new KDE on RHEL/Centos/SL 6?

[Hans Ecke]

FWIW, I'm going to look at source-compiling and doing a "make install" 
to /usr/local next week. Lets see if Konstruct is still being 
maintained.... I'll send a report.

On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Robert Szalai wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm also wondering if there would be newer KDE on RHEL. For some  
> reason a solid base with a newer desktop seems to make sense to me.  
> Should I understand that the lack of discussion about this issue means  
> a lack of interest?
> Robert
> 
> On 6 Sep 2011, at 18:00, Hans Ecke wrote:
> 
> > Hi all-
> >
> > Is there a way to run a newer KDE version on RHEL6 or its derivatives?
> > RHEL6 comes with KDE SC 4.3. Upgrading to 4.7 would be pretty sweet.
> >
> > What version of Qt is required to run KDE4.7?
> >
> > The 4.7 release announcement says "In order to get the most out of  
> > these
> > releases, we strongly recommend to use the latest version of Qt, as of
> > today 4.7.4. This is necessary in order to assure a stable experience,
> > as some improvements made to KDE software have actually been done in  
> > the
> > underlying Qt framework." Thats pretty vague....
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Hans