KDE 3.4 Release Cycle Starts with KDE 3.4 Alpha 1 ("Leverkusen")

For those who can't live without a bleeding edge KDE, but don't dare to run CVS, we have packaged KDE 3.4 Alpha 1. As you can read on the KDE 3.4 release schedule, this is only the start of the fun, so please hammer on it over the end of year holidays and add your contributions. We welcome code patches, translations, documentation, great icons, detailed bug reports - any kind of help.

Get it from download.kde.org or try Konstruct.

As always we ask you not to use binary packages for Alpha 1, please compile it yourself using debugging options, so your bug reports will be as helpful as possible.

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by chris (not verified)

leverkusen ? hehe, what is the naming scheme for this release ? champions league winners ?

by ET (not verified)

If so, the final release should be named "Real Madrid" :)

by jcp (not verified)

Sorry, but I think it was FC Porto from Portugal ;)

by c0p0n (not verified)

Pardon, Sir, but it ought to be "Extremadura CF".

by Yagami (not verified)

as an FC Porto fan and Portuguese ...

do you know what you are talking about , or just trying to make a bad joke ?

by Angel (not verified)

Why not Boca Juniors? We still're the champions of the world :D

by Michael Thaler (not verified)

What about Bayern Muenchen then? :-))

by open mind (not verified)

It is obvious, that the next releaee will be named by Coolo mapping to one of the remaining quarter finalists. The one after will be a semi-finalist. Then one of the finalists. Last the champion.

But Coolo -- why do you predict Leverkusen will be be out by the time of the semi-final? It is obvious that you can't have the same name twice. I could agree that Leverkusen won't make well as a "champion" name -- so no reason to save that name for the "Gold" release.

But dismissing them already now? Pfffft...... (Coolo may be an excellent Release Dude -- but he has no clue about European soccer.)

by Stephan Kulow (not verified)

Bah! Who says I stick to champions league? Germany got plenty of soccer teams I can pick from. And Aachen sounds like a good second choice :)

by Carlo (not verified)

lol, Oche Al..pha II

by Rob Kaper (not verified)

Who says you have to stick to Germany? Or to silly useless non-descriptive confusing names in the first place? :)

by Mathias Homann (not verified)

as long as no release is named "bielefeld"...

by Oliver Schliebs (not verified)

Im proud to be a Leverkusener

by Benjamin (not verified)

I am a Leverkusener too.
But naming an alpha-release after this town is IMHO a bit... strange.
Are any Developers coming from this town?

Benja.

by Moose from Sweden! (not verified)

What's wrong with Bielefeldt? I lived there for a couple of years!

by Paul (not verified)

Obvious question:

For those of us who don't speak german, what does leverkusen mean?

by Carewolf (not verified)

I think in Germany it is just a city name. In danish on the other hand it means liver-cunt (seriously).

by open mind (not verified)

...and yesterday, their professional soccer team "Bayer" made it into the semi-semi-semi-final of the European Champions League! ;-)
(along with Werder Bremen and Bayern Muenchen).

by Kim (not verified)

No it doesn't. "Lever" means liver that is correct but "kusen" means nothing in Danish. If it had been "kussen" then it would have ment liver-cunt, but for those of us who actually speaks Danish (and can spell it too) this is not the case.

by Boudewijn Rempt (not verified)

Funny... Dutch 'kussen' means 'kisses' or 'pillow'. Must make for some marital misunderstandings in mixed Danish-Dutch marriages.

by ac (not verified)

I kiss liver all the time.

by Christian Loose (not verified)

It's a city in Germany near Cologne.

by Aaron Krill (not verified)

And not too far from Perfume in Luxembourd...

by Michael Thaler (not verified)

For those of you who can speak German, here is an explanation, what Leverkuse actually means:

http://www.toenti.de/bitmaps/schalke/leverkusen.jpg

by Debian User (not verified)

Leverkus was man and his profession apothecy.

He discovered something big, I forgot what, and Leverkusen became named after him and a big center for chemical and pharma industry.

Bayer is the megacorp there.

Yours, Kay

by cyberpatrol (not verified)

The "something big" Dr. Carl Leverkus "discovered" - more exactly: founded - was a color factory which was bought by Bayer which was founded by Friedrich Bayer.

by jambo (not verified)

Leverkusen is a Town near Cologne.

by terra1 (not verified)

I can only say: Yes, it's a city. Near cologne. And I gotta know it: I live in Germany ;)

BTW: Is there a changelog available?

by Albert Astals Cid (not verified)

Best thing you can get is http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/kde-3.4-features.html but beware it can be VERY outdated

by terra1 (not verified)

Thank you...

by Stephan Kulow (not verified)

You can forget about Leverkusen the city. But Leverkusen is also the team that beat Real Madrid 3:0 ;)

by terra1 (not verified)

Hehe, but the team that won against Madrid came from the city Leverkusen ;)..

by Javier (not verified)

Leverkusen is also the team that did LOST the final against Real Madrid.....

by standsolid (not verified)

Anyone got some screenshots of the new features? I'm interested in the Kicker work that's been done.

by Anonymous (not verified)

Congratulations for the first post not talking about the codename.

by Leverkusen (not verified)

Who, me?

by gnumdk (not verified)

Posting from Kde 3.4, just have kdebase build, will post screenshot here tomorow.

One question, why kpdf is not the new full featured kpdf?

by Anonymous (not verified)

Because the really cool (in opposite to just cool :) new features are still in the kpdf_experiments branch only and not in HEAD.

by gerd (not verified)

Hey, the release is named Leverkusen.

The main reason for using such names is distractiong readers from the feature list. So everybody talks about the names and nobody complains about the releases.

by Albert Astals Cid (not verified)

Because we (ok, more Enrico than me) still have to polish the experimental kpdf a bit before merging to HEAD. I hope will have it for Beta1.

by Ask (not verified)

Will the new kdf support the various transition
effects in a pdf document created by latex prosper
class, like Acrobat reader in windows does ?

Ask

by samiel (not verified)

Adrian Leverkuhn is the main person
of one of Thomas Mann's masterpieces,
the novel "Doctor Faustus"...

MS

by Albert Astals Cid (not verified)

Probably no, but we haven't tested any document like that. Could you please provide a link to one of them?

by furanku (not verified)

Although I think that these transistion effects are not really important features: A latex prosper generated pdf containing transition effects is availible at

http://www.nefkom.net/georg.drenkhahn/prosper/doc/prosper-tour.pdf

by superfebs (not verified)

well... IMHO those animations *are* important features. People wants big buttons. Sleek graphics. Cool effects.
Let's give them all, to conquer them.
Uh... konquer! :)

by JF Digonnet (not verified)

Hello
I have compile KDE 3.4 from ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/snapshots/
KMAIL is not installed.
Where is KMAIL ?
jfd

by Nicolas Goutte (not verified)

KMail is suppose to be in KDEPIM.

Have a nice day!