The KDE Project have announced the immediate release of KDE 3.0beta2, the third pre-release of the third generation of KDE's free, powerful, easy-to-use, Internet-enabled desktop for Linux and other UNIXes.
"Beta2 has come a long way since beta1", explained Dirk Mueller, the KDE 3 release coordinator. "At this juncture a lot of user testing would be very beneficial, as a large group of KDE developers are meeting for a week at the end of February in Nrnberg, Germany to ready the KDE 3.0 final release. In addition, this release provides one of the last great opportunities for developers to port KDE 2 applications to KDE 3 prior to the final release.
We're especially interested in feedback about the support for right-to-left languages and about the new KDE 3 features. For developers, now is a great time to complete porting your applications to KDE 3, or to pitch in and help implement the still-incomplete planned features."
The primary goals of the 3.0beta2 release are to:- enlist volunteers to help find elusive and platform-specific bugs, and to provide constructive feedback through the KDE bugs database prior to the developer meeting later this month.
Please check the list of known bugs first before opening a new problem report!
- provide a stable API so developers can complete porting their KDE 2 applications to KDE 3
- provide a consistent snapshot for the translation teams (this release already provides some support for 46 languages).
For more info see kde.org.
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