Robert Flemming of VA Linux Systems has written a very nice review of KDE 2.1.1 for Linux Journal. The review covers everything from anti-aliasing to IO Slaves, and comes complete with obligatory screenshots. "KDE developers may be one step closer to ``konquering'' the desktop with the most recent 2.1.1 release of the K Desktop Environment. The development cycle has intensified since the 1.0 series, bringing new features and stability improvements to users at an ever-increasing rate. In fact, as of this writing, the first alpha version of KDE 2.2 has been released for testing. End users and developers alike will benefit from the newest offering. Currently supporting 34 languages, KDE is poised to answer many of the questions surrounding Linux' viability on the desktop."
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There are no more licensing issues. QT is gpl'ed, end of story. There's no more drum to beat!
Qt is dual licensed. This means that UNLIKE with GTK, you are allowed to write non-gpl compatible programs. Yes, it'll cost you, but isn't having an expensive option better than none at all?
You are a dumbass.
Gnome/GTK is LGPLed.
So you can write code with any licence to link against it.
K is nice but "supporting 34 languages":? - I never able to get konqueror to display Chinese. All I got is square for every character. Netscape could do that. So I believe font is loaded in X. Yes, I searched mailing list but found nothing.
Chinese seems to have a problem. I wanted to try it the other day and after installing the proper fonts Netscape was able to show the chinese yahoo correctly but konqueror didn't. Japanese on the other hand seems to work fine.
Cheers,
Waldo
try changing the encoding or if that
fails take a look an knolls anti-aliasing
tips which has pointers to very nice ttf
fonts which work prefectly here.
though why on debian.org i need to change
the encoding (iirc might be fixed) i'm not
sure...
Alex
There seems to be some problem running Borlands JBuilder 5 under KDE, and one of the solutions from borland is to switch to GNOME!
See link:
http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,27307,00.html
What were they thinking?
i have problems running every java app under kde (i cant type '(' or ')' anymore). switching to the ibm JDK fixes it for me. those guys were not anti-KDE anyway, they just say 'switch WM' not 'switch desktop'.
btw i can't see if jdk 1.3.1 solved it, it just segfaults here, both when used in staroffice and when used with together whiteboard. i'd like to switch back to the sun jdk, but this is stopping me.
Matthias Ettrich once posted an amusing comment about how he kept "fixing java bugs" in KWM/KWin and how at every new JDK release, those bugfixes mysteriously broke.
Turns out the Java guys were putting in "special code" in the JDK to "fix" the bugfixes in KWM/KWin, and so they kept undoing all the hard work Matthias was putting in to deal with Java. Apparently the Java people expect windows to behave one way, and Matthias had other (enlightened?) ideas.
Wouldn't be too surprising if this situation has blown up in our faces today. FWIW, "appletviewer http://java.sun.com/" works fine here on KDE 2.1.1 with java version 1.3.0_02.
I have IBM-JDK installed on my RH7.1 but even after giving correct path of java in setting, applets doesn't start. only grey box is seen. Can you tell me if I have to do some extra settings ?
You need to allow Java support in the Konqueror settings menu. Under Java/Javascript.
it says window manager not desktop environment.