Metin Amiroff was the first of many readers to let us know that KDE 3.2.2 is now available. According to the press release, “The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.2.2, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes.” Downloads can be found here.
KDE 3.2.2 Released
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No slackware binaries yet
In Debian since Friday
In Debian since Friday
:O thats it im converting, where the hells my Knoppix CD 😉
Sadly enough it’s not in portage yet.
How can it be that those debianers have kde 3.2.2 before us who use gentoo? That’s unbelievable.
Just synced and still no sign of KDE 3.2.2?
Debianers usually have to wait at least a month before the big DEs enter unstable and now they have it before we have it in portage? No, it’s not even hard-masked, soft-masked or anything, it’s just not there…
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LOL I have nothing to do, I think ill try that new debian installer(beta 3).
Yeah, but the Kate bookmark handling still sucks, since a long time. Just try it yourselves: open 3 textfiles in kate, set bookmarks in each. Now just jump to bookmarks and switch between files. After a while the bookmark menu will not show the bookmarks only the Next/Prev bookmarks menuitems.
I don’t know how they cannot see this bug…
Sadly, portage seems to be falling further and further behind, even the ~x86 branch. It’s not uncommon to wait a week or more for packages that others distros are already using. It’s really starting to turn me off to a distro I prized for being cutting edge.
As the subject says, why not download the source packages and compile and install from them. It’s not hard… honest!!
It is in portage now (or at least some of the parts). As far as Debian having it since Friday, that is jumping the gun since it wasn’t officially released until today.
Thanks for the info. I had only checked kde-base/kde. *relieved*
Why wait for your distro maintainers? Grab Konstruct and compile it right away, run it in your user dir and you won’t have to touch your system configuration (except a couple of exports in your .bashrc)
http://developer.kde.org/build/konstruct/
KDE gets release to packagers about a week before the official release.
The developers know about this bug. I reported it. They just don’t know how to fix it, as it is very hard to debug.
This bug is triggered by modifications in the toolbar. To avoid this bug, clean the kate config in the .kde dir and stay with a unmodified toolbar. That is what I did.
Vote for this bug at bugs.kde.org.
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64754
🙂
http://download.kde.org/binarydownload.html?url=/stable/3.2.2/Conec…
“Why wait for your distro maintainers?”
I agree. However, the distro’s do customize – the KDE from your distro is likely not identical to the KDE from KDE including ~/.kde.
I’m in Sarge and the KDE is still 3.1.5. Anyone know when 3.2 will move into Sarge?
I’m in Sarge and the KDE is still 3.1.5. Anyone know when 3.2 will move into Sarge?
Most probably. They were waiting for 3.2.2 to move it to Sarge, with a fake bug holding 3.2.1 back. If there’s no showstopper, it should move to Sarge by itself rather quickly.
http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=kdebase
oh right, so if i understand (i probably don’t) correctly, KDE 3.2.1 should go into Sarge tomorrow?
No. Kdebase has 4 more days to sit, but the sticker is that kdelibs has 9 release-critical bugs to fix before it can go in. Depending on how quickly these bugs get fixed, it could take from a minimum of 10 more days (the count restarts whenever the package changes) to several more weeks. Now, that is if KDE 3.2 makes it into Sarge before Sarge is frozen for release. If it doesn’t, then you’re looking at several months before 3.2 makes it into testing…
Even with this upgrade, KDE continues to lag behind GNOME in several areas – particularly menu organization.
Pliz don’t start a KDE vs GNOME arguement, we are tired of them. Each has it’s own merits and use what suits your needs. Thats the beauty of opensource, you can choose.
Are you kidding me, KDE has excellent menu organization or terrible organization. The default is decent, I do not think ebtter or worse than GNOME. It depends on the distribution really, for example SUSE 9.1, Lindwos and Xandros have very nice menu organization.
Also, KDE has a powerful menu editor, something GNOME is lacking badly. KDE also has some options for its flexible menu editor, sucha s how ti should display, description (name), name (description) description, name etc. it is also quite smart, for example if you have a folder in the menu called Internet Browser and there is one item in it such as Konqueror, than the folder wll not be visible and only Konqueror will to save the user from extra clicks. Of course in the case that more are added the folder will be shown. The menu system also follows the standards now so you can have the same menus through KDE, GNOME and other desktops.
KDE has some amazing technology and the menu system is no exception. Please, think before you speak. If there is any area where GNOME is clearly “ahead” of KDE it is in its acessibility.
FWIW, it was also available in the updates for Fedora Core Test 2 since Friday.
Err…I meant Fedora Core 2 Test 2
http://freebsd.kde.org/
as always ^_^
With the release of KDE 3.2 KDE has redefined the Linux desktop and brought it to an amazing state of qualtiy. 3.2.2 shows this to any skeptics.
I think this is a time as great as any to donote to KDE either through your skills or money. KDE may be free in all ways, but it is not free to run and maintain. Hundreds of developers spend countless hours to bring KDE to the standard it has now come to. Free software is based on good will, so show your support and good will for a brighter future than we are seeing now. For a future without incredibly erosions of freedom, without DRM and without a monopoly that has 96% of the market in it’s strangle hold.
Help KDE: http://kde.org/support/
And check out my wishlist for a further explanation of the need for support: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63868
I suggest you give as much as you would expect to pay for a compelte desktop environment like KDE.
I hope it has 500-million more options!! I wish context menus would show 8 more options apiece, and the menus in Konq could stand to be inflated with a couple more duplicate entries… after all, I should be able to access every single KDE pref from every single menu, right?
When KDE devels follow sensible interface guidelines I’ll start using KDE again. The new release, while slightly faster, is still as annoyingly difficult to use.
Wow! I am impressed. It feels powerful. I did a minimal SuSE 8.2 install, download the kde 3.2.2 binaries, used yast (ncurses; lots faster than yast2) to fix dependencies (about 2 dozens) and finally installed it. What can I say? It’s integrated smoothly, feels stable and powerful and quite managable with this old Compaq (500mhz p3, 96mb ram). Kudos to the Kde team!
Still no fix to the “File changed” dialogue bug in Quanta? This has to be considered for the most annoying bug of the year.
Seems like it actually has been fixed. At least according to the bug tracker.
If kde is too difficult for you, you should try Gnome which is ideal for newbies and simple people who dont know much about computers. Functionally its nowhere near as advanced or polished as kde but with some practice you may be able to master it. As your computer knowledge increases above beginner level you can switch back to kde and enjoy using the most advanced desktop available for Linux and all it has to offer. Just remember, regardless of what some foolish people lead you to believe, you dont have to use or adjust every option or re-configure your desktop every time you use it. Only when you want to. Good luck.
Right! M$ has shown us clearly that not giving options is best for every user. Take a look at the search file dialog. I guess everybody simply loves the fancy idea that zip files are worth being always scanned. It might take a bit longer but anyway keeping lots of zip files in a directory must be a bad idea and is something a professional would never do, would you?
I have no clue why “power users” (and that is what I am and I guess almost every other linux user) see a benefit in removing options. I clearly prefer an overloaded menu to an application that is missing the one feature I desperately need to get my job done quickly. A preferences dialog that is full of options isn’t a problem as long as sensible defaults are chosen and I can reset the settings to the defaults. But it is a big problem if I simply can’t adjust something that’s driving my crazy (and for my part I’m sick of registries too). Options are fun – and fun is the reason that I’m using Linux/Kde.
>> I hope it has 500-million more options!! I wish context
>> menus would show 8 more options apiece, and the menus in
>> Konq could stand to be inflated with a couple more
>> duplicate entries… after all, I should be able to
>> access every single KDE pref from every single menu,
>> right?
Trolls like you give bad name to your whole favourite DE community. Please enjoy the choice we have. If you can’t live with KDE’s choosed path then don’t, use Gnome and shut up, unless you actually have someting constructive to say.
I hope it has 500-million more options!! I wish context menus would show 8 more options apiece, and the menus in Konq could stand to be inflated with a couple more duplicate entries… after all, I should be able to access every single KDE pref from every single menu, right?
Exactly. I made a similar (although hopefully not quite so antagonistic) to a friend when we upgrading his Linux box. His comment?
“Yup, and that’s the way I like it.”
Different strokes for different folks. Personally, I like GNOME, because IT is simple, not because I am. I could rant about about this at length, but the fact is that 99% of GNOMEs default options suit me. It’s quite likely they suit at least a good proportion of other people as well. Other people want to tweak the hell out of their desktop, and what as many options as they can get. KDE is right for these people.
If kde is too difficult for you, you should try Gnome which is ideal for newbies and simple people who dont know much about computers…
geraldo, while you might be an el33t Linux hacker, and know more (maybe less?) about programming, computers, and linux than me or other GNOME users out there, you are acting like a dork. Stop it.
Here’s a thought for everyone before they start getting pissy about people’s choices of Desktop, Operating System, or whatever. Consider that people have different tastes, needs, levels of expertise, and different ways of thinking from you. Before you go off your nut about how software XYZ sucks – consider that the person may have different needs from you. One of the best things going for Linux/OSS is choice. That includes the ability for other people to choose.
I think most of the good bloat complaints about KDE are the menus. It’s not that KDE has too many options, it’s where they are put that is sometimes annoying (in the menus). Personally I like a sleek menu with only the readily needed options (like show hidden files); and then a big config file in your home directory with all the options you could ever want to change. It’s also good to make a little preferences panel with all those config options (or at least all the ones that non-technical people can understand).
I used 3.2.1 for quite a while, I’ve switched away to a different DE now but I still have great respect for KDE in that it really provides a complete desktop environment (something Windows doesn’t do btw, because it doesn’t provide all common applications *cough* irc,IM,word processor *cough*).
Sorry Edward, but I stand by my remarks. Anyone who finds kde too dificult to use after at least giving themselves a reasonable time to LEARN how to use it, has a serious problem. Dumbing down the os so ignorant or stupid people feel comfortable is not the answer. Have you ever used Microsft Office? Ever tried to use every feature it offers you? Ever wondered why no one has been able to topple it from No.1? Think about it.