KDE 3.2.1 is Released

Wednesday, 10 March 2004  |  Skulow

The KDE project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.2.1, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. KDE 3.2.1 ships with lot of bug fixes since KDE 3.2 and is available in 49 languages (now including Bengali, Icelandic, Japanese, Lithuanian, Low Saxon, Latin Serbian and Tajik). Sources and contributed packages are linked on the KDE 3.2.1 info page.

Comments:

! - chris - 2004-03-09

is Hindi included as language ????????!??

Re: ! - Anonymous - 2004-03-09

Yes, how long did you search?

Re: ! - chris - 2004-03-10

the packages (hi) was not able to compile.

Re: ! - JC - 2004-03-10

It works on my box

thanx again - gunnar - 2004-03-09

kde really relaay rocks!!! i love it thanx again. gunnar

Kontact - Cirehawk - 2004-03-09

Great, hopefully some rpm's for MDK9.2 will show up soon. I do have a question about Kontact though. I think I saw where there will eventually be a plugin for Exchange server. Any estimate on when that might happen? Paul.....

Re: Kontact - Joe - 2004-03-09

Just go compile it. It's less fraught with problems... Just remember to add to the beginning of your path: /usr/local/kde

Re: Kontact - Cirehawk - 2004-03-10

I'm not sure what you mean Joe. Are you saying the plugin source is available for compiling? If so, not sure where to get it as I didn't really see it on the Kontact site. Also, I thought I read where the current plugin is for using only the calendar with Exchange. I'm interested in getting email as well. Thanks for your input! Paul.....

Re: Kontact - Ed Moyse - 2004-03-10

I think he was saying that compiling KDE is better than using RPMs. I don't think he was talking about the plugin at all.

Re: Kontact - Stephen Douglas - 2004-03-10

Or better, specify the correct prefix for Mandrake (/usr) when running configure.

Re: Kontact - Joe - 2004-03-10

No. That would overwrite the files from your RPMS, which you should still hang onto, so you can always go back to them. I was offering advice to an obvious newb, and he should leave himself an escape hatch. Source is great, since you can compile for your arch, for example mine is a P4. I think I am the only guy running Linux on a P4.

Re: Kontact - anon - 2004-03-10

/usr/local is for locally installed programs. Distributer maintained packages go into the distro's default. However, anything you download the tarballs to, compile, and install (without first making RPM's following distro guidelines) should go into /usr/local... In other words, don't install crap into /usr unless its an RPM from your distributer. That is what /usr/local is for.

Re: Kontact - newbie+ - 2004-03-10

This is great newbie info. I have not seen it stated more clearly than in anon:s post above. Is this info prominently displayed somewhere, maybe in the build instructions? Perhaps it should.

Re: Kontact - ac - 2004-03-10

on debian sid I have no menu entry for kontact... also kappfinder does not "find" it...

Re: Kontact - Anonymous - 2004-03-11

If you have the kontact package installed then this sounds like a packaging error.

Ick glöv dat nich! - Jan - 2004-03-09

Low Saxon? Segg mol, plattdüütsch is in KDE, KDE op platt. Tse!

Re: Ick glöv dat nich! - Fredrik Edemar - 2004-03-09

Ja, aber die Linuxdistributionen haben noch nicht RPM-pakete dafür fertiggstellt.

Re: Ick glöv dat nich! - Micha - 2004-03-10

SuSE has a -nds package in their noarch directory.

Re: Ick glöv dat nich! - Frowlen Dietc - 2004-03-10

JA, nau ju benn thenking die distributionen vid Linus Torvalds! ;)

Re: Ick glöv dat nich! - Gerd - 2004-03-10

A lot of work still has be be done. More active support for the low saxon project is very much needed. Projekt Mantainer is Heiko Evermann: http://i18n.kde.org/teams/index.php?a=i&t=nds Plattdüütsch wikipedia:http://nds.wikipedia.org A plattdüütsch localisation will make it easier to sell KDE to the fedetral states. Perhaps we can ask the government in the question hour why they want to introduce win2000 in schools while low saxon was not supported. German federal states hold a poor performance in the support of the European Language charter, however it is there and shall be used.

Important for Quanta PHP developers - Eric Laffoon - 2004-03-09

Hi, If you have been experiencing slowdowns with PHP in Quanta you will want to upgrade. There was a bug that slipped through in 3.2 that selectively caused real problems parsing some PHP documents yet was fine with our test cases. We actually had to do a small parser reorganization and some heavy testing. (Thanks testers!) Also if you were disappointed with VPL it is not perfected yet in 3.2.1 but some bugs and annoying behavior was fixed so it's more usable. Enjoy!

Re: Important for Quanta PHP developers - Hans - 2004-03-10

Nice to see that Suse is still offering only a slow quanta 3.2.0 version within their kde-3.2.1 folder. :-(

Re: Important for Quanta PHP developers - Eric Laffoon - 2004-03-11

Sorry to hear that. To paraphrase the old movie... "Use the source Luke" ;-)

Re: Important for Quanta PHP developers - Chris van de Wouw - 2004-03-11

Thanks for pointing that out. The slowdowns were bothering me quite some time. I actually gave up and switched to kate for php development. Emerging Quanta at moment... can't wait to switch back :)

debian behind? - AC - 2004-03-09

... i think not /me gloats about 3.2.1 being in sid for roughly a week already ;P

Re: debian behind? - Amilcar Lucas - 2004-03-09

The latest KDevelop I could find for Debian was 2.1.5 http://packages.debian.org/unstable/kde/kdevelop That one is one year old ;P

Re: debian behind? - noxis - 2004-03-10

Are you sure? http://packages.debian.org/unstable/kde/kdevelop3

Re: debian behind? - Anonymous - 2004-03-10

But it's really behind with 3.0.1 and not 3.0.2.

Re: debian behind? - kosh - 2004-03-10

That is because you are looking at the wrong package. :) http://packages.debian.org/unstable/kde/kdevelop3

Screenshots - micio - 2004-03-09

Ok, KDE 3.2.1 is out, but the KDE website has STILL not updated the screenshots for KDE 3.2.0 http://www.kde.org/screenshots/ PS: Still not able to install RPMs for KDE 3.2 because of dependency hell in Fedora Core 1 (grrr...) - The instructions here don't work: http://fedoranews.org/krishnan/tutorial/kde3.2/ Mind you I haven't bothered to learn how to compile anything! I've read snippits that IBM _may_ be focusing on Desktop development. Maybe the dependency hell will die! There has got to be an easier way!

Re: Screenshots - AM - 2004-03-10

"Mind you I haven't bothered to learn how to compile anything! I've read snippits that IBM _may_ be focusing on Desktop development. Maybe the dependency hell will die! There has got to be an easier way!" You don't have to learn to compile. Gentoo will compile everything for you and say good bye to rpm and dependency hell. :) Debian is also a good distro! Gentoo! 3 of 16 packages done...

Re: Screenshots - Marcos Tolentino - 2004-03-10

Gentoo is realy fine. But I had to wait like 19h for each new kde version to compile... not to mention xfree86, or any other big package. I didn't have *any* problem installing kde 3.2 on Fedora Core 1.

Re: Screenshots - Version4 - 2004-03-10

Where can I download Gentoo? also does it compile itself at install time? and once I get it installed, how can I make it compile KDE 3.2.1? Sorry if they are stupid questions. LP

Re: Screenshots - cm - 2004-03-10

> Where can I download Gentoo? Have a look at http://www.gentoo.org > also does it compile itself at install time? The base installation is binary to get you started. For the rest you can choose whether you want to compile everything or use binary packages (though I haven't tried this option). > and once I get it installed, how can I make it compile KDE 3.2.1? It's just another package of software... using the "emerge" command - emerge sync (to get you an up-to-date package list) - emerge kde - wait typically 12 to 24 hours :-) - If all goes well: Launch KDE.

Re: Screenshots - Jay - 2004-03-10

Don't Zealot, down! You are right, you don't have to learn to compile. It's called use apt or yum and find a decent repository. So no, you don't have to have dependency hell either with other distributions. Gentoo is a good distribution, for its own reasons. But don't start up your FUD machine this early in the morning (for me, at least).

Re: Screenshots - Tukla Ratte - 2004-03-11

Is there anyone distributing Gentoo's entire portage library on CD-ROM? Some of us are still stuck with dial-up service. Or does the dual-disc version sold at store.gentoo.org contain most of the really big packages? I don't mind downloading smaller apps and utilities, especially if the portage system can recover from lost connections.

Re: Screenshots - Alex - 2004-03-10

I'll have some screenshots of MDK 10 soon, that could be used.

Re: Screenshots - Anonymous - 2004-03-10

Screenshots should show an unmodified KDE with default style.

Re: Screenshots - Christian Loose - 2004-03-10

"Ok, KDE 3.2.1 is out, but the KDE website has STILL not updated the screenshots for KDE 3.2.0 http://www.kde.org/screenshots/" Why don't you make some screenshots with the default style and color, put the images on an accessible webspace and send the link to kde-www@kde.org? I'm pretty sure your offer won't be turned down.

Re: Screenshots - KB - 2004-03-10

I had no trouble installing on Fedora Core 1. Be sure to use either yum or apt4rpm or handle dependencies for you.

Re: Screenshots - Ariel Arjona - 2004-03-10

have you tried using apt to resolve the dependencies? I had to do for example apt-cache search libpq to find out that I needed postgresql-libs then apt-get install postgresql-libs

Re: Screenshots - Xanadu - 2004-03-10

Hello, Mc Fly! Derpendency Hell has been a thing of the past for a good few years now. urpmi apt portage yum Shall I go on? If you USE the system the way it was intended, it'll WORK the way it was intended.

Re: Screenshots - David Johnson - 2004-03-10

...and ports...

Re: Screenshots - Xanadu - 2004-03-10

Yes, and ports. Sorry about that...

Re: Fedora Core and dependancies - Rex Dieter - 2004-03-10

FYI, you can get nice yum/apt-able packages from http://kde-redhat.sf.net/ -- Rex

I hope - Alex - 2004-03-10

Hopefully Lindows and SuSE will include 3.2.1 (NOT 3.2.0 which hard too many rough spots) and Qt 3.3.2 after the fixed font bug is fixed. Qt 3.3.2 should come out in 2 weeks, right?

Re: I hope - Anonymous - 2004-03-10

> Qt 3.3.2 should come out in 2 weeks, right? Why? Distributors are able to patch Qt 3.3.1 themselves.

Re: I hope - wwp - 2004-03-10

Which bug? Could you help me pointing somewhere such bug is reported? I'm asking 'cause since compiled Qt 3.3.1, only a small subset of all the installed fonts are used by Qt, and the apps look a bit strange around fonts.

Re: I hope - Christian Loose - 2004-03-10

http://dot.kde.org/1078392985/1078396152/1078420128/ even with patch :-)

Re: I hope - wwp - 2004-03-11

Wow, great :-) Thanks a lot!

artsd - Andrey V. Panov - 2004-03-10

It seems promblems with artsd and alsa are fixed

Re: artsd - me - 2004-03-10

Finally! Great, thank you!

Re: artsd - Allan S. - 2004-03-10

What makes you think that? There are still both problems with dmix and general performance.

Re: artsd - ac - 2004-03-11

Yes, but he's probably referring to the fact that you can now turn it off. Isn't that what it's there for? ;)

ruby bindings - rb - 2004-03-10

I'm eagerly waiting for updated ruby bindings. Will these be coming in the 3.2 cycle? rb

Free Software - Martin Galpin - 2004-03-10

Last time I checked, whilst reading an article about RMS on KDE, he (and I) were pleased the project was so dedicated to the Free Software definition. Reading the announcement, and I just checked the homepage, at what point did the site maintainer switch to supporting the Open Source definition?

Re: Free Software - Jan - 2004-03-11

I am a flOSS supporter. I think the FS vs OpenS Quarrel is an artificial one, that is not very important on the European agenda

Re: Free Software - Martin Galpin - 2004-03-11

Obviously whoever changed it didn't think so, otherwise it would have been left as it was. I'm simply asking for the reasons why.

Konqueror bugs - Pilaf - 2004-03-10

This is amazing, some of the most disturbing bugs in Konqueror (mainly KHTML) are gone! Especially the gifs-not-looping bug, the text-not-being-selected-on-certain-cases bug and the dotted-line-looking-dashed bug. KDE rocks! *cries of joy*

Re: Konqueror bugs - superstoned - 2004-03-10

LOL

Thanks Stephen Kulow - fast_rizwaan_ - 2004-03-10

and All KDE Developers. I was not happy with 3.2.0 release due to KHTML. thanks.

Debian Woody - Cirrus - 2004-03-10

Anyone has any idea if and when will debian woody packages be released? Thanks

Re: Debian Woody - Sahin - 2004-03-10

Maybe Ralf Nolden will upload the debs soon. I hope so... I'm waiting for woody packages too... ;-) Ralf! Please, please, please...

Re: Debian Woody - micha - 2004-03-11

Why are debian/stable packages always delayed? This distro should have highest packaging prio. The big linux distros have man-power of themselves. Right now, as the security advisories are out, every debian/stable admin knows, that his boxes are vulnerable to the cookie traversal bug. Hello kde packagers, please give us the chance to upgrade debian/stable before the security allerts come out. Where's this new kde-debian connection? Don't tell me to abandon from debian/stable. Sorry for being harsh, but please change this vital issue.

Re: Debian Woody - Richard Moore - 2004-03-11

All packages have equal priority - zero. We do not provide packages. Rich.

Re: Debian Woody - micha - 2004-03-11

Sorry, then this is the wrong place to flame. You are right, debian/stable is built by the debian qt/kde maintainers.

Re: Debian Woody - Rizzo - 2004-03-12

OK, so who is it? I want KDE 3.2.1 on woody too! usually woody packages are there within the first day. Who can I ask?

Re: Debian Woody - Sahin - 2004-03-12

Hi Rizzo, Maybe ask Rald Nolden! You can obtain his E-mail address from the following file: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.2/Debian/README However if Rald has spare time, he will create debs for woody. I'm sure. Best Regards, Sahin

Re: Debian Woody - Sahin - 2004-03-12

... and don't forget to share the info if you have any ... Sahin

Re: Debian Woody - Richard Moore - 2004-03-12

Ralf is busy with family stuff at the moment, please don't bother him. Rich.

Re: Debian Woody - Sahin - 2004-03-13

Thx for the info! I told you... KDE 3.2.1 debs will be available as soon Ralf has time for it. ;-) Sahin

konstruct Error ft2build.h hasn't been included... - Jayme Johnston - 2004-03-10

I am compiling on Debian testing/unstable (Knoppix 2-16-04). During the qt-x11-free compile I get this error: make[6]: Entering directory `/home/Administrator/src/konstruct/libs/qt-x11-free/work/qt-x11-free-3.2.3/src' g++ -c -pipe -fno-exceptions -Wall -W -O2 -pipe -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -DQT_SHARED -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DQT_NO_IMAGEIO_MNG -DQT_NO_IMAGEIO_JPEG -DQT_BUILTIN_GIF_READER=1 -DQT_NO_STYLE_MAC -DQT_NO_STYLE_AQUA -DQT_NO_STYLE_INTERLACE -DQT_NO_STYLE_WINDOWSXP -DQT_NO_STYLE_COMPACT -I/home/Administrator/src/konstruct/libs/qt-x11-free/work/qt-x11-free-3.2.3/mkspecs/linux-g++ -I. -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I3rdparty/opentype -I../include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I.moc/release-shared-mt/ -o .obj/release-shared-mt/qtaddons_x11.o kernel/qtaddons_x11.cpp In file included from /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h:41, from kernel/qt_x11_p.h:150, from kernel/qtaddons_x11.cpp:25: /usr/include/freetype2/freetype/freetype.h:20:2: #error "`ft2build.h' hasn't been included yet!" /usr/include/freetype2/freetype/freetype.h:21:2: #error "Please always use macros to include FreeType header files." /usr/include/freetype2/freetype/freetype.h:22:2: #error "Example:" /usr/include/freetype2/freetype/freetype.h:23:2: #error " #include <ft2build.h>" /usr/include/freetype2/freetype/freetype.h:24:2: #error " #include FT_FREETYPE_H" make[6]: *** [.obj/release-shared-mt/qtaddons_x11.o] Error 1 make[6]: Leaving directory `/home/Administrator/src/konstruct/libs/qt-x11-free/work/qt-x11-free-3.2.3/src' make[5]: *** [sub-src] Error 2 make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/Administrator/src/konstruct/libs/qt-x11-free/work/qt-x11-free-3.2.3' make[4]: *** [build-work/qt-x11-free-3.2.3/Makefile] Error 2 make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/Administrator/src/konstruct/libs/qt-x11-free' make[3]: *** [dep-../../libs/qt-x11-free] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/Administrator/src/konstruct/libs/arts' make[2]: *** [dep-../../libs/arts] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/Administrator/src/konstruct/kde/kdelibs' make[1]: *** [dep-../../kde/kdelibs] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Administrator/src/konstruct/kde/kdebase' make: *** [dep-../../kde/kdebase] Error 2 Anyone else see this problem?

Re: konstruct Error ft2build.h hasn't been included... - brulle - 2004-03-10

i got that error when compiling qt 3.3.1. It seems to have been caused by freetype 2.1.7 so i downgraded to 2.1.5. qt compiled successfully after that.

Re: konstruct Error ft2build.h hasn't been included... - sage - 2004-03-11

Yes, I got that error too with 3.2.3 - finally just downloaded the pre-built deb files and I'm on my way. Hopefully someone, somewhere with the right knowledge can get this fixed.

Re: konstruct Error ft2build.h hasn't been included... - Jayme Johnston - 2004-03-11

Thanks brulle! That fixed me. I downgraded from 2.1.7 to libfreetype6-dev_2.1.5-3_i386.deb & libfreetype6_2.1.5-3_i386.deb and I'm back to compiling. --Jayme

Re: konstruct Error ft2build.h hasn't been include - John Woods - 2004-04-12

It got me too, this weekend. I'm using Konstruct on a KNOPPIX_V3.3 02-16-EN to hdinstall. The error points to this file... /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h ( The fixup only needs 2 lines changed. ) It's been fixed for a few months already in XFree86 4.4.0 (stable) Here's their diff: http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/lib/Xft/Xft.h.diff?r1=1.32&r2=1.33 Here you can save the 4.4.0 file straight into /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/ (backup the original file first!) http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/*checkout*/xc/lib/Xft/Xft.h?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain Qt then finished compiling. Konstruct is still at it...

Re: konstruct Error ft2build.h hasn't been include - Anonymous - 2004-04-12

> Qt then finished compiling. Konstruct is still at it... You're sure that you don't want to wait for KDE 3.2.2?

Re: konstruct Error ft2build.h hasn't been include - guardian - 2007-05-01

I included the library ft2build.h like this, before freetype.h #include <ft2build.h> #include FT_FREETYPE_H #include <freetype/freetype.h> #include <freetype/ftoutln.h> #include <freetype/ttnameid.h> so, that's how I solved this

Kopete crash. - slimer - 2004-03-10

This is what I get when I try to start kopete: kopete: relocation error: kopete: undefined symbol: _ZN17KopeteMetaContact10isTopLevelEv

cant play mp3s - Markus Huber - 2004-03-10

Hi! I finally merged kde3.2.1 and I'm very happy with it, except the sound. No program(juk, noatun) play any mp3 file. Oggs are working great. I have libmad installed, so it should work. Thanks for any advice Max

No KsCD in SuSe 9.0 packages - Hiryu - 2004-03-11

Both KDE 3.2 and KDE 3.2.1 package sets for SuSe 9.0 are missing KsCD. Anyone know why? Anyway I can get an RPM containing KsCD? It doesn't come with the kdemultimedia package(s) strangely enough... Thanks.

Re: No KsCD in SuSe 9.0 packages - Lumir Vanek - 2004-03-11

And JuK is also not found in KDE SuSE 9 packages :-(

Re: No KsCD in SuSe 9.0 packages - anon - 2004-03-11

rpm -qf `which kscd` kdemultimedia3-CD-3.2.1-7

Re: No KsCD in SuSe 9.0 packages - Lumir Vanek - 2004-03-12

But SuSE do not provide this package. BTW JuK was part of kdemultimedia3-sound in KDE 3.2 RC2. But now it missing.

Re: No KsCD in SuSe 9.0 packages - David - 2004-03-11

Does Suse not package these differently?

Re: No KsCD in SuSe 9.0 packages - Michael - 2004-04-06

I found kdemultimedia3-CD-3.2.1-7.i586.rpm kdemultimedia3-jukebox-3.2.1-7.i586.rpm on the ftp server from suse in the directory /pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.0/applications

Re: No KsCD in SuSe 9.0 packages - Hiryu - 2004-04-06

Turns out the kdemultimedia package just wasn't installing for some reason. I used to know why, but it's been so long since I got it to work I can't remember what it is anymore. Something with dependencies that when I actually looked at the problem, I fixed it and got it working with little or no trouble. Thanks for the replies! -Cameron

stall network bug back again - Paulo Dias - 2004-03-11

Great release, lot of bugs squashed, BUT the most irritating bug to me is back, the network stall bug, which appears every time i try to copy paste a file from a LAN, the file is efectivelly copied but the kde windows stalls at the end, waiting for the end of file which is already there. this as working in kde 3.2.0, and the other bug (the smbmount share bug, which never mounted the share) is now fixed.. oh well, can't win them all:P btw if anyone has an workaround for the stall dialog bug, please let me know:) besides this, great release as usual :) best regards..

SuSE 9 - macewan - 2004-03-16

Works wonderfully. I installed it a work just yesterday. Thank you to the KDE developers.

Re: SuSE 9 - Newbie - 2004-04-16

how to update to KDE 3.2 in SuSE 9.0 ?? its that any url for instalation via SuSE YOU ?