[ale] Installing KDE

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Tuesday 25 March 2003 08:21 pm, Chris Fowler wrote:
> I do not know what to say about KDE 3.1.1  I have not seen and immediate
> improvement.  I expected konqueror to behave a little better on previous
> IE only sites I visited with the older version, but it still renders.
> them almost unreadable.

the improvements I've seen are mostly in speed and tabbed browsing.  
Startup time is less than half what it was with 3.0, and pages seem to 
render almost instantly.  Tabbed browsing is really nice, but you have to 
enable it in the configurator.

I haven't noticed any real layout or javascript improvements, but I never 
kept records on bad pages so I don't know where to check.  I do notice 
that I have been forced to switch to Mozilla less often.

--Michael

> I compiled 3.1.1 on 2 machines.  One with 256m and the other with 512m
> of memory.  I was in a deadlock with swap on the 256m machine.  I used
> dd to quickly add 1GB of instant swap space for this.  One thing that
> compiling KDE proves is that compiling c++ programs require a full
> frontal attack with resources.  KDE is all C++.  The cc1plus compiler at
> one time was using 80% of the system memory.  Wow. cc1 never used that
> much memory.
>
> I can say that the icons look nice.  totally worth the trouble, not.
>
> On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 17:37, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> > On Monday 24 March 2003 02:47 pm, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > > Guys/Gals,
> > >
> > > I've *finally* got KDE 3.1.1 compiled.  I am now going to switch to
> > > it on my RH7.3 machine.  All the new stuff is loaded in /opt/kde?
> > >
> > > Here are my plans.
> > >
> > > 1) mv all /usr/bin/<kde type> binaries to a temp directory
> > > 2) Make symbolic links of everyting in /opt/kde/bin to
> > > /usr/bin/<file> 3) Pray it works.
> > >
> > > Is this a good plan of attack?
> >
> > What I did was go to runlevel 3 and
> >
> > 1. in /etc/X11/xdm/kdmrc I put /opt/kde/bin in the PATH first.
> > 2. added /opt/kde/lib to my /etc/ld.so.conf file
> > 3. run ldconfig
> >
> > restart runlevel 5 and it worked.
> >
> > At the very least you need to add the libraries.
> >
> > Michael
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