Comments on: KDE 4.1 is out and good enough for everyday use

By: drinian

drinian — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:57:09 +0000

Right, package management is one of the most important advantages of a Linux (or *BSD) distro over the alternative, and circumventing it, especially for such a large chunk of code, will only lead to maintenance problems elsewhere.

Also, “stable” and “Gentoo” are not two words that make sense to me (I’m a ~x86 user).

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:42:54 +0000

Interesting… But I’ll wait until it becomes stable enough for my gentoo box.

By: Cyde Weys

Cyde Weys — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:06:45 +0000

If you haven’t used a package manager to install software before, you just wouldn’t understand. It’s a pain to start mixing software from a good package management system with software from elsewhere.

By: T2A`

T2A` — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:56:33 +0000

I see. So you treated your Linux box like Windows and tried to do things automatically. Shame! :]

By: Cyde Weys

Cyde Weys — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:50:32 +0000

arensb: No idea. Isn’t configuring key bindings an X11 thing? It seems to me that any desktop environment on top of X11 should allow key configurability?

T2A`: KDE 4.1 is actually better than this, I’m just too lazy to install it manually as opposed to using the Ubuntu packages, and the Ubuntu packages right now are not finalized and not very good. In a few weeks these problems should be ironed out and it will be much better.

By: T2A`

T2A` — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:06:04 +0000

Didn’t you tell me the other day that KDE 4.1 was going to be the tits?

This doesn’t sound like the tits. :/

By: arensb

arensb — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:47:33 +0000

Can you define key bindings such that Ctrl-Meta- will move the mouse pointer by 100 pixels, and Ctrl-Shift- will move it by 10 pixels? I added that to my fvwm2 config years ago, and have loved it ever since. It’s rather a deal-breaker for me when it comes to evaluating other window managers. Yes, I’m sensitive to Fitt’s law.