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Re: Disgruntlements
by T. J. Brumfield on Tuesday 06/Nov/2007, @15:58

Arch certainly isn't vanilla KDE. They openly advertise how much they've altered their KDE.

However, Arch and SuSe both offer great KDE experiences. I do recommend them over Kubuntu, where KDE certainly feels second-citizen.

http://kdemod.ath.cx/

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Re: Disgruntlements
by Luke on Wednesday 07/Nov/2007, @06:28

Standard KDE in Arch is as vanilla as it gets (save for a custom default wallpaper and perhaps splash). KDEmod is an alternate KDE installation for Arch users who fancy splitted packages and whatnot. It's all about choice, really.

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Re: Disgruntlements
by Jan on Wednesday 07/Nov/2007, @06:34

Archs standard KDE is completely vanilla, they just added a Wallpaper and a new splashscreen. The only patches applied are bugfixes, thats the philosophy of K.I.S.S. :-)

KDEmod (which is an _unofficial_ Arch _community_ project) has, in contrast, the most patches/extra stuff applied that you will ever see in a KDE distro. I know that, because i am one of the Devs/Packagers :-) We also provide a highly customized theme and are writing new patches on our own etc but, and thats the point, you can remove the theme and disable all extra stuff to get a, lets say, 99% vanilla KDE but with splitted packages...

However, the underlying base (=the distro) is another point, and i can say about me that i will never switch back to another distro - Arch is just perfect in all terms... Its clean and simple, always up to date and very customizable, so you get exactly the system you want without fiddling around for ages... And the biggest point for me is: You can contribute very easily. Making packages is a breeze (hey, we are only 2 people who did a complete splitted KDE in almost no time :-), just try to do that on another distro) and you can share them easily through Archs AUR.

I can just suggest everyone who has some understanding of Linux and dont fears the terminal to try Arch, you will not be disappointed :-) And doing some stuff in a terminal does not mean that it doesnt "just work"...

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Re: Disgruntlements
by T. J. Brumfield on Wednesday 07/Nov/2007, @18:49

Having tried KDEmod via Sabayon, I must say I'm impressed.

I wonder how many of the KDEmod improvements will get ported as patches to KDE 4?

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Re: Disgruntlements
by Jan on Thursday 08/Nov/2007, @03:51

Sabayon? Well, unless you fetched our packages and extracted them manually, you cant have used it on Sabayon :-)

Maybe Sabayon uses the splitted Gentoo KDE packages and you just mixed it up. KDEmod shares some stuff with them in terms of patches (we started with their KIP patchset), but you cant really compare these two... The Gentoo people have splitted KDE completely (every lib etc) where we follow another path and only split things where its useful - we dont split kdebase and kdelibs for example, as its not necessary in our opinion...

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