[gentoo-user] X86 stable emerged a bunch of KDE 4 things. How to use them?

[gentoo-user] X86 stable emerged a bunch of KDE 4 things. How to use them?

[Kevin O'Gorman]

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Having just emerged what looked like a couple of hundred things, many of
them KDE-4 related, I'm surprised that on reboot I'm still running KDE 3.5.
Moreover, there's only /usr/kde/3.5, no 4*.  The only change I noticed was
in the background of the login dialog.

One guess is that the flood of newly-stable things in incomplete.  But I
have not been watching the news, so I don't know.

Should I just wait, or is there something I should be doing?

++ kevin

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Re: [gentoo-user] X86 stable emerged a bunch of KDE 4 things. How to use them?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:56:24 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

> Having just emerged what looked like a couple of hundred things, many of
> them KDE-4 related, I'm surprised that on reboot I'm still running KDE
> 3.5.

You need to select KDE4 at the login screen.

> Moreover, there's only /usr/kde/3.5, no 4*.  The only change I
> noticed was in the background of the login dialog.

KDE4 doesn't install into /usr/kde/$SLOT but into /usr.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Avoid temporary variables and strange women.

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Re: [gentoo-user] X86 stable emerged a bunch of KDE 4 things. How to use them?

[Mick]

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On Sunday 25 October 2009 21:16:37 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:56:24 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > Having just emerged what looked like a couple of hundred things, many of
> > them KDE-4 related, I'm surprised that on reboot I'm still running KDE
> > 3.5.
> 
> You need to select KDE4 at the login screen.
> 
> > Moreover, there's only /usr/kde/3.5, no 4*.  The only change I
> > noticed was in the background of the login dialog.
> 
> KDE4 doesn't install into /usr/kde/$SLOT but into /usr.

/usr/bin/startkde has been changed to start KDE4 now.

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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] X86 stable emerged a bunch of KDE 4 things. How to use them?

[Jesús Guerrero]

On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:56:24 -0700, "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Having just emerged what looked like a couple of hundred things, many of
> them KDE-4 related, I'm surprised that on reboot I'm still running KDE
3.5.
> Moreover, there's only /usr/kde/3.5, no 4*.  The only change I noticed
was
> in the background of the login dialog.

You will not see an /usr/kde/4.x unless you have USE=kdeprefix. Since 4.x,
kde by default is installed on your regular system prefix, instead of
creating his own. So your kde binaries will usually live in /usr/bin, and
each component will go to the right place just like for any other package.

> Should I just wait, or is there something I should be doing?

I have no experience mixing branches of kde. As long as you have the 4.x
version of kdebase-startkde you should have a way to start kde4, how to do
it will depend no how do you start X. You seem to use kdm, I can't really
help with that because I don't use a DM. If you use startx from command
line it's just a matter of using the correct binary on your ~/.xinitrc, in
this case /usr/bin/startkde if I am not mistaken.
-- 
Jesús Guerrero