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  KDE 2.2alpha2 is Out!
KDE Official News Posted by Navindra Umanee on Friday 01/Jun/2001, @00:18
from the back-just-in-time dept.
KDE 2.2alpha2 is here! Blessed by release master Waldo Bastian only a few hours ago, this release has a ton of improvements over KDE 2.1.x. You can view the ChangeLog or glance at the alpha1 announcement for an overall idea of some of the changes versus the stable branch. However, to discover the rest of the cool stuff -- such as the new regexp filter in KNewsTicker or the Kicker taskbar/extension improvements -- you'll have to download KDE 2.2alpha2 and see for yourself. As usual, source is available as well as binary packages (read our policy) for Mandrake, Red Hat, SuSE and Tru64. Debian users should check the regular sources. Keep in mind that this alpha release is not for people who expect a stable desktop, there is a short list of known problems already.


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Schweeeeet!
by Josh on Friday 01/Jun/2001, @00:52
Cool, I was wondering when this release would come about. Thanks a bunch! Two questions for ya:

1. What is a Debian APT source for this release?

2. To compile from CVS, what version of <b>autoconf</b> should I use? (I have 2.50 and it is giving me a faulty .config script)

Thanks!

-Josh
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Z Rock baby!
by Tony Coffman on Friday 01/Jun/2001, @01:10
I was aimlessly surfing sites, and I thought to myself, "Self - why don't you see if the dot is back on the air?"

Imagine my surprise to see the server back online and the release is out.

Just made my evening here in Ohio.
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Speed? And a (good) suggestion for themes
by Rimmer on Friday 01/Jun/2001, @02:47
Any improvements in applications loading speed? The longer I use KDE the more annoyed I become at the 5-6 seconds required to load everything. I have a VERY fast machine... I can imagine how annoying it must be for someone with P2 300. I've actually thought about trying GNOME 1.4 :)

Wouldn't it be nice if there was a revert button for desktop styles? Currently switching styles can also change the desktop color. It would be nice if there was a revert button that would change the style and color to the previous settings (like GNOME has for GTK themes).

Rimmer

PS - How about a fix for bug #25490 in KDE 2.2?
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Re: KDE 2.2alpha2 is Out!
by Filipe on Friday 01/Jun/2001, @04:40
Hi Guys,
Do you still have any time to sleep after all?

Question:
When can we expect to find the new printing architecture on KDE ?

This would be one of the most important enhancements IMHO.

Thank you

Filipe
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Re: KDE 2.2alpha2 is Out!
by Bernd on Friday 01/Jun/2001, @05:35
I hope the the audiocd:/ioslave check for the encoding ogg and mp3 libraries at runtime and not at compile time. I think distributors can't add the libmp3 to their distribution. So it would be nice if I can _only_ compile libmp3 and the audiocd:/ioslave from the distribution rpm works with mp3 encoding.
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Mandrake 7.2?
by Thomas Olsen on Friday 01/Jun/2001, @07:20
Has anyone made rpm's for Mandrake 7.2?
I don't really have the time to upgrade OS but I would love to try alpha2.
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Re: KDE 2.2alpha2 is Out!
by Underground on Friday 01/Jun/2001, @12:24
Why not fork Red Carpet to KDE that would be cool
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Konqueror? And more...
by Marcelo on Friday 01/Jun/2001, @13:23
I've tried 2.2 alpha a little (just the necessary to download 2.1.2 again), and Konqueror seems to be really broken... I know, I know, it's *alpha*, but Javascript in 2.2 alpha is really broken.

Someone talked about loading times... well, generally here things are fast (2.1.2 + SuSE 7), but I noticed a little slow down with 2.2 alpha... maybe, again, it's the "alpha" part. :-)

Some neat things tho. I tried some new settings in the control panel (like fade-in menus and such), and now that I'm back to 2.1.2, those settings still work. :-)
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Re: KDE 2.2alpha2 is Out!
by Anonymous Coward on Friday 01/Jun/2001, @14:40
Er, didn't the original KDE2.2 schedule call for a beta 1 release around this time?

Or did the KDE team change the release schedule, adding a second alpha release before beta 1? Does this mean we will have to wait until (end of) august 2001 before we get 2.2, instead of the original mid-to-end of july?

I'm wondering if this means we can kiss the Qt 3.0-based KDE 2.3 (or 2.whatever) goodbye for this year... Well, anyway, release it when it's ready not before.
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Re: KDE 2.2alpha2 is Out!
by AbuSulaiman on Friday 01/Jun/2001, @18:01
Compiled kdelibs with no problems, kdebase, however

Entering directory `/home/asr/kdebase-2.2alpha2/libkonq/favicons'
/bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=link --tag=CXX g++ -O2 -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -DQT_NO_COMPAT -DQT_NO_ASCII_CAST -o libkded_favicons.la -rpath /u1/kde/lib/kde2 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/u1/kde/lib -module -avoid-version favicons.lo favicons_skel.lo libkded_favicons_la_meta_unload.lo -lksycoca
grep: /usr/local/kde/lib/libDCOP.la: No such file or directory
sed: can't read /usr/local/kde/lib/libDCOP.la: No such file or directory
libtool: link: `/usr/local/kde/lib/libDCOP.la' is not a valid libtool archive
make[3]: *** [libkded_favicons.la] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/asr/kdebase-2.2alpha2/libkonq/favicons'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/asr/kdebase-2.2alpha2/libkonq'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/asr/kdebase-2.2alpha2'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2

I have KDEDIR set to /u1/kde, I wonder why it keeps looking for libraries under /usr/local/kde??

Any hints?
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redhat 7.1 release for x86
by Henry Story on Friday 01/Jun/2001, @18:34
I tried installing it and found that I needed the following libs:
pcre-3.4-2
pcre-devel-3.4-2.
readline-4.1-7
each one of which I had to search for on rpmfind.net. Furthermore some of these had
not yet been compiled for RedHat yet. So I had
to download them for the Polish distribution...

Am I missing something?
Would it have been easier to compiler from source?

Henry
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Re: KDE 2.2alpha2 is Out!
by Anders on Friday 01/Jun/2001, @18:36
Installed the Mandrake rpms, and so far things looks good.

Issues:

1)A website that I use a lot wont work, it is javascript driven and this may have to do with the HTML rendering issues. It has a form that is filled out, and the "send" button is a link to the url "javascript: if(function() && function()) function()" which is repeated twice. This button has to be pressed at least two times. Can it be that KHTML decides that I'm allready there? URL: www.rejseplanen.dk

2) I had the xmms-kde applet installed from rpm for mdk 8 and tried to activate it again after upgrading, which added an empty applet to kicker. This thing couldn't be removed, so I had to manually remove it from kickerrc, and before this to take effect I had to kill kicker and reboot!!!

3) KDM wont work , or at least init 5 fails. I do not know (yet?) if this is the mandrake script or kdm, but I reset my init to 3 and have to manually startx.

4) I added a konsol schema, but it does not appear when I start konsole as a normal user:(( (cool feature though)

Anyway, apart from theese I love it!

-anders
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Re: KDE 2.2alpha2 is Out!
by Darrell Esau on Friday 01/Jun/2001, @20:29
I found that before installing 2.2a2 on RedHat 7.1 I had to upgrade a few libraries, including readline, openssl and crypto.

After this, a few apps that required libreadline4.1 wouldn't work... symlinking 4.1 to 4.2 works for some (ftp, telnet), but I still can't get nfs to mount stuff... any word on what the final build will require?

-d
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KOffice doesn't work
by NÉMETH Balázs on Friday 01/Jun/2001, @20:42
Hi!

I want try Koffice 1.1 beta2, but I always get this error message on application start:

WARNING: found no definition of PluralForm koffice (lib kofficecore): WARNING: kword.desktop: no X-KDE-NativeMimeType entry! koffice (lib kofficecore): ERROR: Couldn't find the native MimeType in kword's desktop file. Check your installation !

And after that, the startup process fail...
It's a clear installation on Mandrake 8.0. RPMs was downloaded from the original kde2.2alpha2 ftp site.

Can anyone help me?

Thanx.

PS: but alpha2 is a great release, I love it! Konqueror is amazing, wonderful, awesome....
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KHelpcenter - is it supposed to work?
by Anders on Friday 01/Jun/2001, @22:58
Hi,
I'm a strange person that actually sometimes does read the manuals, so finding that clicking any entry in the kde helpcenter menu would just answer

The requested help file could not be parsed:
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en//khelpcenter/quickstart/index.docbook

was a dissapointment:(
Is this a mandrake specific bug, and is there anything I can do to make it work?
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Re: KDE 2.2alpha2 is Out!
by Per Wigren on Friday 01/Jun/2001, @23:11
This is great work!
I just tried Kdict and it's REALLY cool!
I also enjoy the new Kmail-features! (I still miss account-specific mailfilters though...)

Useragent settings in Konqueror finally works so now I can FINALLY use my online-banking (foreningssparbanken.se) with Konqueror!!!
Using home.se's webmail still doesn't work though... (wwwmail.home.se) :( It immideatly says "You've been logged out because of inactivity, click here to login again", but when I do I get the same message...

Anyway, khtml seems a LOT more immune to buggy html/javascript than in 2.1.2!

Great work guys and gals! I can't wait for a stable 2.2 release!

Note: I use CVS from the 31st...
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Re: KDE 2.2alpha2 is Out!
by Craig on Saturday 02/Jun/2001, @00:20
I have a scanner that works great with sane but when i click on the scan image option in koffice i get the error No scan service available. i'm useing the mandrake 8.0 rpms. Do I need to reconile any source rpms to get the scan service to work?

Craig
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Re: KDE 2.2alpha2 is Out!
by Bastian on Saturday 02/Jun/2001, @06:16
Hello,

i´ve just installed kde2.2alpha2 on my SuSE7.0. And i have a problem: licq dont work. it is missing the file : libkfile.so.3. But this file is in /opt/kde2/lib. I tried to compile it again, but this didnt solve it. Does anyone know this prob or better, does anyone know an solution? Under kde2.1.1 it works fine. Or do i need to install alpha1 an the kdelibs2.1.2 before the alpha 2?

bastian
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Re: KDE 2.2alpha2 is Out!
by ViRgiLiO on Saturday 02/Jun/2001, @10:39
How I can disable animated cursors? Looks greats, but makes slower my desktop
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Re: KDE 2.2alpha2 is Out!
by NÉMETH Balázs on Sunday 03/Jun/2001, @16:41
Why can't we stop animations just press ESC, like in Netscape/Mozilla?......

I hate to click right mouse button and choose "Stop Animations" from PopUp menu always, when I open a new Konqueror window.

Is there an option in the "Preferences" to AUTOMATICALLY stop all the animations/sounds, or is it impossible? If impossible, can we expect this VERY IMPORTANT feature in the near future?

(For example: if I open 4-5 Konqueror windows -- animated gifs in each window --, my Celeron 433 Mhz processor is overloaded.)
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Re: KDE 2.2alpha2 is Out!
by Jim Paquette on Monday 04/Jun/2001, @19:37
Does anyone use konqueror with the games at www.pogo.com?
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Re: KDE 2.2alpha2 is Out!
by Milan Svoboda on Wednesday 06/Jun/2001, @13:55
How about Flash plugin in Konqueror?
It don't work whith KDE 2.1.1
Does anybody use this plugin?
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