Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 22:50:40 +0100 From: Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Lars Jonas Olsson <ljo@mcs.net>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: KDE port comments Message-ID: <19980227225040.18359@mi.uni-koeln.de> In-Reply-To: <199802261422.IAA27986@Jupiter.Mcs.Net>; from Lars Jonas Olsson on Thu, Feb 26, 1998 at 08:22:55AM -0600 References: <199802261422.IAA27986@Jupiter.Mcs.Net>
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On 1998-02-26 08:22 -0600, Lars Jonas Olsson <ljo@mcs.net> wrote: > I've been testing the KDE port and found these problems: Thanks for your comments! > 1. Requires kernel with SYSVMSG. Withot this kdehelp was core dumping. Never noticed this, since my kernel contains that option. There should be some kind of warning, if no SysV message support is available, not a core dump. You may want to open a KDE defect (lack of error checking). > 2. Screen saver unlocking doesn't work. (System has no DES installed). Because of the shadow password support in FreeBSD, the screen lock program can't get at your encrypted password unless it is running as root. I'm do not want this program to be SUID root. You may want to move your encrypted password to /etc/passwd, if you don't mind it being readable to everybody, there. > 3. It required a /usr/bin/X11 link. This seems to be in xdm/kdm. I have not yet tested kdm. Will do so when I've got all the Beta3 parts into the ports tree. > 4. It wasn't obviuos how to start it. There are no kde man pages, > though kdehelp is good after you find it and get it working. Yes, this is a problem with KDE, indeed. They use only their help files for documentation purposes. We should at least have a kde(1) man page to get people started. Anybody going to write one ? > I found the kdescript and made a .xsession out of it. Perhaps > kde should install new /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm files so that each > user doesn't need to do this? Or perhaps kdmcontrol should do this? Not sure about this. KDE is still Beta, and I do not think it is suitable for a "naive" user. Regards, STefan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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