From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Apr 22 10:44:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA29623 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 10:44:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gw1.konstanz.netsurf.de (root@gw1.konstanz.netsurf.de [194.163.242.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA29617 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:44:34 GMT (envelope-from Rainer.Duffner@konstanz.netsurf.de) Received: from duffner.konstanz.netsurf.de (surf70.konstanz.netsurf.de [194.163.242.70]) by gw1.konstanz.netsurf.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA20951; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 19:44:04 +0200 Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 18:57:58 +0200 (MESZ) From: Rainer M Duffner Subject: Re: KDE To: Ben Cohen cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII X-Organization: enigma, http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~enigma X-Mailer: ANT RISCOS Marcel [ver 1.42] Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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