Who's gonna be an early KDE4 adopter?

[aged hippy]

Re: Who's gonna be an early KDE4 adopter?

When I saw that kpim wasn't syncing with my Palm, I started trying to fix it.

I found it necessary to add:

visor

to /etc/modules in order to get it to synch without any hassle.
I don't know if this helps....


Edited to add:

Run:

kdesu kate /etc/modules

and put

visor

on the last line.

[Monster_user]

Re: Who's gonna be an early KDE4 adopter?

Ahhhh Choice! Gota love it! It does for anyone all comes down to what feels natural. I've used XFCE, GNOME and a few others and KDE has always "felt" natural so that is why I use it for my *buntu system. The rest is all the same! To me it's fun playing around other Desktops. I always find a few things that are interesting in the way they are implemented compared to others.

What feels natural, and what looks nice.

I don't like XFCE. Every time I've tried it, it was just not customizable enough. I might throw it on a laptop, if I don't run FVWM, or a *box WM.

On my desktop, I'm torn between the elegant simplicity of Gnome, and the tweakability of KDE, and its effects. I can't run Gnome without Compiz, or Compiz-Fusion. The Murrine engine is nice. I do prefer the Gnome "App - System - Actions" menu layout, instead of the KDE lump it all together menu.

Neither compare to the Baghira Menu, and its simple search menu.

[LoneWolf]

Re: Who's gonna be an early KDE4 adopter?

Well, I done gone did it....I needed to upgrade to KDE 4 after Bongo's enthusiasum. I too see quite a nice little performance gain. The only thing I don't care for at this point is the menu. Any thoughts as to how to change it?

Thanks,

Dave

[MoonRise]

Re: Who's gonna be an early KDE4 adopter?

In the "Add Widgets" pull over to the task bar the "Traditional Menu". It's like 3.5.8.

[monte48lowes]

Re: Who's gonna be an early KDE4 adopter?

You can easily change the menu from the 'kickoff' based menu to the old style menu by...

1. Right click on the icon on the kicker bar and select "Remove"
2. Click on the Plasma icon and 'Add widgets'
3. Drag the 'menu - old style??' to the kicker bar (I am in 3.5.8 right now, I don't remember the exact name)

Done.

Mike

[Bongo5HH]

Re: Who's gonna be an early KDE4 adopter?

I actually have both on my panel. While I hate the new menu, I do like the search function it has.. AND more importantly if you right click on an item in the new menu you can "add to panel" so you have buttons on the panel for apps you use often. dibl or Fintan told me how to do this.. and I'm in-debted! Of course now they'll both think I owe them... lol! hehe

Kev

[aged hippy]

Re: Who's gonna be an early KDE4 adopter?

[ .... ]
dibl or Fintan told me how to do this.. and I'm in-debted! Of course now they'll both think I owe them... lol! hehe

Kev

.... i expect that a blank signed cheque would be acceptable.

[dibl]

Re: Who's gonna be an early KDE4 adopter?

heh heh heh!

Actually, I'm going to retire and Bongo is going to teach me how to become a music producer with my Linux box.

[Fintan]

Re: Who's gonna be an early KDE4 adopter?

i expect that a blank signed cheque would be acceptable.

quite.

I can then teach dible about the interesting parts of the legal side of music management and have a few martinis (and of course real beer and wine) with you guys in one of my newly planed restaurants in Switzerland.

[dibl]

Re: Who's gonna be an early KDE4 adopter?

have a few martinis (and of course real beer and wine) with you guys in one of my newly planed restaurants in Switzerland.

What -- they have martinis in Switzerland?

I'm packing my bags now ...

[Fintan]

Re: Who's gonna be an early KDE4 adopter?

What -- they have martinis in Switzerland?

It is Winston Churchill's recipe:

A large glass, ice, fill it up with bombay saphire gin, look at the bottle of dry martini, add a twist of lemon, stir, chuck the ice and serve over an olive into martini glasses.

[dibl]

Re: Who's gonna be an early KDE4 adopter?

That sounds great! My recipe substitutes a good vodka for the gin, and uses 3 olives -- otherwise it is just the same! Hey, what time is it?

[Fintan]

Re: Who's gonna be an early KDE4 adopter?

a good vodka works fine too

What time is it?
Here it is 18:32 (6.32 PM) = Martini time

I think we are degressing

[dibl]

Re: Who's gonna be an early KDE4 adopter?

OK, I know how to get this back on topic ....

I want to install KDE4 on my new Hardy Heron Alpha 4 release and learn to use it, but here it is 18:32 on February 1 in Switzerland, and still there is no HH Alpha 4. So, if there's no Alpha 4, I guess I will either install Alpha 3, or drink a martini and check the Kubuntu site tonight.

[Fintan]

Re: Who's gonna be an early KDE4 adopter?

I want to install KDE4 on my new Hardy Heron Alpha 4 release and learn to use it, but here it is 18:32 on February 1 in Switzerland, and still there is no HH Alpha 4. So, if there's no Alpha 4, I guess I will either install Alpha 3, or drink a martini and check the Kubuntu site tonight.

Right, can anyone suggest a bar here in Switzerland that serves a decent martini (see recipe above)
See ya later