Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1683 mails)

[Ezequiel.Quintana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Ezequiel Quintana Morales)]

Message-ID: <3A18F216.E7931142@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 10:42:46 +0100
From: Ezequiel Quintana Morales <Ezequiel.Quintana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [SLE] kde2 /kde1 and kdm



I'm sorry to miss all the discussion but weekends are just for my wife
and my daughter.

I use linux for work in a oglx environment. I mostly run chemistry
programs in a SGI and use my linux box as a terminal or exchange results
using programs which needs oglx running fine. I also need HD space
because I easily get 1 GB files. Kde2 is much better than Kde1 for that
purpose and more stable.

The only problem I can see in the upgrade is starting linux with xdm
which is not too bad (I've been using it since '94 when I installed my
first slackware linux). However, looking at the /opt/kde2/bin directory
there is a kdm binary which you can manage to run at boot manually
modifying the files at /sbin/init.d and others.

The only thing I was stating was a feature you loose when you delete
kde1 using yast1 and even upgrading to kde2 using the SuSE provided
script.

I was also answering a guy (Landy Roman (Thu Nov 16 2000 - 05:17:16
PST)), who ask to the list about the convenience to delete kde1.

Ezequiel

Jerry Kreps wrote:
> 
> True,
> QCad, for example, looses its fonts under KDE2 and the button, menus,
> labels, and any other place where you'd expect text to be, are blank!
> 
> On Saturday 18 November 2000 05:24, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
> > I agree. This enthusiasm to just delete KDE1 is a
> > little naive.
> > Firstly KDE2 does not plug in and replace KDE1 as
> > it is not yet configured properly bu SuSE to do so.
> > Witness all the questions in this list about KDM.
> > Secondly KDE2 is at version 0, with all that that implies.
> > Newbies note! Oldies are always cautious of software at
> > version 0 !
> > Thirdly KDE2 does not replace all of the KDE1 apps,
> > do an app find or whatever it is called in the kde
> > options and you will see all those old kde1 apps
> > that have not yet been replaced.
> >
> > Hold onto kde1 for a while friends.
> >
> > Cliff
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 04:38:47AM -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> > > Ezequiel Quintana Morales wrote:
> > > > I deleted kde1 and kdm is not longer a login option using yast1. The
> > > > only possible option is using xdm. I don't know why.
> > > >
> > > > I have SuSE 7.0, XFree 4.0.1 and kde 2.0
> > > >
> > > > Ezequiel
> > >
> > > That was pretty brave of you. Do you really think KDE2 is ready to
> > > REPLACE kde1? Anyway I'm not sure about 7.0 but you could try
> > > reinstalling
> > > KDE2. The deinstall of KDE1 may have removed some important config stuff
> > > if you used Yast. Did ya use yast to delete kde1? It may have been
> > > better
> > > to just "rm -r /opt/kde".
> > >
> > > I'm not sure if SuSe has set up their KDE2 config stuff as nice as they
> > > have for KDE1 yet so I don't know how easy it will be to run only KDE2.
> > >
> > > May you'll get more help from others that have done it. Personally I'd
> > > keep kde1 installed and just play with KDE2 untill it's a little more
> > > mature.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Mark Hounschell
> > > dmarkh@xxxxxxxxxx
> > >
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