Re: Who does still use the kde 4.0 series?

faq
flatforty
contribute
subscribe
configure
search
rdf

main
parent
thread

Re: Who does still use the kde 4.0 series?
by chris on Thursday 08/May/2008, @22:28

My last install of kubuntu (7.04, which upgraded to 7.10) with kde3 started getting buggy, so I searched all over trying to look for a stable and fast kde based OS ... then I saw 4.0.

I tried Arch, but they've got something broken with 64bit version and then I tried OpenSUSE, but something about the install taking 6 hours to run (downloading the net version) made me suspicious... then just trying to search for packages took over a minute to open.

So back to *buntu land because I don't have time to learn a new OS and the others had too steep of a learning curve (and if paying $59 for OpenSUSE, I expect better than 100kb/sec downloads from update servers).

I installed ubuntu 8.04 alternate then used aptitude to install kde4-desktop. I'm *very* happy with what I have. I'm tolerant of plasma being new and temporarily annoying (as well as the "hard coding" here and there), but I am looking forward to really learning this environment and growing with it.

FWIW, I learned more about aptitude with this recent exploration into KDE4 ... imho, aptitude is THE way to install packages ... apt-get and/or the update manager would allow an upgrade right now even though kdelibs5 v 4.0.4 is not in the repositories. Aptitude has something like 100 packages marked as being held back and are waiting on that dependency to run the update.

Now to learn more about how the containers work, how plasma works, and sizing... I need to figure out my issue of the plasma container being laptop screen size while the full desktop is the screen size of the attached monitor. (not trying dual head mode). I'll hack/tweak around it, but this seems to be a bad bug in the interim. I would also appreciate a private e-mail with some tutorial on how to create a "bug entry", too!

I envision creating my own "container" or widget that I can drop other widgets into (but without borders) as a taskbar replacement. Instead I want a task "blob" in a corner. I may even work out playing with the plasma container some more. I've got a lot to learn about KDE before I can decide how to go about that...

:)

In short: I've used KDE3 for over a year and I'm now going to use KDE4 full time.

Thanks
Chris

Related Links

·   Articles on KDE Official News
·   Also by chris
·   Contact author

The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whomever posted them.
( Reply )


		"Feature freeze: You're allowed to add new bugs, but no new features." -- Richard J. Moore
KDE®, "K Desktop Environment", "KDE Dot News", "got the dot?" and the KDE Logo® are trademarks or registered trademarks of KDE e.V. in the European Union, the United States and other countries. All other trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners. Comments are owned by the poster. The rest: Copyright © 2000-2008 KDE e.V. for The KDE Project. For further information or comments on this site, please contact the Webmaster.