[ale] Stress, via RH8 and confusion

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Friday 21 March 2003 04:28 pm, tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Jim Philips wrote:
> > On Friday 21 March 2003 03:01 pm, tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:
> > > What are the "I wants"?
> > >   I want to look at Gnome2.2(?) natively
> > >   I want to look at the latest KDE natively
> >
> > Remove the rpm's and build them both from source. I don't know about
> > Gnome, but KDE is much improved by this. The people at RedHat simply
> > don't fully appreciate how KDE works, so they munged it when they
> > created BlueCurve. The first improvement you will see in KDE is a much
> > more logical menu structure. You will also find it easier to add
> > enhancements to KDE, because the RedHat directory structure simply
> > doesn't work for building most KDE programs. I don't think RedHat
> > mangles Gnome as badly as it did KDE, because RedHat has always worked
> > hand in glove with the Gnome developers.

I did as you suggested for 3.1.  It compiled easily, but I found a lot of 
trouble installing it cleanly.  I ended up having to rename my .kde 
directory.  also, all the redhat menus were replace (of course).  The KDE 
menus didn't have any of the RedHat applications in them.  So I had good 
KDE and menus that were missing useful tools.

Since 3.1.1 came out with RH rpms I'm a bit happier.  I was able to restore 
my old .kde dir and everything worked.  The only think I notice really 
missing is the menu entry in each app to file a bug report.

Of course, I tossed bluecurve and reinstated good old hicolor icons.

OS News has a pretty good article on how to make KDE in RH 8 look and act 
like KDE.

Michael
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