I have given a few people access to KDE v2 beta. I call this beta, because it is not final release, and I am looking to make this a solid release.

1) problem that can not be fixed in this version of KDE is there is no GIF support. scream yell, whatever, its the same as the old version, no GIF support. I looked into fixing this and it will require a recompile of QT, KDELIBS, and KDEBASE.

Maybe 3.5.8 or 4.x will have GIF support but for now, this is all we got. My original scratchbox with KDE was fdisked away by accident. UG!!

Fixed or added from OLD KDE tarball

Printing Support is working great, from KDE you can print PDF, webpages, pictures, and loads of others.

GQView
KVIRC
SMPLAYER
SYLPHEED
VNC (Viewer and Server, viewer supports fullscreen scaling)
XRDP (Connect to VNC on tablet using RDP(remote desktop))
KVKBD .3 (KDE Virtual keyboard)
kblogger plugin for panel (someone will have to let me know if this works or is usefull) Added for all my blogger friends
Added script to start hildon, after KDE logout is complete

Fixing or Adding to BETA

KVKBD 4.6 (updated KDE virtual keyboard)

Kopete TTS plugin, allows IM's to be spoken using flite (pretty cool)
(Konqueor also will speak the webpage to you, this is not new)

Abiword 2.2.3 (Its old but you can make docs and print docs with pictures)

GENTUBE, its a small program using kdialog and downloads youtube videos, saves them to a directory and plays them with smplayer) Took a little script modification but it plays them great, I did not know mplayer could handle youtube videos. It won't stream them though, so you have to wait for the download to finsh before watching the video. Also it allows you to specify the name of the video to save it as.
(also /bin/bash 3.2) needed for GENTUBE

So whats this thread for. If you are currently BETA testing KDE v2, please post questions or comments here.

I am still looking for a couple more testers, so PM if your interested in helping out. Hopefully we can put out one solid tarball that will work on 770 and 800...


feel free to put your two cents in

UNLESS YOU JUST WANT TO TELL ME YOU DONT NEED/LIKE/WANT KDE, THEN JUST KEEP IT TO YOUR SELF, OR ANOTHER THREAD PLEASE!!

I NEED/LIKE/WANT KDE on my N800!!!

I got an idea, what about you further challenge yourself.... and work on porting KDE 4.0 (Beta 3 just came out i think) to the tablet...

I just want to commend you buddy for all your hard work. Great job thus far, and keep up the good work for the future

It worked well, for a moment... Then I must have corrupted the card with something I was doing... *cough* (It wasn't KDE)

I now need to re-clone the OS and everything... again. -__-' But! I liked this one, it felt different... I don't really know, but it just ran smoother (after I gave it a bit of swap on the root of the card) than your V1.

I actually began laughing like a madman when I printed from it ^_^

You need to release this soon, my friend, briliiant work.

Thanks Aisu, I am really linking it also, I sent you a link to the latest version, try that one if your reinstalling.

But changes still pending


1) Thanks to Todor Gyumyushev who makes kvkbd

http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show...?content=56019

Changelog:
0.4.7 - new button to popup the dockmenu, helping users without right click. Store/Restore position of the keyboard on screen.

Other changes may follow...

God I love cool developers!!!!!

2) I have made some scripting to download a 3.5MB tarball containing roughly 15 pictures of missing children from

http://www.missingkids.com/missingki...eCountry=en_US

Not sure where I will host the tarball yet, still playing.

Using the tarball the 4th desktop will change its background every 30 minutes to rotate through the missing children.

People will be able to change the wallpaper and turn it off, and I am thinking updates would be done manually.

I know some people will say why did you include that, but its something I wanted to include, and its only using about 3.5mb of extra space. If one person found one missing kid, because they saw their face on a tablet, it would be worth the 3.5MB

To be fair to penguin, I don't think anyone's even attempted to compile KDE 4 for ARM yet, so it's quite possible that there would be compilation problems like crazy.

Well as I stated before (elsewhere) I would take a look at KDE 4 when it came out of BETA. I have enough problems getting stable code to compile

I may look at 3.5.8, but for now, I just want to finish up 356v2 and its really coming along nicely.

And apart from KDE4 there is QT4 and dozens of backends and libs. On the other hand they said KDE 4 would be lighter than 3. So I think apart from being cool just to have 4.0 it would be more usable too. Would investigate when I have more spare time for free projects.

Yes and there is plenty of QT4 projects to play with out there, but until KDE 4 is out of beta, I am not going to waste my time.

This is the log of my first run of KDE (N800; OS2007 with latest kernel, but everything else is from the initial Skype-enabled release):

- Installed (erm... untarred actually) very smoothly
- Started OK... some minor hiccups due to speed, but that is to be expected (can't wait to try KDE on OS2008 )
- Default theme wastes too much space in the border and title areas, but that is no biggie
- Certain programs (read: AbiWord) are not fully "in theme": the menus of AbiWord appear very hildonized-looking, and the icons and menus are waaay too large -- couldn't find a way of changing this
- Played around a bit, couldn't find any other major problems
- Logged out OK
- Couldn't start "Configure printing" from the Hildon menu

I will not penalize you on the AbiWord problems ... but what's up with the printing link not working?