[ale] Deep inside the K Desktop Environment 3.2

tfreeman at intel.digichem.net tfreeman at intel.digichem.net
Wed Feb 25 12:01:30 EST 2004


Walter - Red Hat has a utility _somewhere_ in the menus to switch the 
default desktop for the user. Using the utility, change the desktop to 
KDE, log out or restart your X session, and the desktop should be changed. 
I'm assuming that KDE was installed of course.

Hope this helps.

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, walter Sams wrote:

> 
> Question,  if one is running redhat and gnome desktop, can one just
> remove gnome and put in kde without losing all the setup parameters on
> the system or reinstalling the whole os?  I seem to see many folks here
> and elsewhere liking kde better than gnome and would like to try it.
> 
> Thank you
> Walter Sams
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 20:32, Jim Philips wrote:
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> > On Tuesday 24 February 2004 02:41 pm, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> > > I've been having a gas playing with kde 3.2 the last couple of weeks.  I
> > > heartily recommend an upgrade to anyone using one of the older versions. 
> > > If you are a redhat user, the sourceforge redhat/kde project files work
> > > well for me <http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/>.  They are in the testing
> > > tiectories, but have been quite stable for me.  And they supply rpms for
> > > everything since 7.3, which is pretty cool.
> > 
> > This new release offers the best desktop environment I've used on any 
> > platform. The biggest problem with KDE at the moment is trying to unpack 
> > everything it can do. I can do 90% of what I do on the computer either in 
> > Kontact or Konqueror. Konqueror has been vastly improved by the Safari 
> > development effort. If it weren't for some Javascript weirdness in it, I 
> > would even trash Mozilla. The interactive spell-checking is something no 
> > other desktop offers. It's great to have spell-checking when you're filling 
> > in forms on Web sites--especially if you're applying for a job! Plus, I got a 
> > Google search bar in Konqueror now that I got from a CVS version. And KDE is 
> > faster than it used to be too. The Linux experience has never been better for 
> > me. And if you don't have Amarok, get it. It's one of the best mp3 players 
> > around. It made me dump Xmms.  
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