From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 3 16:38:41 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD3E21065687 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 16:38:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tabthorpe@freebsd.org) Received: from rex.goodking.ca (cl-444.chi-02.us.sixxs.net [IPv6:2001:4978:f:1bb::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B4908FC17 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 16:38:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tabthorpe@freebsd.org) Received: from goodking6 (goodking6 [IPv6:2001:4830:1200:117::2]) by rex.goodking.ca (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id mA3Gcdnq015299 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 11:38:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from tabthorpe@freebsd.org) From: Thomas Abthorpe Organization: FreeBSD.GoodKing.Ca To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 12:38:30 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: In-Reply-To: X-Face: /|[9,PbEOB6g>?2^*Sc|"~6:Ro"O>Nv\Rfkv\42g)=?utf-8?q?TuAYG=26+bD=5CpCJTX31s=5Fp=7Bc7=5D5a=2ED=2E=0A=09Y?=@QddKu_I[XB8; euK=^[=L1I#]rgi[0jgz^4qCTwlj]3kJ)]vc}O"HrA14hN)=?utf-8?q?aXewJPTi=7C=0A=09Pt=7BS3=23Vw4x-?="/:& X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (rex.goodking.ca [IPv6:2001:4978:f:1bb::2]); Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:38:40 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:38:41 -0000 -----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-----