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... where we had once again the same problem: the installation on the demo 
boxes.

This time the boxes where plain suse 9.1 with kde 3.2.1, with a very limited 
amount of installed applications (kdevelop only on the development demo 
machine, koffice only on the koffice demo machine, no gcc on some machines 
etc.) Suse comes with all these packages, so in some way the problem is 
caused by the people who installed the boxes, not the used distro.

But this happened everytime until now when I was working on a KDE booth. 
Everytime a different distro, a different set of installed applications, 
sometimes HEAD, sometimes stable, usually no demo files to work  with (some 
files for koffice, some mails, some data for korganizer, addresses, ....).
So I often had to say to visitors: "well, if this or that would be installed 
on this machine, I could show you how cool it is, but the installation sucks, 
so I can't". This sucks.

So one thing which would be really good to have, would be an "official KDE 
demo point installation cd/dvd", which would need to have the following 
features:
-both the KDE head branch and the KDE stable branch installed, selectable by 
selecting a different user when logging in
-all kde cvs modules, if possible also from the extragear
-openoffice with kde style
-mozilla with kde look
-non kde-cvs stuff: kplayer, kmplayer, kio_fuse ;-), karamba, kaffeine, 
amarok, krusader, scribus, ...
-xmms, mplayer, xine, gimp, others ?
-development environment (gcc and friends, cvs, vim, emacs, joe, kdevelop, qt 
designer, ...)

and *very* important: a selection of files to demo: 
-some documents for kword, kspread, kpresenter, openoffice
-some pictures for kuickshow, gimp
-some videos for kplayer, kmplayer
-some music files for juk, noatun
-some postscript and some pdf files for showing the embedding
-some emails, addresses, todo lists for the kdepim apps
...

So what do you think ?
Is this something we can get done here ? It would help kde really a lot.

Bye
Alex
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