From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 30 15:48:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (ns.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 280D315A54 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 15:48:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com) Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 18:48:59 -0400 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105CC0@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels To: "'iceberg@pobox.com'" , J McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: KDE themes Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 18:51:54 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Folks, Every seems to be sidestepping the solution. Install KDE 1.1.2, which is in the current ports collection and that does have the theme manager. -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Lucas Bergman [SMTP:iceberg@pobox.com] > Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 2:25 PM > To: J McKitrick > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: KDE themes > > Hi -- > > > When i ran KDE 1.1.1 on mandrake linux, it came with theme support. But > > the same version on FBSD 3.2 does not have it. How can i enable it? > > There's a little add-on to make KDE 1.x support themes; it's not in the > base distributions (source or binary) tarball(s). I imagine the FreeBSD > port/package is built off only the main sources, which explains the lack > of theme support. The KDE themes.org pages have instructions on how to > get the add-on: > > http://kde.themes.org/ > > No guarantees, though. That site was pretty screwed up last time I was > there. > > > P.S. I tried DL'ing the source, but i'm not sure how to MAKE it. There > > are no instructions that i could find. > > There are instructions, but they don't help much, since that source has > several problems. I don't think the KDE people use anything but Linux, > and it shows. Building from source on a non-Linux system is non-trivial > unless you're pretty familiar with C and make. Don't build from source > if you can avoid it. > > #ifdef FLAMEBAIT > Of course, IMHO, KDE = broken + bloated + barely-portable, so you could > always just use something better... :) > #endif /* FLAMEBAIT */ > > Lucas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message