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What's wrong with KDE in Apple's X11 ?
Authored by: VRic on Sep 27, '05 10:59:31AM

Did something change lately ?

I know for a fact that I installed KDE and many KDE applications via Fink and Apple's X11 on my iBook running 10.2 then 10.3, and that I made exactly zero of those "changes that are pretty hard" mentionned in the original article. I wouldn't have been able to.

It only took the time necessary for Fink to download all needed parts (as binaries, so no compilation required).

Launching the first KDE app of each X11 session takes longer than non-KDE apps (since it has to load KDE once) but it works normally after that.

I didn't try to compile KDE apps from source though. Maybe that's where the guy's problems are: setting up the compilation to target our "default" KDE/X11 setup instead of the more common "PC" KDE/Xfree86?

Or maybe it's about running X11 in a windows to host the non-app parts of the KDE desktop. I didn't try that either as I was only interested in some KDE apps, not KDE's desktop since its only interesting feature over the underlying Mac OS would be the multiple desktops, which would be rather crippled in a window.

I guess I'll cross-post this in his comments and see if he has further explanation of the alleged problems with X11.



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OK, make that "several", not "many"
Authored by: VRic on Sep 27, '05 11:09:53AM

I only installed a handful of KDE apps in X11, but all worked normally from precompiled binaries.

And I'm being too lazy to register at forums.appletalk.com.au just to comment this article.



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