Michael Schuster wrote: > Adriaan de Groot wrote: >> There are KDE 4.1.4 IPS packages for OSOL 2008.11 32-bit available now. >> They're hosted on real hardware, not a dodgy VirtualBox, so you should be >> able >> to get them this time instead of timing out at each attempt. It *is* my home >> DSL, though, so downloads will not be fast. >> >> In theory, you can do >> >> T=bionicmutton >> pkg set-authority -O http://pkg.$T.org:10000/ $T >> pkg refresh $T >> pkg install KDEgdm-integration >> >> and get a KDE 4.1.4 desktop available upon login. > > success! > > on my recently acquired new Intel-based PC, which has never seen anything > KDE-like before and is now running OpenSolaris b106, I have installed and > am now using KDE from the IPS repository. I'm happy to report that I have > so far not seen an application crash, so this is by far the best experience > with KDE 4.x I've had so far. > > Hurray. > > Let me use the occasion to highlight a few things I noticed: > > - KDE's screen lock still can't unlock (sometimes can't even lock) the > screen, but as I said elsewhere, xlock does the job just as well for me. > > - I use two screens; when the mouse is in the second screen, I cannot get a > background menu with the right button, nor have I found a way to give it > non-black background (ie the same as on the primary screen). I can move > windows in to this screen quite easily though (I have an Nvidia 9600GT). > > - I have a digital clock in the taskbar; sometimes, I can see only one > digit, the others disappear and I need to mouse-over to get them back. > > - this is probably due to the paradigm shift that KDE4 seems to symbolise: > (in layman's terms) I used to be able to create an icon in my task bar > which would launch any application I chose, eg. xterm or firefox. I don't > seem to be able to figure out how to do this now. Help appreciated. > > all in all, *very* nice!
I've tried it as well. Seems to work alright, although for some bizarre reason, DNS resolution seems painfully slow in Konqueror. The integration seems spot on, nice work. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker
