Eric on 12 Sep 2008 05:18:15 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] KDE4


Never mind - answered my own question with some further searching:   
http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-4.1.1
Seems to have broken a few things however... no surprise :-)

We'll see.

Eric

Eric wrote:
> Okay, I was (partly) wrong.  KDE 4 is _really_ nice.  I don't like the
> widget-only desktop but I found a pseudo-clever way to get the few icons
> I need on my desktop (run a KDE 3.x session and create the icons you
> need - they appear when you log back in under KDE4.)
>
> I had to rebuild my 2 GHz Celeron / 1GB laptop so I chose Kubuntu
> 8.04.1.  KDE 4 is looks great and is quite usable.  It's clear that all
> the work they put in to re-writing some core elements was time well spent.
>
> Not being a apt wizard (yet) I need someone to tell me the command
> line(s) I need to install 4.1.1?  Do I have to add some new sources?
> (Please tell me I don't have to compile it myself...)
>
> Thanks
> Eric
>
>    

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