Updated Announcement: We kind of jumped the gun this morning, but it looks like KDE 3.4 will be made available today. Keep an eye on kde.org. Updated Update: It’s official.
Updated Announcement: We kind of jumped the gun this morning, but it looks like KDE 3.4 will be made available today. Keep an eye on kde.org. Updated Update: It’s official.
Uh, you do realise it hasn’t been officially announced yet on kde.org ?
i jsut came from there and there is no such anouncement…at least yet
she probably just read it off the mailing list. I for one am very excited. I switched to Gentoo solely because I hated waiting for KDE updates so no I’m counting the seconds until it hits portage. Anyone have a general idea how long that takes?
It does, however, appear to be true… Aside from today being the targetted date, they also removed the KDE 3.4 RC1 announcement this morning. Generally speaking, when they remove the last RC annoucement, the release announcement is about to come.
Thanks,
Dr SuSE
whats new in this release? that is significant?
not trolling just qurious (i use kde)
Could you please not announce releases of KDE until they are officially announced? They reason they have not announced it is probably because they want the mirrors to sync with the main ftp server before everyone starts downloading it. By announcing the release before the official release you harm KDE.
Look at this mirror:
http://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/kde/stable/3.4/
Maybe they are just waiting every mirror to become updated in order to post in the kde.org…
Regards.
i took kde3.4 from the cvs yesterday, it seriously owns.. it starts extremely fast, and has been cleaned up in kcontrol and stuff..
I’m very impressed by the information provided by the links contained in this story as well by the information in the story itself. Wait, there is only one link pointing to http://www.kde.org and no information?
It’s a good day for free software.
kGreat krelease, kand kalways kgood knews kto ksee kprogress kon kthe klinux kdesktop kfront.
The first really, truly polished desktop for *nix.
3.3.x was nearly there, 3.4 is there with a bullet.
Update: the announcement is up.
Ok, What part of “This is a draft! DO NOT PUBLISH URL before announced!” do you not understand?
Christ. Give them a little time to get their mirrors synched. Jumping the gun with the announcement is a direct kick in the pants for them, and doesn’t benefit anyone.
No, the “first really, truly polished desktop for *nix” was Mac OS X. I’d say at Jaguar, which was released in 2002.
> > more than 1,700 wishes have been fullfilled
> Does tha mean more bloat to an already bloated Desktop?
Depends, did you wish for that?
Depends, did you wish for that?
I’ve read some wishes on my own, there are some good ones like organize windows and icons, I hope those one are implemented.
> Jumping the gun with the announcement is a direct kick in the pants for them, and doesn’t benefit anyone.
I’m missing a “Report abuse” link for the story.
Well snappy is not the right word.Point,click,open describes KDE 3.4 better,well at least on my AMD643000+.Good work guys!
Thank you 🙂
as far as i could see, no URL has actualle been posted but with a little bit of jelly in your head you should be able to get where all this fuzz is about..
although i’m not a KDE user i’m glad they are walking a quite straight forward dev. path with regular releases..
I read somewhere this version will build properly with the -fvisibility=hidden compiler flag… This version of KDE should be FAST.
Updated Announcement: We kind of jumped the gun this morning, but it looks like KDE 3.4 will be made available today. Keep an eye on kde.org.
Thank you.
Can’t wait for the debs. I wonder if they will use the -fvisibility=hidden flags. Usually they are quite conservative in their optimizations, but in this case I don’t think it will negatively impact anyone to use it.
GCC 4.0 is not released yet so no -fvisibility=hidden for debian users.
>No, the “first really, truly polished desktop for *nix”
>was Mac OS X. I’d say at Jaguar, which was released in
>2002.
Let me know when you can get it to compile cleanly and run on a SPARC system running Linux.
Oh yeah.. Just checked that. Indeed it is a GCC 4 feature.
It’s on kde.org now
>Oh yeah.. Just checked that. Indeed it is a GCC 4 feature.
IIRC many distros backported that feature to the 3.4.x branch (like Gentoo and Mandrake), so on those systems KDE 3.4 will be super fast =)
Kewl, can’t wait for it to be in FreeBSD ports tree.
About an hour ago. Installed the SUSE rpms for 9.2. It does seem a bit faster. Kmail and Kontact are both updated and my clock is bolder.
KDE 3.4 Released … it’s official now
I’ve been using a 3.4 “version” (kdebase & kdeartwork) on Arch Linux the last few days – a couple of “anti-clutter” tips that I deploy in the KDE Control Centre just after install: – tends to feel a bit snappier after this (not exhaustive):
Switch off icon animation.
Switch off “bouncing cursor” – change to “no busy cursor”
Switch off “taskbar notification”.
Use the fast/clean .NET style (from kdeartwork)
Reduce the number of “desktops” to 1 or 2 – do you need 4?
Switch off animation in panel hiding.
Disable mouse-over effects.
Switch off animation in minimize and restore.
Switch off shading animation
Turn on preloading in Konqueror.
Start with an empty session.
Increase mouse pointer acceleration.
Thanks to the KDE devs & others for 3.4 – good work
It says something about text to speech, but it doesn’t say text to “sexy” speech. When are they every going to learn!
…oh I wish there was some URPMI sources for Mandrake 10.1……..
> Reduce the number of “desktops” to 1 or 2
> – do you need 4?
i barely get by with 6
i actually tested the effects of >1 desktop on low powered machines, and it really doesn’t matter as long as you keep the same background (or, on really tight machines, no background picture, just a solid color). additional desktops are really quite lightweight.
Thanks Aaron
This is a solid release. It even seems to be cleaner in terms of interface than before (or is that just my imagination?). Kudos to the KDE team, and I for one eagerly anticpate KDE 3.5 and KDE 4.0.
Should one wait for Debian packages or compile with Konstruct? The Debian maintainers have been quite fast with new releases lately, so maybe it’s better to just wait.
does they still stick with apple mdnsresponder for ddns or I can build with with howl (that I have already packaged thanks to the dropline project)=
http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/308