Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 12:38:30 -0400 From: Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <200811031138.38016.tabthorpe@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <NBECLJEKGLBKHHFFANMBOEGOCMAA.fbsd1@a1poweruser.com> References: <NBECLJEKGLBKHHFFANMBOEGOCMAA.fbsd1@a1poweruser.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On November 2, 2008 08:01:38 pm FBSD1 wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Chad Perrin > Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2008 12:40 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD? > > > Ok now that you have all let off steam about the off topic of desktop > verses ms/windows lets return the meaning of the original poster. > > > I spent this weekend playing with kde4 as root and had problems with it > not working. > Could not change the displayed time to from 20.00.00 to 8:00PM > When I changed the resolution from the default to 800x600 and the refresh > rate to 60.0 many of the applications did not auto fit to the new setting > and the change would not carry over between logons. > Some times the desktop just froze up and had to do alt-ctrl-backspace to > force return to command line. > When I changed the font type and size to use, the change would not carry > over between logons. > Could not find a way to remove items from the menu. > Some icons would not display at all. > Koffice was missing. > Not all the application use the new window format which has the option to > return to menu that launched it. Only has x out to return to desktop > screen. > > Bottom line is imho kde4 is not stable, is not ready for general use. Needs > more development and testing. Should only be contained in the development > ports category. > > I submit to the court of pulic opinion that KDE4 *IS* stable on FreeBSD. I would encourage you to check out the following resources http://freebsd.kde.org http://wiki.freebsd.org/KDE4 Certainly, if my word is not good enough, the nice folks over at PC-BSD, http://www.pcbsd.org, sure have bundled up a nice package based on FreeBSD 7 and KDE4. Thomas - -- Thomas Abthorpe | FreeBSD Committer tabthorpe@FreeBSD.org | http://people.freebsd.org/~tabthorpe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkkPKQ0ACgkQ5Gm/jNBp8qDLVQCdFw1phHPuvEn4bCaScIKzQfXs OY0AnAzXFKTql/rM/uPFIcmKVqutv8zE =X40c -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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