From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JHEti-0004rP-CD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:54:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 50E0AE04EE; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:53:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.159]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F762E04EE for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:53:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e21so1965874fga.14 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:53:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=dxPYJfQr/VRfge8/uDm9W2OQXTJjl2eS04o4vZeJugU=; b=RHqa6UHjTyHvJW/DZxdsC+y1hKspB7a8MGrz3ZLjG7wzfixonWhMS4iNL74sMZrsayXwDhiGT3wCi1tj6Pqm6aRYwcX/+cSS0EcpUeJT7gSyhuQhkbf3H8edOjp4M77+Ss3XXuB8POWB2lE/V1YeursdnNJr6V+jRN2oT9O/Bhs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=g0R2/Jb6EHBruf1cQFJT4hjby+qrJyoEbdo3J/BJVUI/uPuu3rS+4RQbmEUSALW882sr+y7Zc6dgBIUV4JLX5zpp0bFl4HTnSZm18FhR+C/Yys3gyLBTAWD2TbagaTLLZIhHuF2v6Er8RlRt6gJtYCWu0+Ymw7zGkju2FioxoiA= Received: by 10.86.62.3 with SMTP id k3mr6303463fga.71.1200992027471; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:53:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.200.112? ( [196.211.71.34]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e20sm13302957fga.1.2008.01.22.00.53.44 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:53:46 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] KDE4 first impressions Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:42:17 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801211042.17560.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 880e906d-18cb-4897-bdfd-26a73bbd752c X-Archives-Hash: e919e41e4b50322d53ed2a7c34004373 Built KDE4 last night, it took about 4.5 hours total and built without failures. To be safe, I created a new user for testing purposes and logged out of my own account. I use entrance as my dm and I find an entry for kde-4 in the list of sessions available. So far so good. First impression: kde4 starts up fast. I had gotten used to waiting up to 30 seconds for the splash screen to get through everything it needs to. Konsole works, both 3.5 and 4.0 I don;t get the slow scrolling issue another user reported. Konqueror works, now I have to recreate my custom settings that I have grown used to. Kontact works properly and so does the kmail component. kmail on it's own does not work. wtf is up with that anyway? kopete, amarok all work. The oxygen theme is a vast improvement over Plastik. I'm still undecided about the default menu, it looks a little in the style of XP which I can't stand. I know it''s not the same and maybe just a knee-jerk so I'm holding off before coming to an opinion. All in all, a very nice point-0 point-0 release. After using it for a few hours, I can understand what all the hype was about :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list