I got all excited when I saw that Koffice was on the latest cover disc...until I got to the bit that said it required KDE2...which is apparently now out of beta. I'm still not very good with installation of packages. I navigated through the CDrom using netscape - and when I arrived at the rpms assumed I could just double click to trigger the install. (OK - so I assume I need to modify the MIME map files (where are they?) to do this) What 'package' should I point them to? I have never got Kpackage to to anything useful. Karchiver has worked though and installed CorelPaint9 for me (although I'm not sure that it installed it in the right place). In fact - it created an 'install' folder from which it was possible to run the installation programs. Can this be done directly from the CD archive without copying tens of megabytes of installation code - only to reinstall the actual code somewhere else...OK I suppose I could delete the installation folder now, but it seems a bit round about. Which brings me back to KDE2. It would appear that I need to upgrade various libraries, including Qt one. Is this likely to leave my current KDE in a state of disarray (or do the two versions coexist?) Should all this be done outside the GUI by changing inittab back to a console login? Has anyone installed KDE2? Well - obviously, yes - but anyone here wish to comment on any problems? -- Alan Davies Head of Computing Birkenhead School
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Has anyone installed KDE2? Well - obviously, yes - but anyone here wish to comment on any problems?
Compiled KDE 1.92 and 2.0 from source and it worked fine. This is with SuSE 6.4. Tried the KDE CDs from Linux Emporium and it fell over straight away. The KDE2 from the SuSE site are good as well. Should work fine. But it's a huge download. I was discussing KDE2 with one of the JANET programmers on Saturday when I was in Manchester. He agrees with me that it shouldn't be allowed to take over the entire desktop. Both of us like KDE2 but we only want to use Kmail or Konqueror. So, the DCOP server needs to be re-written so that it works in the way that it should. I like to use Windowmaker on my desktop with some KDE and Gnome components. Such as Gedit or Kedit for writing web pages. So, I can't use KDE2 at all. Which is a shame because it's very good apart from the DCOP server. Thanks -- Richard http://www.sheflug.co.uk
Has anyone installed KDE2? Well - obviously, yes - but anyone here wish to comment on any problems?
It still has the fault of copying the Windows "end user configuration" model. e.g. no obvious way to globally set parameters such as web proxies. Let alone something as sophisticated as stopping an end user (or group of end users) altering things. The concept of adminstrator configuration (and restriction) appears either lacking or undocumented. Also kmail still won't read maildir mailboxes, let alone interoperate with sqwebmail. -- Mark Evans St. Peter's CofE High School Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109 Fax: +44 1392 204763
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