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Re: KDE 1.0 released
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Yannai A. Gonczarowski wrote:
> For more details see http://www.kde.org/install.html
we got it mostly compiled and running (well i didn't compile it, i only
used it), and it appears to be pretty stable (except tht the cd player
crushed 2-3 times so far at home). i must say - i'm quite impressed with
this (i never used KDE before, only looked at screen shots). it appears
that it "borrowed" ideas not only from win95 and CDE, but also from NT
5.0's interface (KDE control center). if i'll find how to bind keys in
KDE's window manager's docs, i'll drop fvwm and stick with KDE at work.
it takes it a long time to start, but after that, it (mostly) works in a
descent speed, except for:
1. EXTREMELY slow search in 'help'.
2. whenever i move back to the search results page, it makes the search
again.
3. after reconfiguring the 'kde start' menu, it takes too long to
re-initialize it, and the menu is disabled for a while.
what seems more important is that they started developing their next
applications (koffice) using CORBA - which is just what might turn KDE
into a system with real integration between its applications (and what we
currently see is NOT real integration...). I'v read in some journal that
there's another system that uses CORBA, named fresco. and this *is* the
proper direction for such tools, it seems.
by the way - after it was compiled on some P133 system, i packed the whole
/usr/local/kde tree, as well as /usr/local/qt/lib (contains qt's shared
library) and put them all on my 486 at home, set some started up files
(/etc/profile.d/ , on a redhat4.2) and launched KDE - it fully works. the
whole kde tree (not sure if it includes all KDE's packages) is about 8.1MB
compressed, and the qt shared library is about 600KB compressed. if
someone wants these, i might be able to send them - please send personal
mail about it, and i'll try settings this during the weekend.
onte note of 'enthusiasm': i told my flat mate (who'se an NT programmer,
and thinks very lowly of linux due to its bad user interface and lack of
real hebrew support) about KDE, he laughed at first. then when he saw it,
he mumbled that he might switch to it on my PC (since an 486dx2 with 20MB
ram runs nt _very_ slow, and relative to that, kde appeared rather fast) -
i'm looking forward for setting proper hebrew editing (not with vim as i
do) in an attempt to make this 'household breakthrough'...
guy