Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 23:53:41 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Jorge Biquez <jbiquez@intranet.com.mx> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GUI Suggested? Message-ID: <AANLkTimEq00LmYBfWAiF4CjF1tbgahFOdfCYi=9jzxYX@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3368057398-783131724@intranet.com.mx> References: <3368057398-783131724@intranet.com.mx>
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On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Jorge Biquez <jbiquez@intranet.com.mx>wrote: > Hello all. > > In all these years I have been working with FreeBSd under terminal/shell > mode. Since all my needs to solve have been solved that way I have never > tried any graphical interface. > > I was wondering if you can tell suggest me based on yoru experience on what > path to follow? KDE? any other? > > I would like to test what you suggest is the best for you and if possible > that it is not TOO complicated to setup. The idea is to use it as my desktop > plattfor (documents, browser, email, etc) > As stated before, it's really a personal matter. I like kde4 a lot, especially konsole and konqueror. konsole seems to have a great blend of features(monitor for activity, etc.) and integration with other KDE apps as a snap-in. Basically things like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCL_6YNgc8w make it a breeze to keep separate groups for each item your working on. Konqueror runs firefox plugins, and supports the fish protocol which I occasionally find useful. It's also lighter and faster than KDE3. It's pretty stable too, but not completely so. Once in awhile a KDE4 will get hung like krdc and I'll have to restart rather than track down the issue. I guess I reboot my desktop on average once a month due to things like that so it's acceptable for me. You can use the handbook method of installing KDE4(which is much, much faster) or my method of installing: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-ports@freebsd.org/msg25856.html Looking at my old post again, I notice I didn't include kde4 in the build. That would be this: portmaster --no-confirm -d /usr/ports/x11/kde4 #you make wish to add --no-confirm to the other portmaster commands as it's behaviour has changed. So it's not too hard to get it on your system. -- Adam Vande More
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