I finally decided to give KDE another shot. I got the beta4 .deb files and installed them and then went to go look at /opt---these isn't one. The beta4 KDE package is policy-compliant for those who wanted it.
KDE looked nice--though I will spend weeks trying to sort out how to make kwm work without annoying me excessively. I would probably much rather use it (KDE) with AfterStep I think, but there is a lot in kwm that isn't in AfterStep and I would need to figure out how to make it work, else I couldn't configure it. I have since installing KDE beta4 .deb's installed AfterStep 1.4 as a .deb (after backing up my old compiled AfterStep 1.0 from before I knew how to make a .deb) AfterStep 1.4 does not look as bad as people say, though I have a feeling it won't be any nicer to KDE than 1.0 was. I'm also not sure I plan on keeping 1.4--I have had some annoyances with it such as needing to teach it about 24bpp (a few symlinks to 16bpp files did this for me) and I really want it to act more like 1.0 did if I can get it to.. Isn't there somewhere a patch for AfterStep to make it KDE-aware? I expect when gnome moves along a little further I will be trying it as well. I don't much like Qt's license, though I am a little more comfortable having it on the system now that it seems to have a brighter future as far as not having Troll Tech pulling an Open Group stunt on us.
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