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KDE Running on Mac OS X

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the back-on-the-mac dept.

GeoffP writes "AppleTalk Australia is running a story on running KDE on Mac OS X. For those that don't know, KDE is a graphical desktop environment used to access your computer's files. Finally, Mac users have a free (as in speech) approach to their filesystem."

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  1. Goody? by SultanCemil · · Score: 5, Informative
    Honestly, this is just a silly post.

    Does the poster even realize this is simply the X server with KDE running as a client app? its not like they've replaced the nice, flashy GUI with KDE. They've just compiled and run it! Look, I can run Ethereal on OS X. Look, I can run *name unix app* on OS X. Good grief.

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  2. This is not news by spiralscratch · · Score: 5, Informative

    This has been possible for a while now. It's quite easy to set up if you use Fink. You can even set it to use apple's own built-in X11 instead of installing XFree86.

    http://fink.sourceforge.net/news/kde.php

  3. Talk about old news... by God+of+Lemmings · · Score: 5, Informative

    A native KDE port for OS X has existed since the end of 2003.... http://dot.kde.org/1073009304/

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  4. Re:STUNNED! by qubex · · Score: 5, Informative

    It was Wolfgang Pauli: "This isn't right, this isn't even wrong."

    Reference: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/wolfga ng_pauli.html

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  5. Re:Reasons for using KDE/Gnome on OS X w/Finder by elfasi · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually with Finder and the 'alt-tab' issue, this too drove me mad, until a kind soul told me about the Apple+` shortcut, that's the Apple key and the grave accent key (just below the ESC key on my PC keyboard and on the bottom left of my Mac keyboard). This switches between multiple windows of a single application and saved me much gnashing of teeth.