KDE Archive

Review Of KDE 3.2 Beta; KOffice on Mac OS X

Submitted by Code_monkey 2004-01-01 KDE 72 Comments

Ben Mazer write a not-so-positive review of the KDE 3.2 beta. It can be found here. Our recent KDE review is here. Elsewhere, RangerRick now has a preliminary KOffice port (with some Qt font/drawing issues still to fix) to Mac OS X in addition to the recent Konqueror port.

The KDE Group Protests “GNOME-Only” Decision for UserLinux

Submitted by Tom 2003-12-21 KDE 150 Comments

The KDE Group - a group of KDE and/or Debian developers with a dedication to and interest in both projects - have written this detailed proposal opposing the decision to go with GNOME as the sole UserLinux GUI. Our Take: On Friday I emailed Bruce Perens on the issue, but he didn't reply. Following is my short email to Perens, trying to suggest a solution that might become acceptable by both camps.

KDE Keeps You Fit

Submitted by Ingemar Eriksson 2003-12-20 KDE 23 Comments

ITBusiness.ca has an interesting success story about how LinuxMagic switched FitnessWorld to Linux and KDE. Although the article does not mention KDE, we know they are using KDE thanks to this KDE Success Story that was submitted to KDE::Enterprise. Our Take: Last night we watched the X-Men 2 DVD and in the feature documentaries on the second DVD disk, in the one regarding the visual effects, one of the SGI animators was clearly using KDE as well.

A quick look at KDE 3.2 Beta 2; KOffice 1.3-RC2 is Out

Submitted by Anonymous 2003-12-18 KDE 20 Comments

Pycs has posted a mini article on KDE 3.2-b2 while the KOffice project released 1.3-RC2. Changelog.

KDE 3.2-beta2: Towards a Better KDE

Eugenia Loli 2003-12-15 KDE 169 Comments

The latest beta of KDE's 3.2, beta 2, was released a few days ago. I installed the provided Fedora RPMs and had a look in this early pre-release version of the popular X11 desktop environment. Six screenshots are included. We look at both the strengths and the weaknesses of the DE.

The KDE Desktop on The Linux Show

Eugenia Loli 2003-12-11 KDE 14 Comments

KDE developers George Staikos and Aaron J. Seigo joined in "The Linux Show". The archived version of the show is now available for download.

KDE 3.2-beta2 Available

Eugenia Loli 2003-12-08 KDE 103 Comments

The official release is here and you can start downloading the KDE 3.2-beta2 from here.

A Mac OS X User Reviews KDE

Submitted by Arjan van Leeuwen 2003-12-02 KDE 72 Comments

In this article, Mac user Paul Bissex decides to put an old computer to good use after his Powerbook crashed, and installs FreeBSD and KDE. He discovers that there's a lot to like about KDE, particularly network transparency in Konqueror and other applications, virtual desktops, the Quanta Plus web development tool and the KDE PIM suite. He also identifies some drawbacks to his KDE desktop, and compares it to Mac OS X.

KDE to Use KConfig XT as its Configuration Framework

Eugenia Loli 2003-11-11 KDE 38 Comments

KDE 3.2 will introduce an improved configuration framework, known as KConfig XT. This new framework extends, not deprecates, the current KDE configuration API. But if Gnome and KDE continue to have a different API for configuration, how easy freedesktop.org's goal would be to uniform the backends of the two popular DEs? We spoke to freedesktop.org's founder, Havoc Pennington, and here is what he replied after having a quick look at the new KDE API: UPDATE: Read on for KDE/SuSE's Waldo Bastian reply too:

KDE 3.2 Beta 1 “Rudi” Available

Submitted by Richard Moore 2003-11-03 KDE 50 Comments

The first beta release of KDE 3.2 has just been released. The announcement can be found here and a discussion can be found here. This release features 10,000 closed bugs and 2000 closed wishes. Enjoy.

KOffice 1.3-RC1 Available

Submitted by Richard Moore 2003-10-29 KDE 1 Comment

The first release candidate for KOffice 1.3 has been released. Story, announcement, ChangeLog.

KDE Celebrates Seven Years of Existence

Eugenia Loli 2003-10-20 KDE 49 Comments

In October 14th 1996, Matthias Ettrich announced and detailed a new project that was in search of contributers. The project was temporarily dubbed the 'Kool Desktop Environment', later to simply become the 'K Desktop Environment'. Of course, 7 years later and KDE is about to reach version 3.2, consist of 4.5 millions lines of code and represents the effort of nearly 1400 man-years.

KDE 3.1 Packages Available for AIX

Eugenia Loli 2003-10-14 KDE 5 Comments

George Staikos ported the latest stable KDE version, 3.1.x, to IBM AIX.

KDE 3.2 Alpha 2, KDevelop 3.0-a7, KOffice 1.3-b4 Released

Eugenia Loli 2003-09-25 KDE 28 Comments

The KDE project has just released KDE 3.2 Alpha 2. Among other KDE new releases, you will find KOffice 1.3 beta4 and KDevelop 3.0 Alpha 7.

eWEEK: Alpha Code Shows a Strong KDE 3.2 Ahead

Eugenia Loli 2003-09-24 KDE 26 Comments

The KDE Project's KDE 3.2, which eWEEK Labs previewed in its initial alpha release, should impress companies countenancing desktop Linux deployments, they say. On other KDE news, KDE 3.1.3 built with Sun Forte on Solaris.

KDE 3.1.4 Released

Eugenia Loli 2003-09-16 KDE 29 Comments

The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.1.4, a maintenance release. This release provides corrections of problems reported using the KDE bug tracking system and two security vulnerabilities in KDM, among other fixes.

KDE 3.2 Alpha 1 Available

Submitted by Richard Moore 2003-09-10 KDE 23 Comments

The Dot reports that KDE 3.2 Alpha-1 is available on the main FTP and more mirrors will be picking it up soon. This source release includes KDevelop 3.0a6 among other goodies. Use Konstruct to build.

Evans Data: Linux Developers Prefer KDE

Submitted by Richard Moore 2003-08-05 KDE 83 Comments

A recent study by analyst Evans Data concluded that KDE has a small edge, preferred over Gnome among Linux developers 65% vs 56% (with some respondents using both).

KDE 3.1.3 Released

Submitted by C. Graham & C. Drane 2003-07-29 KDE 41 Comments

The KDE Project announced KDE 3.1.3 today. It's the third maintenance release of the successful KDE 3.1.x series and ships with many bugfixes and improved translations. KDE 3.1.3 also contains a fix for a possible http authentication leak in the http referrer header. Info, changelog.

Preliminary KDE 3.2 Release Schedule

Eugenia Loli 2003-06-18 KDE 15 Comments

The dot is reporting on KDE's 3.2 release schedule and feature plan.