Comments on: Slowly migrating to KDE4 http://mschlander.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/slowly-migrating-to-kde4/ Martin Schlander's blog about free software and more Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:41:15 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Farewell KDE3 and hello KDE4 « The Blog is Hot… http://mschlander.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/slowly-migrating-to-kde4/#comment-171 Farewell KDE3 and hello KDE4 « The Blog is Hot… Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:22:48 +0000 http://mschlander.wordpress.com/?p=50#comment-171 [...] KDE3 and hello KDE4 Filed under: kde, opensuse — mschlander @ 2:22 pm After checking out KDE 4.x at arms length for months, I had decided that I would try out 4.1.0 fulltime on my “production” [...] [...] KDE3 and hello KDE4 Filed under: kde, opensuse — mschlander @ 2:22 pm After checking out KDE 4.x at arms length for months, I had decided that I would try out 4.1.0 fulltime on my “production” [...]

]]> By: mschlander http://mschlander.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/slowly-migrating-to-kde4/#comment-160 mschlander Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:43:08 +0000 http://mschlander.wordpress.com/?p=50#comment-160 GNU wallpaper is available here: http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/GNU+Logo?content=72025 GNU wallpaper is available here:
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/GNU+Logo?content=72025

]]> By: Albert http://mschlander.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/slowly-migrating-to-kde4/#comment-159 Albert Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:07:58 +0000 http://mschlander.wordpress.com/?p=50#comment-159 Hi, Just a short q: The GNU wallpaper in your first screenie, is it available for download somewhere? Thanks! Hi,
Just a short q: The GNU wallpaper in your first screenie, is it available for download somewhere?

Thanks!

]]> By: Jonas http://mschlander.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/slowly-migrating-to-kde4/#comment-158 Jonas Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:08:13 +0000 http://mschlander.wordpress.com/?p=50#comment-158 I've been running KDE4 as my only DE since 4.0.1, and I agree: it's matured a lot. I'm currently running 4.0.84 from Suse 11's factory, and it works great although with a few regressions from 4.0.x but the devs knows about them so I'm confident they will be fixed in time for 4.1.final (the desktop grid works only partially for example). The biggest gripe I have as of now is that some of my fav programs are at best in late alpha...Amarok, K3B and Digikam being the most obvious ones and in Amarok's and K3B's case they are so far next to useless...but hey, that's to be expected of alphas. Then again...the latest KDE3 version of K3B seems to be broken too. It refuses to recognize (and use) what kind of disc is in the drive - a problem neither Nero or Brasero has. Feels kinda odd that Gnome programs (and one proprietary at that) work better in KDE than a KDE native one... Oh, and a tip: there's a better way of getting Oxygen icons in firefox. Better because it works for every gtk-app you happen to have (in my case, Firefox, Gimp, Brasero, and Nero). Make sure gtk-qt-engine is installed (available in factory/community). It "translates" gtk-icons into using whatever you have set as your icon theme in KDE. Now I only need to get that damn kgtk-wrapper to compile properly so I can get rid of the nasty gtk-fileselector... I’ve been running KDE4 as my only DE since 4.0.1, and I agree: it’s matured a lot. I’m currently running 4.0.84 from Suse 11’s factory, and it works great although with a few regressions from 4.0.x but the devs knows about them so I’m confident they will be fixed in time for 4.1.final (the desktop grid works only partially for example).

The biggest gripe I have as of now is that some of my fav programs are at best in late alpha…Amarok, K3B and Digikam being the most obvious ones and in Amarok’s and K3B’s case they are so far next to useless…but hey, that’s to be expected of alphas.

Then again…the latest KDE3 version of K3B seems to be broken too. It refuses to recognize (and use) what kind of disc is in the drive – a problem neither Nero or Brasero has. Feels kinda odd that Gnome programs (and one proprietary at that) work better in KDE than a KDE native one…

Oh, and a tip: there’s a better way of getting Oxygen icons in firefox. Better because it works for every gtk-app you happen to have (in my case, Firefox, Gimp, Brasero, and Nero). Make sure gtk-qt-engine is installed (available in factory/community). It “translates” gtk-icons into using whatever you have set as your icon theme in KDE.

Now I only need to get that damn kgtk-wrapper to compile properly so I can get rid of the nasty gtk-fileselector…

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