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Nobber · Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 11:44 am Post subject: KDE 3.5

KDE 3.5 is upon us.

I'll be sticking with 3.4.0 till they fix a particularly annoying bug that's been around since 3.4.1, but still, I'm not bitter. Really.

M-Saunders · Moderator Joined: Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:14 pm Posts: 2881

Master KDE FTP site is slooooooooooow, but here's a good mirror that already has 3.5:

http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/Mirrors/ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.5/

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nelz · Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 12:56 pm Post subject: RE: KDE 3.5

Which bug? I've been using KDE 3.5 for a couple of months and can't think what you mean.
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Nobber · Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 1:32 pm Post subject: RE: KDE 3.5

This bug. I'm guessing many people don't notice it because they use the icon view in Konqueror by default. But for those of us of the "icons are a waste of (screen) space" school, it's a pain.
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nelz · Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 2:43 pm Post subject: RE: KDE 3.5

I don't see that here, not that I'm complaining Smile

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nordle · LXF regular Joined: Fri Apr 08, 2005 10:56 pm Posts: 1497

Been messing around in Slack for a couple of hours, so far found the transparent apps, the display of desktops contents (ie desktop 1-4), karm (time recording of sorts), the add "applet to panel"...ehh.. applet.
Konquerors metabar shows details about anything and actions for it. Kmail's sieve script management, although I haven't figured out what that is yet Smile

, a few imap tweaks.
Superkeramba, konqueror enhancements including basic add blocking and acid2 complience.

So far, nothing ground breaking from 3.4.3. But overall, some nice tidy ups, and so far, no gotchas.

linuxgirlie · Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 6:27 pm Post subject: RE: KDE 3.5

Just installing now and it is really really slow, has been going about an hour now and I have 2mb broadband.. Sad

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mugstar · Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 8:38 pm Post subject:

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davecs · Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 12:57 am Post subject: RE: Re: RE: KDE 3.5

It's still in the "experimental" repos at PCLinuxOS but I have played with it (I keep two parallel installs going and I only take risks on one!) and it seems very nice, though hardly the advance I was expecting.

Still, slow and steady, as they say, wins the race.
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A-Wing · Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 10:52 pm Post subject: RE: Re: RE: KDE 3.5

Just downloaded it at 1.1MBytes/sec, impressive so far, nice subtle interface changes Smile

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marco · Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 2:55 pm Post subject: RE: Re: RE: KDE 3.5

Installed it yesterday on my Slackware 10.2 system and probably will change now from XFCE to KDE 3.5. It looks very nice and includes everything I need for my daily work.

It's really quite funny, because actually I never liked KDE before.

A-Wing · Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 3:08 pm Post subject: RE: Re: RE: KDE 3.5

I do like some of the small changes like the 'It's broken, don't nag me again' type thing dialogs now Smile

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davecs · Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 12:29 am Post subject: RE: Re: RE: KDE 3.5

Couple of minor probs with KDE3.5.

If your distro uses GTK-QT engine, it cannot cope with KDE3.5 and Gnome>=2.8, so you have to uninstall it! Strangely enough, my Gnome apps have retained the Gtk-Qt settings, though I doubt that will remain the case if I change KDE style, it'll probably just stick where it is.

If you have selected a Mouse Pointer theme in KDE control centre, it does not use the ~/.icons/default folder to store the settings, but non-KDE apps will read from there, resulting in the cursors potentially changing when you use certain programs. I have corrected the ~/.icons/default/index.theme file, though I have it on good authority that deleting the folder altogether may also work.

Some people have experienced huge slowdowns, this is because SuperKaramba is included in KDE3.5, the best bet is not to run it unless your hardware can cope. One guy on the PCLOS mailing list found that one applet was tying up 82% of his CPU! But just because it's there, it's not compulsory!
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