Anyone tried out KDE 4 yet?

by **gries818** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 9:59 pm

The newest update of the K Desktop Environment for Linux (KDE 4) looks great on paper (or rather the internet). However after I installed it, it leaves a lot to be desired. It's great that they've worked on the icons a bit but they've moved backwords in a lot of ways.

I'll try to get some screenshots up in a few minutes to show how bad it is.

by **gries818** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 10:24 pm

gries818 wrote:I'll try to get some screenshots up in a few minutes to show how bad it is.

Scratch that, installing KDE4 screwed up my system. KDE 3 was good enough for me lol - why did I have to play with fire? HAHA

by **c0ldfyr3** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:46 am

i heard that you can install it on windows, however i cannot find the info on how to do that.

by **gries818** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:04 pm

c0ldfyr3 wrote:i heard that you can install it on windows, however i cannot find the info on how to do that.

Why would I want to screw up Windows with KDE 4??? LOL

It was actually annoying that an upgrade could be so bad but those of you who have had trouble with Vista I'm sure are no stranger with disliking upgrades.

by **c0ldfyr3** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:34 pm

actually i had no problems installing it in Gentoo. but thanks for the help.

by **gries818** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:01 pm

c0ldfyr3 wrote:actually i had no problems installing it in Gentoo. but thanks for the help.

Yeah, it was easy to install in Kubuntu as well. It was the interface I was mostly objecting to.

What do you think? Perhaps I'm just taking this too far.

by **c0ldfyr3** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:12 pm

I like it, however a web server is no place for a UI, so i will be removing it shortly..lol
ahh the fun of the governments telling you your not allowed to work.... I HAVE WAY TO MUCH FREE TIME! lol

by **imnuts** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 4:32 am

c0ldfyr3 wrote:I like it, however a web server is no place for a UI, so i will be removing it shortly..lol
ahh the fun of the governments telling you your not allowed to work.... I HAVE WAY TO MUCH FREE TIME! lol

I actually like having a GUI on my FreeBSD server box, mainly because I like compiling stuff in the terminal so I can scroll back to see a problem much easier. Since I'm never really doing much else with it, and the fact that it isn't a taxed server, the GUI does next to nothing.

by **c0ldfyr3** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 6:43 am

i have a precompiled kernel for this machine.. just the core components to run the hardware, apache php, sql, and samba.

by **Michaels** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 3:30 pm

c0ldfyr3 wrote:i heard that you can install it on windows, however i cannot find the info on how to do that.

not yet, but part of Kde community long time plan

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