KDE 3.1 final released

[Sunner]

FOr those of us who like KDE, 3.1 is out, finally.
As is Quanta 3.1, now that's a big wohoo in my book

KDE.org
Quanta

 

[n0cmonkey]

Maybe Ill have time to upgrade today...

nm, it doesnt appear to be in up2date...

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Maybe Ill have time to upgrade today...

nm, it doesnt appear to be in up2date...

Considdering Redhat doesn't dig KDE much, that should hardly come as a surprise.

 

[mcveigh]

it does look nice. They did a great job.

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: Sunner

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Maybe Ill have time to upgrade today...

nm, it doesnt appear to be in up2date...

Considdering Redhat doesn't dig KDE much, that should hardly come as a surprise.

Yea, I'm about ready to drop RedHat, in part because of the way the kludge up KDE.
3.1 looks pretty cool ... try this link for a good description of the changes: KDE 3.1 Features

 

[Panther505]

Originally posted by: Sunner

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Maybe Ill have time to upgrade today...

nm, it doesnt appear to be in up2date...

Considdering Redhat doesn't dig KDE much, that should hardly come as a surprise.

That is the reason that I am slowly moving to Gentoo. I find that I don't like SuSe and RH though usable has a tendency to be a little strong-armed about Gnome (especially 2 -which was NOT ready to go out in RH8 IMHO).

 

[Armitage]

Just tried a few mirrors ... everything is either stomped, or doesn't have it yet.
Maybe next week.

 

[cleverhandle]

Originally posted by: Panther505
I find that I don't like SuSe and RH though usable has a tendency to be a little strong-armed about Gnome (especially 2 -which was NOT ready to go out in RH8 IMHO).

What problems did you find with GNOME 2 exactly? I only used RH 8 a little bit, but I had installed GNOME 2 from source months earlier and didn't find any serious problems. I recall some longer term issues with gnome-vfs are holding back some parts of the interface, but those weren't things that were going to be fixed by holding off for a week or two. Just wondering if you're really having GNOME problems or just RH problems...

 

[Hyperblaze]

For those of you who are scared to install Kde 3.1, I would like you to know that I do understand your concerns. It's a rather scary experience when all you get are the source files. Some of you might not even know what the heck source files are. Fortunately, the hackers at KDE did think of this and provided a very easy way to upgrade KDE. Ever heard of Red-Carpet from ximian? Well, it's almost that easy. There is a file called Konstruct downloaded at http://konsole.kde.org/konstruct/ (I'm not a html wiz when it comes to these forums, sorry) which makes ALL your problems go away. Download this file and go to the appropriate directory. I went to meta/everything (it's all explained in the text) and did a "make install". Downloads and compiles all the necacassary files for you! The only catch to all this is for you to have all the requirements to uncompress files and such. I'm pretty sure that all distros have all the necassary files.

Also, before I forget, you do need to modify a new environment variables.

in /etc/profile
just copy exactly what is shown in the instruction page at http://konsole.kde.org/konstruct/. Any questions, feel free to ask.

 

[Panther505]

Originally posted by: cleverhandle

Originally posted by: Panther505
I find that I don't like SuSe and RH though usable has a tendency to be a little strong-armed about Gnome (especially 2 -which was NOT ready to go out in RH8 IMHO).

What problems did you find with GNOME 2 exactly? I only used RH 8 a little bit, but I had installed GNOME 2 from source months earlier and didn't find any serious problems. I recall some longer term issues with gnome-vfs are holding back some parts of the interface, but those weren't things that were going to be fixed by holding off for a week or two. Just wondering if you're really having GNOME problems or just RH problems...

Some of it is RH problems. But most of it is preference. For the most part there is no "easy" way to add items to the menu and I don't care for how gnome's right click comes up..(or what's on it. ... yeah I know that for the most part that is the UNIX heritage) I find that the menu construction /layout under KDE to be smoother and easier to find even native applications. Now that I have said that I will say that I find galeon very good as a browser.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Jero
For those of you who are scared to install Kde 3.1, I would like you to know that I do understand your concerns. It's a rather scary experience when all you get are the source files. Some of you might not even know what the heck source files are. Fortunately, the hackers at KDE did think of this and provided a very easy way to upgrade KDE. Ever heard of Red-Carpet from ximian? Well, it's almost that easy. There is a file called Konstruct downloaded at http://konsole.kde.org/konstruct/ (I'm not a html wiz when it comes to these forums, sorry) which makes ALL your problems go away. Download this file and go to the appropriate directory. I went to meta/everything (it's all explained in the text) and did a "make install". Downloads and compiles all the necacassary files for you! The only catch to all this is for you to have all the requirements to uncompress files and such. I'm pretty sure that all distros have all the necassary files.

Also, before I forget, you do need to modify a new environment variables.

in /etc/profile
just copy exactly what is shown in the instruction page at http://konsole.kde.org/konstruct/. Any questions, feel free to ask.

The problem with source is the fact that it does nothing for your package management system. But its a nice solution for someone running maybe Slack.

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Jero
For those of you who are scared to install Kde 3.1, I would like you to know that I do understand your concerns. It's a rather scary experience when all you get are the source files. Some of you might not even know what the heck source files are. Fortunately, the hackers at KDE did think of this and provided a very easy way to upgrade KDE. Ever heard of Red-Carpet from ximian? Well, it's almost that easy. There is a file called Konstruct downloaded at http://konsole.kde.org/konstruct/ (I'm not a html wiz when it comes to these forums, sorry) which makes ALL your problems go away. Download this file and go to the appropriate directory. I went to meta/everything (it's all explained in the text) and did a "make install". Downloads and compiles all the necacassary files for you! The only catch to all this is for you to have all the requirements to uncompress files and such. I'm pretty sure that all distros have all the necassary files.

Also, before I forget, you do need to modify a new environment variables.

in /etc/profile
just copy exactly what is shown in the instruction page at http://konsole.kde.org/konstruct/. Any questions, feel free to ask.

The problem with source is the fact that it does nothing for your package management system. But its a nice solution for someone running maybe Slack.

With all due respect, I'm running Mandrake on my system. They did not provide binaries for it on the kde site. So I'm "stuck" with the source, although I don't mind that.

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: ergeorge

Originally posted by: Sunner

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Maybe Ill have time to upgrade today...

nm, it doesnt appear to be in up2date...

Considdering Redhat doesn't dig KDE much, that should hardly come as a surprise.

Yea, I'm about ready to drop RedHat, in part because of the way the kludge up KDE.
3.1 looks pretty cool ... try this link for a good description of the changes: KDE 3.1 Features

I've been having some issues with my RedHat system @ home lately, so I'm gonna bite the bullet & try debian ... downloading it now via jigdo
Any tips ... I've been running RedHat since 5.2, hard to give it up.

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: ergeorge

Originally posted by: ergeorge

Originally posted by: Sunner

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Maybe Ill have time to upgrade today...

nm, it doesnt appear to be in up2date...

Considdering Redhat doesn't dig KDE much, that should hardly come as a surprise.

Yea, I'm about ready to drop RedHat, in part because of the way the kludge up KDE.
3.1 looks pretty cool ... try this link for a good description of the changes: KDE 3.1 Features

I've been having some issues with my RedHat system @ home lately, so I'm gonna bite the bullet & try debian ... downloading it now via jigdo
Any tips ... I've been running RedHat since 5.2, hard to give it up.

Every distribution has it's pros and cons. I personnally only gone to Redhat when mandrake screwed up so bad in one of their versions I deemed it unusuable for my needs. Thankfully, that hasn't happened lately and I'm a happy Mandrake lover.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Jero

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Jero
For those of you who are scared to install Kde 3.1, I would like you to know that I do understand your concerns. It's a rather scary experience when all you get are the source files. Some of you might not even know what the heck source files are. Fortunately, the hackers at KDE did think of this and provided a very easy way to upgrade KDE. Ever heard of Red-Carpet from ximian? Well, it's almost that easy. There is a file called Konstruct downloaded at http://konsole.kde.org/konstruct/ (I'm not a html wiz when it comes to these forums, sorry) which makes ALL your problems go away. Download this file and go to the appropriate directory. I went to meta/everything (it's all explained in the text) and did a "make install". Downloads and compiles all the necacassary files for you! The only catch to all this is for you to have all the requirements to uncompress files and such. I'm pretty sure that all distros have all the necassary files.

Also, before I forget, you do need to modify a new environment variables.

in /etc/profile
just copy exactly what is shown in the instruction page at http://konsole.kde.org/konstruct/. Any questions, feel free to ask.

The problem with source is the fact that it does nothing for your package management system. But its a nice solution for someone running maybe Slack.

With all due respect, I'm running Mandrake on my system. They did not provide binaries for it on the kde site. So I'm "stuck" with the source, although I don't mind that.

No need for the respect comment, I didnt mean anything and I didnt think you would either. Ill probably be looking for RH 7.3 binaries at some point and if I cant find them, and decide I want KDE 3.1 Ill be building from source and will definitely owe you some thanks for the heads up