KDE installed somewhat brokenly...
Broken not in the dselect sense, but broken in that I'm unable to change
certain elements of the desktop.
Judging from at least one other posting, I suspect that the kde package
installation for Debian may not be fully stable. Any comments on this?
(I'm not at my Linux box now so this is from memory)
I installed kde by dpkg'ing kdebase kdeutils, kdegraphics, etc and it
installed with no problems. Dselect does report that kde is "obsolete or
uncatagorized". Not sure what that means but it did not report it being
installed "brokenly".
I had xdm and fvwm95 as X startup method and window manager originaly and
changed to kdm and kde, respectively. This I did by editing the
/etc/X11??/config and /etc/X11/window-managers files. This looks good too.
A friend who is kde familiar helped me to surf and configure kde and he
tells me that there are some problems.
Problem 1) I'm unable to change the icon for emacs on the task bar because
it says I don't have the proper permissions.
Problem 2) When running the CD data base (CDDB). It goes out and searches
for the CD's contents and returns with all the tracks and title, etc. (very
cool) When I want to save that info for the next time I play the CD, it asks
me to catagorize the CD, but there are no catagories to choose from and no
areas to edit my own. It then errors out saying that I haven't chosen a
catagory. The database data is not saved.
Problem 3) Maybe not a problem, but security issue. When logging out there's
an option to shutdown. It should, probobly prompt for the root password
before actualy shutdown.
My buddy who runs RH says that kde works quite well "out of the box" on his
SUSE? system.
Is the kde implementation for Debian somewhat unstable?
Thanx,
Ed
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Ed Young (303)706-5425
Email: ed.young@echostar.com
Echostar Technology Corporation
Software Engineering
Englewood, Colorado
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