Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:25:24 +0000 From: Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is KDE 4.4.5 on FreeBSD 8.1 this bad? Message-ID: <20100731232524.GA97254@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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Unga complained: > behaviour of KDE is surprisingly poor I have installed a fresh FreeBSD-8.1 and a fresh kde4 from the 8.1 cdrom, and i see none of your problems. For me KDE4 works perfectly OK, i am even surprised. Of course making X to run was an exercise in pain, i had to enable HAL and DBUS otherwise keyboard and mouse were not recognized, the data in the xorg.conf were not obeyed, etc. but this was to be expected. The only problem i have now is that i have seen no way to configure the kdm greeter so that the french keyboard is recognized as french, which is inconvenient to type the passwd. But as soon as kde itself starts, everything is OK. An other problem i have seen, diablo-jdk doesn't work for me, i have been obliged to recompile jdk-1.6 starting from an openjdk-1.6 bootstrap. Strangely firefox3 doesn't see the plugin, but seamonkey sees it fine and konqueror also works fine with java. Firefox3 also chokes on Google maps while seamonkey and konqueror work ok. There are obviously javascript problems. Finally i have installed flash10 with the pluginwrapper, and it works wonderfully fine in seamonkey and firefox3, including sound, fullscreen images, etc. But konqueror doesn't work with Flash, for an unknown reason. Hence seamonkey is the only browser which allows me to look at google maps with street view. To summarize, i am extremely happy with the performance of the machine under FreeBSD-8.1, and things which were big problems, like Flash, are now well controlled. Firefox3 is very crappy, only usable for most basic browsing. Seamonkey works perfectly fine for everything i have tried. Konqueror has regressions from KDE 3, but in general KDE4 is nicer than KDE3. Of course icons on the dektop work to launch programs. -- Michel TALON
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