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KDE 3.5.4 Released
Carewolf writes "While KDE4 is pushing ahead the stable KDE 3.5 branch is also seeing quite some development and new features. Today KDE 3.5.4 was released, with improved removable device support, speed optimization and many bug fixes. Among the bug fixes is of course a fix to layout the new slashdot sidebar properly in Konqueror. The story is also carried on The Dot."
Seeing as you say you will be "emerging it today" I will presume you are using Gentoo, in which case you can use the modular packages instead of the monolithic ones. Just chose the select apps you want to install and leave the rest. Of course, the hard part is knowing which apps to install but going with basic desktop + what you can think of and then adding things as you realise you need/want them. See here for more information, it is a little old but probably still accurate.
Actually, on Gentoo you can install: 1) "kde", which gives you everything and seems to be what he's done, 2) the various KDE packages, like you're saying, or 3) individual applications, which seems to be what he wants.
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Whatever you do, don't upgrade yet! Not only is there a severe bug in k-d-s, but several other programs are unstable and cranky. Stick with 3.5.2 or 3.5.3. Check #kubuntu for updates on the matter. Seriously though, don't do what I did and have to deal with the pain of downgrading packages via apt. :(
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You can do that...
Look at the kde-meta ebuilds, they split kde up into all of it's constituent apps, so you can emerge konqueror seperately etc...
If you emerge kde-meta, you get the entire of kde, but as seperate packages so you can remove unwanted ones later.
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In fact, you can see everything that the full-blown KDE would install by typing in "emerge -pv kde-meta." It's well north of 100 packages, and all you need to just run KDE apps is kdebase and kdelibs plus whatever KDE app you want (just emerge it by name.) I start off by installing kde-meta to get all of the KDE apps as individual packages and then uninstall what I do not want later by unmerging it by name. Works liks a charm and is easy, even if it does take a little longer to install and then remove. Note that you can't do this with the monolithic "kde" ebuild- the kde-meta one is what you want. And BTW, if the kde-meta seems slow, it's because each little app has to run ./configure and unless you have confcache hitting well, it takes a bit longer to compile some smaller apps individually than as 30 at once whack.
Just "gittin-r-done," day after day.
Aptitude makes downgrading lots of packages much less painful.
... fish:/
If you work with a bunch of Unixish boxes like I do (mostly Linux, but with some Solaris, Mac OS X, etc.) the fish:/ kioslave is the best thing since sliced bread.
For those who don't know about it, if you type fish://hostname in konqueror's location bar, it opens a file browser on your home directory on the referenced machine. The implementation uses SSH plus common Unix command line utilities like 'ls', so it works with any remote host running an SSH server with the basic utilities.
Even better, nearly all KDE apps use the kioslave subsystem, so when you click on a file in a remote machine you can edit it and when you save it writes the new version back to the remote host. Dragging and dropping works the way it should, including across kioslave types. Want to drag a file from a fish:/ location to a webdav:/ location? Just do it.
KDE's kioslave feature saves me significant amounts of time every day. What more can you ask?
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Beagle, Fast User Switching, apps like Rhythmbox and Evince, GTK/Cairo with good Python bindings -- these all provide real value to me on a daily basis.
FYI - Fast user switching is in fact available in KDE. It just launches a new kdm session on a new X display and optionally locks the current one. Works just fine for me.
Most of the other stuff are just applications - I use evince all the time on KDE. I don't care what set of widgets an app uses so much as how the overall window-manager and integrated apps like a browser work. The rest you can really just swap out all you want.
First, who cares. Second, if indeed you were happy with Gnome when using it with Fedora, why did you choose to use Kubuntu instead of Ubuntu which is well known to use Gnome as it's default desktop environment. This is just a jab at Gnome masked in such a way to get an 'insightful' mod.
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