Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 13:33:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> To: Martin Von_Schantz <ikaros_net@hotmail.com> Cc: Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Windows managers Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980412132330.3665A-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <19980412181534.15209.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Martin Von_Schantz wrote: > Hello, I have been recommended the KDE desktop environment by some > 'Linux users' :) it doesn't seem that BSD friendly unfourtunately so I > wondered if anyone had a better windows manager to recommend. Well, the Betas may be a bit FreeBSD unfriendly, however the port should build. Me, I cvsup kde sources every other day or so, and attempt to rebuild it in its entirety. So far everything from the latest sources compiles under -current with the exception of: kppp kscd ksysv kuser kcalc I've contacted the authors of ksysv and kuser and both are going to commit the diffs I've sent them when they get a chance (although the changes are VERY minor). The author of kppp and kscd seems to think that if his programs are flakey or fail to compile on other OSes that it's not his problem, so don't expect fixes for these very soon. So far, kcalc was very recently changed to use functions that are seemingly Linux specific. I'm not sure if/when this will be fixed. Apart from this, kwmsound needs to be compiled w/ -lcompat (should be fixed soonish). I would highly recommend KDE to anyone looking for a very functional and nice looking (not flashy) desktop. Although many (not all) of the developers use Linux a primary platform, I've found them to be generally most receptive to people who are willing to fix things up for other OSes (if you're using gcc/egcs these changes should be easy to do). Although, I'm quite biased (for Qt), I think anyone looking to do some freeware X11 programming would do well by looking into writing KDE compliant or at least Qt apps. - alex who is now maintaing kIRC, one of the KDE irc apps "We are upping our standards ... so up yours." - Pat Paulsen for US of A Prez, 1988. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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