The testing period for the next major KDE release has begun with the release of KDE 3.5 Beta 1, codenamed Kanzler. This will be the last major release in the KDE 3 series so make sure it turns into the best one by downloading and testing today. The 3.5 Beta 1 information page gives the download link as well as an important warning on using Qt 3.3.5. Packages are currently available for Kubuntu or you can use Konstruct to guide you through the compile.
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No, not for this Beta.
why not . i have been waiting for this ...
I can neither fork nor download hardware.
Not time or bandwidth but - hardware? Surprising...
When will the Klik version be available?
### "When will the Klik version be available?"
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Working on it. Probably for the first RC, in one or two or three weeks...
But no promise that I will succeed to make it work.
If you get a klik package from the whole of KDE it's a major feat. It would just be so da*n sexy and make it really, really easy to test for almost anybody. I hope you succeed. :)
In the best, most useful user tradition, I need to ask...
"So, how far away is the rsync:// ioslave?"
(-:
I'd write one myself, if it didn't involve a day or few of getting up to speed on IOslaves first.
What is the format for using the svn:/ ioslave?
Does anybody know if the KDE's 3.5 packages are available for Debian unstable?
KDE 3.5 does rocks. Thanks alot to all involved. I didn't expect a prelim release to the great 4 to be anything other than an ugly hack :) j/k
One thing I have always liked a lot about SUSE is that they kept providing high quality KDE packages right after every release. Now I cant find any, there is not even a kde-unstable apt repository for 10.0 any more. Does anyone know why this is not the case any more?
thanks
SUSE will continue to provide those KDE packages. Until recently everyone was busy with polishing SUSE Linux 10.0 (with KDE 3.4.2), now the focus is to get KDE 3.5 Beta into public SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha next week. Making packages build for older versions has lower priority (for SUSE 9.1 to 9.3 are first packages on ftp.kde.org). Building packages against still unreleased version 10.0 will start soon. :-)
And very nice it is too
Do we have a live CD with the new beta?
Why does it take forever and a day for slackware packages to appear after each release? It never used to be so bad before.
And don't you go telling me to compile my own because i'm on slackware...heh
Probably because the nice volunteer person who creates them has some time constraints? Please note that the KDE project only hosts these binary packages. The packaging is done by the distributors or some individual user of $DISTRO.
The compilation do not success with kdenetwork, koffice, kdeextragear-multimedia (which includes k3b) etc.,
I've wasted a lot of time compiling kde 3.5 from alpha1 to beta, and always one package or the other causes much trouble.
It would be wise to wait atleast for KDE 3.5RC1 for all required packaged to get compiled.
KDE 3.5 is awesome, no doubt, but there are many troubles to compile it. or try "kdesvn-build"
Hello,
I've heard that pmount is a requirement for flexible mounting of devices together with HAL and D-Bus. Despite that I've found no information about pmount on the KDE 3.5 requirement.
Florian
This is only partly true, as I haven't installed either package (they're a mess and the documentation is poor), and disc insertion notification still works.
It just takes longer (presumably it polls).
I tried out Konqueror 3.5 and to my surprise it rendered ACID2 test correctly making Konqueror second browser after development version of Safari (available through NightShift) that passes this test correctly. Nice to see Safari patches are reaching back to Konqueror nicely now.
http://www.webstandards.org/act/acid2/
Kmilo to display a smaller OSD on screen display for volume control.
I just tried the beta and it looks great!
Just one thing: the splashscreen is VERY ugly. I really hope it won't be in the final version, it gives KDE an amateurish look that should be avoided.