On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, John Ostrowick wrote:

> hi
> 
> i'm no longer on this list but thought this was interesting. for those of
> you who do not know, there's a nice gui called kde, www.kde.org. i saw
> this in their ftp site:
> 
> ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/Beta1/contrib/kde-Beta1-1-m68k.bin.tgz 
> 
> it's 5 megs, so maybe it's the whole gui.
> 
> if it is, and it works, can someone get back to me on this?
> 

Yeah, it looks nice, but the last time I tried I had to hack up quite a few
things in it to get it to even *build* under Net.  Most of it wouldn't even
run.  It's just been one of those things that You Have To Run Linux To Use
(ie, most newer software these days *sigh*).

Qt builds fine, but the KDE didn't.  I spent hours a night trying to get each
release to build, hoping that maybe it would fix the problems I was having.
They never got fixed before I moved (and my disk crashed).  I never got a 
chance to even make any patches for them because the source was changed very
frequently and it got to the point where I didn't have any real time to deal
with it (at the time I was undergoing a move halfway across the country [I got
a job!  Woo!]).  Maybe things are better now, who knows.

Do realize, of course, that this was a few months ago.  I downloaded the alpha
release but haven't gotten a chance to even bother with it.  I'm not expecting
much.  Although it looks like they finally got some source control going on.
YMMV, of course.

In other news, I'm thinking of wiping my NetBSD/mac68k disk, upgrading my
Mac to 7.5.x, and getting a VGA adaptor so I can have a machine to mess with
the NTK and make some stuff for my Newton.
(When's Net gonna be ported to those?  *grin*)

Scott

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