Re: KDE for Etch (updates on the website)

2007-11-15 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag 08 November 2007 schrieb Ana Guerrero: > Hi, Hi Ana, > After read the last thread I have added to the pkg-kde's website a > brief howto about get KDE on Debian easily: > > http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/installkdedebian.html > > Suggestions/patches/english fixes are welcome. I wo

Re: KDE for Etch

2007-11-09 Thread joseph lockhart
--- Henry keultjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sune Vuorela wrote: > > On 2007-11-07, Henry keultjes > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Curt Howland wrote: > >> > >>> It's too bad that the option to install KDE is > so far back from the > >>> point of obvious choice, and that the onl

Re: KDE for Etch (updates on the website)

2007-11-08 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Ana Guerrero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Nov 08 07:10 -0600]: > > Hi, > > After read the last thread I have added to the pkg-kde's website a brief > howto about get KDE on Debian easily: > > http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/installkdedebian.html > > Suggestions/patches/english fixes are welcom

Re: KDE for Etch

2007-11-08 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Thursday 08 November 2007, Tomas Nykung wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 01:41:06PM +0100, Kevin Krammer wrote: > > Good to know. > > But why did they decide to no longer make GNOME installable at all? > > At least I can't see any gnome-CD-1.iso there, weird. > > The "standard" 1:st CD iso named

KDE for Etch

2007-11-08 Thread Henry keultjes
Nate Duehr wrote: On Nov 7, 2007, at 7:22 PM, Henry keultjes wrote: Nate Duehr wrote: History has shown that what you "need" and what the Debian hive-mind of developers want to do, are often two very different things. :-) Luckily, sometimes that is NOT the case. But in the case of Gnome v

KDE for Etch

2007-11-08 Thread Henry keultjes
Ana Guerrero wrote: On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 05:58:12PM -0500, Henry keultjes wrote: Sune Vuorela wrote: On 2007-11-07, Henry keultjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Curt Howland wrote: It's too bad that the option to install KDE is so far back from the point of obv

KDE for Etch

2007-11-08 Thread Henry keultjes
Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 November 2007, Nate Bargmann was heard to say: I had bought DVD ISOs from a 3rd party and don't recall a choice of DE. When I first asked about this, the reasoning for putting Gnome and Kde on different

Re: KDE for Etch

2007-11-08 Thread Tomas Nykung
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 01:41:06PM +0100, Kevin Krammer wrote: > Good to know. > But why did they decide to no longer make GNOME installable at all? > At least I can't see any gnome-CD-1.iso there, weird. The "standard" 1:st CD iso named debian-40r1-i386-CD-1.iso (i386) or debian-40r1-amd64-CD-1.i

Re: KDE for Etch

2007-11-08 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Thursday 08 November 2007, Tomas Nykung wrote: > Don't you guys know that there are KDE and xfce versions of the first > CD iso especially for those who wants to install KDE or xfce as the > default instead of Gnome? > > Maybe those are not advertised as they should be, and therefore almost > n

Re: KDE for Etch

2007-11-08 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Thursday 08 November 2007, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > I don't think you can consider this a 'grave' bug (and I know the d-i > people won't). This is a question of what the correct default is, it's not > actually breakage -> unless somebody gets on the case this issue is likely > to lin

Re: KDE for Etch

2007-11-08 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 November 2007, Nate Bargmann was heard to say: > I had bought DVD ISOs from a 3rd party and don't recall a choice of > DE. When I first asked about this, the reasoning for putting Gnome and Kde on different CDs was because they each we

Re: KDE for Etch

2007-11-08 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 November 2007, Tomas Nykung was heard to say: > Don't you guys know that there are KDE and xfce versions of the > first CD iso especially for those who wants to install KDE or xfce > as the default instead of Gnome? Correct on my part a

KDE for Etch (updates on the website)

2007-11-08 Thread Ana Guerrero
Hi, After read the last thread I have added to the pkg-kde's website a brief howto about get KDE on Debian easily: http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/installkdedebian.html Suggestions/patches/english fixes are welcome. We try to put all the information related to KDE on Debian there, but there

Re: KDE for Etch

2007-11-08 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Tomas Nykung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Nov 08 03:34 -0600]: > Download the iso whose name ends with "kde-CD-1.iso" (or xfce-CD-1.iso > if you want xfce installed by default) and install from that. > (For the newcomers: you just need the first CD, the rest is > automatically installed over the ne

Re: KDE for Etch

2007-11-08 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 07 November 2007, Nate Bargmann was heard to say: > Egad, I haven't touched dselect in *years*. Yeah, I get a lot of that :^) - -- Remember, remember, the 5th of November http://ronpaulgraphs.com/nov_5_extended_total.html -BE

Re: KDE for Etch

2007-11-08 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Thursday 08 November 2007, Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Thursday 08 November 2007, Nate Duehr wrote: > > I think there's more than ten options for desktop managers. Should it > > install them all? > > Well, as far as I understand, somebody wanted to have a "desktop" choice > in the installer but n

Re: KDE for Etch

2007-11-08 Thread Tomas Nykung
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 04:24:09PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > > It's too bad that the option to install KDE is so far back from the > point of obvious choice, and that the only place I've seen > the "expert tasks="standard, kde-desktop"" is in posts telling me, > now Philip, what we should ha

Re: KDE for Etch

2007-11-08 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 05:58:12PM -0500, Henry keultjes wrote: > Sune Vuorela wrote: >> On 2007-11-07, Henry keultjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Curt Howland wrote: >>> It's too bad that the option to install KDE is so far back from the point of obvious choice, and that t

Re: KDE for Etch

2007-11-07 Thread Nate Duehr
On Nov 7, 2007, at 7:22 PM, Henry keultjes wrote: Nate Duehr wrote: History has shown that what you "need" and what the Debian hive- mind of developers want to do, are often two very different things. :-) Luckily, sometimes that is NOT the case. But in the case of Gnome vs KDE... I dou

KDE for Etch

2007-11-07 Thread Henry keultjes
Nate Duehr wrote: History has shown that what you "need" and what the Debian hive-mind of developers want to do, are often two very different things. :-) Luckily, sometimes that is NOT the case. But in the case of Gnome vs KDE... I doubt the Debian developers can come to any reasonable cons

Re: KDE for Etch

2007-11-07 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Thursday 08 November 2007, Nate Duehr wrote: > I think there's more than ten options for desktop managers. Should it > install them all? Well, as far as I understand, somebody wanted to have a "desktop" choice in the installer but not ask any further questions. If not asking any further que

Re: KDE for Etch

2007-11-07 Thread Nate Duehr
On Nov 7, 2007, at 4:18 PM, Kevin Krammer wrote: On Wednesday 07 November 2007, Curt Howland wrote: On Wednesday 07 November 2007, Thierry Chatelet was heard to say: If it's a new install he could re-install going to expert with the following: expert tasks="standard, kde-desktop" he then will

Re: KDE for Etch

2007-11-07 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Wednesday 07 November 2007, Curt Howland wrote: > On Wednesday 07 November 2007, Thierry Chatelet was heard to say: > > If it's a new install he could re-install going to expert with the > > following: expert tasks="standard, kde-desktop" > > he then will have an install with only KDE. > > If he

Re: KDE for Etch

2007-11-07 Thread Nate Duehr
On Nov 7, 2007, at 3:58 PM, Henry keultjes wrote: Sune Vuorela wrote: On 2007-11-07, Henry keultjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Curt Howland wrote: It's too bad that the option to install KDE is so far back from the point of obvious choice, and that the only place I've seen the "expert t

KDE for Etch

2007-11-07 Thread Henry keultjes
Sune Vuorela wrote: On 2007-11-07, Henry keultjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Curt Howland wrote: It's too bad that the option to install KDE is so far back from the point of obvious choice, and that the only place I've seen the "expert tasks="standard, kde-desktop"" is in posts telling

Re: KDE for Etch

2007-11-07 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2007-11-07, Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Until tasksel has "desktop-Gnome" and "desktop-KDE" as separate > options, I will be stuck with seeminglt endless dselect sessions. Try download the kde install cd from your favourite debian mirror. /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: KDE for Etch

2007-11-07 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2007-11-07, Henry keultjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Curt Howland wrote: >> It's too bad that the option to install KDE is so far back from the >> point of obvious choice, and that the only place I've seen >> the "expert tasks="standard, kde-desktop"" is in posts telling me, >> now Philip,

Re: KDE for Etch

2007-11-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Nov 07 15:25 -0600]: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 07 November 2007, Thierry Chatelet was heard to say: > > If it's a new install he could re-install going to expert with the > > following: expert tasks="standard, kde-de

KDE for Etch

2007-11-07 Thread Henry keultjes
Curt Howland wrote: It's too bad that the option to install KDE is so far back from the point of obvious choice, and that the only place I've seen the "expert tasks="standard, kde-desktop"" is in posts telling me, now Philip, what we should have done. Until tasksel has "desktop-Gnome" and "de

Re: KDE for Etch

2007-11-07 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 07 November 2007, Thierry Chatelet was heard to say: > If it's a new install he could re-install going to expert with the > following: expert tasks="standard, kde-desktop" > he then will have an install with only KDE. > If he doesn't want

Re: KDE for Etch

2007-11-07 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Wednesday 07 November 2007 20:57, Curt Howland wrote: > On Wednesday 07 November 2007, Jan De Luyck was heard to say: > > On Wednesday 07 November 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Are you currently working on KDE for Debian Etch? And if so, when > > > will that be available? Thanks!! > > > >

Re: KDE for Etch

2007-11-07 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 07 November 2007, Jan De Luyck was heard to say: > On Wednesday 07 November 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Are you currently working on KDE for Debian Etch? And if so, when > > will that be available? Thanks!! > > What KDE do you mean?

Re: KDE for Etch

2007-11-07 Thread Richard Ibbotson
> > Are you currently working on KDE for Debian Etch? And if so, when > > will that be available? Thanks!! > > What KDE do you mean? > > Etch comes with a KDE version (no idea which). 'apt-get install kdm kde koffice' See also add this to /etc/apt/sources.list after installing KDE... deb

RE: KDE for Etch

2007-11-07 Thread Philip.Joslin
Thanks, everyone. I have my answer. -Original Message- From: Ana Guerrero [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 11:55 AM To: Philip Joslin - C10554 Cc: debian-kde@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: KDE for Etch On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 10:56:58AM -0700, [EMAIL

Re: KDE for Etch

2007-11-07 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 10:56:58AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Are you currently working on KDE for Debian Etch? And if so, when will > that be available? Thanks!! > You have Etch available with KDE 3.5.5 and you can install 3.5.7 from backports.org Ana > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: KDE for Etch

2007-11-07 Thread Jan De Luyck
On Wednesday 07 November 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Are you currently working on KDE for Debian Etch? And if so, when will > that be available? Thanks!! What KDE do you mean? Etch comes with a KDE version (no idea which). -- modem, adj.: Up-to-date, new-fangled, as in "Thoroughly

KDE for Etch

2007-11-07 Thread Philip.Joslin
Are you currently working on KDE for Debian Etch? And if so, when will that be available? Thanks!!

Re: twofer: wallpaper and KDE for etch

2006-01-19 Thread Theo Schmidt
Gayle Lee Fairless schrieb: At work I like to get the wallpaper from worldstart.com. Is it possible to use this wallpaper for Windows in KDE and GNOME? ... Yes. Just download it at the proper resolution for your screen. In KDE you can install the wallpaper (unfortunately on all desktops) s

twofer: wallpaper and KDE for etch

2006-01-18 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
At work I like to get the wallpaper from worldstart.com. Is it possible to use this wallpaper for Windows in KDE and GNOME? I'm running KDE 3.3.2 on this sarge box. On a new box I installed Debian GNU/Linux etch with the beta network CDROM (got kernel 2.6.12). GNOME got installed, w