Broken not in the dselect sense, but broken in that I'm unable to change certain elements of the desktop.
Judging from at least one other posting, I suspect that the kde package installation for Debian may not be fully stable. Any comments on this? (I'm not at my Linux box now so this is from memory) I installed kde by dpkg'ing kdebase kdeutils, kdegraphics, etc and it installed with no problems. Dselect does report that kde is "obsolete or uncatagorized". Not sure what that means but it did not report it being installed "brokenly". I had xdm and fvwm95 as X startup method and window manager originaly and changed to kdm and kde, respectively. This I did by editing the /etc/X11??/config and /etc/X11/window-managers files. This looks good too. A friend who is kde familiar helped me to surf and configure kde and he tells me that there are some problems. Problem 1) I'm unable to change the icon for emacs on the task bar because it says I don't have the proper permissions. Problem 2) When running the CD data base (CDDB). It goes out and searches for the CD's contents and returns with all the tracks and title, etc. (very cool) When I want to save that info for the next time I play the CD, it asks me to catagorize the CD, but there are no catagories to choose from and no areas to edit my own. It then errors out saying that I haven't chosen a catagory. The database data is not saved. Problem 3) Maybe not a problem, but security issue. When logging out there's an option to shutdown. It should, probobly prompt for the root password before actualy shutdown. My buddy who runs RH says that kde works quite well "out of the box" on his SUSE? system. Is the kde implementation for Debian somewhat unstable? Thanx, Ed ********************************* Ed Young (303)706-5425 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Echostar Technology Corporation Software Engineering Englewood, Colorado ********************************* -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
