[mdlug] KDE 4

[David Lane]

I use KDE. I hope that the team keeps in mind that people are on windows because they have it seems, no other choice.

And with the flop of vista I'm surprized that we did not get more migration to Linux KDE or Gnome.

David C. Lane 



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From: Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00 at gmail.com>
To: MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug at mdlug.org>
Sent: Mon, June 28, 2010 11:52:15 PM
Subject: Re: [mdlug] KDE 4

Jim Broughton wrote:
> Progress just for the sake of progress is not progressive. :-)
> It is KDE 4.4.3. Or was. It's gone now. The KDE team will
> have to polish this turd a bit more before I will find it useful.
> I have been a KDE user since version 1.1. Ages ago.
> 
> Now that I have messed with things a bit. I have found that I could
> install the 3.5.10 version of KDE from the Slackware 12.2 version disks on a
> 13.1 install. Provided you delete all of qt4 and kde 4.4.3. Yes it runs
> just beautifully thank you very much. I have not tested all the apps under
> it just the ones I used and they all function as intended.
> HOWEVER this is on a 32bit system with a pentium 4 processor.
>  The 64 bit version of the Slackware 13.1 install I have in testing on my
> Desktop machine will require a rather lengthy compile session with
> the KDE 3.5.10 source code plus a few libraries that KDE4 does not use.
> There is of course a companion 64 Slack alike system made by a separate
> developer maybe his 12.2 64 bit version will install on 13.1.
> Might have to give that a try.
> 

Please keep us informed of the results.

> Jim
> 
> 
> Michael Rudas wrote:
>>  --- Jim Broughton wrote:
>>
>>> I just recently installed Slackware 13.1 and have my second look at
>>> the KDE 4 series desktop. I am appalled at what I see.
>>  What rev level of KDE 4?  Current is 4.4.3 -- earlier versions are
>>  not as polished -- but, frankly, I like KDE 4 just fine and prefer it
>>  over GNOME.  I use it every day, just as I have used every version of
>>  KDE 3 from v3.0 forward.
>>
>>  Is it perfect? No, but I am learning to tweak it to suit my needs.
>>  Progress IS progress, after all.
>>
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