It's the little things (KDE 3.2.1)

Friday, 12 March 2004  |  Ibrado

I upgraded to KDE 3.2.1 when the RPMS appeared on kde-redhat's repositories. It seems snappier, and a lot of my pet peeves with 3.2 have disappeared. Here are some notes... some may be kde-redhat specific, or may actually have already been in 3.2.

  • Apparently, the KHTML developers must be reading MegaTokyo after all -- the huge empty space after the strip has finally disappeared.
  • KCalc accepts pasted values again. I wonder how such a basic function could go sour...
  • The workaround to bug #75201 (one of my reports) has been incorporated -- no more Cervisia KPart crashes so far.
  • Umbrello seems a lot more stable, though I'll probably keep using the CVS version for now.
  • KMail really rocks. One "little thing" I especially like is the message count feedback when expiring messages.

On the other hand,

  • ExeCompletion on KURLRequester/KURLCompletion (bug #77169) still has problems, showing directories instead of apps.
  • kget got horribly broken, crashing and hanging like never before. Apparently this is related to Qt 3.3. Thankfully, I checked out the CVS code and it's fixed now.

Since this is my very first post on kdedevelopers.org, I'd like to invite everyone using Bluetooth to check out the KDE Bluetooth Framework Project on KEG-3. If you have a UIQ or Series 60 phone, you'll find kbemusedsrv rather useful for controlling your PC (Noatun, XMMS, generic scripts, with more to come).

BTW, since I now maintain the main Bemused codebase as well, new features will probably be tested first on the KDE server. :)