[ale] Deep inside the K Desktop Environment 3.2

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Thursday 26 February 2004 06:21 pm, walter Sams wrote:
> When you get the better rebuild figured out let me know, I already see
> that KDE is on the better track than GNOME and I dont get the errors on
> the screen when I boot.

If you like KDE, then I really recommend that you grab the latest kde from
ftp://apt.us.kde-redhat.org/linux/kde-redhat/apt/
I've been using it on RH 9 and it is very nice.

Michael

>
> Thanks
> Walter
>
> On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 12:18, Dow Hurst wrote:
> > I have done that since Gnome got hosed by the glibc broken
> > update via RHN that happened last November.  The KDE under
> > RH is not full KDE or at least not what I am used to.  I've
> > got it working okay, but hope to rebuild to something
> > better.  Mainly I miss the configuration functionality that
> > has been gutted out.  Tabbed shells aren't as nice as under
> > the normal KDE.  It is better to me than a hosed Gnome
> > though. ;-)
> >
> > I believe on the main login window if KDE was installed you
> > get the option there to switch between failsafe, gnome, and KDE.
> > Dow
> >
> > tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:
> > > Walter - Red Hat has a utility _somewhere_ in the menus to switch the
> > > default desktop for the user. Using the utility, change the desktop to
> > > KDE, log out or restart your X session, and the desktop should be
> > > changed. I'm assuming that KDE was installed of course.
> > >
> > > Hope this helps.
> > >
> > > On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, walter Sams wrote:
> > >>Question,  if one is running redhat and gnome desktop, can one just
> > >>remove gnome and put in kde without losing all the setup parameters on
> > >>the system or reinstalling the whole os?  I seem to see many folks here
> > >>and elsewhere liking kde better than gnome and would like to try it.
> > >>
> > >>Thank you
> > >>Walter Sams
> > >>
> > >>On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 20:32, Jim Philips wrote:
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> > >>>On Tuesday 24 February 2004 02:41 pm, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> > >>>>I've been having a gas playing with kde 3.2 the last couple of weeks.
> > >>>>  I heartily recommend an upgrade to anyone using one of the older
> > >>>> versions. If you are a redhat user, the sourceforge redhat/kde
> > >>>> project files work well for me <http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/>.
> > >>>>  They are in the testing tiectories, but have been quite stable for
> > >>>> me.  And they supply rpms for everything since 7.3, which is pretty
> > >>>> cool.
> > >>>
> > >>>This new release offers the best desktop environment I've used on any
> > >>>platform. The biggest problem with KDE at the moment is trying to
> > >>> unpack everything it can do. I can do 90% of what I do on the
> > >>> computer either in Kontact or Konqueror. Konqueror has been vastly
> > >>> improved by the Safari development effort. If it weren't for some
> > >>> Javascript weirdness in it, I would even trash Mozilla. The
> > >>> interactive spell-checking is something no other desktop offers. It's
> > >>> great to have spell-checking when you're filling in forms on Web
> > >>> sites--especially if you're applying for a job! Plus, I got a Google
> > >>> search bar in Konqueror now that I got from a CVS version. And KDE is
> > >>> faster than it used to be too. The Linux experience has never been
> > >>> better for me. And if you don't have Amarok, get it. It's one of the
> > >>> best mp3 players around. It made me dump Xmms.
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