Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

[Ryan Rix]

On Sat 15 May 2010 1:16:26 pm Valent Turkovic wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> 
wrote:
> > On Friday 05 March 2010 18:37:06 Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> >> Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> >> > As I had expected, breaking up the monolithic
> >> > packages into individual packages is a whole lot
> >> > of unnecessary work. Better to provide releases
> >> > as they occur, than to waste time unnecessarily
> >> > breaking down the monolithic packages. To what
> >> > end and benefit? Who, nowadays, doesn't have at
> >> > least one hard drive of at least 80-100GB, likely
> >> 
> >> You have heard of netbooks, yes? SSD's? I have all of 4 GiB, and not 
all
> >> of that available for packages.
> > 
> > We are planning some splits because we're planning KDE netbook spin.
> > Netbook Plasma is new and very interesting piece of software and of
> > course we'd like to support even old EEE 701 - I have one next to me 
;-)
> > Hopefully it's going to be F14 stuff.
> > 
> > Jaroslav
> 
> I read on few websites that Fedora 13 should have KDE Netbook Plasma
> but I can't see any package in current Fedora 13 repositories. How do
> I turn on KDE Netbook Plasma for Fedora 13?
> 
> Cheers!

The same way you do it for any distro... System Settings->Appearance-
>Workspace, set Workspace Type to Netbook. There aren't any packages to 
install outside of the default kde packages (kdebase-workspace for the 
minimum, or @kde-desktop for the full kde packageset.)

Note that for Fedora 14, we're targeting the creation of a KDE netbook 
spin which will automate all of this...

But this isn't really related to the Development of Fedora at all...

Ryan

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