[gentoo-user] KDE4 first impressions

2008-01-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
Built KDE4 last night, it took about 4.5 hours total and built without failures. To be safe, I created a new user for testing purposes and logged out of my own account. I use entrance as my dm and I find an entry for kde-4 in the list of sessions available. So far so good. First impression:

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 first impressions

2008-01-22 Thread Brian Marshall
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:42:17 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm still undecided about the default menu, it looks a little in the style of XP which I can't stand. I know it''s not the same and maybe just a knee-jerk so I'm holding off before coming to an opinion. Um, it

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 first impressions

2008-01-22 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 21 January 2008 09:42:17 Alan McKinnon wrote: Kontact works properly and so does the kmail component. kmail on it's own does not work. wtf is up with that anyway? erm... kdepim (including kontact and kmail) wasn't released with kde 4.0.0 at all... -- Bo Andresen signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 first impressions

2008-01-22 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Alan McKinnon wrote: | All in all, a very nice point-0 point-0 release. After using it for a | few hours, I can understand what all the hype was about :-) So, any screenshots of your experience? - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman The Charlie Protas

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 first impressions

2008-01-22 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: I used to have a ~/kde symlink to ~/kde3.5. This is now gone and replaced with a ~/kde directory, apparently a snapshot of the original. Some of my configs are changed - my Transport setting in Kmail were gone (I had a backup), and the Go menu in Konqueror now only

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 first impressions

2008-01-22 Thread Jerry McBride
Alan McKinnon wrote: All in all, a very nice point-0 point-0 release. After using it for a few hours, I can understand what all the hype was about :-) It does grow on you and it is an excellent step forward. That said, I can't wait to see this get polished off and fully fleshed out. I

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 first impressions

2008-01-22 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 22. Januar 2008, Dale wrote: Should a person make a backup of their ~/.kde directory before trying KDE 4.0? Maybe change the directory to .kde.old or something? yes, but gentoo's kde will create a new (and empty) .kde4 dir for you. More surprising was that kde4 cleaned all the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 first impressions

2008-01-22 Thread Dale
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Dienstag, 22. Januar 2008, Dale wrote: Should a person make a backup of their ~/.kde directory before trying KDE 4.0? Maybe change the directory to .kde.old or something? yes, but gentoo's kde will create a new (and empty) .kde4 dir for you. More

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 first impressions

2008-01-22 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 22. Januar 2008, Dale wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Dienstag, 22. Januar 2008, Dale wrote: Should a person make a backup of their ~/.kde directory before trying KDE 4.0? Maybe change the directory to .kde.old or something? yes, but gentoo's kde will create a new

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 first impressions

2008-01-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 22 January 2008, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 21 January 2008 08:42:17 Alan McKinnon wrote: Kontact works properly and so does the kmail component. kmail on it's own does not work. wtf is up with that anyway? Does that mean that I will get a working kmail if I emerge it as

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 first impressions

2008-01-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 21 January 2008 08:42:17 Alan McKinnon wrote: Kontact works properly and so does the kmail component. kmail on it's own does not work. wtf is up with that anyway? Does that mean that I will get a working kmail if I emerge it as part of kontact, but not if I emerge it on its own? --

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 first impressions

2008-01-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 22 January 2008 15:13:18 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 21 January 2008 08:42:17 Alan McKinnon wrote: Kontact works properly and so does the kmail component. kmail on it's own does not work. wtf is up with that anyway? Does that mean that I will get a working kmail if I emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 first impressions

2008-01-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 22 January 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 22 January 2008, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 21 January 2008 08:42:17 Alan McKinnon wrote: Kontact works properly and so does the kmail component. kmail on it's own does not work. wtf is up with that anyway? Does that mean that I

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 first impressions

2008-01-22 Thread James Ausmus
On Jan 22, 2008 7:19 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 22 January 2008, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 21 January 2008 08:42:17 Alan McKinnon wrote: Kontact works properly and so does the kmail component. kmail on it's own does not work. wtf is up with that anyway?