KDE 3.4.3
KDE 3.4.3 was released recently. As per normal, it’s still marked as unstable. I had been running 3.4.2 since July and encountered absolutely no issues, but in the Gentoo portage tree KDE 3.4.2 is still marked as unstable. It’s too bad since all that delays like this cause is flak and headaches for the package maintainers. I worry that if things like this continue, especially on major packages that Gentoo will lose support. I’ve said it before, what we really need is a place on the web that people can post their success (or lack thereof) with various packages. No not the Gentoo bug tracking site, a place to mostly list sucess. Again, I show FlightGear as an example: FlightGear 0.9.5 for the longest time was the latest stable version in the Gentoo portage tree, despite the fact that 0.9.6, 0.9.7 and 0.9.8 had all been released. That said, at least there are ebuilds for 3.4.2 and, more importantly now, 3.4.3.
I built KDE 3.4.3 on my Gentoo-based laptop over the weekend and am pleased to report that I’ve had no problems with it whatsoever. It’s a very minor release with almost no user-noticeable changes but quite a few bug fixes, also not very noticeable. In fact, the only change I actually noticed with 3.4.3 is that Akregator remembers the ‘status’ drop-down setting when switching between feeds. I’ve been talking with Aaron, who was recently hired per se by TrollTech to work full-time on KDE development, and I’m really looking forward to KDE 3.5 and KDE 4.x ever more so. Just thought I’d point that out.
Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:41 Posted in Linux
