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. Announcement, changelog, Info, download.
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. Announcement, changelog, Info, download.
I hope it will fix the nasty bug i have in all my fedora installs, namely because systeem SEEMS to hang(mouseclick not working anymore for example) until u press alt(tab). and then it get lose again. REALLY annyoing
Hi
Thats not a kde bug. it was a bug with the build process if you took up the fedora rpms from a third party build.
however the newer builds do not have this one. pick it up
regards
Jess
at this line: “even command lines are
better than kde/gnome”.
Does KDE 3.2.1 have decent keybinding support yet? 3.1’s was terribly lacking, even compared to IceWM’s.
Hi
“I wonder which one linus uses… probably neither. ”
Linus uses KDE on SUSE with a sony laptop but that doesnt determine anybody else’s personal preference. he is a kernel hacker. so dont bother. ok?
KDE and GNOME both are getting better at speed in the later releases. They do agree on a lot of things. check freedesktop.org for details but what we cannot do is unify entirely different toolkit. Install either one of these desktops and install the base libraries for the other one. It doesnt end with two toolkits either. you have wxwindows,fox,fltk and so on. A large majority is comfortable with using either one of them so you should bother if you are using Linux
regards
Jess
steve :
“i hate having to install kde libraries just because
i want to run a single kde application. why can’t …”
The same happens with gnome, but it is worse.
I need to have Gnome 2.2 (2.0?) in order to install the new Gimp. This is more usual with Gtk applications .
Hi
“KDE 3.2.1 have decent keybinding support yet?”
check kcontrol. its has keybindings called khotkeys. it was there in kde 3.2.1 too and its improved now.
regards
Jess
Hi
“I need to have Gnome 2.2 (2.0?) in order to install the new Gimp”
thats not true. i have installed the latest gimp in my kde 3.2 desktop and it works fine. maybe you are doing something wrong?.
Jess
For gimp 2.0 you need install just gtk not all gnome
thanks for the pointer, jess, i knew there had to be something
organized along this front. it doesn’t seem like freedesktop has very much presence. they’re loosely affiliated and I’m sure there must be disagreements between kde and gnome developers.
has anyone gotten kate to run on mac os x?
I had the same problem. I think it is (or was) a problem with the KDE clipper program. I fixed it by removing the klipper program from the panel and restarting the KDE session. The new clipper automatically appeared in the system tray and it has worked well since without any problems with the mouse.
@emagius: KDE has traditionally had excellent keybinding support. Nearly everything can be bound to a hotkey, and in KDE 3.2, khotkeys allows you to do stuff like send arbitrary dcop commands to applications. Is there something you’re trying to bind that you cannot?
@steve: Work is being done to run Kate (and other KDE apps) natively on MacOS X (via Qt/Mac). They’re quite far along now, having ported Kate, KOffice, and a number of smaller apps.
http://dot.kde.org/1073009304/
Hi
“thanks for the pointer, jess, i knew there had to be something
organized along this front. it doesn’t seem like freedesktop has very much presence. they’re loosely affiliated and I’m sure there must be disagreements between kde and gnome developers. ”
you dont need to trust me for that. I will give you more pointers
* shared mime info between free desktops
* shared menu specification (kde,gnome and xfce already implements)
* window manager specs
* drag and drop
* clipboard
* icon and links
* libraries – xml, gstreamer and so on
of course there could be more improvements like themes and so on but take a look. its already there. you could participate in the mailing list and let them know how to improve stuff. if are a coder or document writer there is definitely room for improvement
If you need more help with this just let me know
jess
I sure hope they fix that kmenu bug where I have to hit esc several times. I’m not sure though, it may have been a bad theme I was using….
Hi
“I sure hope they fix that kmenu bug where I have to hit esc several times. I’m not sure though, it may have been a bad theme I was using….”
check with the default theme or report a bug at bugs.kde.org. i checked and what you say has not been reported.
Jess
I can sincerely say KDE 3.2.1 rocks and it’s as simple as 1- 2- 3!
This KDE release fixes all of the bugs I encountered in the point release. If you have enough RAM, KDE is now extremely fast and can be made as minimalistic as you want. Kudos to KDE for giving the user good defaults like single-click but allowing people to customize to their liking!
At this rate of releases, the entire KDE team is almost as fast as that one guy coding SkyOS!!
8)=
Seriously… KDE is awsome and deserves a pat on the back for addressing bugs so quickly, not to mention all the great features they’ve been adding at a lightening pace.
As for the SkyOS dude… Man. That guy must eat pure coffee grains and wash it down with Jolt Cola or something. He’s like too fast and good at what he does.
Congrats to both teams on some very professional and impressive software.
His observation may be offtopic but, if it’s related to Operating Systems, it’s not irrelevant. As someone who’s been reading this site since ’98, I can plainly tell you that I learn as much interesting stuff from the comments as from the articles.
Leave it up to the moderators to decide if his post is irrelevant or not.
Anyone know an easy way to install KDE 3.2 or 3.2.1 (a link would be nice) on Fedora Core 1? I’ve tried to use:
http://fedoranews.org/krishnan/tutorial/kde3.2/
Yep, that doesn’t work! I get dependancy hell when I try it! Sorry for the newbie thing!
Note: I’ve never tried to compile anything!
PS: KDE 3.2.1 is out! You think kde.org would update their screenshots page for at least 3.2 (ya, I can do a google search, but I shouldn’t have to):
http://www.kde.org/screenshots/
With all these updates I’d like to know why Kopete and no other Open Source chat messenger hasn’t offered VOIP and WebCam support? I like having support for the MSN protocol in Linux to still access Hotmail and chat with friends using MSN Messenger 6.1. It’s still not the same typing conversations and not being able to take advantage of those cool features in Linux too. VOIP/WebCam features are not only fun for communicating with friends/family but also speaking with clients. I want this in KDE and it’s over due.
Hi
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As for the SkyOS dude… Man. That guy must eat pure coffee grains and wash it down with Jolt Cola or something. He’s like too fast and good at what he does.
Congrats to both teams on some very professional and impressive software.”
one guy posts irrelevant stuff and another guy supports it. thats shitty
Jess
Dark_Knight:
Check out GnomeMeeting:
http://www.gnomemeeting.org/
-cjl
Man the amount of fixes are incredible to me and now 49 languages too wow! Great job KDE team. On a side note I am keeping tabs on the skyos project as well.
Why not try to intergrate superkaramba into KDE?
Has the KDE project decided whether or not to use gstreamer as the multimedia backend yet? That would really help the linux desktop as a whole. The gnome integration is already one of gstreamers main focuses.
Superkaramba is a toy for eyecandy.
Maybe if it were way, way more mature it would be worth considering.
I have fluxbox installed + gtk and Gimp is running flawlessly.You don’t have too install gnome for gimp to work.
I’d upgrade to latest FC2-development as of today. It has what you want. I don’t know if up2date will take you all the way from FC1. Try it
>up2date
I’m a newbie too I might say. But for me, rpm –force –Uvh *.rpm worked fine. The key I guess is to install all libraries initially from the fedora disks. I also got some dependencies problems with qt-MySQL, qt-ODBC and qt-Postgres packages, but I skipped these and all went fine without a glitch. After 5 min, I had a nice KDE32 desktop. Hope this helps.
You don’t need to run gnome as desktop to run the Gimp. What the original poster meant was that to build the gimp from source, you need an incredible amount of libraries & stuff that are gnome related.
When you use binary packages there’s no problem, but try to install a port that depends on GTK stuff on FreeBSD and you’ll get the idea that it needs the whole freaking tree to compile it. (Of course this is only for the first port that depends on these things)
“I had the same problem. I think it is (or was) a problem with the KDE clipper program. I fixed it by removing the klipper program from the panel and restarting the KDE session. The new clipper automatically appeared in the system tray and it has worked well since without any problems with the mouse.”
Damn this seems to work, i just got a other klipper icon (other location now). And it SEEMS to fix that annoying bug/thingie. Thanks!
Charlie,
I haven’t used GnomeMeeting but from what I’ve been told it’s similar to M$ NetMeeting and not even compatible with MSN Messenger 6.1. Isn’t it also using IRC protocols which I don’t use? I want an all-in-one messenger that is Open Sourced for Linux, supports Hotmail protocols (access my mail, chat with others still stuck using MSN 6.1), VOIP and WebCam.
KDE’s Kopete is good for simple chat and accessing my Hotmail account but lacks VOIP and WebCam support. Something that has been around for a while but not developed in Linux messengers. At least not one that I can find. Someone please help me to determine if GnomeMeeting or another messenger offers the features I listed.
Claus & Stefan,
Thanks for the tips I’ll give it a try later tonight.
Thanks,
Hi
AFAIK gnome meeting is compatible with msn. since it probably isnt a open specification i am not sure how far that would work.
regards
Jess