KDE-CVS-Digest for March 5, 2004

Saturday, 6 March 2004  |  Dkite

In this week's KDE CVS-Digest: Ruby bindings now have DCOP support. Reaktivate, a Konqueror module for embedding ActiveX controls, is improved. RealRekord, an application to record RealPlayer streams, is imported. KConfEdit adds a property editor.

Comments:

Thanks for implementing a requested feature. - mhmh - 2004-03-06

>wish #35130 (includes original URL in .war archives) Was waiting for this one a long time now. Extrêmely useful when doing some research on a specific topic. No need to switch between bookmarks and the war files. A great improvement for my "producticity" :) Thanks

Internationalization Status - Inge Wallin - 2004-03-06

I notice that the Swedish translation team is always ahead of everybody else. This is the nth time that the Swedish team has 100% translation and the Danish and other slouches have abysmal figures like 99.27%. :-) Go Swedish translation team, Go!

I second that! - Alex - 2004-03-06

"What do you think about June 2004 KDE 3.3 beta and through July release candidates and beginning of August 3.3?" A late August release would be awesome. People have to keep in mind that these are 0.x releases and hence should not go through such a long cycle and include so many new features. Frequent releases are much better. It's a little like washing yourself ;) What would you prefer, a shower everyday or a big long bath every week?

Re: I second that! - anon - 2004-03-06

Agreed.. it's worked for KDE before as well, for example, the KDE 2.0->2.1 cycle, which was 5 months, and the KDE 2.1->KDE 2.2 cycle, which was 5 and a half months long. KDE 3.x release tend almost to be revoluationary instead of evolutionary, which is cool, but I still liked the 2.x cycles better :)

Re: I second that! - Debian User - 2004-03-06

Hi, back then, KDE was struggling to become "good enough". Now that it is, the pressure to release that frequent has dropped. Anyway, I agree that KDE could consolidate its leadership very well with a polished 3.3 release. The KDE Quality Team needs a relative close release date to get its workings tested. Yours, Kay

Re: I second that! - anon - 2004-03-06

> back then, KDE was struggling to become "good enough". Now that it is, the pressure to release that frequent has dropped. KDE 1.x had also been "good enough"..

Re: I second that! - Roberto Alsina - 2004-03-06

Good enough for its time. It's not good enough for now. KDE 2.0 was not really good enough back then, IMHO. 2.1 was, though.

Re: I second that! - Debian User - 2004-03-06

Actually 2.0 was very promising, 2.1 was good and 2.2 what I call "good enough"... Since then, I am just amazed at what can be added. Yours, Kay

Re: I second that! - Aaron J. Seigo - 2004-03-06

1.1, 2.2, 3.3 ... all part of a grander scheme of things? ;-)

Re: I second that! - Debian User - 2004-03-06

Oh my god, Aaron, when will 4.4 be release? Yours, Kay

Re: I second that! - anon - 2004-03-06

> Good enough for its time. It's not good enough for now. Yeah, but I don't think KDE 3.2 would be good enough for 5 years down the road either.

Re: I second that! - Roberto Alsina - 2004-03-07

Almost no program is. Although I have used Winword 6 a few months ago, and it´s a damn good word processor (and much more than I need :-)

Building kdelibs without CUPS - Niek - 2004-03-06

It's impossible to build kdelibs from CVS without CUPS (--disable-cups) since a few days. This is a very annoying problem, more people here experiencing this?

Re: Building kdelibs without CUPS - Niek - 2004-03-08

OK, this works again (at least in HEAD). Link: http://lists.kde.org/?t=107844903100004&r=1&w=2

3.2 arriving in sid :-) - ac - 2004-03-06

KDE 3.2 has finally landed on debian unstable :-) To be precise, it's even 3.2.1! And yes, it feels really faster. Applications & KDE startup, and especially konqueror. Very nice, hats off kde hackers!!!!! I am a little surprised (positively of course) that I can use kmail 1.5.4 (from KDE 3.1) in 3.2. I guess that's the thing with binary compatibility. A happy user

Re: 3.2 arriving in sid :-) - Debian User - 2004-03-07

Hi, a few things are still missing, like kdesdk, quanta in newer versions, but I guess, that's hot on the heels. Yours, Kay

Re: 3.2 arriving in sid :-) - Anonymous - 2004-03-07

A few? According to http://packages.debian.org/unstable/kde/ even kdenetwork and kdepim are missing.

Re: 3.2 arriving in sid :-) - Leonscape - 2004-03-07

Check again. Its probably just not updated the website yet. They where all in when I asked for them.

Re: 3.2 arriving in sid :-) - cm - 2004-03-07

- Can I use this with Sarge, too? How? I tried to find some docs but I'm not sure what exactly to search for... - Is there a howto that explains the sources.list stuff a little more in-depth than the Debian installation docs?

Re: 3.2 arriving in sid :-) - Olaf Lieser - 2004-03-08

Use "apt-pinning" The Web is full of advice how to do it. However you'll no longer have "pure Sarge" after that. In the future you may get dependency problems. I am thinking the same but wait/hope for migration into Sarge after the minimum of 10 days in Unstable (and probably longer - as all dependencies with all packages in Sarge have to be solved before migration). Good luck! O.L.

Re: 3.2 arriving in sid :-) - cm - 2004-03-08

Thanks for the hints.