KDE 3.1.93 for Fedora spotted

Aaron aamehl at bezeqint.net
Tue Nov 18 22:40:08 UTC 2003


Wow,
I mostly used kde until now, but with Fedora, they are really so close
its seems to me a tossup
Aaron
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 22:20, pctech at mybellybutton.com wrote:
> I am not wanting a flame-war by what I am about to
> ask.  I am asking for honest opinions, not a "Holy
> War" about desktops.
> 
> Do you, collectively, prefer KDE or Gnome?  And why?
> 
> My Linux experience, since Red Hat 5.2, has been 100%
> CLI based.  I have never even used the GUI.  I am
> wanting to do a fresh install of Fedora on a system,
> but I only want to load one desktop interface.
> 
> Any non-flammatory experiences/opinions would be
> greatly appreciated.
> 
> --- Mike <m_masi at cox.net> wrote:
> > Rob Park wrote:
> > > Mike Chambers wrote:
> > > 
> > >> On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 23:12, Dave Thomas wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Most KDE mirrors dont have it yet....its pretty
> > fresh. I am dl'ing it 
> > >>> now to give it a try.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Fedora Core 1 already contains 3.1.4, doesn't it?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > "3.1.93", I believe, could be more accurately
> > described as "3.2 release 
> > > candidate 1".
> > > 
> > > 
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> > > 
> > 
> > Just a heads up for the brave souls who are going to
> > give this a shot, 
> > upgrading to 3.1.93 from the stock KDE breaks some
> > stuff (not 
> > surprisingly).
> > 
> > I installed the packages on a basically clean setup
> > of Core 1, and the 
> > menu entries got slightly screwed up, various KDE
> > apps crash randomly, 
> > and for some reason any OpenGL-based program
> > (tuxracer, celestia, etc) 
> > crash immediately.  Additionally, the repository
> > does not offer any 
> > yum/apt headers (as I write this) so you'll have to
> > do some command-line 
> > RPM finagling for everything to work.
> > 
> > In spite of all that, I must say I'm quite impressed
> > with the new 
> > version.  Lots of little improvements to the UI as
> > well as a slightly 
> > snappier responsiveness make it worth the hassles
> > (at least for us 
> > bleeding-edge fetishists :)
> > 
> > Mike
> > 
> > 
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