From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 1 10:58:08 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA28590 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 10:58:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.wxs.nl (smtp03.wxs.nl [195.121.6.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA28548 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 10:57:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.56.152]) by smtp03.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA474; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 19:57:47 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990201001046.00cc8ec0@mail.lariat.org> Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 20:06:40 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Lets Endorse KDE Was: some slashdot thread Cc: cpiazza@home.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Terry Lambert , "Jason C. Wells" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 01-Feb-99 Brett Glass wrote: > At 07:38 AM 2/1/99 +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: >>Seriously: this might be a good thing to try... You doing it Brett? Else >>I am going to mail... > > I don't know the KDE team, nor am I very familiar with KDE (though I > hear it's good). Folks who are better acquainted with these things should > probably be the ones to contact them. Yeah well, who may that be? I myself am busy with GTk+ and Gnome stuff, but I would be happy to start to try to get KDE up and running without too much patches and provide feedback to them as well as get them interested for `our goal' so to speak. (Yeah, ports has KDE, I prefer the old-fashion way at times though) So if nobody steps forward in the next week (this week) to proclaim to be the KDE-meister then I am going to poke the KDE developers awake... > They'll probably be delighted to find a group that WELCOMES their > work. And if TPTB are willing to make it the default desktop, they > would feel right at home. TPTB? The Powers That Be? If so, what does Core have to say about this? I reckon that what you call `default desktop' will be an option in sysinstall and not a automatic thing that gets installed when X gets installed ;) --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven It's a Dance of Energy, asmodai(at)wxs.nl when the Mind goes Binary... Network/Security Specialist *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message