Hi People, Well, as you know - there are binaries for KDE 3.0 RC3 (For RedHat and others) - so just 4 notes for you if you're planning to install them.
1. If you have previously installed any KDE 3.0 beta or built by yourself (KDE or QT) - you might want to remove the .qt/qtrc file or else you won't be able to use the right CTRL SHIFT keys to force text justification to the right. 2. Thanks to David Faure (the guy who worked hard on Kde Javascript implemtation) you might finally read globes clearly (the site is heavily based on MSIE javascript and no other browser shows it correctly other then Konqueror and MSIE) - I'm not sure if it's on RC3 but it has been fixed 2 days ago. 3. Hebrew on pages - most of the bugs have been fixed thanks to lars, but there are few more of them - if you can - please make test cases so Lars can fix them (Lars, thanks for your great work on Hebrew on KDE 3.0) 4. Hebrew Menus - Menu Livne had done lots of work to localize the menus - if you can, please check it and report bugs to him (the hebrew translations on the binary build is in the "noarch" directory - you'll just need the hebrew RPM) 5. Starting KDE-3 - you might need to change your .xinitrc file to "exec startkde3" or else you'll still get KDE 2.2.x. Both version of KDE (2.x and 3.0rc3) can sit together on the same machine since both of them uses different directories. 6. BACKUP your .kde directory before attempting to switch your main user to kde-3! once you run kde-3 it will convert your kde-2 settings to kde-3 - but it's still an rc3 and problems could happend - and the last thing you want to have is to be left without your settings, bookmarks, filters, wallpapers, etc... so be warned. 7. KMail send-before-receive - if you're using a notebook and you're using KMail, and you need this feature (Marshell, Maxim) - please test it to make sure it works, I have heard many companies in Israel want to use this feature - so please check that it works for you. 8. Reading PDF files - you may want to update to ghostscript 7 - it fixed lots of problems for me. 9. KOffice - works ok with hebrew - but the word importer doesn't import hebrew documents well (at least with my CV the fonts looks gybrish no matter what - even if I replace the fonts) but you can create new documents in hebrew (and kspread) and it works nicely, but koffice is not stable yet. 10. Anti Alias fonts - few notes here (skip it if you like non anti alias fonts): * if you're using it - make sure your windows fonts is in the /etc/X11/XftConfig - or else you'll get only the X true type fonts anti aliased. * If you really want sharp fonts (fonts hinting) - you might want to compile freetype-2.0.9 and modifying the line in "include/freetype/config/ftoption.h" from: #undef TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER to: #define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER That way you'll get fonts hinting enabled and the fonts will look much better. Make sure you read the README.UNX file in the freetype to know where to put the libfreetype.so files - and thats specially goes to Mandrake users who got few of those libfreetype.so files.. * erase .xftcache before you're starting X - so you'll get each font listed twice - one anti aliased and one standard. 11. Due to an unresolved issue with XFree packaging - the default fonts when you're starting KDE is helvetica - since it's unicode and it's the first one which QT grabs - meaning pages in hebrew without proper CSS will look like boxes - so open Konqueror, click on Settings, Konfigure Konqueror, and in the HTML settings - change the fonts to something like Arial. Note: since QT now works Unicode - you won't see fonts setting for each encoding but only 1 fonts settings there. Same thing needs to be done in Kcontrol/Fonts if you want to have everything in KDE supporting fonts (including web pages titles). Final notes: RC3 should be pretty stable - lots of things have been changed and enhanced - my suggestion would be to open another account in your machine and play with KDE-3 rc3. If you feel its good for you, then switch your main user to KDE-3. If not - stay with KDE 2.2.2. Hope you'll enjoy.. Hetz ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
