On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 22:50:00 +0530 Jay Mistry <jaylinux53@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan > <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 09:46 -0600, Ian Pilcher wrote: > >> Kevin Kofler wrote: > >> > You'll have to just get used to KDE 4. > >> > >> No he won't, unless he chooses to. There are lots of alternatives > >> out there -- GNOME and XFCE on Fedora, other distributions, even > >> other operating systems. > >> > >> Believe it or not, KDE 4 (including 4.2) simply doesn't work well > >> for some people. As just one example, right-clicking on the > >> desktop in my second display causes the pop-up menu to appear on > >> the first display. Are you seriously claiming that's acceptable > >> for day-to-day productive use? > > Currently I use KDE 3.5 in openSUSE 11.1. I wanted to try out Fedora > 10 (to add on to oS 11.1), but am not sure whether to proceed, as the > KDE 4.2 (new install/upgrade) crashed in openSUSE 11.1. Nearly as soon > as I logged in, there was an error msg saying 'The Plasma Desktop has > crashed' and all desktop icons disappeared & on trying to Login with > KDE 4.2, there is an Error Message 'Could not start kdeinit4. Check > your installation'. > > openSUSE has other Desktops that can also be installed & so I am > presently using GNOME and KDE 3.5 in oS 11.1. > > Jay > > Jay: A much better view of the state of KDE 4.2 in Fedora 10 can be had if you download the Live (and install) CD prepared by the Fedora-KDE group: http://rdieter.fedorapeople.org/torrents/ (You want the 4.2.0.1 torrent.) AIUI, it's pretty much up-to-date with the latest and greatest KDE stuff. I installed it on a spare partition just after Christmas so that I could play around with it, and I'm very much impressed with the progress that has been made since the original 4.0 KDE came out last year. -- cmg -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
