[ale] kde question

[Damon L. Chesser]

On 02/13/2016 08:28 PM, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> I have been googling "kmail Centos 7" and finding no joy.  It looks 
> like you can't get the full Kontact suite on CentOS 7.  This is not 
> definitive, but Google says no joy.  This information also does not 
> help you with your specific issue of EPEL either.
>
> Perhaps what Jim L and Jim K said is correct, perhaps you should try 
> Debian/ubuntu or Fedora.  A quick google does report that kmail and/or 
> Kontact can be had for all three.
>
> I personally have not had a very good desktop experience with Centos 
> 7, the CentOS devs have not caught up with suppling the things I am 
> interested in using and I don't really want to compile.  Amazingly, 
> you can install the latest desktop drivers from AMD cards right from 
> the AMD websites, but there is no steam, just as an example.
>
> I do find both Fedora > 20 and Ubuntu to give a complete desktop, 
> though if you want to run ATI/AMD cards, cut to the chase and use 
> Ubuntu, if you want to run standard open source vid drivers, it's a 
> toss up.
>
> Not  your solution, but perhaps a re-think of your distro may be in 
> order, depending on your needs, of course.
>
> In the past, I have found Kontact to be the single best PIM, sadly, 
> since KDE 4, I am not at all interested in KDE.  Evolution was OK, 
> still like it, but my favorite is thunderbird, since I am not going to 
> run Kontact on a  XFCE destkop, though I could. It just becomes to 
> glaring to me with integration to mix gtk and qt.

Replying to myself, installed kontact onto Ubuntu default desktop and it 
looks just like a native app.


>
> HTH!
>
>
>
> On 02/11/2016 10:15 PM, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
>> I am trying to run away from Evolution, which is driving me nutz, and
>> move back to kde apps, specifically Kontact.
>> I have all the usual repos, including epel. rpm forge, and rpm fusion
>> (both) but I can not locate the kde set of apps.  Anyone know where I
>> should look?
>>
>> This is a CentOs 7 install.
>>
>> Sean
>>
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