Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 18:57:58 +0200 (MESZ) From: Rainer M Duffner <Rainer.Duffner@konstanz.netsurf.de> To: Ben Cohen <bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk> Cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KDE Message-ID: <Marcel-1.42-0422165758-0b0Zsav@duffner.konstanz.netsurf.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.980422173448.4729D-100000@red.csi.cam.ac.uk>
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On Wed 22 Apr, Ben Cohen wrote: > > Has anyone heard of KDE? (K Desktop Environment) Yes. Best thing since Bill got a pie-tart in his face ;-) > http://www.kde.org/ > > (This page says that it works under FreeBSD.) > > Is it any good? Is it worth installing? Depends on wether you like Win98 or not. It acts as a kind of ActiveDesktop in a way that you can use your file-manager as HTML-browser, too. But you've probably already heared that. > Is it easy to install? Reasonably. I didn't have too many problems, but it is said that it may depend on the X-source being available on the machine. It's in the ports-current directory, BTW..... > Are there alternatives? Always. Afterstep is quite nice, too. twm is good for gfx-cards with little RAM, as it uses-up only very little colours. cheers, Rainer -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |Rainer Duffner, E-Mail: duffner@fh-konstanz.de | | & Rainer.Duffner@konstanz.netsurf.de | |Fachhochschule Konstanz, Germany | |"What's a Network ?" - Bill Gates, early 1980s | | WWW:http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~duffner | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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