KDE 3.2 review

[Jerry McBride]

On Friday 16 January 2004 12:49 pm, Aaron Grewell wrote:
> > I don't doubt the speed improvements, but I've read a number of reports
> > that the beta still crashes a lot.  True?
>
> More than 3.1.4, but not enough to keep me from using it.  Beta1 was
> totally unusable for me due to stability issues, but 2 is much better in
> that regard. 


"Over here"... beta one was a bit of a hassle to compile. However beta 2 has 
been a dream. It compiled from start to finish with zero problems. Even 
better then 3.1.5....

Yes, it's much faster. The speed of the beast out weighs any problems it 
currently manifests. Which brings up the bugs I've turned up... Sound support 
is a mysterious thing in this KDE version. For the most part, it works. 
However, on odd occasions, when playing system notifications... the sound 
will start loud, very loud, and then fade to normal levels before it 
finishes. Really odd... it's like someone is sliding the volume bar.

As for supporting "legacy apps"... XMMS will no longer work with the new ARTS 
sound package. Hopefully, there will be a new release of the xmms-arts driver 
package to fix this someday.

That said, it's really worth looking into.









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