Wecome to Fink,
Here's where I'm currently at. I downloaded Gnome and got it to work (both full screen and rootless). Also got KDE. However, KDE is hit and miss. I have successfully used it in rootless mode but full screen hangs up. It also sometimes hangs up when initializing rootless mode. I know this is a very general description but does anyone have possible ideas on why KDE might hang up? It generally hangs up after the "Initialize peripherals" radio button flashes.
How are you using KDE? with /sw/bin/startkde?
As best I recall I used apt-get to get the "kdebase3" package and as best I can tell, it installed correctly. I would like to be able to use KDE because it seems that there's a ton more KDE software available through Fink than Gnome software. However, I've noticed that I can run KDE programs through Gnome but it takes a long time for the programs to initialize.Yes, that's typical. It takes pretty long before KDE apps start. Actualy, KDE is too slow to run with "startkde", at least on my 256MHz PB G3 ...
Good news is, seems like KDE binaries compiled with the latest Developer Tools run faster. So, you may be interested in getting the Dev Tools and compile binaries yourself with CVS enabled.
One caveat about this, though: compilaiton of KDE would take very, very long. On my machine, it took longer than 24 hours, I suspect.
Also, (and this may quickly be exceeding my technical grasp) but is there any way to get additional software that's not listed in "fink list" to work with Gnome? When I checked out the applications available at the Gnome web site it seems that a relatively small fraction of the Gnome applications are available through Fink. And if there are more applications available, would I have to compile them myself? That's something I've never done and see a lot of opportunity for operator error :)As far I as I understand, there shouln't be any problem with that if you install such tools in isolation from Fink. For example, I have /usr/local/ independent of /sw, and a bunch of softwares installed there.
But there is a caveat: interaction between /sw and /usr/local is generally considered undesirable. So, it is not recommended if you don't know how to get things to work, and more importantly know how to fix it when things go wrong.
Best,
Kow
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