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  KDE 2.2 Tagged, KDE 3.0 Branch Opened
KDE Official News Posted by Dre on Monday 06/Aug/2001, @01:06
from the worth-the-extra-wait dept.
Waldo Bastian, the KDE 2.2 release coordinator, has tagged KDE 2.2 for final release. Though KDE 2.2.0 was scheduled for release today, it has been slightly delayed to increase stability and speed. The current schedule is to release KDE 2.2.0 next Monday, August 13. Future plans include a KDE 2.2.1 bugfix/translation release, scheduled for September 2001. But the main development activity will occur in the KDE 3.0 branch, which will be based on Qt 3.x and is scheduled for release early next year. Congratulations to all KDE developers for reaching yet another important milestone. Waldo's announcement follows.



From:  Waldo Bastian <bastian@kde.org>
To:  kde-devel@kde.org, kde-core-devel@kde.org, kde-i18n-doc@kde.org
Subject:  KDE 2.2 tagged
Date:  Sun, 5 Aug 2001 18:26:11 -0700

Hiya,

This is to inform you that the final tagging for KDE 2.2 has taken place. Changes that, at this moment, do not have the KDE_2_2_RELEASE tag will not be part of KDE 2.2.

KDE_2_2_BRANCH

For KDE 2.2.1 a KDE_2_2_BRANCH branch has been opened. To update to this branch use: 

   cvs update -r KDE_2_2_BRANCH

The KDE 2.2 branch remains frozen, that means that all fixes for KDE 2.2.1 should be posted for review first. The message freeze remains in effect for this branch as well. The KDE 2.2. branch will be released as KDE 2.2.1 in about a month from now.

Head

The HEAD branch will become KDE 3.0 and is open for all your hacking pleasure. The HEAD branch is the cvs branch that you get by default.

If you want your application to be part of KDE 3.0, _THIS_ is a good time to move it out of kdenonbeta.

As mentioned before, Dirk Mueller will coordinate the KDE 3.0 release.

Thanks

I hereby would like to thank everyone for his or her patience and commitment, thanks to you KDE 2.2 seems to have become the stable release that we all wanted it to be.

Thank you very much.

Cheers,
Waldo
--
Andrei Sakharov, Exiled 1980-1986, USSR, http://www.aip.org/history/sakharov/
Dmitry Sklyarov, Detained 2001-????, USA, http://freesklyarov.org/


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Thank you!
by Maarten Stolte on Monday 06/Aug/2001, @02:22
Thanks for all the hard work, KDE 2.2 is the best integrated, most comfortable desktop for linux. Looking forward to Three O.

Maarten aka datadevil
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Can KFind do case InSEnsiTIVE search
by Asif Ali Rizwaan on Monday 06/Aug/2001, @05:11
I think KFind is the worst application KDE has and it was ignored right from KDE 1.1.

I have complaint many times at bugs.kde.org about KFind's inability to do case insensitve search.

Is it still that bad or improved in KDE 2.2? Or do I wait for KDE 3.0 to get KFind do case insensitive search.
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good work
by Tom on Monday 06/Aug/2001, @06:32
Thank you for all the hard work. KDE 2.2 will be released next week .. cool, more time to fix .. more stable KDE is ...

Don't know if the decision of going to KDE 3.0 early next year is a good idea .. but all the best ..

you did it again .. KDE team ..

YOUR DIED HARD FAN

Tom
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Dirk Mueller on KDE 3.0 branch
by ac on Monday 06/Aug/2001, @10:08
See this mail from the brand spanking new release coordinator for more details:
lists.kde.org
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Excellent work
by Peter Schmiedeskamp on Monday 06/Aug/2001, @10:12
You guys are great! Keep up the good work (but take a vacation too). I've been following kde from before 1.0, and have been impressed to say the least.

KDE 2.1.1 finally pulled me away from my windowmaker desktop. I'm excited to see 2.2, and also excited for the next version of KOffice.

You guys have the best desktop out there (I mean _ANY_ os). I know a bunch of windows users who are begging me to get them set up with KDE.

Cheers,
Peter
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Which version off gcc best for compiling KDE 2.2
by Jeff Lasslett on Monday 06/Aug/2001, @23:05
Will KDE 2.2 build correctly with gcc 3.0 or is one of the 2.95.x releases considered more reliable? Which gcc release is best for build KDE?

Thanks,
Jeff
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GNU Autoconf 2.52 ?
by Frédéric L. W. Meunier on Tuesday 07/Aug/2001, @01:42
Does it work with this version or you still need 2.13 ?
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thank you
by Andy S on Tuesday 07/Aug/2001, @06:09
Just a simple thanks to all those that contributed to stuff I use *every* day.

Hopefully, as I get to understand more, I can also submit my little bit.
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Great Appreciation
by Paul Strange on Tuesday 07/Aug/2001, @09:10
I would like to add my thanks to the list of many here for a wonderfull product. I too use KDE every day and appreciate the effort you put forth in my behalf. Keep up the good work!!
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COO/President - VajraMedia Corporation
by Nicholas Donovan on Tuesday 07/Aug/2001, @14:21
I wanted to personally thank all of you who have worked on this very important project.

Because of your committment to excellence, the computing world has an environment which users from all backgrounds can enjoy and be productive.

Sincerely,

Nicholas Donovan
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structure of KDE CVS tree
by Victor G. Bolshakov on Tuesday 07/Aug/2001, @16:36
Where i can find something like ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/src/share/misc/bsd-family-tree or www.freebsd.org\doc\en_US.ISO_8859-1\books\handbook\current-stable.html but about KDE?

And what i can get through cvsup.kde.org
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Just Really Impressed!
by Ryan Agler on Tuesday 07/Aug/2001, @17:59
Id just like to say how impressed at how far KDE has come. I first tried it in mid-1999, and was quickly discouraged at how less friendly it was than Windows. After writing it off as just too ugly for a couple years I finally tried 2.0 a few months back, and now with the 2.2 beta this beast rocks! So many of the "little things" that I just couldnt do without (like mouse-wheel support, readable fonts, stable drag-n-drop, graphical configuration, etc) might seem trivial to the seasoned linux user but for a newly-converted Windows user they are so important. It took something like KDE to get me to switch, now I'll never go back!

P.S. I've been able to figure out how to customize everything except for one thing -- the KDE "resize window" mouse cursor icons. These icons dont seem to be in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cursor.pcf.gz like the pointer. Any idea where to find them?
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Champions of linux desktop
by ck on Thursday 09/Aug/2001, @00:51
Well done team. I don't care what anyone says. You're personally responsible for linux on home desktops being a viable option for anyone, and the best option at that. The fact that kde works on any other OS is a bonus to them. Linux is the real winner.
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Konsole fonts
by exceed on Thursday 09/Aug/2001, @07:09
Could the new konsole in kde3 support ANSI fonts like VGA, etc? That would be nice :)
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Where is KDE 2.2
by SW on Monday 13/Aug/2001, @13:47
Today is August 13, 2001 and I can't get into ftp.kde.org to download it.

I only found it on Suse but I use RedHat. Anybody know any of the mirrors has KDE 2.2?

Thanks,
SW
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And more thanks
by tonyl on Tuesday 14/Aug/2001, @12:10
I've been using KDE on and off for a while now, and though 2.1.2 and it's apps haven't reached top stability yet, it is by far the best desktop around at the moment.

For example: I was just using kmail to compose a lengthy email and the sodding thing crashed on me. Typical KDE crash I thought, but no! Relauched kmail and up popped my mail-in-progress just as it was before the tempting offer of a back trace. Now that's bloody good design! I can't wait for the stable 2.2.x series!

Thank you very much KDE team!
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