Re: Is KDE 4.4.5 on FreeBSD 8.1 this bad?

2010-08-02 Thread Michel Talon
I wrote: Of course making X to run was an exercise in pain, i had to enable HAL and DBUS otherwise keyboard and mouse were not recognized, the data in the xorg.conf were not obeyed, etc. but this was to be expected. The only problem i have now is that i have seen no way to configure the kdm

Is KDE 4.4.5 on FreeBSD 8.1 this bad?

2010-07-31 Thread Unga
Hi all I have installed KDE 4.4.5 from ports (ie. with full compilation) on FreeBSD 8.1 on i386. Once HAL and DBUS is enabled in /etc/rc.conf, behaviour of KDE is surprisingly poor: 1. None of the desktop icons works to launch programs. Eg. Click or double click on Firefox icon does not

Re: Is KDE 4.4.5 on FreeBSD 8.1 this bad?

2010-07-31 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 31 Jul 2010, Unga wrote: Hi all I have installed KDE 4.4.5 from ports (ie. with full compilation) on FreeBSD 8.1 on i386. Once HAL and DBUS is enabled in /etc/rc.conf, behaviour of KDE is surprisingly poor: 2. Once type firefox on the Run Command it doesn't appear until I shake

Re: Is KDE 4.4.5 on FreeBSD 8.1 this bad?

2010-07-31 Thread Unga
--- On Sat, 7/31/10, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: From: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com Subject: Re: Is KDE 4.4.5 on FreeBSD 8.1 this bad? To: Unga unga...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Saturday, July 31, 2010, 11:53 PM On Sat, 31 Jul 2010, Unga wrote: Hi

Re: Is KDE 4.4.5 on FreeBSD 8.1 this bad?

2010-07-31 Thread Michel Talon
Unga complained: behaviour of KDE is surprisingly poor I have installed a fresh FreeBSD-8.1 and a fresh kde4 from the 8.1 cdrom, and i see none of your problems. For me KDE4 works perfectly OK, i am even surprised. Of course making X to run was an exercise in pain, i had to enable HAL and

Re: Is KDE 4.4.5 on FreeBSD 8.1 this bad?

2010-07-31 Thread Mike Clarke
On Sunday 01 August 2010, Michel Talon wrote: Firefox3 also chokes on Google maps while seamonkey and konqueror work ok. There are obviously javascript problems. Finally i have installed flash10 with the pluginwrapper, and it works wonderfully fine in seamonkey and firefox3, including sound,

Re: Is KDE 4.4.5 on FreeBSD 8.1 this bad?

2010-07-31 Thread Michel Talon
Mike Clarke wrote: Are you by any chance using the flashblock extension with firefox? This extension has a problem with streetview and you need to add maps.google.com to the flashblock whitelist. I don't use any firefox extension, and all programs are freshly installed from