Re: kde decision

Native KDE on Darwin is still a little rough, at least in my 
experience. Pre-alpha means that it's...not quite cooked. Not even 
quite half-cooked. I haven't been able to use KDevelop because it's 
very prone to freezing and crashing. For me the main value of having 
KDE-Darwin is learning how to hack; I've gotten some KDE programs to 
build following Ranger Rick's instructions and it's quite a cool 
feeling. The work they're doing is incredible, but you have to remember 
that it still has a long way to go.

You may want to check out this webpage: http://fink.opendarwin.org. 
This guy maintains a lot of unofficial Fink binaries and they work a 
lot better than installing the source. I don't know if Fink-KDE will 
better meet your needs, but installing his version isn't too tough. 
There are instructions on how to set up the Fink config files.

Hope that helps.

On Mar 21, 2004, at 5:04 PM, Brian O'Keefe wrote:

> I currently am running (when it works) kde on X11 thru Fink. I have 
> tried to use several of the apps like kword and kspread but they crash 
> at some of the worst times so I tried to update to KDE3.2 to no avail. 
> Compiling won't happen and I have pretty much run out of time to keep 
> trying this. I love KDE, I love the look, themes, integration of apps, 
> koffice, kmail and all the rest but I'm going to have to put it aside 
> I'm afraid and want to have an objective opinion on the pre-alpha 
> version of KDE/Darwin. Is it worth trying? Is it dependable?
> Thanks for any info
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