From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 27 15:31:35 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AE581698 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:31:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6BD701432 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:31:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W7o9s-00034M-Hy for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:31:32 +0100 Received: from kontrol.kode5.net ([80.229.5.32]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:31:32 +0100 Received: from jmzgriffin by kontrol.kode5.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:31:32 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: James Griffin Subject: Re: KDE4 pkg Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:31:06 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: kontrol.kode5.net User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (FreeBSD) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:31:35 -0000 On 2014-01-27, Fred Morcos wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:59 PM, James Griffin wrote: > >> I know this a bit cheesy/arse-licky but, having installed the kde4 >> desktop -- and expecting to encounter many problems -- i'd just like to >> say how impressed I am with it. >> >> Everything works brilliantly and for the first time in ages I can use >> all of my hardware without issues; webcam, printers, it's great. >> >> So thanks to the people working on this. A really fantastic job I think. >> >> Cheers, Jamie > Nice to hear that. Never been a KDE user myself though. I am curious about > your hardware, could you elaborate more about that? Is it a laptop or a > desktop? What kind of webcam? How is network management in KDE+FreeBSD > without NetworkManager? (not that I like NetworkManager particularly, but > are there specific KDE tools for network management on FreeBSD?) I use a desktop. It's a Lenovo Think Centre, bought it about 3 years ago. Very standard machine: Dual-Core Pentium processor, Intel Chipset, Logitech webcam, canon iP4700 printer (cups+gutenprint driver). I haven't needed to do anything with the network configuration. It was configured automatically and has been fine. A brief look at what's installed shows no particular network management tools to speak off, although there may well be other pkg's one can install for that. As you would expect I had to set up devd but that is simple and fast to do.