KDE 3.3 RC2 Uploaded

zerojay · Veteran Joined: 09 Aug 2003 Posts: 1033

The KDE project just released KDE 3.3 RC2 to their mirrors. Get 'em while they're hot.

andrew_j_w · Guru Joined: 28 Jun 2003 Posts: 534 Location: York, UK

I really need to get a quicker computer... I start compiling as soon as they release, and just after I've finished they release a new version!

Damn them!

:lol:

himpierre · l33t Joined: 31 Aug 2002 Posts: 867 Location: Berlin

Tell me about it. :-)

Sun Aug 8 06:02:46 2004 >>> kde-base/kdebase-3.3.0_rc1
merge time: 4 hours, 36 minutes and 6 seconds.

cheers
T.

Trejkaz · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 2:34 pm Post subject:

More importantly, we need ebuilds for RC2. We don't even have them for all of RC1 yet! ;-)

Sigh.

If only it were just a matter of copying all the _beta2 files to _rc2 files. But unfortunately those ebuilds have a lot more trash in the directories. :-/

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andrew_j_w · Guru Joined: 28 Jun 2003 Posts: 534 Location: York, UK

We do have them for rc1. They're just hard masked, that's all.

I doubt that the rc2 ebuilds will take too long to appear...

Andrew

Trejkaz · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 2:40 pm Post subject:

yngwin · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 3:53 pm Post subject:

Okay, I made some. No guarantee that they work... And missing a few that I don't use anyway. But I thought I'd share:
http://www.stijlstek.nl/os/linux/gentoo/ebuilds/kde-base/
You may want to edit the kde "meta" build and digest that. I'm compiling as we speak.
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fourwood · Apprentice Joined: 17 May 2003 Posts: 197

Does anybody know what the show-stopper bugs were in RC1?

Edit: Looks like ebuilds are in portage now.

firephoto · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 5:26 pm Post subject:

The problems I ran into with rc1 were the copy and paste in konqueror wasn't working sometimes, couldn't highlight, could only highlight parts of a line, highlight wouldn't stick with mouse, etc. Kde multimedia emerged ok and all the programs were there, they just didn't have a connection to ANY sounds server or device so you I didn't get any sound out of them. I ended up going back to the beta2 build. (kde mirrors are getting hammered as I type this trying to dowload kdelibs

) Kget wouldn't start from konqueror when you were trying to save something. It also just closed twice when trying to download a 200+mb service pack file.

Well I'm trying to fetch some files and then start the emerge, I like the look the final is going to have, great work KDE team!

rfujimoto · Apprentice Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 195

I just sync'd and the files are there as well.

I ran into a lot of problems like firephoto did with copy/paste and highlighting stuff. Hopefully it's fixed.

firephoto · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 8:15 pm Post subject:

I tried to install tunepimp the other day but didn't have any luck? Has anyone else tried or had any luck with these working with the new juk?

caleb · Developer Joined: 02 Jun 2003 Posts: 404

I just added the tunepimp ebuild to portage in media-libs. it will need some testing first, but it will eventually become a dep of kdemultimedia.

Also, anyone who wants to see the types of ebuild changes we been making can view a lot of it at bug #58640.

firephoto · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 10:12 pm Post subject:

Tunepimp won't compile here.

caleb · Developer Joined: 02 Jun 2003 Posts: 404

Just added a patch to tunepimp to make it compile.

firephoto · Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 2:12 am Post subject:

Tunepimp emerged with Caleb's patch, re-emerged kdemultimedia, guess tag from internet works great in juk!

Also unsermake has been working with all the packages I've updated so far.

xrx · n00b Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 2 Location: Belgium

is it just me, or does arts have some problems in this version? i compiled rc2 without any problems, but when i try to play a song with a program that use arts, nothing happens.

I had this problem with rc1 also, not with the beta's
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yardbird · l33t Joined: 20 Apr 2002 Posts: 689 Location: nl.leiden

Running arts, base and libs from RC2 here. Compiled with unsermake and gcc-3.4.1-r2, everything went OK. The annoying bugs of RC1 seem to have vanished.

Kudos to the KDE devs and Caleb

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nuzzy · Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 12:28 pm Post subject:

sorry for my ignorance, but do you have to manually grab the RC2 ebuilds or is there a way to have them show up via an "emerge -s"?

andrew_j_w · Guru Joined: 28 Jun 2003 Posts: 534 Location: York, UK

The ebuilds are currently hard masked, so you need to unmask them. Search for the file /etc/portage/packages.unmask.

HTH,
Andrew

teutzz · Guru Joined: 22 Apr 2004 Posts: 333 Location: .ro

you have to manually unmask them in /etc/portage/package.unmask
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Paulten · Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 12:54 pm Post subject:

Can't wait to try all the new things !
http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/kde-3.3-features.html
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Strunzdesign · Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 1:36 pm Post subject:

I can't start KDE's sound applications any more.
Amarok freezes, Juk, Noatun etc. lock up.
Seems to be a problem with alsa...?

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60053

Anyone else?

Florian

zerojay · Veteran Joined: 09 Aug 2003 Posts: 1033

Having not touched the betas or previous release candidate, I'm quite impressed with what changes have been made to kdelibs and kdebase (the only parts I have compiled at the moment).

It's amazing how much a new sound scheme - a well done sound scheme - and new ksplash default makes things just feel that much better, even professional. I like a lot of the small little changes implemented like when running Konqueror in file browser mode, you now have Change Background in the View menu instead of Background Image and Background Color as separate menu items. The new theme manager was worth the wait. The UI concerning the anti-aliasing of fonts was changed a bit for the better. Device Icons has always been a hit or miss proposition for me and at the moment, it's a miss as it doesn't seem to be bringing up any icons for any of my checked devices. The Configure Panels window was changed around slightly for people using multiple panels to get rid of the vertically large panels list and now gives you a dropdown menu for selecting the panel to be configured. Konqueror Profiles is now an optional submenu of the K Menu. Panel background images can now be colorized to match the current color theme. A new Window-Specific Settings configuration was added but it's quite daunting and intimidating at the moment. KDE automatically picked up the path to my Java binaries without having to manually set it as usual. Some of the tabbed browsing options were moved around a bit more. Open Popups in new tab instead of new window is a new option, I believe.

The component chooser now has added options for selecting your default instant messenger and web browser. For some reason, my default File Manager text color was white, which isn't a good idea when the default Konqueror file manager background is kde4ever, which is mostly white and light shades. The session manager now allows you to select if shutdown options should be available to you when you attempt to logout.

A new joystick module was added which allows you to see if your joystick is working properly complete with crosshairs showing you what values are being reported for each input. Password & User Account now allow you fill in additional user information as well as select an icon (I believe for KDM). It also allows you to select how many characters are echoed when entering in a password, which used to be in it's own module. You also have the ability to change your password as well.

I believe automatic proxy configuration options were added to the system notifications module. The look of the universal sidebar's changed a bit and now has a new web sidebar option. (Anyone got some good places for sidebars?) I assume the new RSS/newsfeed sidebar is a part of kdenetwork, which I am in the middle of compiling.

Anyways, those are the changes that I've noticed so far. Anyone else find something new or changed for the better?

EDIT: Ars Technica now renders perfectly again in Konqueror. Control Center menu item moved out of the Settings menu and now sits in the root of the K Menu by default. Option of being asked which bookmark folder to store a new bookmark in. Spell checking, another hit or miss option for me, is currently not working.