Big up kde developers

Mr tim esquire · #1 13th February 2009, 11:12 PM

just go the updates through with the new oxygen style for KDE 4 and am very impressed
Thanks to all the people working on this - the new widgets are looking great and seems the kde bluetooth is working now aswell
Thank you very much!
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Jake · #2 13th February 2009, 11:45 PM

Yes, I set up KDE on my laptop, (As it was a fresh install of KDE, as it only had gnome.. partly because Fedora 10 was re-installed yesterday from PXE)

Looks Good, I might just make the switch for my laptop to always use KDE, though my Desktop is staying Gnome.

Seems a bit more stable than it previously was.. However, upon first ever running KDE it is not pretty.

#3 14th February 2009, 12:24 AM

im already using KDE4.2 permanently at the moment, i find it looks better than the ugly Gnome right now . i may switch back to Gnome when 3 comes out

Jake · #4 14th February 2009, 12:37 AM

Demz, to be honest, it isn't great in some aspects still.

For example, I enabled desktop affects on the laptop in gnome, no problem, enable them in KDE, the laptop slows down when using them. By that I mean it feels like it wants to lock up.

#5 14th February 2009, 12:42 AM

i barely use compiz anyway so that aspect doesnt bother me Jake. an if i do wanna use compiz i'll give Kwin a twirl, which i haven't really used.

Jake · #6 14th February 2009, 12:47 AM

Not sure if it was compiz, I enabled them from the kde control panel, didn't see the word compiz while doing it though.

#7 14th February 2009, 12:52 AM

you may have been using Kwin Jake?. you do have to enable Desktop Effects in System-Settings though, depends what speed your Laptop is cause i would think KDE4 nowadays would consume a lot of Ram

you may find Gnome3 will take more ram etc to run when its released so i wouldnt be suprised if your laptop lags with Gnome3 to

Jake · #8 14th February 2009, 01:02 AM

Neither would I to be honest Demz, after all it is an oldie (Compaq Presario R3000, Intel 2.80GHz 1.1GB Ram).

Thankfully it only lags when using Desktop affects. Not an issue really, just something I felt like testing

PS: I have no idea which one it is. Probably default. Located here:

System Settings > Desktop

#9 14th February 2009, 01:33 AM

yeah probably it. but im not a big user of Compiz or Kwin so it doesnt bother me to much, i just like the look of KDE4.2 an the feel of it, feels good, ( for me anyway ) but i may say the same for xfce4.6 when i get my hands on it, im not gonna use the Alpha or Beta . i'll wait for the release candidate an install that

Jake · #10 14th February 2009, 01:42 AM

Well, my laptop is now pretty much all KDE, had to leave some gnome behind for NetworkManger... As I ran the command "yum remove *gnome*", and found my self with no Network manager, then checked koji, and unlike ubuntu, debian, we have no NetworkManager-KDE. Typical.

But yup, GDM is gone, and most of gnome. Though I'm going to miss Firefox, as it's always been my favourite. Though guess Konquer will do. Gonna try to use KDE more often now as after all Things change. plus it's installed now and with a wifi card that only lets me download at 30-40kb/s it's going to be worth it

#11 14th February 2009, 01:56 AM

im still using Gnome an Apps from it, like Evolution, thats my favorite email client so far but i am giving Kmail a shot, maybe till Thunderbird3 gets into Fedora i'll dump Evolution all together an go with Thunderbird.

Jake you should of used the yum groupremove gnome command

Jake · #12 14th February 2009, 02:49 AM

At the time I could not remember the command so just did what I did

.

I currently use TB2 in My main Desktop. (Which is still gnome).

Though IMO, the koffice is not as good as OO.org.

Looks like it's the same one that came with KDE 3.5.

#13 14th February 2009, 03:39 AM

Openoffice is ok, but it bogs ya system down where as i dont think Koffice does that, i havent seen a lot of Koffice2.0 in action, but from what Rex Dieter told me in another thread Koffice2.0 should make its way into fedora11, but i'll believe that when i see it, im sure it was supposed to make its way into Fedora10 but never made it

nix · #14 14th February 2009, 03:43 AM

No doubt on the big thumbs up to the KDE developers! I just upgraded to 4.2 from 4.1.4 and it works great! I was having some trouble with KDE and Nvidia at first ( new pc ) and was getting discouraged. But after resolving an IRQ conflict and upgrading everything is smooooooth and looks great. Desktop effects work awesome!

go KDE!

I use Firefox in kde and have since KDE 3.5. You can install it from the repo or DL and install it from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

Jake · #15 14th February 2009, 03:56 AM

By the way guys, how many times have applications crashed so far for you with KDE 4.2?

On my system it's starting to worry me.

First off it crashed in system settings..

Now it's crashed 4 times attempting to install a package with KPackagekit (KDE version of add and remove software)

When clicking Ok for dependency's it crashes, anyone else notice these?

PS: I would put it in there Bugzilla if it wasn't currently unavailable.

And as I speak the about Me in system settings is frozen