[SC.LUG] KDE on MacOSX

[Mark Walker]

I took Richard's advice and so far have hung on to my subscription, so 
that I can contribute to open source discussion.  As a follow up to 
Neil missing KDE on his iBook, assuming that it has OSX, there is now a 
native OSX port (i.e., not using Apple X11) of KDE.  It is the complete 
KDE 3.2.9 cvs, while takes about 5 hours to install via half meg 
broadband.  There is also an a la carte method for 56k users.  For 
details see http://kde.opendarwin.org.  Konqueror does graphic 
previewing properly, but slowly on a 1000+ image folder.  Konqueror at 
present is simply refusing to open flash sites my standard test site is 
lordoftherings.net and is doesn't switch to the non-flash site, just a 
white screen of dearth, but then Apple's Safari is based on konqueror's 
web engine.  I can run kword (removing further the chances of my ever 
powering up the Mandrake iMac) and joy of joys I am currently playing 
Shishen Sho.

Best wishes.

Mark Walker
On 21 Apr 2004, at 20:33, Neil Lucock wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 12:58, David Holden wrote:
>> You'll be back,  the force is strong in the open world... :)
>>
>>
>>  Dave.
> I've just bought an ibook. It's a very nice computer with some good
> design features, but it's not as easy to use as my linux box. KDE (with
> right-click menus) is much more flexible. Why doesn't the mac preview
> all files in Finder? Why does it have to open another app to show you a
> graphics file? It's very nice to use and has long battery life, but it
> isn't going to replace Linux as my main workhorse. It's hard to go from
> KDE to something else, it has so many good features that you really 
> miss
> them when you use Windows or Mac.
> regards,
> neil
>
>
>
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