On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 05:02 -0500, James Cornell wrote: > 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
Not too sure given that SFE in general has never worked properly for me.
