Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 01:31 -0500, James Cornell wrote: > >> Brian Cameron wrote: >> >>> James: >>> >>> >>>> Agreed minus the KDE part, Sun hasn't done jack with KDE in >>>> >> years. >> >>>> Their latest companion release is just fail.. older than the earth >>>> itself. >>>> >>> There is now a KDE community and I am working with them to integrate >>> >> the >> >>> latest KDE into Solaris. >>> >>> >>> >> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/kde/;jsessionid=AFDF02E96607D680D50E2B35499D8C8D >> >> >>> This is no short-term project. I suspect it will take considerable >>> >> time >> >>> just to do needed paperwork, for example. However, I'd say we are >>> >> doing >> >>> something. >>> >>> Brian >>> >> Thanks Brian, but I was hoping for KDE 3.5.x sicne I find KDE 4 to be >> quite incomplete. Most my friends think KDE 4 is a regression. I >> find >> it to have completely messed up workflow, they say it's "innovative" >> but >> I find it quite ugly and annoying to use, and just as bloated. But >> at >> least you're giving us an alternative to GNOME. I look forward to >> some >> beta binary packages. What's the best way of building it anyways? I >> saw SFE specs for KDE and many related libraries. >> > > The same thing was said when 3.0 first came out; 4.0 is work in > progress; wait till 4.1 is out; then no one will care about 4.0. > > The main things I like in KDE are Kopete, Amorok, k3b, KOffice - and > features like global spell checking. Sure, KOffice is a bit incomplete, > but it doesn't royally suck in terms of performance when compard to > OpenOffice.org/StarOffice. > > Matthew > > Then they shouldn't mark it stable or ready, or give the illusion it's sane to bundle it. Does SFE kde work in mostly-complete fashion?
James
