KDE 3.5.7 has been released. “This release has a renewed focus on KDE PIM applications. KAddressBook, KOrganizer and KAlarm received attention with bugfixes, while KMail additionally witnessed new features and improvements with both interface work and IMAP handling: it can manage IMAP quota and copy and move all folders.” In addition, Munich’s KDE distribution LiMux has been certified to meet the international usability standard ISO 9241.
Good job from the KDE team!
While they’re finishing KDE 4, it’s good to know that KDE 3.5 is still in the developer’s hearts and they didn’t abandon their users! Also this is also an indicator of a well organized developer community, maybe there are many projects out there that could learn from the KDE team.
I’m sure when KDE 4 is out, KDE 3.5 will still be a good choice for those who like KDE but need stability.
Cheers from a Gnome user
Edited 2007-05-22 15:39
Yay.. awesome.. woohoo.. go KDE!
I got it with Debian unstable a day before it was officially released. What a great work with the Debian community. Kde of course is as rock solid and feature rich as ever.
It’s in most other distros’ unstable repositories too. Distros get the tarballs a week in advance of the official release, so they can be ready.
it can still change (and it did) in that week. But at least they can test it.
Kool!
…you can now select the text color in the taskbar applet! This is going to be useful for people using a transparent/dark kicker (like me!)
Thanks for posting that. That was a major usability gripe of mine with KDE. Now all they need to do is allow you to change the colors of the feeds in Akregator. I hate the red and blue.
Mmm…I upgraded and even though the option appears in the Kmenu setup dialog, it won’t apply…I’m going to dig a bit and see what’s wrong.
KDE PIM (specifically kmail) is great, possibly the best mail client, glad to see they are making it even better.
i look forward to it.
I don’t think we have had an update on the LiMux project since last October. And that was sparse.
Any news aside from the ISO 9241 certification?
Is this going to be the last update for the KDE 3 series or will they continue to maintain it until the release of say KDE 4.0, 4.1, or 4.2? Do you guys think that the move to KDE4 will occur quickly or will many distros still use the KDE 3.5 series until say KDE 4.1 like some did with the transition from the KDE 2 to KDE 3 series?
I believe the plan is to continue supporting KDE 3.5 for a few more years, for businesses and organizations that don’t want to upgrade to 4. Obviously it will be mostly bugfixes, though, with the interesting stuff happening in KDE4.
I think openSUSE next version 10.3 is going to ship KDE4
And I think Kubuntu is supposed to create an unsupported KDE4 version as soon as it is released, so I assume their next full release would support it as well.
I think openSUSE next version 10.3 is going to ship KDE4
Doubtful. openSuSE 10.3 is set for feature freeze in August, and the last I heard, KDE4 is set for an October release.
On the plus side, the openSuSE build service will have snapshots all the way up to release, so it should be pretty easy to install KDE4 on 10.3.
I think openSUSE next version 10.3 is going to ship KDE4
>>Doubtful. openSuSE 10.3 is set for feature freeze in August, and the last I heard, KDE4 is set for an October release.
They will be including a KDE4 build for 10.3, some of the apps etc. will be included as part of the KDE patterns. The packages are already starting to appear in the factory build, and an update/upgrade from factory will pull in KDE4 packages. The next alpha will probably include them, if not, the one after.
>>On the plus side, the openSuSE build service will have snapshots all the way up to release, so it should be pretty easy to install KDE4 on 10.3.
Very true, and snapshots are already there for 10.2, and will include 10.3 once it’s released.
Cheers.
EDIT: gave up on trying to fix the tags, they don’t seem to be co-operating
Edited 2007-05-23 05:01 UTC
I just finished a 48 hour compile on FreeBSD because of the upgrade to x.org 7.2, now I can start compiling the KDE ports all over again for the next 24 hour! Doesn the madness ever end!?
😀 *starts reloading freshports.org for any sign of 3.5.7*
Why don’t you use packages?
http://bsdpants.blogspot.com/
What’s the fun in that? 😛
I have four words for you: Kevelopers kevelopers kevelopers kevelopers!
Allthough I’m not using KDE and KDevelop on a daily basis, the 3.4.1 version is appealing, especially the improved completition and the debugger.
Good work, I’m awaiting KDE 4 to be really great.
FWIW, KDevelop is running “natively” on Windows (at least with test builds) now with KDE4, so here’s hoping it will attract a bigger audience.
“FWIW, KDevelop is running “natively” on Windows (at least with test builds) now with KDE4, so here’s hoping it will attract a bigger audience.”
This is a chance, true, especially for migration attempts. Furthermore, the professional but easy to use KDevelop GUI seems to be appealing to most developers, so they can move away from expensive and incompatible development kits sold by MICROS~1. But I’m not using / developing for “Windows”, so I may say I don’t care. 🙂