2001, @15:09
I didn't find the tar files up on ftp.kde.org, although the rpms, debs, etc are there...anyone know of a mirror when I can get them?
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Re: KDE 2.1 Has Landed -- At a Server Near You
by Michael M Nazaroff on Monday 26/Feb/2001, @15:11
Sweet!
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No source packages?
by Rob Kaper on Monday 26/Feb/2001, @15:16
The source packages for KDE 2.1 are available for free download at http://ftp.kde.org/stable/2.1/distribution/tar/generic/src/ or in the equivalent directory at one of the many KDE ftp server mirrors.

Unfortunately, none of the mirrors seem to have the source packages (many do not even have 2.1 at all, hopefully that changes soon) and it looks like the main FTP site doesn't carry them also.
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Re: KDE 2.1 Has Landed -- At a Server Near You
by gunnar on Monday 26/Feb/2001, @15:23
thanx!
its great. everything went smooth and these lines r hacked in konqueror 2.1 locely! -gunnar
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Try Debian Source!
by ac on Monday 26/Feb/2001, @15:29
They will work just as well as generic source!

potato/main/source/

Get all the *.orig.tar.gz these are the original tar.gz files with no modifications.
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Re: KDE 2.1 Has Landed -- with more KWin styles
by Karl on Monday 26/Feb/2001, @15:57
There's also a new Win2K KWin style, which is missing in the changelogs ;)
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Conquer Your Desktop
by Anon on Monday 26/Feb/2001, @16:23
Can't say it enough but this is the best Linux Desktop release ever! It's Fast, Stable, Pretty, and so many darn features and apps! If this does not bring Linux to the desktop, I don't know what will!
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Re: KDE 2.1 Has Landed -- At a Server Near You
by quinto on Monday 26/Feb/2001, @16:25
No apt-get line? Bit of a pain to manually download each package...
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Re: KDE 2.1 Has Landed -- At a Server Near You
by Anon on Monday 26/Feb/2001, @16:27
Oh, and here's the link on Slashdot and LinuxToday.
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Re: KDE 2.1 Has Landed -- At a Server Near You
by Charlie Collins on Monday 26/Feb/2001, @17:58
2.1 is great(er). Thanks and congrats to all whom contributed. This truly is an "enterprise" ready desktop and has allowed me to get rid of that other OS I had used at the office for years.

Check out my experience on switching over via this small article on TotSP: http://screaming-penguin.com/main.php?storyid=1559

Thanks again KDE!
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Can't find it at main ftp site,i tried some mirror
by chinese_guy on Monday 26/Feb/2001, @19:00
here it is ftp://bolugftp.uni-bonn.de/pub/kde/stable/2.1/distribution/tar/generic/src/ bad news: i just costed 8 hours to install kde 2.1 -beta2 in my computer,so this time i have to install qt-2.2.4and kde 2-1 again,anyway,i fell exciting about it
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Re: KDE 2.1 Has Landed -- At a Server Near You
by Craig black on Monday 26/Feb/2001, @20:26
I can't find a mirror with mandrake rpms. Has anyone found one? Craig
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Re: KDE 2.1 Has Landed -- At a Server Near You
by Carbon on Monday 26/Feb/2001, @20:44
Absolutely awesome! I have constantly heard idiots on ZDNet, CNET, etc, claim that although Linux is great on the server, it'll never be as good on the desktop as linux! All we need now is a better KOffice, and a merge or compat with GNOME (no easy task, but I'm positive that the hard working KDE developers can accomplish it) and within 5 years, M$ will be making nothing but mice! Summary : KICKIN! Also, kudos the the awesome developers at Enlightenment, GNOME, WM, and all other OSS projects! The future of computing rests on OSS's shoulders, but I am not worried in the slightest.
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No Red Hat 7.0 i386 aRts RPM
by Anonymous on Monday 26/Feb/2001, @20:46
The precompiled aRts RPM is missing from the Red Hat 7.0 i386 directory.
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Re: KDE 2.1 Has Landed -- At a Server Near You
by Greg on Monday 26/Feb/2001, @21:29
I have missed Kdevelop so much!! That will deffinately be on my top two things to be happy about... but there is so much more... what to pick for my second?????? Maybe I'll just have to define the rest with a Doctor Suse word, preferably made up of letters after z.
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Tough Installation - Try GNOME!!!
by Benjamin Atkin on Monday 26/Feb/2001, @21:54
Gnome is way better than KDE! It kicks butt. I've tried KDE, KDE2, and KDE2.1b, and I am not impressed with any of them. KDE is actually the best of the three. Gnome has a cleaner interface. It has better Apps and no need for tools such as Krash. It's installation is so easy! Plus, it's really free (unlike KDE, which uses software from TrollTech). It looks much, much, much cooler!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: KDE 2.1 Has Landed -- At a Server Near You
by k0 on Monday 26/Feb/2001, @22:16
I'm having some trouble with the RH 7.0 RPMs. The kde-multimedia package, fails to find some dependencies. any ideas? Everything else works great... Thank you. libartsc.so.0 is needed by kdemultimedia-2.1-0.70.2 libartsflow.so.0 is needed by kdemultimedia-2.1-0.70.2 libartsflow_idl.so.0 is needed by kdemultimedia-2.1-0.70.2 libkmedia2_idl.so.0 is needed by kdemultimedia-2.1-0.70.2 libkmid.so.0 is needed by kdemultimedia-2.1-0.70.2 libmcop.so.0 is needed by kdemultimedia-2.1-0.70.2 libqtmcop.so.0 is needed by kdemultimedia-2.1-0.70.2 libsoundserver_idl.so.0 is needed by kdemultimedia-2.1-0.70.2
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Re: KDE 2.1 Has Landed -- At a Server Near You
by Tick on Monday 26/Feb/2001, @23:07
When do you think it will be ok to remove the word "will" from the KHTML description?

It makes it seem like it does not support everything that is listed yet.

It might be better to say that it supports most of them.. ?
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kdesdk: Wrong CVS tag ? KDE_2_1_RELEASET ?
by Frédéric L. W. Meunier on Monday 26/Feb/2001, @23:52
Hello developers. Congratulations! Now a question. I just upgraded my CVS sources to the KDE_2_1_RELEASE tag. But I noticed the module kdesdk I got with cvs co was downgraded to admin/ and various *.desktop files. Doing a cvs status -v Makefile.cvs (thanks Johannes!) I see there are KDE_2_1_RELEASET (shouldn't it be KDE_2_1_RELEASE ?), KDE_2_1, and KDE_2_1_BETA2 tags. BTW, KDE 2.1 should build without major problems with the upcoming gcc 3.0 (no, I won't use the snapshots) ?
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Anyone tried the FreeBSD binaries?
by kdeFan on Tuesday 27/Feb/2001, @12:35
The release says that a precompiled package is available for FreeBSD. I'm trying to decide if I want to try it, or build kde from source. I've had problems with binaries (on Linux Mandrake) in the past (they were *slow*) so I'm wondering what this batch is like.

Thanks!
-kdeFan
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What happened to my Nice AA fonts?
by Dr_LHA on Tuesday 27/Feb/2001, @12:46

Hi,

I just upgraded from 2.0.1 to 2.1. I was using the Redhat Wolverine XFree 4.0.2 and qt which gave me nice AA'd fonts on 2.0.1. I didn't upgrade qt - only the KDE packaged and the AA fonts have dissappeared. Is there an option in 2.1 to switch them back on?

They still appear in kdm and in the splash screen BTW.

Cheers.
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NS plugs
by man on Tuesday 27/Feb/2001, @13:23
I want use NS plugins. I read that I should go to "Preferences/WebBrowsing/Netscape plugins". But there is (at preferences/webbrowsing) no any item like "netscape plugs" :( what's wrong?
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Re: KDE 2.1 Has Landed -- At a Server Near You
by Jorge on Tuesday 27/Feb/2001, @13:36
just let me say THANK YOU You are the reason i ever tried Linux You guys are the reason that actualy let me use linux as my only desktop. Again thanks Best regards From Portugal Jorge
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Re: KDE 2.1 Has Landed -- At a Server Near You
by Anonymous Custard on Tuesday 27/Feb/2001, @13:39

ALL YOUR DESKTOPS ARE BELONG TO US!
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Re: KDE 2.1 Has Landed -- At a Server Near You
by Gunter Ohrner on Tuesday 27/Feb/2001, @14:00

Hi!

Am I the only one having problems or are there broken packages? I downloaded two copies of the kdebase-2.1 SuSE 7.0 rpm packages from two different mirrors with my V34 modem but I get an "cpio: bad magic" error if I try to install any of them... :-( And I was really looking forward to testing KDE2.1 this evening... :-((

Greetinx,

Gunter Ohrner
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sweet
by eze on Tuesday 27/Feb/2001, @14:47
This is polished! I couldn't wait, I am play with the system as the rest of it compiles. All of the righ edges in 2.0 have been polished into beauty. Kde developers are true code artists.
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No sound in Redhat 6.x?
by Karl Garrison on Tuesday 27/Feb/2001, @15:34
Is anyone else who is using the Redhat 6.x packages having problems with sound? Sound worked fine under KDE 2.0.1, but as soon as I upgraded, it no longer works in KDE. Other applications that use sound are unaffected.

I've tried testing sounds under System Notifications, and testing sound in the setup of the sound server, and I don't get any errors, but hear no sound. My volume settings are at max.

Anyone have any ideas on this?
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Re: KDE 2.1 Has Landed -- At a Server Near You
by tbecker on Tuesday 27/Feb/2001, @17:20
This version does look very polished, but what is up with the application logging? After having KDE2.1 up and running for 10 minutes, my .xsession-errors file is up to 1081436 blocks(it started at 0) Come on guys, this stuff needs to be taken out. I don't like my home directory being a dumping ground for debug messages. -TWB
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Re: KDE 2.1 Has Landed -- At a Server Near You
by Cire on Tuesday 27/Feb/2001, @21:06
2.1 looks good, but I am having a display problem on my Sony VAIO notebook computer (it was actually there with the 2.1 beta as well though I didn't try 2.0). I installed RH6.1 on it, and when I run the default KDE 1.1.2 or even Gnome, the display looks very crisp and sharp. However, whenever I run KDE2, the disply is very grainy. I can see the pixels quite easily and it is annoying. Anyone know what might be going on? I thought maybe it was an X problem, but since KDE1 and Gnome display correctly, it would seem to rule out X. Thanks for any help as I would really like to get it looking good on my portable. Other than that, it looks really good. Thanks again KDE team. Paul.....
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Problems getting it to start
by Chris Aakre on Tuesday 27/Feb/2001, @21:12
Anyone else having problems getting KDE 2.1 to start w/ Redhat 7.0 rpms? It just sits there for me, saying "Setting up interprocess communication" the last lines that xfree puts out to the console are as follows: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/qt/lib:/usr/local/qt/lib::/usr/lib kdeinit: Launched DCOPServer, pid = 783 result = 0 DCOPServer: SetAPRoc_loc: conn 0, prot = local, file = /tmp/.ICE-unix/785 kdeinit: Launched KLauncher, pid = 786 result = 0 hmm thanks for help in advance :)
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Re: KDE 2.1 Has Landed (mostly)
by Christopher Specker on Tuesday 27/Feb/2001, @21:21
Everything seems to have installed smoothly except for kde-base-2.1.0-2 package doesn't install.

Apparently I'm missing the following:

icons
libcdda_interface.so.0
libcdda_paranoid.so.0

These don't seem to be in any of the kde or x rpm's for SuSE 6.4 (i386). Anyone know where these are hidden?
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ANTIALIASING
by t0m_dR on Wednesday 28/Feb/2001, @02:19
Someone on Slashdot said that the Debian Packages , have antialiasing precompiled in(!) Does anybody know more about this? Do other packages have antialiasing precompiled? Or is this just plain false altogether?
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Re: KDE 2.1 Has Landed -- At a Server Near You
by Rob on Wednesday 28/Feb/2001, @03:10
Has any one else had a problem with the kdemultimedia rpm package for RedHat 6.x?

I get an error unpacking the archive when I try to install it.
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QT 2.2.4
by rv on Wednesday 28/Feb/2001, @04:09
Hi. Downloaded nearly all sources (except i18n). Cant find qt 2.2.4 sources in the mirrors (or I don't know where to look). Main ftp site of trolltech is too slow for me. Is there an http mirror available for the same?
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Hurry up....
by Chris Adams on Wednesday 28/Feb/2001, @08:00
This may explain the lack of KDE 2.1 RPMS for Mandrake.

Chris Molnar:

Hello,

I can no longer speak for Mandrake as I am no longer working for the company, but here is my guess: There was probably a slight confusion over who is responsible for making the new RPM's. I had been creating all RPM's for the 7.2 KDE updates until about 2 weeks ago. It takes time to reassign responsibilities. I have had some email with people who know what is going on and they are working on building rpm's for kde 2.1. You have not been forgotten about.

-Chris
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It's nice... or it would be if it would compile
by Yrd on Wednesday 28/Feb/2001, @08:36
In the absence of Slackware packages I decided to do what I normally do anyway and compile 2.1 from source. Will it compile? Will it hell. Undefined symbols all over the place at link time.

Can anyone say what versions of glibc and similar libraries KDE is supposed to work against?

No doubt it's just my screwed up system... one day I'll get around to doing a proper upgrade to Slackware 7.1... or maybe when 7.2 comes out...
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Re: KDE 2.1 Has Landed -- At a Server Near You
by Craig black on Wednesday 28/Feb/2001, @10:47
Now that KDE is out I hope the majority of development will shift to koffice. Craig (just a wish)
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Re: KDE 2.1 Has Landed -- At a Server Near You
by PedroG on Wednesday 28/Feb/2001, @12:55
Oh My,

I have been using gnome for quite some time but I went ahead and installed 2.1 out of curiosity. It's still here today :)

It is very impressive. I'd say it's quite a step over kde2.0

Konquerer is quite impressive.

The extra bit of polish on everything speaks highly of it's professionalism.

I would still like some more configurability of the panel (like gnome) but I will live.

Nice work kde/qt developers - very nice
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Re: KDE 2.1 Has Landed -- At a Server Near You
by cm on Wednesday 28/Feb/2001, @13:19
Will there be a bugfix release 2.1.1.
any time soon, the way it has been with 2.0?

Regards,
cm.
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Re: KDE 2.1 Has Landed -- At a Server Near You
by jack on Wednesday 28/Feb/2001, @17:29
using redhat 7, i can't get kdebase to install. it keeps giving me a "libsensor.so.1" dependency. all the other rpms will install just fine. i did get qt 2.2.4 to install ok, and have downloaded and installed the latest aRts rpm, but still no luck with the kdebase install. any help would be greatly appreciated. ..jack..
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Re: KDE 2.1 Has Landed -- At a Server Near You
by jack on Wednesday 28/Feb/2001, @17:30
using redhat 7, i can't get kdebase to install. it keeps giving me a "libsensor.so.1" dependency. all the other rpms will install just fine. i did get qt 2.2.4 to install ok, and have downloaded and installed the latest aRts rpm, but still no luck with the kdebase install. any help would be greatly appreciated. ..jack..
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Re: KDE 2.1 Has Landed -- At a Server Near You
by Jimbo on Wednesday 28/Feb/2001, @18:59
KDE 2.1 just kicks ass ! Konqueror is totally stable, except of some java script problems and ...... why the fuck am i wasting 2 gigs of my HD to windows ??????
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Re: KDE 2.1 Has Landed -- At a Server Near You
by peter on Wednesday 28/Feb/2001, @23:36
i *wonder* if i am the only one who has *always* problem getting kde to work . I just installed debain 2.1-final-1 packages , und whoops , konqueror sometimes does not use a new URL when i enter it. und beside that , source from the head branch does not compile completly , that sucks , i compiled about 10 times :-( , is there something like mozilla-tinerbox for kde ? a dedicted compile box that checks which parts of the codebase is ok , an presents it on a nice webpage , and if something is broken show's which user is the Bad Guy. This was very cool feature in mozilla development. btw. is there a list of depended software packages beside QT , which are needed for *full* compilation of kde ??
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Re: KDE 2.1 Has Landed -- At a Server Near You
by peter on Wednesday 28/Feb/2001, @23:48
yeah i forgot to complain about the smb support in konqeror. while i know that the smb protokoll is not that nice to implement , i would say hat it is NOT usable at this point , i cant browse throuh my entire windows-network looking at shares and playing divx or mp3 . it always wants to download the stuff to my computer ..
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Re: KDE 2.1 Has Landed -- At a Server Near You
by peter on Wednesday 28/Feb/2001, @23:50
yeah i forgot to complain about the smb support in konqeror. while i know that the smb protokoll is not that nice to implement , i would say hat it is NOT usable at this point , i cant browse throuh my entire windows-network looking at shares and playing divx or mp3 . it always wants to download the stuff to my computer ..
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Re: KDE 2.1 Has Landed -- At a Server Near You
by Alessandro Magni on Thursday 01/Mar/2001, @01:39

After upgrading (from 2.0) I noticed it was impossible to login at the kdm screen. All went well passing from console and using startx.

I noticed from the logs it seem to be a PAM problem (never upgraded, it's a RH6.2 box - it should be version 0.72) but I dont know PAM and fear to upgrade and remain closed outside my PC (smile - if you can...).

Now:

  1. never saw mentioned in the requirements that PAM is required.

  2. which PAM version is recommanded?

  3. how to upgrade PAM withou problems?
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Re: KDE 2.1 Has Landed -- At a Server Near You
by Owain Vaughan on Thursday 01/Mar/2001, @04:34
Are there any binary tar files available for RedHat-like systems?

I can't seem to install the RPM of kdebase. All the others install fine, but rpm exits with return code 1 and no error message. My RPM database is completely screwed up but I'm using --force and --nodeps along with --relocate /usr=/opt/kde2 which works for all the packages except kdebase.

I have looked at the binary tgzs for slackware, but they are still at 2.0.1 (despite what the announcement said!)

Any ideas?
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SuSE rpm's - bits missing?
by markes on Thursday 01/Mar/2001, @05:31
First of all let me add my thanks to all the wonderful people at KDE for making being stuck in front of a computer all day a lot more fun than it used to be!

When I installed the 2.1beta1 rpm's (SuSE 7.0 i386) I was really impressed with the customizable taskbar and the dock for WM applets, but these features disappeared when I installed the beta2 rpm's and are still missing in 2.1final. Is this a problem with the SuSE rpm's or have these features been left out for a reason?

Also, since installing 2.1final I've noticed that my swap file fills up really quickly, even with just Kmail, Star Office, and Konqueror open (I'm using a PentiumII with 96Mb ram). Has anyone else had this problem?

Thanks for any suggestions.
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suse's kdesupport misses libaudio
by RIchard Bos on Friday 02/Mar/2001, @06:07
It looks like that kdesupport from suse-7.0 misses the library libaudio. Is it only me that encounters this problem or is it a known problem?

I downloaded de rpm's from:
http://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/kde/stable/2.1/distribution/rpm/SuSE/7.0-i386/

When installing kde-support using rpm -Uvh kdelibs-2.1.0-0.i386.rpm, rpm complains about
libaudio missing. libaudio is part of kdesupport....

Looking forward to a updated kdesupport rpm for suse-7.0
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Re: KDE 2.1 Has Landed -- At a Server Near You
by Rick Kreikebaum on Sunday 11/Mar/2001, @23:19
what's up with all the missing dependencies in RedHat 7 RPMs? the following is a list of packages i tried to install and the missing dependencies i got. kdebase: libsensors.so.1 kde1-compat-1.x: libqt.so.1 kdelibs-sound-devel: audiofile-devel kdepim: libpisock.so.3 there's a reply somewhere here that shows you where to download a package to fix the first dependency, so i fixed that, but i don't know about the others. i suppose i could either force install them or find the dependencies on RPM Find or something, but i suppose don't really need them anyway. still, these things should IMO be taken care of in the original RPMs.
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