KDE 3.5 is almost finished, so we have prepared a first release candidate. We want to have it tested as much as possible, so please give it a show. You can download the sources from download.kde.org. To compile them you can use the Konstruct build script . In the short time frame since tarball creation only binary packages for SUSE Linux got finished, Kubuntu are uploading theirs. Thanks for your help in reporting bugs and giving feedback so far. Update: There is now also a Klax Live-CD for this release available.
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Hey I have the same problem.
... and stop reporting compiling issues here.
Well ya know that'd be *great* if I was *using* a binary distro.... which *I ain't*.
I've compiled a lot of things myslef for my slackware so maybe if I install a package for v10.2 or 10.1 it will not work either...
It's already fixed in SVN.
http://www.p0z3r.org/2005/11/pyunicodesize.html
Good deal. Guess I was *to quick* to submit a bug report.
Thank you :)
I'm actually kind of surprised that the RC1 picked up this code instead of the final fix which all happened on the same day.
Regardless, it should be fixed in SVN and shouldn't show its ugly head in RC2.
hi, sorry for being ignorant here, but is the KDE 3.5-rc1 and indeed KDE 3.5 itself compatible with qt-3.3.5? I recall reading a compile issue with KDE 3.5-beta1, and am wondering whether it's been fixed.
Yes. Was already in Beta 2.
Hi, everyone!
KDE 3.5 RC1 is definitely great news.
I do have a question though. Does anyone knows what happened to MS Exchange support in Kontact? It was on KDE 3.5 features plan about a month ago and than it strangely dissappeared from there. I am pretty sure there are a lot of people like me out there, who require not only KOrganizer Exchange support(which is great, of course) but KMail Exchange support as well. Having full email support, will bring KDE one huge step closer to corporate desktop world, which currently dominated by Gnome, largely because of Evolution and its' support for MS Exchange.
Me, I am forced to keep Evolution and everything it requires (a LOT of Gnome-specific libraries!), due to lack of that Exchange support in Kontact.
P.S. Yes I know about the IMAP option, and no, the IT Manager will not open it just so I can use Kontact with it. Frankly, I wouldn't do that either, if I was him. That only adds more headache to the busy work schedule. :)
Thanks in advance for any useful info!
> KOrganizer Exchange support(which is great, of course)
Even that doesn't seem to work for me. Some shonk with SSL, i presume.
Exchange support was buggy and didn't work, so it was removed.
Thanks for the reply!
Any plans for adding it in the future, hopefully before kde 4?
Perhaps there is a patch I can use to try it out on my system? That will be great to see it with my own eyes.
Thank you!
Bummer... Even evolution doesn't meet my needs. I'm still trying to find a decent linux email client that supports MULTIPLE exchange accounts. IMAP isn't an option for me. Hopefully KMail can do this when they finally get around to implementing exchange. I can always dream.........
I cant't use IMAP(S) with Kontact on my laptop after suspend (to RAM or to disk). After restarting Kontact it works again. This problem is not new in 3.5, I have it since I have a laptop (since 3.4.2). Can someone point me to a bug-report? I tried to find one but i'm not famillar with bugzilla...
I had some high expectations for KDE 3.5, but after browsing the Klax live-cd I'm a bit disappointed. My first impression: it's quite unpolished. That's a pity.
I'm talking about things like:
* Options in KDevelop are grayed-out when they shouldn't;
* The "New" dialog in KWord doesn't give a reasonably default. I opened "Page layout" by accident, couldn't type text (appearently you need a textframe for that). It took me a while before I found the "A4 page" option.
* The "Document settings" of KWord tab has a messy layout,
* The default "Insert" toolbar in KWord is sitting in the way, and isn't exactly a must-have for text writing.
* Not being able to see the selection in Krita for empty images.
* The properties Tab occupies all space in Kexi.
* The current layout of KGeography (but the idea of the application is really cool though!)
I know these are just minor problems, and maybe I shouldn't nag about it. But these small things give a bad first impression. I get the idea everyone has put a lot of work in KDE, but the final touch is missing.. :-(
Some things are really cool, like:
* Adblock support in konqueror
* SDI support in KOffice
* having Kexi/Krita in KOffice :-)
* all Kicker improvements
* better grouping of menu items.
* the GUI of blinken.. awesome!
I also find KWin/Kicker quite appealing with the latest Plastik version. :-)
It seems most your points are about KOffice - which is not part of KDE 3.5 despite being on the CD. The good news is that KOffice will start still this year a new release round for a release early next year and you have the possibility to influence its development when you split up and feed your points to the KOffice developers.
KOffice is not part of "KDE 3.5" as such. That is, KOffice doesn't try to sync its releases with KDE 3.5. The next big release of KOffice is 1.5 and that will probably happen around March next year.
Having said that, we really need feedback from KOffice users, so if you could send an email to the koffice-devel mailing list that would be very handy.
Reading http://www.canllaith.org/svn-features/svn-koffice.html
...
"In KSpread, Robert Knight has recently implemented formula editing with colour syntax highlighting."
Wow, seems like the final touch will be there shortly.
am i blind or is it simply impossible to find a changelog anywhere on kde.org?
One could simply look at the svn history...