On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Ray Parish wrote:
> Has anyone pulled down the KDE2 RPMs for RH7 and installed?
> If so, can you let me know if you had any problems doing so.
Yep. First, you'll need libmng, which I got from rawhide. An upgrade
works mostly well, except for kdesupport. I don't know if it's the old
kdesupport or the new, but one of them runs /usr/bin/desktopconv as part
of the upgrade, and it segfaults. That leaves both kdesupport-1.1.2 and
kdesupport-2.0 in the rpm database. I had to force the removal of both,
and reinstall the kdesupport-2.0 package. It might be easier to force the
removal of kdesupport before upgrading, but I don't know if that will work
or not. Try it and let us know.
Aside from that one niglet, the upgrade was pretty smooth.
I'd like to hear what other people have to say about KDE 2. I'm a GNOME
user (yes, that's a disclaimer, but this is not a flame). After using KDE
2 for just a short time, I have the following thoughts:
Pro's:
* Single click selection of files is more consistant than in KDE 1.1.2.
Now, the file selection dialogs work more like the file manager.
* No default action on file drag and drop. You must select move, copy, or
link. I _like_ that. With GMC, you gotta use the middle button, which
took me a while to figure out.
Con's:
* WM decorations aren't configured in the control center.
* I changed the BG and kcmshell crashed - dubious stability
* memory use seems greater than GNOME
* menu displays icons at actual size, rather than a uniform size,
leading to menu items of inconsistant size. GNOME panel, by comparison
will scale icons to a consitant size.
* clicking on a menu item (e.g. "File" menu label) twice opens and
then closes it. clicking the KDE menu twice does not - inconsistant
* GNOME menu is labeled "programs" - weird
These are pretty much all cosmetic issues. It'd be nice to see them fixed
at some point :) I don't use KDE enough to care to do it myself.
MSG
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