[kde-discuss] Packaging and things

[Alan DuBoff]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Adriaan de Groot wrote:

> Spoken like a true UNIX dinosaur: "if I have Ion and some xterms on my 30"
> display, then I'm good."

Hey, I resemble that comment! I don't have a 30" display though, I have 
two 21" on dual head...;-) Two 30" would be nice though...<G>

> I used to do that. There's at least one KDE PIM
> developer who has a single fullscreen konsole with green on black (also my
> favorite colour scheme, comes from growing up with an Apple ][e) who runs
> screen in it for tabbing.

These days I use the stock black on white mostly...the only thing I change 
is the window decoration to System++, which also requires I set the 
active/inactive title text, that would be one of the first things I fixed 
in the code...:-/ For some reason it's white on white by default. I just 
set them to a shade of blue for each. I like the window of System++ best, 
reminds me of the Mac.

> As for what works, yes, konsole runs. I think I tried kate as well. Konqueror
> will display web pages. KWin will manage windows. KTip (tip of the day) works
> quite well, and the plasma wall clock on the desktop background ticks and
> tocks. For jurassic work, it's good to go. If you want an exhaustive list I'd
> have to go back and compile it on dillon again (I removed it because I wanted
> to get back down to cleaning up the dependencies).

$#!T, this sounds like I could use it for my desktop.

> Bear in mind that PIM -- KMail, KOrganizer -- is in no state to be used in
> production, and will be released with KDE 4.1.

While I have used KMail for a number of years, I have to tell you that it 
gave me problems at Sun with the crappy imap support (I was using the 
older version on 3.1.1, I don't remember what version of KMail it was), 
and I just punted and use pine these days. In fact, I use it on the Mac 
also, just pop open a terminal and ssh to my server over wifi. Pine works 
great for that.

> PS. Looking forward to meeting the faces behind the email addresses next 
> week. See you in SFO.

Likewise, I hear you'll be at MPK some of the time. I'm on the 3rd floor.

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Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group